‘Today we are experiencing a worrying racism, rising intolerance, and a wave of hate crime’: Angela Merkel makes her first visit as German chancellor to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial in Poland and vows to fight rising racism
OSWIECIM, Poland - Angela Merkel expressed “deep shame” on Friday during her first visit as chancellor to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Holocaust memorial and vowed to fight rising racism and anti-Semitism in Germany and Europe.
Before her speech, Merkel and Morawiecki toured the camp’s crematorium where victims’ bodies were burned. They walked through the camp’s iron gate bearing the motto “Arbeit macht frei” and visited the barracks. Leaders of the far-right Alternative for Germany party have been accused of trying to play down Nazi crimes and suggesting that history must be re-written to focus on German victims.
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