The Chancellor claims that such manifestations of anti-Semitism or xenophobia in the modern civilizational world are simply unacceptable. Merkel is also concerned about the situation that now no Jewish organization can exist without a police guard - be it a school, a kindergarten, a synagogue. On the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust, Merkel urged the world community not to forget the lessons of history, otherwise the crimes of the National Socialists can fall into oblivion.

In turn, German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel said that the wheel of history can not be turned back, and that it is possible to constantly hang accusatory labels, but it is most difficult to take responsibility for a visible future.

As reported in "URA-Inform," the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine earlier expressed regret for the death of six million Jews during the Second World War.