“There have always been incidents at memorial sites, but we have noticed an escalation due to the far right’s breaching of language taboos,” he said. More recently, a growing number of tour guides have been interrupted by extremists right-wing propagating revisionist theories. Since the party won seats in all of Germany’s regional parliaments, several AfD MPs have also tried to influence the cultural-historical programmes of memorial sites, she added. Security measuresThere are 15 former concentration camps on German soil which have been turned into memorial sites. But faced with the new challenge from the far right, many of the sites have been forced to adapt.

Source: The Express Tribune April 14, 2020 06:00 UTC