Albrecht Weinberga 99 -year -old holocaust survival, said Thursday that will return to the German State its order of meritthe highest federal recognition in the country, in protest of the vote this Wednesday in the Bundestag in which for the first time An initiative came forward thanks to the support of the extreme right.
The conservative leader Friedrich Merz, Favorite in all surveys to become the next chancellor, broke the taboo to collaborate with the alternative ultra -right party for Germany (AFD) to carry out a five -point plan aimed at reducing irregular immigration and improving the country’s safety.
The rupture of the sanitary cord to the Ultras has led this survivor of the Nazis extermination fields of Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsenm to make the decision to renounce their decoration as a sample of rejection. Weinberg was released on April 15, 1945, according to the Bergen-Belsen commemorative website. After the war, he emigrated to the United States although a decade ago he returned to live in Germany.
Luigi Toscano, A photographer whose project Lest We Forget Share the stories of the Holocaust survivorsHe said he would also return his order of merit to the German State.
“Yesterday, the CDU betrayed our democratic values with a resolution and the support of a party that is partly qualified as an extreme right,” Tuscan wrote in an Instagram post in which he also mentioned Weinberg’s decision.
AFD has been criticized in the past for criticizing the Holocaust’s memory culture in Germany and denies having links with Nazism.
For the first time Bundestag approved a motion with AFD’s votes on Wednesday. It was A non -binding motion To close the borders to asylum seekers, driven by conservative of the populist left, while the government and left parties spoke against.
Wednesday’s parliamentary vote took place hours after German legislators celebrated a special session for Commemorate the 80 years of the release of the Auschwitz extermination field.
When commenting on the vote, another survivor of Auschwitz, Eva Umlauf82 years, compared the current situation with Germany of 1930, Before Hitler’s Nazis took power.
“We all know that German politicians believed that they could collaborate with Hitler and the Nazi party. You have to keep them under control,” Umlauf wrote in an open letter to the newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung.
“In a few years our democracy became dictatorship. La Paz became war, “Umlauf wrote, who was taken to Auschwitz with his mother in 1944.
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