Germany – Jewish Leader Living in Fear of Neo-Nazis

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    Charlotte KnoblochGermany – The head of Germany’s Jewish community revealed that she received death threats which made her fear for her life in an interview given to mark the 70th anniversary of the infamous Nazi “Kristallnacht” pogrom that paved the way for the Holocaust.

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    Charlotte Knobloch, the president of Germany’s Central Council of Jews, issued a dire warning against the rise of neo-Nazi parties and said she often received death threats.

    “There are people out there who would rather see me in a cemetery,” said Knobloch, 76, who experienced Kristallnacht as a 6-year-old when she fled on to the streets of Munich with her father after his shop was attacked by Nazis. “Sometimes I fear for my life,” she added.

    Knobloch called for a government ban on the neo-Nazi National Democratic Party (NPD) which has made a series of sweeping gains in regional state elections in Germany since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.

    Her remarks coincided with ceremonies across Germany marking the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht, or Night of Broken Glass, which lasted through November 9 and 10, 1938.

    Fresh evidence of Kristallnacht surfaced last month after an Israeli journalist discovered a vast rubbish dump outside a village north of Berlin in which items stolen from looted and sacked Jewish homes, businesses and synagogues were dumped.

    Residents in the village of Klandorf some 55km north-east of Berlin said that the site was chosen by the regime because it was next to the local “Heather railway” line which links the German capital to an idyllic area of lakes and woods outside the city.

    Gielsdorf family members, who own part of the land, said that for years after the fall of the Berlin Wall the dump was visited by treasure hunters. They combed the site looking for anything to sell in the flea markets of Berlin and Leipzig and used shovels to threaten anyone who tried to stop them.

    Yesterday several family members and a handful of other villagers held a small ceremony on the rubbish tip to commemorate the Kristallnacht anniversary.


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    ely
    ely
    15 years ago

    Germen is the wrong place to live. The earth is full with yidish blood and good can’t come out from such an evil place.
    What do you expect from the german’s youngstars to be better then his father and grand father? Move out from this farshultant land

    chaim perachia
    chaim perachia
    15 years ago

    The only surprise to me is that they allow political parties with neo-nazi y”shm ties to participate in government in Germany. I know it’s a democratic country now, but sometimes governments have to limit certain things that under normal circumstances would be considered a “right” in a democracy! A country that only 60 years ago did what they did is certainly not yet under “normal circumstances”.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    Germany has the strictest laws in the world against neo-Nazis.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    no Jew should live in that evil and cursed country