アウシュビッツ解放７９年、独各地でデモ　「二度と繰り返さない」

【ベルリンＡＦＰ＝時事】国連が定める「ホロコースト犠牲者を想起する国際デー」の２７日、ドイツ各地で数万人がデモに参加した。（写真はポーランドのアウシュビッツ・ビルケナウ強制収容所跡）
　ポーランドのアウシュビッツ・ビルケナウ強制収容所は１９４５年１月２７日、旧ソ連軍により解放された。
　デュッセルドルフで行われたデモに参加したオラフ・ショルツ首相は、多数の市民の参加を歓迎するとし、「二度と繰り返さない」と述べた。
　反極右運動「Ｔｏｇｅｔｈｅｒ　ａｇａｉｎｓｔ　ｔｈｅ　ｅｘｔｒｅｍｅ　ｒｉｇｈｔ」によると、今週末、約３００か所でデモが予定されている。
　この日、ポーランドの収容所跡地での記念行事には、収容経験者やその家族が参加し、犠牲者らを悼んだ。
　９５歳の女性は、世界各地での反ユダヤの動きに悲しみを覚えると話し、「ロシアによるウクライナへの長きにわたる残忍な攻撃、（イスラム組織）ハマスによる残忍なテロ行為とそれに伴うあらゆる対立」を見ると、「ホロコーストが続いているような感じがする」と述べた。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2024/01/29-16:22）

Tens of thousands of Germans turned out across the country on Saturday to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, just days after a string of protests against right-wing extremists.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who earlier this month joined a march against the far right, on Saturday welcomed what he said were millions of fellow citizens marching in the streets of Germany.
Never again, Scholz vowed Saturday as police in the western city of Duesseldorf said about 100,000 people joined the peaceful protest there.
Demonstrations were planned in 300 towns and villages across the country this weekend, according to the alliance Together against the extreme right.
In the northern city of Kiel, police said 11,500 people had gathered before midday.
Democracy is not for the timid, read placards alongside others saying, Red card for the AfD party of the extreme right.
Physiotherapist Johannes Boecker, aged 29, told AFP, It was important to demonstrate in memory of the victims of national socialism and also against the rise of the extreme right.
In Stuttgart, where a couple of thousand people gathered, 60-year-old Margrit Walter told AFP: I want to create a Nazi-free zone for my grand-daughter.
- 'Never again is every day' -
Scholz, who had turned out at a protest two weeks ago in Potsdam, close to the capital, said he was delighted to see people stand up.
Never again requires everybody's vigilance. Our democracy is not a gift from God, it is made by men, the chancellor said. Never again is every day.
Defence Minister Boris Pistorius joined the protesters in his northwestern hometown of Osnabrueck, where he was born.
There are three times as many demonstrations as last week, particularly in the east of Germany, said in a statement the citizen's alliance Campact, which is among the organisers of the protest movement.
It is in the east, formerly communist East Germany, where the AfD finds its biggest following.
Holocaust Day, commemorating the murder of six million Jews during World War Two, falls on the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp by Soviet troops on January 27, 1945.
In Poland, site of the former camp, Auschwitz survivor Halina Birenbaum, aged 95, lamented anti-Jewish protests around the world and the barbaric and long Russian attack against Ukraine... the barbaric terrorist attacks by Hamas and war on every side.
For me it makes the Holocaust go on, she said.
In Germany, this year's 79th Holocaust anniversary came shortly after a report by investigative outlet Correctiv that revealed that AfD members had discussed the mass expulsion of immigrants and non-assimilated citizens at a November meeting with extremists.
The news sent shockwaves across Germany at a time when the AfD is soaring in opinion polls, just months ahead of three major regional elections in eastern Germany where their support is strongest.
Interior Minister Nancy Faeser compared the extremist meeting on foreigners with the 1942 Wannsee conference when the Nazis plotted to exterminate European Jews.