Minister of Culture Roth: Criticism of Söder's knee in memory

Minister of Culture Roth: Criticism of Söder's knee in memory

Dachau, Deutschland - Minister of Culture Claudia Roth faces intensive criticism because she has revised her reform plans for German memory policy. After great media turmoil and allegations of history revisionism, especially because of the inclusion of colonial crimes into the new memorial concept, the waves have now smoothed out. But the Central Council of Jews remains skeptical and continues to express reservations against Roth's project. In the meantime, critics, who previously loudly recognized, have also accepted a strikingly reserved attitude. Roth's spokesman confirms that the mood has improved after the paper has been revised, which led to a certain calm, like the Süddeutsche Zeitung reported.

Another excitement around Claudia Roth ignited through the actions of Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder during his trip to Poland. During a visit to Warsaw, he lay down wreaths at the monument of the heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto, which was sharply criticized by Roth. She described his knee as an "absolute low" and inappropriate for the memory of the former Chancellor Willy Brandt, who knelt in 1970 in front of the monument to remember the victims of the ghetto uprising. Roth regulated the controversy around Söder's actions, in particular the connection of his knee with a subsequent photo at the Christmas market, as a "social media funfact". These statements, according to the reporting of News Pravda , further heat the debate about the appropriate culture of memory and the political representations in public.