Rise of Germany’s far-right AfD stokes fears at concentration camp site
The AfD has little chance of entering government for now as all other political parties have refused to ally with it to form a government
Jens-Christian Wagner says the rise of the anti-immigration party, which won Thuringia state elections with 33 per cent of the vote on Sunday, reflects a hardening of attitudes that could spell new dangers.
“My colleagues and I have been upset and depressed since Sunday evening,” said the director of the foundation that administers the site.
Wagner said he worries about worse to come after a spate of attacks in recent years, both on social media networks that have been “flooded with revisionist content” and on site, including swastika graffiti.
The Nazi symbol has also been scrawled into the Buchenwald memorial centre’s visitors’ book, and vandals have cut down trees planted at the site in memory of survivors of the camp.
