Police reported that there is the grave of former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and his wife Loki in Hamburgsuffered vandalism due to the presence of paintings that rThey depicted the swastika. The Interior Minister described the incident as “hateful.”
The red-painted swastikas were discovered in the Hamburg cemetery on Friday afternoon could be removed immediately, said the police. Currently the police has no information about identity the person or persons responsible for the desecration or their motives, but an investigation into the matter has been initiated.
The German Interior MinisterNancy Faeser, Who is a member? Social Democratic Party like Helmut Schmidtcondemned this in the strongest possible terms.”hateful act that history forgets”. He added via the platform X (formerly Twitter): “Helmut and Loki Schmidt have always spoken out against contempt for humanity, on racism and anti-Semitism, “Aware of our history.”
Helmut Schmidt, born on December 23, 1918 in Hamburg, I would have been 105 years old Saturday. He died on November 10, 2015, leading West Germany 1974 to 1982, Period in which the country was consolidated a global economic power. Schmidt, a committed European, embodied this ‘Realpolitik’ during the Cold War and promoted a new economic liberalism within German social democracy.