BERLIN - German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer has sacked his ambassador to Switzerland, Frank Elbe, following public criticism aimed at Fischer by the envoy, a ministry spokeswoman said on Thursday.
Elbe sharply criticised his boss after Fischer ordered a halt to the publication of death notices for diplomats who had been Nazi party members.
The ambassador, in a letter published by the mass tabloid Bild, warned that Fischer was dividing the German foreign ministry and slammed the ministry's crisis management as "miserable".
The paper quoted Elbe as saying Fischer's decision to stop publishing obituaries for diplomats who were members of Adolf Hitler's Nazi party amounted to smearing them as Nazi supporters.
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http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=26&story_id=19149&name=Fischer+sacks+ambassador+over+critical+letter Well, I sure can understand the outrage: harmless NSDAP party getting called Nazis - unberable. :eyes: :sarcasm:
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