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Jewish officials are pushing for the Nazi mansion to be turned into an anti-hate center

The European Jewish Association has appealed to Berlin’s finance minister to urge him to convert the country house of Nazi chief propagandist Joseph Goebbels into a center for combating hate propaganda.

Rabbi Menachem Margolin, the charmer of the EJA, said: “Turning the mansion of the worst of all consciousness engineers in human history into a center for political psychology, communication and combating hate speech would be a major moral victory . EJA is willing to explore the possibility of promoting and realizing the idea.”

Margolin indicated in a letter to German Finance Minister Stefan Evers that the EJA would be willing to explore the possibility of taking responsibility for the site, which the EJA claimed the Berlin government is having difficulty fulfilling. to stand firm.

Why now?

Margolin wrote: ’91 years since the Nazis came to power, the free world is once again confronted with waves of hatred motivated by the consciousness manipulation of toxic propaganda, mass framing and the creation of virtual reality for the sole purpose of destruction and violence. sow. It is precisely these days that the estate of Dr. Goebbels should not be demolished, but should be transformed into a center for combating hate speech that will protect the free world from the dangerous trends that are being repeated throughout the Western world. especially in Germany.”

March 9, 1945: Goebbels awards a 16-year-old Hitler Youth, Willi Hübner, the Iron Cross for defending Lauban (credit: Wikimedia Commons)

“We are interested in pursuing the matter together with the Berlin government,” Margolin noted. “In a chilling similarity to what is happening now in another place where the Jewish people want to be destroyed, this week marked exactly 79 years since Goebbels poisoned his six children and committed suicide in his tunnel. Let us turn the spreading of absolute evil into a source of spreading good. It would be an important moral victory.”

Founded by Margolin in 2007, the EJA has participated in hundreds of initiatives across Europe, working with Jewish communities and organizations seeking to combat anti-Semitism and encourage freedom of religion and worship in Europe.