After further right-wing extremist graffiti on the Zeppelin stand in Nuremberg, the Green city council group is calling for sustainable solutions. “How many times does this symbolic place have to be abused before it is clear that washing up does not help to remove this dirt,” said Reka Lörincz, spokeswoman for remembrance policy and against right-wing extremism, in a statement on Wednesday.
The city must live up to its historical responsibility as the city of the Nazi party rallies. The Green City Council group expects the cultural administration and the city’s legal office to “finally exhaust the scope for effective prevention.”
The preventative approach that is currently being developed around the redesign of the Zeppelin Grandstand and Zeppelin Field into a new learning and meeting place offers a great opportunity for this. “But this can only be one building block in this important and valuable process,” said Natalie Keller, cultural policy spokeswoman. Municipal security architecture is based on the triad of prevention-control-punishment. This should be consistently implemented with effective measures.
According to the Middle Franconian police, on the night of October 31st, a right-wing extremist lettering over 35 meters wide was daubed in black paint on the stone stand at Zeppelin Field. The lettering also contains two swastikas. The police have launched a criminal investigation against the unknown perpetrators.
The Zeppelin stand, but also other symbolic places on the former Nazi party rally grounds, are repeatedly abused, staged and smeared by right-wing extremists, according to a statement from the Green city council group.