Awards for Beate and Serge Klarsfeld come at a time of rising animosity in Germany towards German Jews and migrants
Awards for Beate and Serge Klarsfeld come at a time of growing animosity in Germany towards German Jews and migrantsNazi-hunters Beate and Serge Klarsfeld at a ceremony on Monday at the French embassy in Berlin, where they were presented with an award by Emmanuel Macron.
Same song, same xenophobic chants, but it is the Sylt party people who have caught the imagination. The cheering was not by the usual skinhead or football fan suspects but privileged, Porsche-driving heirs, men and women, with jobs in law and tech firms and a taste for the good life. Soon she met her future husband Serge Klarsfeld, who had narrowly escaped a Gestapo deportation to Auschwitz, and the two worked on researching and exposing the fate of 76,000 deported French Jews.
After the slap, Klarsfeld was arrested and put on trial the same day, telling the court she was “hitting back, in the name of the 50 million dead and future generations, the repellent face of 10 million Nazis”. Her sentence for assault was never enforced, in part due to huge public protest.
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