Emile Schrijver, director of the Jewish Cultural Quarter, looked with horror at the images of demonstrators giving a Hitler salute. “You’re quite shocked. The fact that people feel free to express this again, without shame, shows that we have a problem. Intolerance, racism, anti-Semitism.”
The fact that this symbolism is being used again in public spaces today is very worrying, according to Karlien Metz, director of the Resistance Museum. Normally she only sees this kind of Nazi symbolism in her museum.
Undemocratic
“Right-wing extremist symbols were used such as the Prince’s flag and a Hitler salute. I also read that someone had Übermensch on his shirt. That refers to Nazi ideas in which anti-Semitism and racism are justified and you also heard that. The fact that there are apparently people who find it normal to use that, I find it quite scary, because it is undemocratic.”