{"id":9269,"date":"2013-08-17T16:47:16","date_gmt":"2013-08-17T16:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9269"},"modified":"2013-08-17T16:47:16","modified_gmt":"2013-08-17T16:47:16","slug":"fight-right-wing-extremism-merkel-urges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9269","title":{"rendered":"Fight right-wing extremism, Merkel urges"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9270\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9270\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/angela-merkel2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9270\" alt=\"Angela Merkel\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/angela-merkel2-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/angela-merkel2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/angela-merkel2.jpg 465w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9270\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Angela Merkel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Europe must fight right-wing ideas and movements to protect its democracy, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Saturday as she prepared to visit a Nazi concentration camp next week.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We must never accept that such lines of thought have a place in our democratic Europe,&#8221; she said in her weekly video podcast.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Merkel plans Tuesday to visit the Dachau concentration camp outside Munich. She described herself as moved that a survivor of the camp, Max Mannheimer, the chairman of the committee of former Dachau prisoners, had invited her.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She is travelling there with a &#8220;feeling of shame and shock,&#8221; she said, &#8220;because what happened in the concentration camps is and remains unfathomable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We know that today we live in a democracy, but we also know that this democracy is always at risk,&#8221; she warned.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She called it &#8220;mortifying,&#8221; for example, that Jewish establishments in Germany must stay under police watch &#8220;because otherwise we must always worry that they will be desecrated.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The government and large parts of society take the danger posed by right-wing extremism seriously, Merkel said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Germany has established clear punishments through its legal system as well as programmes for those who want to leave right-wing movements, she said. All people are also urged to be aware that the rewriting of history and bogus slogans have no room in German society, she said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Civil courage is also part of society here, so that such ideas have absolutely no chance of spreading,&#8221; she said. &#8211; dpa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Europe must fight right-wing ideas and movements to protect its democracy, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Saturday as she prepared to visit a Nazi concentration camp next week. &#8220;We must never accept that such lines of thought have a place in our democratic Europe,&#8221; she said in her weekly video podcast. Merkel plans Tuesday to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9269\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fight right-wing extremism, Merkel urges&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,3],"tags":[3294,5222,5221,51,295,5223],"class_list":["post-9269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","tag-angela-merkel","tag-chancellor","tag-dachau","tag-germany","tag-jews","tag-max-mannheimer"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/angela-merkel2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9271,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9269\/revisions\/9271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}