MOSCOW, Jan 29 Welt TV presenter Franka Lehfeldt apologized for Twitter after confusing the Red Army with the radical left German organization Red Army Faction (RAF) on a live newscast.
«I misunderstood at the time of the broadcast. Such reservations are not allowed on live television, but they happen. People make mistakes My mistake was followed by a disproportionate wave of gloating and especially sexism,» the journalist wrote.
On Friday, during the broadcast, Lefeldt said that the Auschwitz (Auschwitz) concentration camp had been liberated by the Red Army Faction. The journalist's slip of the tongue caused a wave of indignation in Germany. She was accused of unprofessionalism and a narrow outlook.
In the late 1970s, members of the RAF killed and kidnapped people, as well as staged bombings and robbed banks in Germany.
International Holocaust Remembrance Day is celebrated on January 27 . On this day in 1945, the Red Army liberated Auschwitz-Birkenau. This largest Nazi death camp has become one of the main symbols of the Holocaust. About 1.4 million people, of which about 1.1 million were Jews, died at Auschwitz in 1941-1945. In 1947, a museum was created on the site of the former Nazi concentration camp. In 1979 it was included in the UNESCO World Heritage List.