Neo-Nazi hackers hit Buchenwald website

Hackers replaced a list of Buchenwald victims with far-right slogans and links to Holocaust denial sites, officials at the concentration camp’s memorial said.

The Buchenwald foundation said the attack by neo-Nazis on Buchenwald.de took place July 28. The site of Mittelbau-Dora, dore.de, another former camp nearby, also was hacked. Both sites were repaired the next day.

The Buchenwald attackers posted messages including “We will return” and “Brown is beautiful.” Brown is a reference to Hitler’s brown-shirted SA storm troopers.

This was “an attempt to efface the memory of the victims of Nazi crimes,” said Volkhard Knigge, the Buchenwald memorial’s director. — jta