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Holocaust | 20.03.2007

German Police Trainees Accused of Anti-Semitism

Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift:
The case at the police school in
Berlin is set to be investigated

The Berlin Police President has ordered an
investigation into reports of anti-Semitism at a police training school in the
German capital.

"If these accusations prove
correct, there will be consequences," warned Dieter Glietsch, who was said
to be angry he was never directly informed of the recent incidences at the
Berlin police training school.

The police president called for
an immediate and extensive investigation into the case and met Monday with the
school's directors and teachers.

Holocaust as a compulsory
subject

The sudden flurry of media
reports pointing to latent anti-Semitism among police trainees was sparked in
late February, when budding officers apparently responded to a compulsory class
on the Third Reich by saying they were bored of being constantly reminded of the
Holocaust and that Jews were known to be wealthy.

Bildunterschrift: Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift:
Berlin's Holocaust Memorial is a
daily reminder in the capital of Nazi crimes

Classes on xenophobia and
Germany's Nazi past are part of the school's curriculum and trainees are obliged
to attend the lectures, which regularly feature eyewitness accounts.

Not the first time

For over twenty years,
83-year-old Holocaust survivor Isaak Behar has been giving talks at
schools, the German Armed Forces and the Berlin Police School on his experiences
in Auschwitz, earning both a Berlin Order of Merit and a Bundeswehr Gold Cross
of Honor for his work. He told the daily Berliner Zeitung that the
alleged anti-Semitic comments his talk in February elicited were not the first
he has heard on the lecture circuit, but was not willing to go into detail.

"I am satisfied with the way the
school's teachers and director responded, and in particular by the police
president's reaction," he told the newspaper.

Widening
anti-Semitism?

Bildunterschrift: Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift:
Members of Germany's Jewish
community feel anti-Semitism is again on the rise

Berlin Rabbi Andreas
Nachama told the Berliner Zeitung that the incident is symptomatic of a
wider trend in German society.

"A rise in anti-Semitism is
apparent everywhere," he said. "This is both regrettable and disturbing."

But in fact, official statistics
show that anti-Semitic offenses have fallen off in recent years, with the figure
dropping from 326 incidents in 2005 to 274 in 2006.

DW staff (jp)

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