German Chancellor Olaf Scholz spoke a demonstration of the Jewish network in Frankfurt to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the launch of the largest Nazi concentration camp, Auschwitz.

“Jewish life, that is, Jewish life is Germany. We are”, Scholz commemoration on Sunday.

In Frankfurt, Scholz said that Germany was guilty of maintaining the reminiscence of the Holocaust committed through the Germans World War II.

Scholz also stressed the “disturbing and alarming normalization” of anti -semitism, hate and excessive right, on social networks.

“Internet and specific social networks become a house for extremist positions, incentives and hate,” Scholz warned.  

More than one million other people died in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland occupied during World War II. Most of the victims were Jews, more than one million according to the memorial and the Auschwitz -Birkenau Museum, but also included non -Jewish, Romanis and Soviet soldiers.

“I oppose the page, saying” A long time ago, “said Scholz.

“We stay alive the reminiscence of the civilization breakdown of the Holocaust [Holocaust] committed through the Germans, which we transmit to the generation of our country round: our duty will not end,” he said.

The holocaust is “millions of individual stories”, other people “like you and me. “

“It is also this awareness that we will have to transmit in our memory,” added the chancellor.

This collective reminiscence is based on “the indeniable facts that everyone in our country must face independently of the origin, the circle of history or religion of family members,” he said.

JCG / JSI (AFP, DPA)