Following the shameful end of the Koblenz trial, the survivors of the German concentration and extermination camps are disappointed and angry at the obvious organisational incompetence of the constitutional state.

Commenting in Berlin, Christoph Heubner, Executive Vice President of the International Auschwitz Committee, said:

"Right-wing extremists will happily welcome the news that the constitutional state has failed so abysmally in the confrontation with Neo-Nazis who are prepared to use violence. What has happened in Koblenz can be likened to a legalistic Absurdistan: not strong and decisive, more of a dwarfish state."