A couple recreates the marriage of Hitler and Eva Braun in Tlaxcala. The Jewish community, international institutions and the ombudsman have condemned the act. Fernando and Josefina chose April 29 for their wedding in Tlaxcala, in central Mexico, the same date Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun got hitched. She wore a white dress. He wore an SS uniform. The local press covered the ceremony in detail. The wedding carriage, an old Volkswagen, featured a swastika on the hood and a black cross on the driver’s door – the crest used by Hitler’s Luftwaffe and other divisions of the German military during World War II. The images show some guests wearing Mexican boots and hats, and others dressed up as soldiers. The bride and groom struck poses that mirrored infamous photos taken of their “idols,” which went viral on Internet. (…) The controversial couple had no problem staging their Nazi-themed wedding in a parish in Tlaxcala or in a civil court a couple of years ago, when Josefina’s dress was emblazoned with a swastika. And Fernando saw no need to conceal that he worked for the government as a civil servant, although no further details were published. The couple have two children: Reinhard, in tribute to SS General Reinhard Heydrich, and Hanna Gertrud, named after Nazi pilot Hanna Reitsch and Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, president of the National Socialist Women’s League. “I know that Hitler is synonymous with genocide for many people, a symbol of racism and violence, but people judge without having all the information or else they just believe the story told by the winners,” the groom stated in a report published in the newspaper Milenio. (…) Discrimination against Jews is still very much a current issue and hate speech is experiencing a global boom; what is traditionally held to be unacceptable is being widely challenged, thanks in part to technology. But it is not an issue confined to the virtual world. The Anti-Defamation League has recorded more than 2,700 anti-Semitic incidents of assault, harassment and vandalism in the US alone during 2021, an all-time high since records began in 1979.
via elpais: Controversy erupts in Mexico over a Nazi-themed wedding
siehe auch: Wiesenthal Center Outraged by Nazi Wedding in Mexico. The Simon Wiesenthal Center learned of the wedding which took place in Tlaxcala, Mexico on April 29th – purposely coinciding with the anniversary date of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun, on this date, 77 years ago. The bride wore a white wedding dress with a swastika and the groom was dressed as a Nazi SS officer. (…) Dr. Ariel Gelblung, Director for Latin America concluded that “our institution strongly condemns the distortion and trivialization of the memory of six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust and contempt by those who deny or obfuscate history, as also all those who took part of this Nazi wedding or authorized it. Mexico must adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) Definition of Antisemitism and incorporate it into its legislation to prevent such hateful behavior.”