The head of the executive power of the German state of Bavaria, Markus Söder, on Saturday asked his deputy Hubert Eiwanger to respond as soon as possible to the accusations that he, as a student, was responsible for an anti-Semitic pamphlet distributed at the school, the German agency DPA reports, Agerpres reports.

“These allegations simply need to be clarified now, fully and publicly,” Soder said on the sidelines of the event in the city of Augsburg.

The daily newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, citing several witnesses, reported that Hubert Eiwanger distributed the offensive pamphlet in the 1987-1988 school year when he was a student in Bavaria.

According to the cited publication, the pamphlet satirized the Auschwitz camp, where the German Nazis killed 1.1 million people, the vast majority of whom were Jews.

The German government’s anti-Semitism commissioner, Felix Klein, said the allegations against Ivanger would disqualify him if true.

“If the allegations are true, Mr. Eiwanger would, in my opinion, be unfit for the position of vice-premier of the state of Bavaria and in other positions,” Klein told Bild.

“Such inhuman statements about the victims of the Holocaust cannot be made by anyone, not even young people. On this matter, there should be a consensus among all democratic parties,” Felix Klein added.