By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
A politician in Chancellor Angela Merkel's party apologized Friday for likening criticism of executives' high salaries to a pogrom against them - just days before Germany commemorates the 70th anniversary of the Nazi's Kristallnacht pogrom against the Jews.
Christian Wulff, the governor of Lower Saxony and deputy leader of Merkel's Christian Democratic Party, made the comments late Thursday during a TV debate on whether high pay for executives was appropriate.
He said that "if someone pays 40 million euros tax as a person and guarantees tens of thousands of jobs, then a pogrom atmosphere should not develop against them here."
Germany on Sunday marks the 70th anniversary of the Nazi's 1938 "Kristallnacht" pogrom against the Jews, when synagogues, Jewish homes and businesses across Germany were attacked, looted and some 30,000 Jewish males arrested.
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