The Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation is sounding the alarm: “The climate of commemoration in Germany is changing,” the foundation said in a post on X (formerly Twitter) on Wednesday.
On Tuesday it turned out that the parking lot was smeared with a swastika and other graffiti. Such incidents are currently on the rise. “We are tired of it,” writes the foundation.
At the end of August, right-wing extremist stickers were pasted on information boards and signs at the monument. A few days earlier, unknown persons had damaged a memorial tree for the victims of the National Socialist concentration camp. This has happened repeatedly since the summer of 2022.
In early August, posters at the memorial in nearby Weimar were smeared with anti-Semitism. In addition, unknown persons had stolen letters of an inscription from a stone column in the Langenstein-Zwieberge monument. There was a satellite camp of the Buchenwald concentration camp.
Director of the Foundation: Anti-Semitism is on the rise
In an interview with tagesschau.de published last weekend, the director of the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation Jens-Christian Wagner warned of a “climate change in memory policy”. Attacks against the monument had increased significantly, as had “anti-Semitism, conspiracy legends and the ideology of the Reich citizens” in society.
He made the AfD primarily responsible. But conspiracy legends about a supposed ‘corona dictatorship’ and the exploitation of the war in Ukraine to fuel anti-Semitic resentment would also damage the way Germans deal with their own history.
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