German Jewish leader welcomes Hitler exhibition

A German Jewish leader today welcomed a new exhibition in Berlin exploring the personality cult surrounding Adolf Hitler that helped the Nazis win and hold power.

Stephan Kramer of the Central Council of Jews said it was “a good” exhibition and “a serious approach to the theme”.

Hitler and the Germans – Nation and Crime is the first exhibition in the German capital to focus so firmly on the role of the Nazi dictator.

Kramer said as the show opened to the public today that the exhibition comes “at the right time.”

He pointed to a recent debate over a book claiming German society was being made “dumber” by Muslim immigrants as evidence of how, even now “the lower middle class can be seduced ... (and) its fears pandered to.”