Liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp: The talk that Omri Boehm was not allowed to keep – culture

The following speech was to give Israeli philosopher Omri Boehm on Sunday at the commemoration on the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp. On Pressure of the Israeli message in Berlin the memorial drew your invitation but back last week. The Head of the memorial, Jens-Christian Wagner, said that Boehm's invitation only withdrawn because “the often mentally injured survivors threatened to be exploited and further drawn into this conflict”. The appearance of the philosopher, Even grandchildren of holocaust-survivors, be only postponed. Omri Boehm emphasized, that Wagner's statement also corresponds to his position.