it doesn't help to decouple remembering this current life we need to reconnect with the past time and again because it is this which can be the basis upon which we can build our future it is a future where. we need to recognize the human being in every other human being and where we meet human they are masel where they live in madison gentlemen today once again i will live at an age of profound change rapid technological changes cause people to be worried the wrap it up globalization and digital progress means that many people feel left behind. in time such as these there is always a great danger. that those will be attractive who gives apparently simple answers in their reaction to the changes difficulties so simple answer as to how frequently they go along with the zation of the language employed

both of the streets and online that is the kind of beginning that we need to let that resolutely go a palace and that is why today we remember an equally promise that we will be resolute in standing up against attacks on our purina society and we remember while knowing that crossing lines and staying silent not doing anything else merely means joining in we remember knowing that the democratic majority need story main alert we need an edge to the line is also a normative term. of a state based on the rule of law must not be tolerant when people are attacked because of their origin these religions skin color ladies and gentlemen these conclusions are to be drawn but it is a job not just for such a day of memory it is something we should consider every dartmouth. in fact letters

that all of us try to work every day with the understanding of today but something that just like what happened eighty two years ago whenever happen again that's the message and the essence of this day of remembrance thank you. thank you you thank. that was just ten songs americal delivering an address at

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known quotas for. a motor boat. for. that is the jewish him recited often in jewish prayer services. centers around the sanctification of god's name. and for just joining us we've been watching a commemoration of the eightieth anniversary of kristallnacht today and jewish program that took place across germany in one nine hundred thirty eight the event to mark has been taking place in the synagogue here in berlin it was among the jewish houses of worship that was attacked by the storm troops not the lead mob it was also a prelude to the horrors of the holocaust and simon young has been with us and watching the commemorations we saw two really significant addresses there one from

. the head of the central council of jews here in germany and then also from chancellor angela merkel and if we look at chancellor merkel's words she made a point of drawing as really the arc of history to say what did we learn from then and how important is that today seeing the rise again of anti-semitism in germany you know i mean it was a it was quite a wide ranging speech in which she talked about you know the foundations essentially of modern german democracy saying that you know democracy is about more than majorities it's about protecting minorities obss about balance this. goes back to the whole question of you know what founds what the german state now of course the article number one of the german constitution she said was born from the failings of the weimar state which led to the rise of the nazis and that is that the dignity of every human is important and she drew that lesson

a philosophical point that the chancellor made every single individual is unique in this never be treated merely as part of a group. but now it's the that but i think in a sense it's these are the sort of articles of faith for chancellor merkel and i think for many german. underpin how they see society working and of course all of this is in play as we remember nineteenth in the on the anti jewish programs that took particular shape and it echoed sentiments we've heard throughout the day today during commemorations of kristallnacht from the german president also from your suggested the need to defend democracy and we heard the chancellor ask the question are our democratic institutions strong enough to protected that which is in trying to our constitution that's right because she had talked about what led up to nine hundred thirty eight and pointed out actions which you know

a few years earlier had been criminal suddenly were accepted and then they were almost expected under the nazis and so people have had to change their. whole way of thinking as they dealt with the state but she said you know the german state must always act against any form of marginalize ation and i think also interestingly she said remembrance wook when we get together as a society we join together we have places of remembrance like the monument for the murdered jews in the center of berlin which is a very moving place as well to visit on this day as on any day and those type of monuments and this type of remembrance liberates the victims from anonymity again asserting the india the importance of the individual and the value and worth of every human being and some i also want to touch on what you'll see of sister said we talked about this a little bit earlier he mentioned very specifically not only the concerns about growing at a cemetery him but also the politics that we're seeing with the rise of the right

wing a.s.d. and he pointed very clearly to them as part of the problem that's right he said they're the intellectual instigators who you know who use these type of incitement and dog whistle racism to get their supporters out even though it's reflected in these are misrepresentations of history and i thought. mr schuster the leader of the jewish community in germany he was also very interesting in the way that he pointed out the attacks not only against synagogues in today's germany or against other groups marginalized groups also against mosques and muslims as well and he said all of those people should be protected in a message of solidarity definitely i mean young thank you very much and a reminder of this story that we've been following here on the mark in eighty years . infamous not the program against the country's jews. told a gathering of the jewish community she lacked the words to describe the horror of

that night and said germany must forcefully confront anti-semitism. thank you for watching you will take a short break first we'll have your headlines and. show the story of the first movement we're told from different perspectives by peter craig from the eastern european perspective from the comfort compass from from the perspective from turkey from the arab world. t w don't come slash w w.