AP, BERLINThe German soccer federation (DFB) says it has a “special responsibility” to support Holocaust Memorial Day as its former president Felix Linnemann was directly responsible for sending victims to be murdered at the Auschwitz extermination camp. “This year, since more than 20,000 Sinti and Roma murdered in Auschwitz are also being commemorated in addition to the many Jewish victims, we feel a special responsibility,” DFB president Fritz Keller said, referring to Linnemann’s actions. “That’s why it is our special duty to ensure that these crimes are never forgotten. Especially today, because not everyone in Germany wants to remember them anymore. “It is an exemplary and important signal, how Eintracht Frankfurt is facing up to this responsibility this weekend,” Keller said.
