The Bundestag — the national parliament of the German Federal Republic — is not planning to hold a ceremony to commemorate those citizens who died in the truck jihad attack on the Christmas market in Berlin on December 19. The ostensible reason is that the parliamentarians are away on their Christmas break.

Germany is now an official amnesiac state. Its motto: “Never Remember!”

Many thanks to Nash Montana for translating this article from Epoch Times. You’ll notice that reader comments demonstrate a full awareness of the politicians’ real reason for the lack of remembrance:

Bundestag has no plans for commemorative services for the Berlin terror attack victims The Bundestag is forgoing an official commemorative service for the victims of the terror attack at the Christmas market in Berlin. A central ceremony is not planned, said a spokesperson for the parliament to the Münchner Merkur on Wednesday. The Bundestag is currently on Christmas break; the first session [of the new year] convenes on January 18, 2017.

Below are a few reader comments:

Sepp Adam • vor 4 Stunden At a commemorative service it would be logical to invite the families of the victims. But in order to guarantee things go smoothly, it would have to be made sure that none of them would say one critical word about the “refugee” crisis and to put the responsible people on the spot in front of the cameras or microphone. To say it in “newspeak”, that would lead to a dreaded “instrumentalization” of the attack through the victims, and run contrary to the interests of the parties and the government. In order to prevent that, they simply will not give any potential criticism a stage, therefore no commemorative service. As the official reason, even the dumbest excuse (parliamentary Christmas break) is acceptable, because it is by far the lesser evil than to deal with the above-mentioned. Lotte Silberfeil • vor 7 Stunden At a commemorative service everybody will ask: who carries the responsibility for the death of these victims, who has committed a sin? The answer would undeniably be “Frau Merkel”; therefore, our government. To circumvent this accusation the responsible parties therefore decided to rather not hold a commemorative service in order to keep their reputation intact. Except their reputation was dirtied a long time ago! There are too many dead, raped, too many victims of crime etc! Michi E. • vor 11 Stunden Of course Gauck would have been the first one to call for commemorative services if the victims had been “enrichers”. They’re all traitors. Markus Michi E. • vor 11 Stunden Gauck also has a migrant background — he comes from the former DDR, which was even more racist. They had guest workers that they segregated. DDR citizens who married a guest worker had to leave the DDR after they got married and move to their partner’s home country. That way it would be excluded that they could move to the hated BRD [West Germany]. In many cases the partners were muslims from Algeria, because a lot of them worked in the DDR. The individual representatives of the government are suffering from amnesia. It explains to me why Eastern Germany has a different way of thinking. The former citizens of the so-called brother states were as popular as foot fungus.