- The administrator of Buchenwald memorial receives threats following mail to electoral body.
The manager of the memorials, Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora, encounters threats after penning a letter to voters in Thuringia. As per Jens-Christian Wagner on a certain X, his picture was affixed to a Death March monument within the Mittelbau-Dora memorial. This monument honors the victims who endured the deadly marches from Mittelbau-Dora's detention facilities.
Later, a female resident from Weimar sent an email, asserting that like the former SPD state parliamentarian, Thomas Hartung, Wagner too would encounter retribution for his actions.
Wagner regularly accuses the AfD of downplaying Nazism and frequently opposes their Nazi-related remarks. The Thuringian AfD is classified as firmly extremist by the state's Office for the Protection of the Constitution. Recently, Wagner wrote a letter to Thuringia's elderly voters, voicing his concerns prior to the September 1st state election.
Letter to Elderly Thuringians
Wagner pointed out that the AfD, a party, aims to disregard the torments faced by the National Socialism victims, including those imprisoned in Thuringia's Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora concentration camps. This correspondence was disseminated to over 65-year-old Thuringians in a circulation of 300,000 copies.
A spokesperson for the memorial revealed that these responses might be due to the widespread dissemination of letters. Due to Wagner's picture mounted on the Death March monument, which was extracted from one of the letters, a police complaint was lodged in Nordhausen, according to the spokesperson.
Katrin Göring-Eckardt, Vice-President of the Bundestag, condemned these threats as unacceptable. She expressed her frustration on X, stating that sections of society have lost their decency, "intending to intimidate and silence defenders of democracy and the culture of remembrance."
The female resident's email compared Wagner's potential retribution to that of Thomas Hartung, implying that women across Thuringia are closely following these political developments. In response to Wagner's letter to elderly voters, several women in the community expressed their concerns, leading to the lodging of a police complaint in Nordhausen.
