It took a good twenty five years for the plans to be brought to completion. its location in berlin is government district is perhaps the most visible indication of germany s intent to face up to its history. unobtrusive in contrast are what are called stumbling stones they reflect the everyday horrors of the nazi era and commemorate jews who were deported murdered or driven out tens of thousands have been placed all across germany and europe making them the world s largest decentralized memorial. and then there are the places of horror themselves such as auschwitz today it s a memorial site that makes the nazis machine of genocidal destruction tangible to visitors what is the right form of remembrance. own posner the former german president. said to two years ago there is no german
. we have this growing fear sentiment of everything should stay as it is germans are one nation and they look like this and they act like this whatever comes here has to be act like this and this kind of assimilation so it goes not only against jews who goes especially against muslims why well this is like if you read sometimes texts of knowledge days if you replaced were muslim with jewish it gets really frightening to me you know we have this kind of stigmatization that always is the beginning of further development to more violent reactions towards minorities the stigmatization of my own minorities this is a big problem inside germany i want to talk about what effects that change in climate has and we have a short film about that in recent years berlin has actually seen something of a rebirth of jewish life but could this increasingly be perceived as
A point but then they turned around and supported arab terrorism against israel they wrote you know the the red army faction actually trained in palestinian terror camps and so on and since then it s sort of a given if you re on the left that you re critical of israel there s you know there s no accept the fact that israel is the only democracy that gays lesbians and so on queers. transgender people you know it s and so this all comes together these three aspects kristen however would you agree are we seeing a rise in intolerance generally and particular in. i think what has really changed is that the climate in germany of public discussions of private discussions a lot of things are being set that would have been impossible ten years ago fifteen years ago and this doesn t go only for anti jewish resentments but it goes for anything that is considered different that is considered any end to german somehow
Pretty big resentment against jews because otherwise this person would have been alarmed or the whole school or in fact also the police people who were politically responsible for the school and we have learned from the people from other schools in dispute often claim and unfortunate got munich and so forth similar incidents because not all people because in public now people come out and talk about it. the same report that i just quoted from the german government although would admit that attitudes are says that attitudes amongst the broader majority haven t changed it does admit that there is increased anti-semitic activity in the words of the report in terms of propaganda verbal and physical abuse so what exactly is going on there are we seeing a minority on the margins of society that feels increasingly empowered
Identity without auschwitz remembering the holocaust remains a concern for all citizens who live in germany but can we really expect migrants to germany to share that view and also perhaps very young germans who say hey that s ago. well there s just two aspects to this. the first aspect is this is not a german question the holocaust was and remains. something that that is that is important for every person everywhere in the world whether you re a german whether you re a jew whether you re a german jew whether you re a german muslim whether you re an american if they have a holocaust memorial in washington d.c. why they have a heart a caused a museum in los angeles why because this is something which we all need to think about so it s not a question of can we expect my grandchildren to take responsibility given that you know that the great grandfather was a jews because we can can respect young muslims of course we can t because every