Pour. Joachim Gauck calls for more use of citizens to protect democracy and freedom in Germany. The former Federal President warned as the main speaker during the ceremony for the opening of the former emergency shot warehouse as a place of learning and memory that democracy and freedom are not a matter of course. He would like active citizens to protect them, especially since they are threatened from the outside. Gauck expressly said that he had put the ceremony on June 17th, the earlier day of German unity. In retrospect for the popular uprising in the GDR on June 17, 1953, German unity said in 1954 if Soviet tanks had not overrun: “People wanted to be ruled freedom and decent people.” The former unit day, like the 8th October 1989, also showed “that we can also German freedom”. For many Germans, security is common for many Germans. In view of this, places such as the former emergency shelter will be necessary, in which visitor can learn interactively on the consequences of German division, the GDR regimes, striving for democracy, about migration and escape reasons based on interviews from contemporary witnesses and hundreds of exhibits. The Federal Republic was not broken on the migration waves, on the contrary. Gauck reminded of the great performance of people who are even poverty in bombed casting, for example, that they have received thousands of displaced persons and refugees within a short time. In view of such a challenge, today’s generation would “give up the spoon”. He did not hide the challenge associated with migration: “We have a lot to rework in the democratic center.” Otherwise, politicians used the uncertainty of people on the extreme right and left. “The submissiveness of some types of Putin is embarrassing,” said Gauck. He also complained to German-Turks, who enjoyed freedoms in this country, but had chosen the Turkish president, as well as Russian flags of Russian Germans. Learning location manager Florian Greiner, wishes that “the new explanatory and understanding of authoritarian regime” only dealt with the show and the voices of people who have escaped dictatorships for ten minutes. The former emergency shot warehouse is a unique mirror of German flight and migration history. The Mayor of Giessen Frank-Tilo Becher (SPD) said that the place of learning and memory tells of the arrival of the arrival, he stands for many people for a threshold of freedom and a new time, for hope instead of uncertainty. The admission of refugees and displaced persons in the city has repeatedly encountered resistance. But in Gießen they were part of the collective memory and “our DNA”, especially since the city continues to housing the central initial reception of the country.
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