{"id":949758,"date":"2021-11-01T13:28:52","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T17:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=949758"},"modified":"2021-11-01T13:28:54","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T17:28:54","slug":"german-police-apologise-after-officers-did-push-ups-on-holocaust-memorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/german-police-apologise-after-officers-did-push-ups-on-holocaust-memorial\/","title":{"rendered":"German Police Apologise After Officers Did Push-Ups on Holocaust Memorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgerman-police-apologise-after-officers-did-push-ups-on-holocaust-memorial%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=949758&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">BERLIN (AP) \u2013 Berlin\u2019s police chief apologized on Monday for an incident in which officers were pictured practising push-ups on a part of the German capital\u2019s memorial to the 6 million Jews killed in the Nazi Holocaust.<\/p>\n<p>Pictures published by Berlin\u2019s B.Z. tabloid showed uniformed policemen leaning on one of the slabs that makes up the Holocaust memorial to practice push-ups. The newspaper said they were stills from a video apparently taken by the officers themselves on a cellphone during a holiday weekend in May when they were deployed to the area because of demonstrations.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The memorial, a field of 2,700 grey concrete slabs near the Brandenburg Gate that opened in 2005, is open around the clock and isn\u2019t surrounded by any barriers. Visitors are supposed to refrain from activities such as running and jumping from one slab to another.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Berlin police chief Barbara Slowik said the service would examine the incident internally.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe colleagues\u2019 behaviour disrespects what this memorial stands for and also offends the memory of those who were murdered,\u201d Slowik said.<\/p>\n<p>The GdP union, which represents police officers, also apologized and condemned the \u201ctastelessness\u201d of the officers\u2019 actions, adding that there must be \u201cconsequences\u201d for those involved. \u201cThe Holocaust memorial is not an adventure playground,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18551130\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"43\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1064573468.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-18551130\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1064573468-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt=\"Holocaust\" width=\"990\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>BERLIN, GERMANY \u2013 NOVEMBER 07: Visitors sit on stellae at the Monument to the Murdered Jews of Europe, also called the Holocaust Memorial, prior to the 80th anniversary of the Kristallnacht pogroms on November 7, 2018 in Berlin, Germany. During November 7-13, 1938, Nazi supporters attacked over 1,400 synagogues as well as Jewish businesses and individuals that led to the deaths of over 400 people in a violent outburst of anti-semitism that preceded the horrors of the Holocaust. Germany will officially commemorate the 80th anniversary on November 9. 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