Saxony's Minister President Michael Kretschmer (CDU) has called on people to be vigilant on the occasion of the day of remembrance for the victims of National Socialism. "We cannot undo history," he said today at the state's central commemoration ceremony in Pirna-Sonnenstein. "But by remembering and mourning together, we can keep the memory of the victims alive and be vigilant against any trivialization of dictatorship and contempt for humanity."
According to Kretschmer, the horror of the millions of murders continues. "There is no statute of limitations on this injustice," he said with a view to January 27, which is also the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz extermination camp. "The path to the extermination camps began with the contempt for sick people, with the judgment of people as worthy of life and unworthy of life." On Sonnenstein and in Großschweidnitz, too, sanatoriums were turned into places where human lives were systematically extinguished.
