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May 10, 2021 12:13 pm A man protests coronavirus restrictions with a yellow star and a photo of Anne Frank outside the Holocaust memorial in Berlin. (@ZSKberlin/Twitter)
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BERLIN (JTA) – Germany’s antisemitism commissioner is urging a crackdown on protesters who don yellow stars to complain about the pandemic lockdown.
Speaking Friday, Felix Klein urged authorities across Germany to bar protesters from using the symbol, saying it relativizes the Holocaust. The Nazis forced Jews to wear a yellow Star of David as a means of humiliating them and marking them for further persecution, deportation and murder.
Some demonstrators have used the star, emblazoned with the words “non-vaccinated” in a Hebraicized script, to boost their claim of being persecuted for opposing coronavirus policies.
German icon of Nazi resistance commemorated
AP, BERLIN
Germany on Sunday commemorated what would have been the 100th birthday of Sophie Scholl, a young woman who became an icon for her role in the anti-fascist “White Rose” resistance group.
Scholl and other group members were arrested in 1943 after scattering leaflets critical of Adolf Hitler’s regime and the war from a balcony at the University of Munich.
She and her brother Hans refused to apologize or give up their co-conspirators and were executed four days later.
Students take part in a performance to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Sophie Scholl at Koenigsplatz in Munich, Germany, on Sunday.
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