The Council of Jews from Germany marked the 25th anniversary of the initiation of the Nazi campaign against the German Jews with the issuance of a statement today calling on German and world public opinion to recall the Nazi crimes and take care that they may never be allowed to recur.
Noting that on April 1, 1933, the National Socialist regime “gave the signal for the violent exclusion of the Jews from the German body politic, ” the Council pointed out that in many quarters German compensation to the victims of Nazism is regarded as an arithmetical problem rather than a moral obligation. It also pointed to the fact that there is also a desire among some people to forget the Nazi crimes against the Jews.
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