Bavaria: Herrmann: Not a millimeter of space for anti-Semitism

Munich (dpa / lby) - Bavaria's Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann (CSU) calls the increase in anti-Semitic crimes intolerable.

Bavaria: Herrmann: Not a millimeter of space for anti-Semitism

Munich (dpa / lby) - Bavaria's Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann (CSU) calls the increase in anti-Semitic crimes intolerable. "Jewish faith and Jewish culture are an indispensable part of our country. We must never tolerate hatred and violence against Jews in Bavaria," Herrmann said on Wednesday during a final visit to the Conference of European Rabbis (CER) at the Dachau concentration camp memorial site. "We don't give even a millimeter of space to right-wing extremists, left-wing extremists or Islamist anti-Semitism."

Charlotte Knobloch, President of the Jewish Community in Munich and Upper Bavaria (ikg), called the Jewish future a European issue. "Visibility of the Jewish community and of Jewish identity will remain our major task for the rest of this decade - and probably beyond," she said in a speech on Wednesday morning. "What has been built up in this respect must be secured - also bearing in mind a past that is always present in the countries of Europe."

Rabbis from Europe, Israel and the USA had been meeting in Munich since Monday. Finally, a visit to the site of the former Dachau concentration camp was planned, which the National Socialists had built in 1933 and which was considered a model for later concentration camps. More than 200,000 people were imprisoned there and in the satellite camps, including Jews, Roma and Sinti, homosexuals, clergy, communists and trade unionists. At least 41,500 people died or were murdered. On April 29, 1945, the US Army liberated the camp.