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Neo-Nazi gathering at 80th Anniversary of Dresden Bombing from WW2
Over these days various right wing and Neo-Nazi groups have co-ordinated their own memorial events within the city. The big gathering of the ultra right factions from Germany and indeed Europe (it is reported as the biggest gathering of Neo-Nazi’s in Europe) took place on Saturday the 15th, which I covered for Getty
The far right (AfD as well as fringe groups) are attempting through their distortion of historical events and rewriting of the past to change the narrative of the Nazi period.
From NBC News:
The chairman of Israel's official Holocaust memorial has accused Elon Musk of insulting the victims of Nazism and endangering Germany’s democratic future after the billionaire addressed a rally for Germany’s far-right party on Saturday.
Musk, the world’s richest man, made a surprise virtual appearance at a campaign event for Germany’s far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party on Saturday, doubling down on his support for the group he has said can “save Germany” ahead of snap elections in February.
In an apparent reference to Germany’s Nazi history, the head of the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency, whose smiling face was projected onto a vast screen, told a roaring crowd that “children should not be guilty of the sins of their parents, let alone their great-grandparents.”
“There is too much focus on past guilt, and we need to move beyond that,” he added at the rally in the eastern German city of Halle.
From Deutsch Welle:
A renewed appropriation of the anniversary (Dresden Bombing in 1945) by right-wing extremists has been ongoing over the past few years. The extremists have used the moment to accuse the Allies of committing a war crime and to argue that Germans also suffered during the war.
In my opinion this phenomenon explains to some degree the re-emerged traction of right wing politics once again within Germany.
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