The Dachau concentration camp memorial refuses a visit from the Deputy Prime Minister of Bavaria, Hubert Aiwanger. “Political visits with a high public profile in the run-up to the Bavarian state elections are not welcome at the memorial site of the Dachau concentration camp,” director Gabriele Hammermann said on Tuesday.
The German government’s anti-Semitism commissioner, Felix Klein, suggested that Aiwanger visit him in view of the leaflet affair.
Hammermann’s statement said that the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site 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 site.
“Pushing the boundaries of what can be said, what we are experiencing in the current debate, is an attack on this place, on the survivors and their relatives.” The debate shows how important a lively culture of remembrance and the fight against right-wing radicalism and anti-Semitism still are.
Promote self-critical historical awareness
The tasks of the memorials include providing further information, promoting a self-critical sense of history and focusing the memory of all groups of victims: Jewish victims of persecution, but also those imprisoned, tortured and were tortured for their opposition to National Socialism, their attitudes and identities were murdered, Hammermann continued.
Bavarian Deputy Prime Minister Aiwanger was criticized for allegations over an anti-Semitic leaflet from the 1980s. Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) decided to leave Aiwanger in office on Sunday, but advised him to regain lost confidence and, for example, to seek talks with Jewish communities. Politicians from the SPD, Greens, FDP and the Left criticize the decision. The state elections in Bavaria will take place on 8 October.
Source: Krone
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