representatives of the Thuringian AfD in Buchenwald undesirable. Participation in a wreath-laying ceremony has not been denied to them, because they dissociate themselves from group chief Höcke, and its criticism of the processing of the NS-time.
politician of the AfD are at a memorial event in honor of the Holocaust victims in the former concentration camp at Buchenwald is not welcome. Representatives of the party will be denied participation in a wreath-laying ceremony of the Thuringian state government and of the Parliament, wrote to the Director of the Foundation of the Buchenwald memorial Volkhard Knigge, in a letter to the AfD group in the Erfurt Parliament.
Knigge pointed to Statements made by the Thuringian group leaders Björn Höcke, the criticized 2017 in a speech on the processing of the national socialism the “stupid management policy” in Germany and a “reminder of a political 180-degree turn” was needed.
The Buchenwald memorial commemorates the approximately 56,000 people were killed there during the Nazi time.
ban for Höcke
The memorial was granted Höcke, it is already a year ban. “Mr Höcke holds up today in its attitude to the culture of remembrance. Also from your group, no distancing from his positions become known,” it said in the letter to the AfD group. “Who credibly against such positions and the associated softening, relativi does not apply within the AfD at the end of history.”
The Buchenwald memorial commemorates the approximately 56,000 people were killed there during the Nazi time. About 7000 people died in the subsequent time the use of the land as a Soviet special camp. In 1958 was opened the Nationale Mahn – und Gedenkstätte Buchenwald.
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