Efraim Zuroff: Heiko Maas, you claim you entered politics ‘because of Auschwitz’ – To Germany’s foreign minister: You helped prosecute Nazi war criminals yet you support an Iran that threatens to wipe out Israel | Timesofisrael

It’s not every day that the foreign minister of Germany places an op-ed in Hebrew in a popular Israeli newspaper, but that was the case on Yom Hashoah, when you addressed the Israeli public on the pages of Yisrael Hayom, arguably the Hebrew language daily with the largest circulation. You expressed your commitment to preserving the memory of the Holocaust, and the concern we all share about how to present the testimonies and history of the Shoah in a “modern” manner, one that will ensure that millennials and future generations will not only learn the historical facts, but will also internalize the important lessons of this unique tragedy.”