Minister of State for Culture Weimer warns against glorifying the SED dictatorship

On German Unity Day, Minister of State for Culture Wolfram Weimer complains about the subsequent glorification of the SED dictatorship. “Right-wing and left-wing extremist circles are trying more and more loudly to trivialize the injustice and lack of freedom in the GDR or to reinterpret them ideologically,” explained the non-party politician. “The glorification of the SED dictatorship has now become an open historical revisionism in order to harm democracy.”

He paid tribute to the Point Alpha memorial, a former US base and observation post in Hesse on what was then the inner-German border with Thuringia. Such places are “architectural reminders of the suffering of a torn country,” said Weimer. “Memorials are the antidote to Ostalgie.”