The Conference of European Rabbis has backed German chancellor Angela Merkel who has been criticised for speaking at an election rally in Dachau on the same day that she visited the town’s Second World War concentration camp.
Mrs Merkel laid a wreath at the site of the Dachau concentration camp on Tuesday morning. The chancellor met survivors and commented that Dachau represented "a horrible and unprecedented chapter of our history".
Following her visit to the camp, Mrs Merkel attended an election rally which was held in a beer tent in the town of Dachau.
The chancellor’s political opponents called the visits “a tasteless and outrageous combination.”
