TALLINN. July 28 (Interfax) - The Jewish community of Estonia has protested against an attempt to whitewash Nazi criminal Alfred Rosenberg.
A number of exhibitions at the Estonian History Museum and the Gustav Adolf Lyceum Museum "are highly unethical, as they glorify Nazi crimes," Jewish community chairperson Alla Jacobson said in her letter to Estonian Culture Minister Rein Lang as reported by the ERR Estonian TV and radio broadcasting portal on Wednesday.
"The exhibitions give much space to the main ideologist of National Socialism, Alfred Rosenberg, as a prominent resident of Tallinn without indicating his universally recognized crimes. The Jewish community is bewildered with the organizers' lack of knowledge of history and shortsightedness in the formation of a public opinion and education of the younger generation," Jacobson said.
Culture Ministry Press Secretary Katrin Arvisto said that the ministry informed the Estonian History Museum about the letter.
"This is a question directly related to the museum exhibits. We hope for the soonest meeting of representatives of the museum and the Jewish community to discuss the subject head-to-head," Arvisto said.
Rosenberg was a German statesman and politician, one of the most influential members of the National Socialist German Workers' Party and its ideologist. He is considered to be the author of such key notions of the Nazi ideology as 'the racial theory' and 'the final solution of the Jewish problem,' as well as of the refusal from the Versailles Treaty and the opposition to 'degenerate' modern art. The Nuremberg Tribunal declared him one of the main war criminals.