(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-Nazis 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 Hafenmayers ashes were buried had belonged to Max Friedländer, a Jewish singer and scholar of music who died in 1934.
The cemeterys 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 Friedländers plot, which had been deemed available for a new burial because its lease had not been renewed, allowing the cemetery to move Friedländers remains elsewhere. Friedländers headstone remained in its place, however, because it was designated a historical monument.
According to the Guardian, Friedländers headstone was covered for Hafenmayers funeral with a sign inscribed with Hafenmayers 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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