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Behind the Aegis

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Sun Oct 17, 2021, 11:18 PM Oct 2021

(Jewish Group) Holocaust denying neo-Nazi's remains were buried in a Jewish man's grave in Germany

After the remains of a notorious Holocaust denier and neo-Nazi were interred last week in the burial plot of a German-Jewish music scholar who died before the Holocaust, the church that oversees the cemetery is looking into moving the neo-Nazi’s ashes to rectify its “terrible mistake.”

Henry Hafenmayer, a neo-Nazi known for denying the Holocaust, died last week and was buried Friday at the Stahnsdorf South-Western cemetery in Brandenburg, southwest of Berlin. The plot where Hafenmayer’s ashes were buried had belonged to Max Friedländer, a Jewish singer and scholar of music who died in 1934.

The cemetery’s management said Hafenmayer was originally denied a more central burial plot to prevent his grave from becoming a site of pilgrimage for neo-Nazis. But after denying Hafenmayer the more central plot, it accepted a request to bury him in Friedländer’s plot, which had been deemed available for a new burial because its lease had not been renewed, allowing the cemetery to move Friedländer’s remains elsewhere. Friedländer’s headstone remained in its place, however, because it was designated a historical monument.

According to the Guardian, Friedländer’s headstone was covered for Hafenmayer’s funeral with a sign inscribed with Hafenmayer’s name and a verse from the New Testament: “And you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.”

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(Jewish Group) Holocaust denying neo-Nazi's remains were buried in a Jewish man's grave in Germany (Original Post) Behind the Aegis Oct 2021 OP
What the f ???? DURHAM D Oct 2021 #1

DURHAM D

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1. What the f ????
Sun Oct 17, 2021, 11:22 PM
Oct 2021

"which had been deemed available for a new burial because its lease had not been renewed"

Never heard of leasing a grave site for a limited period of time. Hard to pay up when you are dead.

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