BERLIN (AP) — Israel’s ambassador to Berlin has criticized a member of the far-right Alternative for Germany for appearing dancing at the country’s Holocaust memorial.
Ambassador Ron Prosor said Tuesday on Twitter that far-right Holger Winterstein had “shamed himself and his party. “
A photo posted on social media shows Winterstein resting with his arms outstretched on one of the stone slabs that shape the monument in Berlin to the six million Jews murdered by the Nazis in the Holocaust.
German media reported that the photo was taken after a protest organized through Alternative for Germany on Saturday.
The party, through its German acronym AfD, said it would take action against Winterstein for his “extremely disrespectful behaviour”.
Winterstein is a member of Thuringian County.
The leader of the Democratic Republic of Congo in the state, Bjoern Hoecke, in 2018 called the Holocaust memorial a “monument of shame” and called on Germany to make a “180-degree turn” in the way it remembers its past. A court at the time refused to offer to be expelled.
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