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In the Bundestag is commemorated today the victims of the Holocaust. However, in protest the disregard for and growing "hostility" Jews, the head of the Central Council of the ww2 uniform remains away for the first time.
A clash is in danger of the commemoration of the Bundestag for the victims of Nazism. The top of the Central Council of Jews in Germany remains for the first time away the event in protest the disregard for and rising anti-Semitism, said Secretary General Stephan j. Kramer.
On 27 January 1945, the extermination camp Auschwitz was liberated by the Red Army.
The service is scheduled in the Bundestag for 11: 00 am. Leaders such as the incumbent President, Charlotte Knobloch and whose predecessor Ignatz Bubis and Paul Spiegel had never been welcomed as survivors of the Holocaust in the stands of the Bundestag, said Kramer.
"I would understand if we would talk about member of second or third generation." "It is unacceptable, to treat survivors such as onlookers but." One would suspend are no longer this treatment.
Kramer said it was not intended to welcome persons other than representatives of the Supreme Federal authorities under the previous Bundestag Protocol. Since other participants such as the musicians were called but when greeting, the representatives of the Central Council could be included.
"To hostility to grasp"
The Central Council complaints also a growing anti-Semitism in Germany as Kramer said the Tagesspiegel. There is a "progressively pervasive hostility nazi for sale Jews, more and more in the center of society".
It is indeed to praise that in quite Germany in many events on the 64. anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp will reminds, the Secretary-General said. "But we have also noted that, during the Gaza war, the number of the hate mail has increased on the Central Council by 40 to 200-300 per week." Explicit death threats personally named members of the Central Council had been included in one-tenth of these mails.
Federal President Horst Khler called on to preserve the memory of the crimes of the Holocaust. "Who is not is the own past, the Foundation for the future missing the." Koehler said "whoever who refused to see their own history, undermining his own soul", to commemorate the victims of Nazism.
The responsibility of the genocide of the Jews was part of the German identity. Koehler said "the grief over the victims, shame about the terrible deeds and the will for reconciliation with the Jewish people and the pacifists of once they lead us to the roots of our Republic", in the commemoration of the Bundestag.
"Today, on the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp by the Red Army, we remember her: the Jews, Sinti and Roma, the sick and people with disabilities, the world war 2 uniforms views and of homosexuals, and all falling of Nazi Germany and the German robbery and extermination to the victims", Koehler said.
The name of Auschwitz is epitome for the crimes of the Nazis. He stands for the attempt to wipe out an entire people. It was a shame that the places of Jewish life from the police "must be protected from old and new extremists", so K?hler. "We put us on the side of our Jewish compatriots." "Anyone who attacks it, attacked us all", called the head of State.
"Holocaust remains everlasting warning"
Bundestagspr?sident Norbert Lammert said with a view to events such as the upcoming 20th anniversary of fall of the wall was more than a number large commemorative events with the beginning of January 27. "He combines the upcoming anniversaries like a thread because the memory of the victims of Nazism, everyone of the upcoming observances will - accompany in particular, the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany."
Lammert said the Holocaust remains "an everlasting warning, to be vigilant and not to mention, if we see our democratic fundamental principles and rules at risk or if people are the victims in particular of ideologically motivated violence".
Lammert nor Koehler received a on absence of the Central Council of Jews.
The commemoration were also German Chancellor Angela Merkel, President Peter Müller and the President of the Constitutional Court, Hans-Jürgen paper. Guest are also young people from Germany, France and Poland, since January 21. participating in the youth exchange of the Bundestag to the ww2 uniform Day for the victims of Nazism.
The January 27 was in 1996 by the then President of Roma
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