NEW YORK (VINnews) — About a thousand people—most of them descendants of Nazis who took part in the extermination of Jews during the Holocaust—will participate on Wednesday in a march in support of Israel through the main streets of Berlin, under the slogans “We will not be silent again” and “Am Yisrael Chai”.
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The march marks the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II and takes place against the backdrop of rising antisemitism following the October 7th attacks. Participants will pass by historical sites related to the Nazi regime, including Hitler’s bunker, symbolizing their commitment to learn from the past and prevent its recurrence.
The event is organized by March of Life, a German Christian movement founded in 2007 by Jobst Bittner, a descendant of a Nazi family, along with others who chose to confront the historical truth, take moral responsibility, and act toward reconciliation with the Jewish people and a fight against antisemitism.
“October 7th was a turning point. We realized antisemitism is not a thing of the past—it is the present,” said Bittner. “When Jewish suffering is met with silence—it’s not a coincidence, it’s a failure. Antisemitism thrives on indifference, denial, and silence of the majority. That’s why we shout: we will not be silent! The time to take a stand is now—not later, not quietly.”
Senior German government officials, Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Wiesenthal Center, representatives of the Jewish community, Holocaust survivors, and a representative from the Israeli Embassy in Germany are expected to attend the march. Joining them will be hundreds of Germans who are direct descendants of SS members, Wehrmacht soldiers, and Nazi police officers who actively participated in the Holocaust.
Markus Dimer (62), one of the marchers, related that:
“My grandfather was a devoted Nazi. He joined the Nazi Party in 1928 and in 1939 served as a police officer under the SS in Poland. He was involved in seizing property, torture, and the murder of Jews and Poles, and participated in Kristallnacht.”
Dimer discovered his family’s dark past through archive research and decided to raise what he calls “the other voice.”
“The first time I came to Israel was in 2007, and when the plane landed, I felt like I was coming home,” he said. “I’ve never met people like Israelis—open and willing to forgive. Unfortunately, most of the media in Germany is biased against Israel and doesn’t show the constant rocket attacks you endure. We want our voices to be heard—not just Jews raising theirs, but us as Germans too.”
Markus Dimer
Kim Kasche (25), a student from Tübingen, will also march:
“My great-grandfathers served in the Nazi army. When we asked them about the war, they avoided the topic.”
She explained that one of them, Reinhold Kasche, claimed he learned horseback riding and downplayed his service, even joking about it. But after his death, the family discovered he had participated in the invasion of Poland, the establishment of the Kovno Ghetto, and the harsh treatment of Jews there.
“It wasn’t easy for me to speak out in support of Israel at my university,” she added. “Many of my friends, especially Muslim ones, were angry at me for taking Israel’s side. But I continue to speak up. We’ve learned that the Holocaust happened because the majority stayed silent. If we stay quiet now, we’re no better than our families. We have a responsibility to support Israel and not stand by when Jews are attacked.”
Kim Kasche
Felix Kunze (31), a volunteer in the organization, shared how his life changed:
“My grandfather was a Nazi until the day he died. My life changed when I met Holocaust survivors in Israel and told them about my family. Looking into their eyes made the historical knowledge move from my head to my heart.”
He added: “Today, we see Holocaust survivors sitting next to survivors of the Nova festival—and there’s a connection between them because they were targeted simply for being Jewish—because of antisemitism. For us, it wasn’t ‘the Nazis’ who murdered Jews—it was our family. We don’t come out of guilt—we come to raise a voice so that history won’t repeat itself.”
The organization’s members will arrive in Israel, and on May 11, they will inaugurate an exhibition in Jerusalem on the history of antisemitism. Later, they will hold marches in Be’er Sheva, Netanya, Ashkelon, and Zichron Yaakov. Over 60 reconciliation and remembrance marches are expected to take place worldwide throughout the month of May.
Germans killed their own life force when they killed the Jews. Right now an aboriginal German woman gives birth to an average 1 child in her lifetime, which means population halving every 30 years or so, once the previously higher TFR baby boomers and generation X dies out, which will happen in the next 20 or 30 years. Meanwhile, for a country that had no room for 1 million educated and law abiding German Jews, they suddenly have lots of room for tens of millions of wild antisemitic moslems and other third world savages, whose women have double the fertility rates at present, though the moslem fertility is slowly dipping under 2 as well. Based on the above phenomena, the aboriginal Germans will become a minority in their own country in about 40 years or so. And in about 100 years, they will be all swallowed up; their civilization gone. At this point, all the numbers are in, everything happened already, though the results will become visible in a few decades from now.
Heartwarming.
May H’ guide them