German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Sunday talked at an event of the Jewish area in Frankfurt to note the 80th wedding anniversary of the freedom of the Nazis’ biggest prisoner-of-war camp, Auschwitz.
“Jewish life, that is Frankfurt. Jewish life, that is Germany. That is us,” Scholz claimed in comments at the celebration.
In Frankfurt, Scholz claimed that Germany had a duty to support the memory of the Holocaust dedicated by Germans throughout World War II.
Scholz likewise emphasized the “worrying and alarming normalization” of anti-Semitism, hate and the much right, particularly on social networks.
“The internet and social networks in particular often become a hotbed for extremist positions, incitement and hatred,” Scholz alerted.
German obligation ‘will certainly not finish’
More than one million individuals passed away at the Auschwitz-Birkenau prisoner-of-war camp in inhabited Poland throughout World War II. Most of the targets where Jews, however they likewise consisted of non-Jewish Poles, Roma and Soviet soldiers.
“I am against turning the page, saying ‘that was long ago’,” Scholz claimed.
“We keep alive the memory of the civilizational breakdown of the Shoah (Holocaust) committed by Germans, which we pass down to each generation in our country again and again: our responsibility will not end,” he claimed.
The Holocaust is “millions of individual stories,” individuals “like you and me. It is also this awareness that we must pass down in our remembrance,” he included.
This cumulative memory is based upon “indisputable facts that everyone in our country must face regardless of origin, family history or religion,” Scholz claimed.
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