Albrecht Weinberg: KZ survivor returns the Federal Cross of Merit

Albrecht Weinberg: KZ survivor returns the Federal Cross of Merit

After Merz vote
KZ-surviving vineyard wants to return Cross of Merit






He was “shocked” of the joint coordination of the Union and AfD in the Bundestag: The Holocaust-surviving Albrecht Weinberg sets a clear sign-not as the only one.

The joint coordination of the Union and AfD in the German Bundestag causes further faults. In response to the process, which is also known as the “break”, the Auschwitz-surviving Albrecht Weinberg returns its Federal Cross of Merit.

The 99-year-old said in an interview with the star. “I am very disappointed at the moment. I don’t want to know anything. I see my youth in front of me again. It is hard to believe,” said Weinberg, who was deported to Auschwitz as a teenager. “I don’t understand how something like that can happen after what was.” He was “shocked”.

Weinberg returns Cross of Merit

“It will soon be like in my childhood when the Nazis took over the power”

The Mannheim photographer Luigi Toscano also joins the crotch. starRequest confirmed. The two had discussed each other on Wednesday evening. Previously, the newspaper “Rheiderland” from the Heima region of Weinberg and the Südwestrundfunk reported the decision.

KZ survivor Albrecht Weinberg returns Federal Cross of Merit

Albrecht Weinberg was born in Rhauderfehn (Lower Saxony) in 1925 and dragged to Auschwitz in 1943. He survived the extermination camp and several so -called death marches. In 2017 he received the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon for his tireless reconciling commitment.

Luigi Toscano was awarded the medal of merit in 2021. He had portrayed Holocaust survivors for the memory project “against forgetting” and thus achieved young people in particular.

It is still unclear how exactly the return of the awards will take place.

On Wednesday, the German Bundestag voted on Wednesday for a (the Federal Government, which was not binding) by the CDU and CSU for a harder migration policy – without the votes of the AfD it would have failed. Members of the government coalition of the SPD and the Greens had assessed this process as a turning point. For the first time in the history of the Federal Republic, parliamentary majorities were sought and found outside the democratic center. The AfD is largely right -wing extremists. Ex-Chancellor Angela Merkel also went on a confrontation course with CDU boss Friedrich Merz on Thursday because of the Union’s voting behavior.

Source: Stern

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