The latest attempt by Herr Junker, commissioner for the county of Dachau, to have the Dachau crematorium, where hundreds of thousands of Jews were murdered by the Nazis, closed to visitors, ended in failure in the Bavarian Parliament yesterday.
Herr Junker, who introduced a motion in the provincial legislature to close down the museum at the former death camp, said that he wanted to keep the commemoration of Nazi victims “within bounds.” He said that the name of the town of Dachau had been brought into disrepute throughout the world as a result of the publicity which the camp had received.
He withdrew his motion, however, after it was pointed out to him that a recent Bonn-Paris agreement obligating the West German Government to preserve burial places of and memorials to Nazi victims on their original state. Before he withdrew his motion, Herr Junker came under attack from Social Democrats and members of his own Christian Democratic Party. Later, on a motion by Herr Junker, it was agreed to erect a memorial consisting of a cross and a Star of David on a hill overlooking the Dachau camp.
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