The Wiesenthal Center organization, an institution dedicated to documenting the victims of the Holocaust and with records of Nazi war criminals and their respective activities, condemned this Tuesday a Nazi-themed wedding organized in Tlaxcala, Mexico.
The image of a newlywed couple, the bride sitting on a Volkswagen sedan car with swastikas on the chest dressed in white and the groom standing next to the car in a gray Nazi uniform, caused great outrage for its anti-Semitic message.
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Newlyweds in Nazi clothing, in the city of Tlaxcala, Mexico.Jorge Carballo / Milenio
The Wiesenthal Center, located in Los Angeles, California, stated in a statement that through various sources they learned of the wedding of Fernando and Josefina, on April 29 in a parish in the state of Tlaxcala, as reported by the EFE news agency. .“We have not seen convictions or state actions or Human Rights organizations condemning this outrage.
We hope that the Mexican authorities will take the corresponding measures,” said Dr. Shimon Samuels, director of International Relations at the Wiesenthal Center.
Through La Tribuna Israelita, the Jewish community in Mexico condemned the trivialization of the holocaust.
"The Jewish community in Mexico strongly condemns any action that defends and praises Nazism, an ideology responsible for the murder of millions of people, including six million Jews, as unfortunate happened during a wedding in Tlaxcala."
The controversial celebration, which allegedly took place in a state church, has gone viral on networks and, so far, has not been criticized by any Mexican institution.
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The newspaper Milenio published a chronicle on Tuesday in which it documented the marriage of the couple who have turned National Socialism into their way of life.
The couple told the aforementioned media that they chose April 29 as the wedding date because it is the same day that Eva Braun and Adolf Hitler married, before committing suicide.
“If we hadn't found mass for today, we would have gotten married until the next year
,” the boyfriend told Milenio.
In 2016, the couple married civilly in Ecatepec, also on the same date.
They live together in that municipality in the State of Mexico, where Fernando attends a kind of club that recreates war events.
The uniform he wore for his two weddings is that of the Waffen SS, the armed wing of the Nazi Party in Germany.
Fernando (center) during his Nazi-themed wedding in Ecatepec, State of Mexico, April 29, 2022. Jorge Carballo / Milenio
He claims that history is wrong in holding Nazi Germany responsible for the creation of the death camps, among other fully documented crimes against humanity.
Something that the Wiesenthal Center describes as "a blatant lie."
He also praises Hitler for his "vegetarianism" and his abstinence from alcohol, something that Josefina acknowledges to him as a partner.
"I didn't know much about the story but my husband told it to me and I support him because I have a responsible husband," she told the aforementioned media outlet.
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The couple, the publication noted, have two children, a boy named Reinhard after General Reinhard Heydrich, the top leader of the SS, and a girl named Hanna Gertrud, after Hanna Reitsch, a famous Nazi army pilot who, according to the myth, rescued Hitler from the bunker where he was crouched, also by Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, who was president of the National League of National Socialist Women.
Before the publication and its wide dissemination on social networks, the Wiesenthal Center also recalled that
Mexico has voted for the United Nations resolution that condemns the distortion of the Holocaust
and condemned all kinds of racism on different occasions.
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In addition, he said that it has exemplary state agencies such as the National Council to Prevent Discrimination (Conapred).
For his part, Dr. Ariel Gelblung, director for Latin America of the center, pointed out that the institution "strongly condemns the distortion and trivialization of the memory of six million Jewish brothers killed in the Holocaust."
He added that Mexico should adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) Definition of Antisemitism and incorporate it into its legal body to prevent such hateful behavior.