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Controversy in Germany, the cycling tour passes through the Buchenwald field

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BERLIN – The blood road is not the right background for time trial stages and group sprints: the Jewish Central Council and the Buchenwald museum management are convinced of this, horrified at the news that the Cycling Tour of Germany should pass through the memorial of the concentration camp. Director Jens-Christian Wagner pointed out with the Picture newspaper that it was a matter of common sense to avoid having the race cross the lager, making the runners pass in front of the mass graves and memorials erected in memory of the deportees killed. The director of the museum added to the popular newspaper that the Federal Minister of Economy “must be blind” to have authorized such a path.

According to Josef Schuster, president of the Jewish Central Council, the planners had no sense of history. Taking a bike ride there is disrespectful. Interior Minister of Thuringia Georg Maier (SPD) asked Wednesday on Twitter that the stage be moved. The Tour organizer defended his choices, arguing with the picture that the route was officially planned and discussed more than a year ago. The tour “presents the natural, cultural and historical diversity of the Federal Republic”. This would also include a passage in front of the memorial.

The cycling race will take place from 26 to 29 August in several stages, from Stralsund to Nuremberg. The second stage passes through Weimar, near the Ettersberg, where the Buchenwald memorial stands. Built in 1937 by the SS, the concentration camp housed almost 280,000 people in the main camp and in 139 satellite camps, until its liberation in 1945. Over 56,000 died from torture, medical experiments and hardship. The road of blood, built by the prisoners, is the one that leads to the concentration camp.

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