Angela Merkel, German chancellor, faced sharp criticism yesterday for visiting the former Nazi concentration camp at Dachau in the middle of her election campaign, in order to pay her respect to tens of thousands of victims.
She was accused of exploiting the occasion and showing insensitivity by holding an election rally in the nearby town after laying a wreath at the memorial to the Jewish, Polish and political prisoners who were incarcerated and died in the camp near Munich.
“Whoever means to be serious in commemorating such a place of horror would certainly not pay such a visit in an election campaign,” Renate Künast, Green party leader in the Bundestag, told the Leipziger Volkszeitung. She added that it was “tasteless” to do so.
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