The Buchenwald Concentration Camp Memorial receives hate mail after restricting access to vaccinated and convalescent people. “The aggressiveness that hits us testifies to a terrifying brutality,” said the director of the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorial Foundation, Jens-Christian Wagner. Most disgusting, however, is equating the coronavirus protective measures with the Nazi crimes.
Unvaccinated people would be referred to as “new Jews” and memorial workers as “Nazis, fascists and new Dr. Mengeles “insulted. “To seriously equate the access restriction to the exhibition for voluntarily unvaccinated persons with the racist and anti-Semitic motivated murder policy of the Nazis is outrageous,” criticized Wagner. In this way, the victims of Nazi crimes would be instrumentalized and mocked.
Such NS equations not only played down National Socialism, but also played into the hands of historical revisionism and anti-Semitic agitation, according to Wagner. The employees also had to endure drastic verbal abuse, said the memorial on its website.
The memorial also pointed out that the 2-G rule based on parliamentary resolutions only applies to the exhibitions and visitor information. The outer areas of the memorial – including the site of the former camp, the memorial on the bell tower and the tombs – are accessible without restrictions.
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