Foreigners free
In 1991, foreigner-free was the first unword of the year in Germany that society determined for the German language .
After the xenophobic attacks in Hoyerswerda , where rioting neo-Nazis threw stones and Molotov cocktails at the homes of asylum seekers and contract workers in front of the public and the authorities and later also physically attacked their residents, the perpetrators explained their actions by making their surroundings "free of foreigners" wanting to do. The echo of the word “ jew-free ” from the time of the persecution of the Jews during the Nazi era was intended by the perpetrators.
This connection and the gross disregard for human beings expressed by the word prompted the Society for German Language eV in 1991 to put an unword of the year next to the word of the year for the first time .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Everyone is a foreigner, somewhere in the world wasistwas.de