Overview

• Sixth-graders from Kreuzberg were subjected to racial insults and a documented Hitler salute by older Brandenburg students during a five-day stay at a youth hostel in Greifswald.
• The perpetrators attended two Brandenburg schools in Strausberg and southern Brandenburg, whose teachers responded unevenly to complaints from the Berlin class.
• Berlin’s education senate confirmed the incidents, offered psychosocial support through its education administration alongside initiating involvement of its anti-discrimination commissioner.
• Green lawmaker Ario Mirzaie has called on Brandenburg Education Minister Steffen Freiberg to investigate the Greifswald case thoroughly, urging school-level sanctions for the involved Brandenburg institutions.
• The episode follows a series of extremist confrontations involving Berlin pupils since 2023, intensifying demands for consistent accountability across regional school systems.