The head of the foundation running the memorial at the former Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald says he will confront a German far-right politician with pointed questions when they hold talks Wednesday.
The director of the site, Volkhard Knigge, says he agreed to the meeting requested by Stephan Brandner, a deputy from the anti-migration, anti-Islam Alternative for Germany party, because he wanted to call out the party’s attacks on Holocaust remembrance.
“We want to use the opportunity to ask Mr. Brandner about the historical revisionism and anti-democratic positions of his party and his own position on them,” Knigge says in a statement.
Brandner represents a district in Thuringia state where Buchenwald, the largest former concentration camp on German soil, is located.
Atonement for the Nazis’ crimes makes up a crucial component of German political culture — a fact the AfD has called into question.
— AFP
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