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The German government’s anti-Semitism commissioner has warned that discrimination against Jewish people is “no longer a marginal phenomenon.”<\/p>\n
Speaking ahead of the German parliament’s event to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Klein said remembrance is an “expression of respect for the victims and of responsibility” towards Germany’s history.<\/p>\n
“We commemorate the millions of people who were disenfranchised, persecuted and murdered,” Klein told the Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland media network.<\/p>\n
Attacks on the culture of remembrance are a clear warning signal, Klein said.<\/p>\n
“It is precisely our engagement with history that obliges us to be vigilant today and to actively and resolutely oppose anti-Semitism in all its forms,” he argued.<\/p>\n
“The anti-Semitism we are seeing again in our country is no longer a marginal phenomenon,” Klein added. “It is certainly not a problem of a minority, but rather one that threatens the very foundations of our society.”<\/p>\n
Confronting anti-Semitism is not the task of individuals, but the responsibility of all, the commissioner said.<\/p>\n
The Bundestag, Germany’s lower house of parliament, is set to hold a memorial service on Wednesday to commemorate the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp on January 27, 1945.<\/p>\n
Around 6 million Jewish people were killed by Nazi Germany in the Holocaust.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n