German Idea to Fight Anti-Semitism: Make Immigrants Tour Concentration Camps
- 6 years ago
German Idea to Fight Anti-Semitism: Make Immigrants Tour Concentration Camps
Ms. Chebli raised the idea of helping sensitize new immigrants to the history of Nazi crimes — through concentration
camp visits — as part of assimilating them into a German society that values tolerance and opposes discrimination.
10, 2018
Alarmed by displays of anti-Semitism among new immigrants to Germany, a German politician has offered a novel idea
that appears to be gaining traction: required visits to Nazi concentration camp memorials.
"I think it would make sense if everyone living in this country would be obliged to visit a concentration camp memorial
site at least once in their lifetime," including new arrivals, she was quoted by Bild am Sonntag as saying.
But the suggestion reflected a growing concern that Germany’s absorption in recent years of more than a million immigrants, many fleeing war
and mayhem in the Middle East and Africa, had inadvertently created potential incubators of anti-Semitism in the country most saddled with the legacy of Nazis and the Holocaust, which killed about six million Jews.
"Concentration camp visits should become part of integration courses." Her suggestion came against the backdrop of a perceived rise in anti-Semitic sentiment last month, after President Trump’s declaration
that the United States government officially considered the contested city of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
Ronald said that This proposal is an encouraging and effective method of educating people of all backgrounds about
the Nazi attempt to wipe out the entire Jewish population of Europe and the dangers such hatred can yield,
Ms. Chebli raised the idea of helping sensitize new immigrants to the history of Nazi crimes — through concentration
camp visits — as part of assimilating them into a German society that values tolerance and opposes discrimination.
10, 2018
Alarmed by displays of anti-Semitism among new immigrants to Germany, a German politician has offered a novel idea
that appears to be gaining traction: required visits to Nazi concentration camp memorials.
"I think it would make sense if everyone living in this country would be obliged to visit a concentration camp memorial
site at least once in their lifetime," including new arrivals, she was quoted by Bild am Sonntag as saying.
But the suggestion reflected a growing concern that Germany’s absorption in recent years of more than a million immigrants, many fleeing war
and mayhem in the Middle East and Africa, had inadvertently created potential incubators of anti-Semitism in the country most saddled with the legacy of Nazis and the Holocaust, which killed about six million Jews.
"Concentration camp visits should become part of integration courses." Her suggestion came against the backdrop of a perceived rise in anti-Semitic sentiment last month, after President Trump’s declaration
that the United States government officially considered the contested city of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
Ronald said that This proposal is an encouraging and effective method of educating people of all backgrounds about
the Nazi attempt to wipe out the entire Jewish population of Europe and the dangers such hatred can yield,