Commemoration of the Victims of National Socialism

The Pres­i­dent of the Bun­destag, Dr Wolf­gang Schäu­ble, will open the com­mem­o­ra­tive hour at 11 a.m. with a wel­com­ing ad­dress in the ple­nary hall of the Re­ich­stag build­ing in Berlin. Fed­er­al Pres­i­dent Dr Frank-Wal­ter Stein­meier, Bun­desrat Pres­i­dent Dr Rein­er Haseloff, Fed­er­al Chan­cel­lor Dr An­gela Merkel and the Pres­i­dent of the Fed­er­al Con­sti­tu­tion­al Court, Prof. Stephan Har­barth, will al­so take part in the hour of re­mem­brance as fur­ther rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the con­sti­tu­tion­al bod­ies.

The memo­ri­al hour will be broad­cast live on par­lia­men­tary tele­vi­sion and on the in­ter­net at www.bun­destag.de and at www.bun­destag.de/gebaer­den­sprache: https://www.bun­destag.de/doku­mente/textarchiv/2021/kw04-opfer-na­tion­al­sozial­is­mus-816352

The "Day of Re­mem­brance for the Vic­tims of Na­tion­al So­cial­ism" was in­tro­duced in 1996 by then Fed­er­al Pres­i­dent Prof. Ro­man Her­zog. Since then, a memo­ri­al hour has been held an­nu­al­ly on or around Jan­uary 27 in the Bun­destag. The oc­ca­sion is the com­mem­o­ra­tion of the lib­er­a­tion of the sur­vivors of the con­cen­tra­tion and ex­ter­mi­na­tion camp Auschwitz by sol­diers of the Red Army on Jan­uary 27, 1945.