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Wiesbaden (dpa / lhe) - Hesse's Prime Minister Volker Bouffier (CDU) has warned against increasing anti-Semitism.
“The inhibitions, especially in social media, have fallen significantly.
And we have to do everything to overcome indifference and to work hard against this development at all levels, ”warned the head of government on Wednesday in Wiesbaden on the occasion of the memorial day for the victims of National Socialism.
With the fading of personal memories and a greater time lag to National Socialism, defamation and hatred of Jews increased again and spread in everyday life, he said.
"We are increasingly perceiving false constructions, distortions and denials of historical events," explained Bouffier.
"If today the salutation 'You Jude' is very widespread, not only in school playgrounds, but especially there, this must shake us up."
The right-wing extremist attack on the Jewish community there in Halle in 2019 made it clear "what challenges we are facing," emphasized the Prime Minister.
"In our country there must be no place for anti-Semitic, extremist or racist positions and ways of thinking."
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January 27th has been a national day of remembrance in Germany since 1996 as the “Day of Remembrance of the Victims of National Socialism”.
It commemorates the liberation of the survivors of the German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz on January 27, 1945 by soldiers of the Red Army.
The National Socialists and their helpers murdered six million Jews during the Second World War.
In Auschwitz alone, the Nazis killed more than a million people, mostly Jews.
Many were gassed, and the bodies were then cremated.
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