Germany’s culture of remembrance | DW Documentary
Amid far-right populism and growing support for the AfD, what can Germany do to ensure the atrocities of its history are never forgotten or repeated?
In recent decades Germany has worked to build a culture of remembrance that includes coming to terms with difficult chapters in its history, such as German colonial genocide and the Nazi dictatorship. Remembrance of Nazi crimes and commemoration of the victims should help ensure that these atrocities are never repeated. But increased far-right populism and growing support for the AfD party are a serious cause for concern. What can be done to keep awareness of Nazi crimes and the Holocaust alive in Germany, to prevent people playing down this terrible chapter in its history, and to convey its significance to the younger generation?
00:00 Intro
01:02 Susanne Siegert: Remembrance videos on TikTok
04:11 Memorial site: The Buchenwald Concentration Camp
06:09 Eva Umlauf: A Holocaust survivor raises awareness
08:24 Swastikas in Buchenwald and how the AfD downplays Nazi crimes
10:22 Protests against the far-right and concerns about upcoming state elections
11:50 The future of memorial work
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38 comments
Auslander aus!
there can be no talk of a culture of remembrance … the left cherish and cultivate the whole thing with full devotion … the normal citizen wants nothing to do with it
I am German. I can not understand why so many people vote the Nazi Afd. We all know the history. I don't know if they are stupid or evil.
NEVER FORGET!
It didn't take long.
You guyz are WRONG when you say "Far Right". NAZI were National Socialists. Germany has big problems, but the Left wants to blame the Right. Your ontology is truly Marxist driven.
Brow beating kids constantly breeds resentment. Good luck with the problem you're making.
Afd: We should have borders and enforce our sovereign laws.
German state: What about the holobunga?
Shameful
Those bangs alone are a crime😂
I wish Germany actually did "respect and value the human rights of all people"… or maybe they don't see Palestinians as people?
a lot is said about WW2 genocide, and yet not a word about ongoing genocide and Germany's stands on it.
Look what's happening in the US. If Trump is elected again…God help us.
The struggle for hard left to remain in power is real. Its not going to work though
I think the Germans are forgiven today. The culture of remembrance works.
Germany is a friggin mess. Something needs to change
Now, I think about Palestinian lestinian.
It's strange that the current German government bans so many books on the subject.
Germans are really funny people
Never again means never murdering a people due to their race. It doesn't mean lets send bombs to Israel to blow up all the Palestinians. Hypocritical idiots. Ironically in both cases the Zionists were involved. Allied with Hitler, and now taking out the Palestinians. Let's not forget their connection with apparteid
BUT to certain degree the German people in general have to move beyond the nazis guilt !!!
How ironic that Germany actually supports the Israeli GENOCIDE of Palestinians because of its historic guilt.
When there is an economic downturn, inflation. Most people like to put the blame on others. They need a scapegoat. As the same goes for muslims right now. Israel is using the same tactis hitler used.
This documentary is a joke. Tge German government is actively supporting a genocide committed byban apartheid state.
For a country to be paying reparations three generations later is absurd. So basically the Egyptian government should still be paying reparations for their part in genocide of the Jews. I’m not anti semantic but , in fact my grandparents left Germany in 1938 to avoid prosecution for being “Jewish “….. seriously, people need to move on. Humans have been committing atrocities for time immemorial. As I write this Russia is trying to wipe out Ukrainians.Other than initial Reparations immediately you don’t collect forever. This constant complaining is causing the problem. My family moved on fr😢both sides of the same situation.
The world is crumbling yet again
I deny it.
Joe can you say 'never again' when it is happening right now?
It's ok to move on. Happened a long time ago. No lessons were learned.
Afraid of the so called far right but not afraid of the far left? hmm strange. Both have done a lot of damage to the world. I find people who only care about one kind of extremism, extremely disingenuous.
The only thing that we should really remember that history taught us is that it's the rise of the far-left that gave the far-right it's true power and popularity as a response and counter-balance, allow it again and you will have the same problem period.
Maybe if the Deutschers would remember their Glory Days over the Dark ones you could return to the Deutsche Sonderweg…. 12 Years of Dictatorship shouldn't destroy 1000 years of respectable history. Where is the energy preserving the spirit that united the German People or will you let the occult of those 12 years tarnish the German Unification and the History of Prussia? – Burgschmied von Bacharach
Ironic that today the left is the one with all the anti-Semitism and yet it's being allowed and ignored, we really haven't learned anything have we?.
That's it Susie keep it up.
Hello all i can see is PROPAGANDA FROM DW
To the black kid,White South Africans are told daily they are not African so i wanna ask you, how can you be German ? seems like when you are white the Rules changes.
80 years later and Germany was on the road to shaking the negative connotations and now they’re pro-Israel 🚮
Yet we still have dictators like Putin, China, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, etc.
Germany should learn balance from it's past. It should not swing too far left either. There should be balance with a balanced focus on Germans and German culture. Is the right-wing gaining because of an unbalanced immigration approach?
as an american seeing a similar rise in the us its very scary. we can be proud of our past while still remembering and being honest about how terrible and wrong aspects were at times. i hope kids like justin take in the lessons of the past, not just of germany between how we treated the natives slavery jim crow and eugenics we have committed atrocities as well, and change the future of not just germany, but many places around the world. or he could be one of the next generation in a camp for not being "german enough."