Nazi camp memorials in Germany should offer tours in Arabic, Jewish leader says

August 22, 2019   

(JTA) Concentration camp memorials in Germany should offer tours in Arabic, Germany’s main Jewish leader urged.

Josef Schuster, head of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, told the Welt am Sonntag weekly newspaper that the former concentration camp in Flossenbürg is already considering adding tours in Arabic. “This should be expanded to all such memorials,” Schuster said.

Germany has seen an influx of some one million Arabic-speaking refugees in the past four years.

Schuster also warned against any political deals with the right-wing Alternative for Germany party, which is expected to gain parliamentary seats in local elections in former East German states next month.

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