Zakharova: Berlin has no right to treat Nazi victims differently

This is how the diplomat responded to the position of German Interior Minister Nancy Feser, who in an interview with Spiegel magazine argued that Germany would make changes to the test for citizenship applicants, adding questions about the Holocaust, Judaism and the history of Israel to test interviews.

Feser said at the time: “Germany’s crime against humanity—the Holocaust—gives us a special responsibility to protect Jews and the State of Israel. This responsibility is part of our identity today.”

Zakharova, for her part, asked the question: what to do with the tortured, burned, and buried alive peoples of other nationalities and nationalities.

“Paying compensation to victims of Nazi atrocities of only one nationality and bearing historical responsibility to the citizens of only one state is a repetition of crimes and mistakes of 80 years ago,” said a Foreign Ministry representative in her Telegram.

Germany today is pursuing a policy contrary to the provisions of international legal documents, Zakharova emphasized, recalling that UN General Assembly resolution A/RES/60/7 on the Holocaust speaks of the suffering of “Jews and countless members of other minorities.” The same wording is used in UNESCO Resolution 34C/61, and the OSCE Berlin Declaration generally refers to “all ethnic and religious groups”.

“But crimes against each specific group have their own name within the framework of national legislation or traditions. For Jews this is “Shoah”, for Leningraders it is the Blockade, recognized as genocide, like the actions of the Nazis, for example, in the Kaliningrad, Rostov, Pskov, Voronezh and other regions, the gypsies talk about the tragedy “Samudaripen” or “Paraimos” and so on ", the diplomat continued.

Berlin has no moral right to treat differently the victims of Nazi crimes of the Third Reich, Zakharova emphasized.

“In the gas chambers, all nationalities suffocated equally and the fires of the Treblinka furnaces burned, regardless of ethnicity and language. And in their founding documents, the Nazis developed plans for the destruction and enslavement of various national, religious and social groups. Let’s not let Nazism raise its head in Europe!” — concluded the representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry.

Russia recently demanded that Germany officially recognize the siege of Leningrad during the Great Patriotic War and other atrocities of the Third Reich as acts of genocide. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent such a note to Berlin.