德国萨克森州海德瑙镇（位于德累斯顿附近）决定禁止设立纪念纳粹受害者的“绊脚石”，此举在德国引发了一波批评。
There has been a wave of criticism in Germany after the town of Heidenau, near Dresden in Saxony, decided to ban "stumbling stone" memorials to victims of the Nazis.
德国教育部长卡琳·普里恩向《图片报》表示，该禁令是一桩“丑闻”。
Germany's Education Minister Karin Prien told Bild newspaper the ban was a "scandal".
自20世纪90年代以来，包括德国和奥地利在内的欧洲多国许多城镇，都在街道上嵌入了小型黄铜牌，以纪念犹太人及其他纳粹暴行的受害者。
Since the 1990s, many towns in countries across Europe, including in Germany and Austria, have embedded small brass plaques in the streets in memory of Jews and other victims of Nazi atrocities.
这些被称为“Stolpersteine”（绊脚石）的铭牌，通常放置在受害者生前居住或工作的房屋前。它们经常由捐款资助。
The plaques, called Stolpersteine in German, are often placed outside the houses where the victims used to live or work. They are frequently funded by donations.
但现在，海德瑙镇的“选择党”（AfD）和基民盟（CDU）议员投票决定禁止在该镇设立绊脚石。
But now councillors from the Alternative für Deutschland party (AfD) and the conservative CDU in Heidenau have voted to ban stumbling stones in their town. The AfD in Saxony has been classified as extreme-right by German intelligence, a designation the party rejects.
萨克森州的“选择党”已被德国情报机构定性为极右翼组织，该党对此予以否认。
The motion in the town council said that many citizens felt that this form of commemoration of Nazi victims was inappropriate.
镇议会的动议称，许多市民认为这种纪念纳粹受害者的形式不合适。
The motion in the town council said that many citizens felt that this form of commemoration of Nazi victims was inappropriate.
动议规定，未来纪念设施应设在该市的北部公墓，以使“直接踩踏纪念元素成为不可能”。然而，身为基民盟党员的卡琳·普里恩批评了这一决定。
Memorials should in future be placed at the city's Nordfriedhof cemetery to make it "impossible to step directly onto the memorial elements", the motion stated. However, Karin Prien, who is a member of the CDU, criticised the decision.
她对德国《图片报》表示：“将绊脚石和纪念犹太人生活的纪念场所从公共空间驱逐至公墓，是将死亡置于生命之上，再次让犹太人变得隐形。”她表示，萨克森州的基民盟也要为这一决定负责。
"Anyone who banishes Stolpersteine and memorial sites commemorating Jewish life from public spaces to the cemetery is prioritising death over life and rendering Jewish people invisible once again," she told German paper Bild. She said her own CDU party in Saxony also bore responsibility for the decision.
大屠杀幸存者、慕尼黑犹太社区主席夏洛特·克诺布洛赫表示，将纪念设施从城市景观中移除是“完全错误的做法”。
Charlotte Knobloch, a Holocaust survivor and president of the Jewish Community in Munich, said that removing memorials from the cityscape was "completely the wrong approach".
她对富克传媒集团表示，她“震惊于一个民主政党竟会堕落到支持选择党极端分子这种透明的伎俩”。
Speaking to the Funke Media Group, she said she was "appalled that a democratic party would stoop to supporting such a transparent manoeuvre by the extremists of the AfD".
诺布洛赫表示，她并不支持“绊脚石”项目，但她补充说，“去中心化的纪念方式——即不被排斥在公共空间之外，反而渗透并塑造公共空间——对于真正的纪念文化至关重要。”
Knobloch said that she was not a supporter of the stumbling stones, but added that "decentralised remembrance – which is not banished from public space but, on the contrary, permeates and shapes it" was crucial to a genuine culture of remembrance.
在她所在的慕尼黑市，市政土地上没有“绊脚石”。相反，该市允许在公共建筑上设置纪念牌。
In her own city of Munich, there are no Stolpersteine on municipal land. Instead, the city allows memorial plaques on public buildings.
发起“绊脚石”项目的艺术家冈特·德姆尼希表示，鉴于德国选择党（AfD）近期的选举成功，“发生这样的事情确实在预料之中”。
Gunter Demnig, the artist who initiated the Stolperstein project, said that given the recent electoral successes of the AfD "it was certainly to be expected that something like this would happen".
德国选择党最近在萨克森-安哈尔特州和梅克伦堡-前波美拉尼亚州的州选举中取得了重大胜利。
The AfD recently secured major victories in state elections in Saxony-Anhalt and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
民粹主义政党德国选择党的一些分支机构被国内情报部门归类为右翼极端主义，该党对此予以强烈否认。
Some branches of the populist AfD are classed as right-wing extremist by domestic intelligence, a designation the party strongly rejects.
其反移民、“德国优先”以及亲俄的议程在该国前共产主义东部地区找到了肥沃的土壤。
Its anti-immigration, "Germany first" and Russian-friendly agenda has found fertile ground in the country's former communist east.