[soraminazuki]

Did he ever renounce his own views? Because publicly spouting Nazi propaganda isn't the kind of thing he can pretend never happened by just waiting a few years. I'm all for leniency, but he needs to show that he's changed. Especially when he has said things like:

- WW2 Germany was "peaceful" and that the war was "forced" upon them

- Churchill and Roosevelt "should have been the first to be prosecuted in the Nuremberg trials"

- The German AfD party is "(mis)labeled" by the mainstream media as Nazis

[jcranmer]

I'll go a step further and point out that someone who is not only willing to parrot these views but has a fairly detailed rationale for why they believe them are so devoted to those views that I'd find a disavowal of them somewhat suspicious.

Fortunately, it's also pretty clear from other contextual clues that he sees no reason to disavow those beliefs.