can Always tell witnesses less time of the Nazi crimes. Foreign Minister Maas calls, therefore, for new approaches of remembering. Chancellor Merkel warned that anti-Semitism was still a danger in the society.
on the Occasion of Holocaust memorial day, Federal government has promoted foreign Minister Heiko Maas for new approaches to the crime at the time of the national socialism. In a guest post for the “world on Sunday” said the SPD politician, the time to move closer to the witnesses by the Nazi injustice to stand, could reports.
places of remembrance and learning
Therefore, it is important that “our remembrance culture” adapts to it, called Maas: “What we need now are new approaches to take advantage of historical experiences for the present. Our history must be a reminder to a knowledge of the project.” Places of remembrance should be places of learning, because:
“Who is born today, for example, the pogrom night time as far as a Chancellor Otto von Bismarck removed at the time of my birth. The changed the memory, creates more distance.”
“Our culture of remembrance is crumbling,” said Maas, it was “under pressure from the extreme Right”. The more dangerous the ignorance was the young German, the have revealed to a CNN survey:
“40 percent of something they know hardly about the Holocaust. These are shocking Figures, and we must not accept passively. We must preserve the stories of the people who can from their own Experience of the Incredible reports.”
