A group of eight Holocaust survivors drew parallels between the current political climate and that of Germany in the 1930s. Some of them condemned the far-right Alternative for Germany party (AfD).
Eight Holocaust survivors have urged young people to shun far-right parties and vote to protect democracy at the upcoming European Union elections.
“For millions of you, the European elections are the first election in your lives. For many of us, it could be the last,” read the open letter, unveiled in Berlin on Tuesday.
“We couldn’t stop it back then. But you can today,” the eight authors wrote.
I hope they will be able to do the same for the Israeli youth, because there the theocratic fashists are in power right now already.
They’re doing this because they’re German, and they are trying to influence politics in the place they live.
Also, the person you talked to seems to think the Holocaust was solely a genocide of Jews with a comment like that. Any of those eight could have been Roma, LGBT+, disabled… all kinds of possibilities.
Israel wants to be connected to the Holocaust in a deeper way than it should be. And I say that as a Jewish person.
The persons great grandfather died in Auschwitz because he was fighting for a independent Silesia.
But yeah, …
Cool. Half my family died in the Holocaust. I still don’t associate it with 2024 Israel like Netanyahu wants.
Are you saying German holocaust survivers should only protest German fashists and not Israeli fashists because if they do then they associate the Holocaust with Israel and thus help Netanjahu with it?
I have a hard time understanding your position.
Why exactly would Israelis care what they had to say? Unless the answer is “because they’re Jews and the Holocaust is a Jewish thing,” I can’t think of a reason.
That’s good, I’m just hoping they could go together with the holocaust survivers who live in Israel and be role models there too, god knows we need them there too.
I don’t believe the Israeli youth have a vote in this week’s EU election.
Homer Simpson isn’t an argument. I simply don’t follow your lead of framing anything and everything to do with Jewish people against the actions of the Israeli government.
Most Jews don’t live in Israel, and (depending on how you count) 1/5 to 1/2 the people living in Israel aren’t Jews.But OP never said Jewish? I don’t know how to interpret the comment given that this is the internet but seemed more like a never again means never again for anyone kind of thing?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Eight Holocaust survivors have urged young people to shun far-right parties and vote to protect democracy at the upcoming European Union elections.
The letter was published by rights group Avaaz and signed by eight men and women aged between 81 and 102 who witnessed the Holocaust first-hand.
“I know that there was a similar development back then as there is today: a weak democratic government and a party that rallied the people who were dissatisfied,” 99-year-old Walter Frankenstein said in a video statement.
Ruth Winkelmann, who hid from the Nazis in a shed with her mother and sister after her father was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp, said she signed the letter “because the AfD is becoming too strong.”
She told the AFP news agency that the far-right party has “quite a lot in common” with the Nazis in the 1930s.
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Socialists and liberalists had their chance. They showed that they want to harm society, devalue workers, discriminate against men and suppress those who don’t toe the PC line.
Sorry old girl. There’s only one alternative if you’re a swedish man.
Stop right there Adolfsson. You really showed those 90 year old holocaust survivors who’s the man with your comment on a platform mainly used by mid 20 - mid 30 men working in IT.
