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Oranienburg (dpa / bb) - Brandenburg's Prime Minister Dietmar Woidke (SPD) has called for people to stand up against anti-Semitism.
"Decades after the Shoah, violent attacks on the Jewish population are occurring again more frequently," he said on Tuesday, according to a statement on the occasion of the 76th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
“The fact that Jews have regained trust in us Germans after the Nazi crimes is like a gift.
We must not gamble this trust away. "
According to his own statements, the head of government will take part in a memorial hour of the Bundestag for the victims of National Socialism on Wednesday.
In Brandenburg, the state parliament and the Brandenburg Memorials Foundation want to remember the victims.
To this end, Woidke had a wreath laid in the Sachsenhausen memorial.
A joint motion by the CDU, SPD, Greens and Leftists in the state parliament emphasizes further support for initiatives against racism and xenophobia and the expansion of historical-political education.
The claim is to recognize unconstitutional efforts of any kind at an early stage and to take action, it says.
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The National Socialists and their helpers murdered around six million Jews during the Second World War.
In 2005, the United Nations set International Holocaust Remembrance Day to be January 27.
On this day in 1945, the Red Army liberated the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Shoah - the Hebrew word for catastrophe - is used to denote the genocide of the Jews.
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State Chancellery Brandenburg on the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz