Israel’s ambassador in Berlin has criticised a “shameful” far-right politician who was photographed appearing to dance on the country’s Holocaust memorial.
Ambassador Ron Prosor retweeted an image of Holger Winterstein, a member of the Alternative for Germany party, and said he had brought “shame upon himself and his party”.
He added in the tweet written in German: “Enjoy your shameful minute of fame because your name will soon be forgotten.
“The sanctified souls commemorated at the memorial will never be forgotten.”
A picture posted on social media showed Mr Winterstein posing with outstretched arms on one of the stone slabs that form the Holocaust memorial in Berlin.
The memorial is a reminder of the more than six million Jews who were murdered by the Nazis in the Holocaust during the Second World War.
German media reported that the picture was taken after a protest organised on Saturday by Alternative for Germany.
The far-right party, known by its German acronym AfD, said it would take action against Mr Winterstein over his “extremely disrespectful behaviour”.
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Mr Winterstein is a county representative in Thuringia.
In 2018, the party’s leader in the state, Bjoern Hoecke, called the Holocaust memorial a “monument of shame” and called for Germany to perform a “180-degree turn” when it comes to the way it remembers its past.
A party tribunal at the time rejected a bid to have him expelled.
