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Germany remembers Nazi regime victims

Berlin (Germany), Jan 27 (EFE), (Camera: Maria Garrido).- The president of the Israelite Community in Munich, Charlotte Knobloch, said on Wednesday that fighting against anti-Semitism is "fighting for human dignity, democracy, unity, law and freedom" and warned against the far right as the main threat. In a speech to the Bundestag on the occasion of the 76th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp Auschwitz, 88-year-old Knobloch, a Holocaust survivor, stressed that it is not just about protecting Jews.FOOTAGE OF THE MONUMENT DEDICATED TO THE MURDERED JEWS OF EUROPE, MONUMENTS TO HOMOSEXUALS PERSECUTED BY NAZISM, THE REICHSTAG, A SYNAGOGUE AND COBBLESTONES ON THE GROUND IN THE STREETS OF CHARLOTTENBURG COMMEMORATING THE VICTIMS OF THE HOLOCAUST.FOOTAGE INCLUDES SOUNDBITES BY SEBASTIAN WALTER, VICE-CHAIRMAN OF THE BERLIN GREEN PARLIAMENTARY GROUP:TRANSLATION-- "This is about remembering all the victims of the Nazis but here in particular the gays, lesbians and transsexuals who were persecuted by the Nazis."- "It's about history not repeating itself but also today because there are neo-Nazis in Germany, in Parliament, the populist far-right AfD who minimize history, persecution and that's why it's the commemoration."AND SOUNDBITES FROM CITIZEN HENRIK RUBNER