Student shows right -wing extremist gesture in Auschwitz - parents defend themselves!
Student shows right -wing extremist gesture in Auschwitz - parents defend themselves!
An incident that causes excitement in education policy: Two students from the Fischerschule in Greifswald took a video when visiting the former Auschwitz concentration camp in which they show a right -wing extremist gesture. In the clip, which was published on Tikok, the student can be seen how he executes the so-called "white power hand signal", a symbol that represents the superiority of the white breed in right-wing extremists. It is particularly clear that the student wore a T-shirt of the Lonsdale brand and a belt from the Thor Steinar brand, which are considered insignia in right-wing extremist milieus. Uckermark Kurier reports that the incident only known to the Ministry of Education Mecklenburg-Western became because the school did not report the incident in time.
The school management reacted after the intervention of the Ministry of Education and filed a criminal complaint to the police. A school reference to the two ninth graders was expressed, which is the strictest measure in MV according to the school law. As a result, the students have to leave school, but are transferred to other educational institutions to enable the same conclusion. Interestingly, the parents of the two boys have already announced an appeal against the school reference, and urgent procedures are running so that the transfer can be carried out as soon as possible. However, the students concerned are suspended until the matter of clarification.
another example of right -wing extremists gestures
This event is not the first of its kind. A similar incident occurred on March 13, when four students from the Görlitzer Scultetus secondary school in Auschwitz-Birkenau posed and deliberately showed the "white power hand signal". Here, too, the picture was spread via Social Media, but the school quickly reacted with conversations and measures that ranged from social lessons in a workshop for the disabled to school instructions. The spokesman for the memorial said very much: "Such gestures are particularly painful in a place where millions of people were murdered", as MDR reported.
The incidents also make a highlight of a worrying trend: According to a study, SPIEGEL has increased the spread of right-wing extremist attitudes, especially among young people in recent years. The sociologist Johannes Kiess observes that social media are fueling this trend and often looking for young people for orientation in a digital space that is increasingly shaped by extreme views.
These developments are alarming and illustrate how important it is to intensify the education and dialogue about history and tolerance in schools. Responsibility for society as a whole is required here to convey clear values to the youth and to protect them from extremist ideas.
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