Editing Holger Apfel (section)

===State politics===
On 19 September 2004, Apfel led the NPD in Saxony to its biggest electoral success, winning 9.2% of the popular vote and twelve seats in the [[Landtag of Saxony]]. He became the leader of the party's parliamentary group.

In 2005, the Landtag of Saxony held a [[Moment of silence|minute of silence]] for the [[List of victims of Nazism|victims of Nazi Germany]]. Apfel, along with 11 other NPD politicians, boycotted the remembrance and staged a walkout from the Landtag chamber. He also gave a speech in which he demanded a moment of silence be held for the victims of the [[Bombing of Dresden in World War II|bombing of Dresden]] in 1945 and called the [[Allies of World War II]] "mass murderers", stating that "Today we in this parliament are taking up the political battle for historical truth, and against the servitude of guilt of the German people... The causes of the holocaust bombing of Dresden have nothing to do with either [[Invasion of Poland|September 1 1939]] or with [[Adolf Hitler's rise to power|January 30 1933]]." Apfel's speech caused politicians from other parties in the Landtag to walk out in protest.<ref name="guardian">{{cite news |last=Traynor |first=Ian |date=19 December 2013 |title=Dresden parliament in uproar at neo-Nazi outburst |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/jan/22/secondworldwar.thefarright |work=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=12 August 2014}}</ref>