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“We bow ashamed before the victims of that time”
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Federal President Van der Bellen commemorated the victims at the Mauthausen concentration camp. – Chancellor Minister Raab: “Learning from the horrors of history”.
On Tuesday, on the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Mauthausen concentration camp and its 49 subfields, Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen placed a wreath in the square of the former camp in memory of the victims.
“Surprised, even today, and with shame we bow to the victims of that time,” the federal president had said in a video message the day before.
The traditional Mauthausen Liberation Celebration will take place on May 10, as usual, but due to the crown pandemic, it will be online on the website of the Mauthausen Austria Committee. From 1938 until the concentration camp was finally liberated on May 7, 1945 by the 11th Panzer Division of the US Third Army. 200,000 prisoners arrived in Mauthausen, half of whom did not survive the Nazi killing machine.
Chancellor Minister Raab: “Learning from the horrors of history”
“Mauthausen is one of those places where the cruelty of the Nazi government is made clear to us. In memory of the liberation on May 5, 1945, it is clear that the Austrians were not only victims, but also perpetrators. Therefore, it is It is the responsibility of politics and society to do everything possible to ensure that anti-Semitism and such atrocities never happen again, “said Minister Chancellor Susanne Raab on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the former Mauthausen concentration camp today.
“A strong culture of remembrance begins with the dignified commemoration of all the victims of the Holocaust. More than 100,000 people had to die in Mauthausen, including mainly Jewish citizens. People with disabilities, homosexuals, resistance fighters and people with different opinions or other beliefs that were brutally murdered in Mauthausen should not be forgotten, “said the minister. Raab, who is also responsible for issues related to ethnic groups, particularly commemorates the fate of the 9,000 murdered Austrian Roma and Romnja who were victims of the Holocaust.
“Racism, anti-Semitism and hatred must not have a place in our society, we have to work every day for that,” Raab warns.
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