As the decades passed, the group – made up of those who had survived the unthinkable horrors of the Holocaust – had slowly begun to rebuild their trust in Germany. Even as far-right movements gained strength in Hungary, France and Italy, many in the group were certain that Germany had learned the lessons of its past.
That trust was shattered on Sunday after a far-right party won a German state election for the first time since the second world war, said Christoph Heubner of the International Auschwitz Committee, an association launched in 1952 by survivors of the Nazi concentration camp.
