Organized fan scenes have shown numerous campaigns in German football stadiums on the past two weekends for the anniversary of the liberation of the German extermination camp Auschwitz.
For example, fans of FC Bayern Munich intended persecuted and killed members of the club and presented the names of these people on posters. It said on a large banner: “Never again is now”. The term “never again” is connected to the Holocaust Memorial Day on January 27th in many actions and campaigns in Germany.
At the same time, the situation in Berlin was pointed out on banners. On Wednesday (January 29, 2025), a five-point plan from CDU/CSU, which demands the rejection of refugees to the German borders, received a majority in the Bundestag-including the votes of the AfD. Other parties criticized this, in the south curve of Bayern: “Anyone who operates AfD policy today will live in the AfD state tomorrow.”
Banner at FC Bayern: “Anyone who runs AfD-Politk today will live in the AfD state tomorrow”
The slogan “never again” was also great on the fan curve of Hamburger SV. The “Förderkreis Nordstandüne” had invited to several actions, and the club also organized a contemporary witness discussion with the surviving Herbert Rubinstein. Fans of Darmstadt 98 wrote about the Holocaust Memorial Day: “80 years freed from fascism – all of our duty that it stays that way.”
Letter “never again” on the north grandstand of Hamburger SV
Already in the previous week, fan scenes in Germany made the commemoration day on the subject. At SC Freiburg there was a smashed swastika in the fan curve. On a banner there was “no forgetting, no forgetting”. The same slogan was read at FC St. Pauli, where fans also wrote: “Anyone fighting Nazis cannot rely on the state.”
“No forgetting – no forgetting” was read at SC Freiburg
Fans of the 1st FSV Mainz 05 reminded of a co -founder of her club, Eugen Salomon. He was murdered in Auschwitz.
Initiative called on to commemorate in football
The initiative “! Niewied – memory day in German football” had called for committed use against discrimination and exclusion in mid -January. Only if fans, players and officials racist and anti -Semitic ways of thinking and right violence “oppose something every day can we win,” it said in the call, which was read out in numerous stages on January 25th and 26th.
On the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp on January 27, the campaign was “that Auschwitz was never more”. It is the 21st day of memory of the initiative, of which the persecuted, deported and murdered people are commemorated in National Socialism.
Precisely because football has great radiance, he has a social responsibility, said “! Niewieder” spokesman Klaus Schultz. “In the stadium you can reach people with topics such as anti -Semitism or discrimination in a place where they do not count on it.” For a long time, club football was not interested in dealing with its Nazi past. Also due to the engagement of numerous fan groups on the “memory day”, a rethink took place at the turn of the millennium.