German Idea to Fight Anti-Semitism: Make Immigrants Tour Concentration Camps<br />Ms. Chebli raised the idea of helping sensitize new immigrants to the history of Nazi crimes — through concentration<br />camp visits — as part of assimilating them into a German society that values tolerance and opposes discrimination.<br />10, 2018<br />Alarmed by displays of anti-Semitism among new immigrants to Germany, a German politician has offered a novel idea<br />that appears to be gaining traction: required visits to Nazi concentration camp memorials.<br />"I think it would make sense if everyone living in this country would be obliged to visit a concentration camp memorial<br />site at least once in their lifetime," including new arrivals, she was quoted by Bild am Sonntag as saying.<br />But the suggestion reflected a growing concern that Germany’s absorption in recent years of more than a million immigrants, many fleeing war<br />and mayhem in the Middle East and Africa, had inadvertently created potential incubators of anti-Semitism in the country most saddled with the legacy of Nazis and the Holocaust, which killed about six million Jews.<br />"Concentration camp visits should become part of integration courses." Her suggestion came against the backdrop of a perceived rise in anti-Semitic sentiment last month, after President Trump’s declaration<br />that the United States government officially considered the contested city of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.<br />Ronald said that This proposal is an encouraging and effective method of educating people of all backgrounds about<br />the Nazi attempt to wipe out the entire Jewish population of Europe and the dangers such hatred can yield,
