Weimar: “Kufiyas in Buchenwald” – memorial warns of left-wing radical protests on the Nazi memorial website | EUROtoday

The Buchenwald focus camp memorial close to Weimar sees the “Kufiyas in Buchenwald” marketing campaign by radical left-wing activists as an assault on the German tradition of remembrance. Radical left-wing, pro-Palestinian teams have referred to as on-line for a public protest in Weimar throughout the weekend commemorating the 81st anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi focus camp in April. There will even be lectures and a panel dialogue.

The memorial reacted with concern: “This is a completely inappropriate instrumentalization of the memory of the victims of National Socialism for its own political, anti-human agenda,” mentioned the spokesman for the memorial basis, Rikola-Gunnar Lüttgenau, when requested. “Groups that applaud Hamas’ terror, glorify the October 7 attacks as a ‘great surprise’ and deny the State of Israel’s right to exist have no place here.” The “Neue Zürcher Zeitung”, amongst others, had beforehand reported on the deliberate protest.

Palestinian scarf as a set off

The background is a dispute over the carrying of Palestinian scarves (Kufiyas) on the grounds of the focus camp memorial. At the commemoration ceremony in April final yr, a lady was refused entry to the positioning as a result of she needed to protest towards help for Israeli politics with a so-called Palestinian scarf. The lady then unsuccessfully sued in court docket.

If supporters of inhumane positions tried to take advantage of the place for themselves by carrying a keffiyeh at official commemorations, this is able to proceed to be constantly prevented. This contradicts all the things that the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation stands for, mentioned Lüttgenau. According to him, town’s public order workplace has not but obtained any registration for the protest introduced for April twelfth.

The National Socialists deported round 280,000 individuals to the Buchenwald focus camp close to Weimar and its subcamps between 1937 and 1945, together with tens of hundreds of Jews. 56,000 individuals had been murdered or died from starvation, illness, compelled labor or medical experiments.