2023-12-23 16:37:00
Former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt saw his grave vandalized with swastika paintings, as well as that of his wife Loki, police in Hamburg (north) told Agence France-Presse on Saturday. “The red-painted swastikas were discovered on Friday evening on their grave in a Hamburg cemetery and could be immediately erased,” police said. The police currently have no information on the identity of the person or people who allegedly vandalized the grave, nor on the motivations. The investigation continues.
Born in Hamburg on December 23, 1918, the social democrat Helmut Schmidt would have been 105 years old this Saturday. Died on November 10, 2015, he led West Germany from 1974 to 1982, when the country became a global economic power. A convinced European who embodied “Realpolitik” during the Cold War, he implemented a new economic liberalism within German social democracy.
Condemnation by the Minister of the Interior
The German Minister of the Interior, Nancy Faeser, a member of the Social Democratic Party like Helmut Schmidt, strongly condemned this “odious act, which forgets History”.
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