EASTORA REPORT | Germany recorded 6,548 antisemitic crimes in 2025, the highest annual figure in government data. That was up five percent from 6,236 in 2024. In 2022, police recorded 2,641.
President Frank-Walter Steinmeier addressed the rise at the Buchenwald memorial near Weimar on Monday, November 9, as Germany marked 88 years since the Nazi attacks on Jewish communities in 1938. He said synagogues needed more protection and Jews continued to face threats and assaults.
“It saddens me—no, it makes me angry,” Steinmeier said. He urged Germans to confront hatred of Jews whether it came from the political right or left, the center of society or Islamism.
He said responsibility could not rest with police and government alone. Citizens, too, had to respond when Jews faced discrimination, insults or violence.
Thousands of Jewish men were imprisoned at Buchenwald after the November 1938 pogroms. Speaking at the memorial, Steinmeier drew a lesson for the present: “Let us not remain silent, let us not downplay what is happening, let us not stand by and watch.”