a german president Frank Walter SteinmeierTogether star of david On the collar and apologizing to Poland as the Nazis forced the Jews to wear it. Third Reich: The image on the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising did not have the emotional charge it displayed Willy BrandtKneeling in front of the monument to the heroes of the Jewish revolt in December 1970. The gesture of the then German chancellor was: natural, silent and probably the best expression regret and the Germans are ashamed of the horrors of Nazism.
Steinmeier embodied the same sentiment as Brandt, a social democrat like himself, in a speech. He claimed that German responsibility for the crimes of Nazism would continue for a long time. next few generations.
“The crimes committed here by the Germans make me a deep shame”, in a ceremony marked by the sound of the rebellion’s sirens at 12 noon every year in Warsaw. April 19, 1943. That morning the prisoners revolted helplessly. exile. between 450,000 Jews With the onset of mass deportations to the Treblinka extermination camp in the summer of 1942, only 50,000 of the thriving inhabitants of the three square kilometer section of the ghetto survived. The uprising was brutally suppressed, and those who remained in their homes were burned to death. the ghetto is on fire.
“I stand before you to ask for forgiveness for the crimes committed by the Germans,” Steinmeier summed up. The president’s message is not unlike any other speech Brandt delivered by other German leaders after his historic kneel in Poland or Israel. The Polish President accompanied him at the 80th anniversary events. Andrzej Duda and Israel isaac herzog. Steinmeier not only praised the “unimaginable courage” of ghetto Jews, weakly armed and poor, standing up to Nazi soldiers. He also condemned the movement”aggressive warfare” which shook Europe and declared in neighboring Ukraine german determination To support Kiev, as Poland did.
The presence in Warsaw of the German, Israeli and Polish presidents, as well as expressions of unity against Russia or reconciliation over the wounds of the past, multi-band voltages, not just historical. Poland blames Berlin whenever its situation comes to light. slowness Military support for Kiev and the ultranationalist government party Law and Justice (PiS) continue to demand reparations from Germany for the destruction of the Nazi occupation. 1.3 trillion €–. Berlin believes this debt was settled when Poland resigned in 1953 to be compensated by the German Democratic Republic (GDR). Warsaw is one of those forced decision From Moscow via then communist Poland.
The wound between Israel and Poland last year, Law enacted by Warsaw preventing the return of assets confiscated by the Nazis to their heirs. A precaution taken by the prime minister of the time, Yair LapidIt has been described as “anti-Semitic and immoral”.