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To the Editor:
Re “on Auschwitz anniversary,” “Great sorrow” over rising nationalism” (front page, January 28) and “Musk Insified for Blame by Germany’s Nazi” (press article, January 28):
As we mark 80 years since the liberation of the Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau and remember the unspeakable horrors that were perpetrated there against Jews, it is disconcerting that this significant and solemn anniversary is marred by a tsunami of antisemitism both in Germany and throughout the world.
When Holocaust survivors, who endured barbarity and torture, feel compelled to rise up 8 decades later to sound the alarm of bigotry and the developing Jewish hatred, it is a brutal reminder of the demanding situations we still face on a global scale. Efforts to normalize and legitimize the spread of anti-Semitism are repugnant and take a stand in a civilized society.
No one deserves to roll out the red carpet for extremism, xenophobia and hatred. And attempts to minimize or surpass the crimes of the Nazis opposed to humanity are an aggression against us all. We cannot and will not have to clean up the reminiscence of the atrocities that occurred in the Holocaust, and we will not have to turn a blind eye to the tide of anti-Semitism that is sweeping the world.
N. Aaron Troodlerbala Cynwyd, Pa.
To the editor:
Elon Musk’s front with the excessive right of Germany Für Deutschland (AFD). By rejecting Germany’s duty for its Nazi history as a “past guilt” that deserves to be left behind, Mr. Musk trivializes critical classes in history and encourages extremist forces.
Germany’s calculation with its Nazi history is to its democratic identity and a safeguard against the resurgence of hatred. The approval of AFD Musk through Musk, a party that downplays the Holocaust and promotes xenophobic nationalism, undermines those principles. His comments, coinciding with the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, deepened the affront.
By supporting a party whose co-founder dismissed the Nazi era as “a speck of bird’s muck,” Mr. Musk lends credibility to dangerous ideologies.
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