Ceremony in the EP in Brussels on the occasion of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day and statements by Beate KLARSFELD, Honorary Ambassador and Special Envoy for Education about the Holocaust and the Prevention of Genocide

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KLARSFELD, Beate

International Holocaust Remembrance Day: statement by Beate KLARSFELD, Honorary Ambassador and Special Envoy for Education about the Holocaust and the Prevention of Genocide

SOUNDBITE (French), Beate KLARSFELD, Honorary Ambassador and Special Envoy for Education about the Holocaust and the Prevention of Genocide, <p>The problem with the criminal nazis is archived of course,because the most important ones have been convicted, the ones that were in France, thanks to our intervention in the Cologne trial, the high responsible of the deportation of the French jews, also in the Barbie case, to have him come back to France.But now we have other current battles to fight, there is populism which is taking root in Europe. As a German, I am very concerned about how a party like AfD(Alternative f&uuml;r Deutschland) has risen in the regions, and how members of this party have been able to treat monuments in Berlin, I am part of the F&ouml;rderkreis Holocaust denkmal (remembrance) monument, as a Schande f&uuml;r Deutschland (a shame for Germany),it is very dangerous.</p>

SOUNDBITE (French), Beate KLARSFELD, Honorary Ambassador and Special Envoy for Education about the Holocaust and the Prevention of Genocide, In France we are fighting against Front National, that is something we have to be wary about.There are still some trials going on against nazi criminals, but these are people in their nineties, in it not the same things as before, the culprits had to be found and their guilt proven.

SOUNDBITE (French), Beate KLARSFELD, Honorary Ambassador and Special Envoy for Education about the Holocaust and the Prevention of Genocide, today it is different, it is sufficient if that they were in the camps at the time the Jews were killed in order to be able to convict them. It must also be mentioned, the decision in Germany now not to prohibit NPD (National Democratic Party of Germany), Karlsruhe has decided not to prohibit it, it is a dangerous party, but they are not sufficiently numerous. If the right the comes to power in France, with Marine Le Pen, everything will change. And you have seen in Poland, and in Germany a party like AfD which has had an important number of votes it is dangerous. Europe wasn't created so that extremists would come to power. People have to get engaged, we have done it, my husband and my son, but it has to be the youth of today, because do we really want a Europe of the extreme right or a democratic Europe?