At the Buchenwald Memorial, it is not uncommon for visitors to see swastikas and Nazi inscriptions. Vandalism which testifies to the increase in anti-Semitic acts in Germany in recent months.
The fault, according to the director of this former concentration camp, is the theses conveyed by the AfD, a far-right party, which has today become one of the main political forces in Germany.
“Anyone who wants a racist society, which advocates ideologies of inequality, must condemn the lessons of the National Socialist era, must attack the culture of remembrance. And that’s why these attacks on culture and memorials come from the AfD“, he explains.
The Memorial is located in Thuringia, a region in central Germany, where the AFD is influential. The party denies being anti-Semitic. But its leader in Thuringia, known for his extremist positions, is the subject of legal proceedings for having taken up a Nazi slogan during a meeting.
