Press Information published by the International Auschwitz Committee
10.03.2015
The International Auschwitz Committee calls for immediate moves to intensify proceedings for NPD ban
During a stay with young German and Polish people at the Auschwitz Memorial, the Executive Vice President of the International Auschwitz Committee, Christoph Heubner, stressed:
"In this commemorative year, democracy’s most important memorial ceremony is taking place on the streets of the republic. The hate-motivated, forced resignation of the mayor of Tröglitz once again illustrates that – mobs, together with their middle-class accessories – have long since been able to topple the democratic culture of everyday life in individual places and to dominate the atmosphere with hatred, threats of violence and intimidation. Clearly, the state institutions are still failing, time and again, to recognise this latent and everyday threat that is taking place on their own doorstep. It is most certainly high time that especially members of Germany’s local and district authorities act decisively, and that extreme right-wing people are marginalised at all levels. This also includes immediate moves to step up proceedings in the application for a ban of the National Democratic Party (NPD): whilst the application is still lying around somewhere gathering dust, right-wingers are taking up local positions day-by-day in our country’s political and social system, in order to spread their contempt for democracy and their hatred towards people who think differently."
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Christoph Heubner
Executive Vice President
International Auschwitz Committee
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