In the turmoil surrounding the leaflet affair, the federal government’s anti-Semitism commissioner, Felix Klein, suggested that Hubert Aiwanger visit the Dachau concentration camp. Now the memorial has given the Bavarian politician a rejection.
The Dachau concentration camp memorial refuses a visit from the Free Voters chief Hubert Aiwanger. “Political visits with a high public profile in the run-up to the Bavarian state elections are not welcome at the Dachau concentration camp memorial site,” said director Gabriele Hammermann on Tuesday. Several media reported about it. The federal government’s anti-Semitism commissioner, Felix Klein, had suggested that the politician pay a visit in view of the leaflet affair.
The Dachau concentration camp memorial is dedicated to processing the history of the concentration camp and its satellite camps, including the history before and after the concentration camp and the history of the memorial, the statement said. “The shifting of the boundaries of what can be said that we are witnessing in the current debate is an attack on this place, on the survivors and their families.” The debate shows how important a lively culture of remembrance and the fight against right-wing radicalism and anti-Semitism are.
Söder advises Hubert Aiwanger to regain lost trust
The tasks of the memorials include providing further information, promoting a self-critical awareness of history and focusing on the memory of all groups of victims: Jewish victims of persecution as well as people who were imprisoned, tortured and tortured because of their resistance to National Socialism, their attitudes and identities were murdered, Hammermann continued.
Bavaria’s Deputy Prime Minister Aiwanger was criticized for allegations of an anti-Semitic leaflet from the 1980s. Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) decided on Sunday to leave Aiwanger in office, but recommended that he regain lost trust and seek talks with Jewish communities, for example.
Source: Stern
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