After the fuss about Bavaria’s Deputy Prime Minister Hubert Aiwanger and an anti-Semitic pamphlet, the Central Council of Jews emphasized that the content should still be condemned 35 years later. “The text of a leaflet that was circulating at the school of the deputy Bavarian prime minister and was created by his brother is no less reprehensible today because it disgustingly denigrates the millions of victims of the Shoah,” said the President of the Central Council, Josef Schuster, in Berlin on Sunday.
“To what extent Hubert Aiwanger is at least jointly responsible for the distribution cannot be fully elucidated. The discussion about this is clearly political,” emphasized Schuster. “But the leaflet shouldn’t simply be dismissed as a youthful sin, since it literally tramples on the confrontation with National Socialism, which is so important for our country.”
Aiwanger does not comment on the allegations when performing
At his first public appearance after allegations about the anti-Semitic leaflet became known, Aiwanger did not respond to them. The Vice Prime Minister gave a greeting at a celebration to mark the 125th anniversary of the Franconian Cattle Breeding Association. Aiwanger spoke to several hundred people in a hall in Ansbach, Middle Franconia, about the importance of agriculture for Bavaria. Aiwanger did not respond to the leaflet during his 30-minute appearance.
In the middle of the election campaign before the state elections, Free Voter leader Aiwanger had written on Saturday, denying that he had written the leaflet that the “Süddeutsche Zeitung” (SZ) had reported on when he was a minor when he was at school in the 1980s. A little later, Aiwanger’s brother admitted to having written the pamphlet.
