ALARMING ANTISEMITISM IN GERMANY

Chancellor Angela Merkel Visiting Auschwitz

Mrs Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, while on an official visit to Poland, visited the Auschwitz-Birkenau complex, the notorious concentration camp and told her Polish counterpart:

“To stand and speak here, today is anything but easy for me.  I feel a deep sense of shame for the barbaric crimes that were committed by Germans – crimes unfathomable.”   And she went onto say that “these crimes will remain part of German history and must be told over and over again.”  Lest they are forgotten.  

More than one million innocent people, mostly Jews but also Poles, Roma and prisoners of war were brutally murdered in Auschwitz.  They were either assassinated in gas chambers or burnt to ashes in crematoria by inhuman monsters, like Hitler and nazi followers who were led to these terrible crimes through racism, intolerance, hatred and cruelty.

Mrs Merkle and many thoughtful German citizens are exceedingly worried about the alarming rise of antisemitic violence in the country, which is both fretful and threatening.  What can one do to avert these heinous atrocities worldwide?  Starting from notifying schoolchildren to television talk shows and press articles, the public must be informed about the sinister hate-crimes that are taking place all over the world and what should and could be done to prevent them from happening.

(I wish to thank Kathimerini, Estia. The Guardian, Time Magazine ERT, SKY TV Gr., BBC, FRANCE 24 and CNN for the valuable information, without which this post would not have been written.)

In Memory of the Million Innocent People Murdered in Auschwitz

In Memoriam