The Executive Board of the German Rectors´ Conference: #WeRemember
The International Holocaust Remembrance Day reminds us to courageously oppose all forms of anti-Semitism. Today marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. We commemorate and remember the victims of National Socialist crimes. At that time, too many university members actively contributed to the academic underpinning of the ideology of the National Socialist state of injustice, to implement it legally or, for example, to supporting and implementing it by ousting Jewish students, teachers, researchers and staff from the universities. This historical responsibility gives us universities a special duty to stand up for democracy, the rule of law, humanity and cosmopolitanism.