Bavaria's governing party has suggested that Muslims in schools for low-achieving or immigrant pupils can be exempted from mandatory tours of concentration camps.

Christian Social Union politician Klaus Steiner said: "There are a lot of children from Muslim families who do not have a connection to our past… We have to approach this topic carefully with these children."

Mr Steiner was responding to state legislator Günther Felbinger's call for visits to the concentration camps to be made mandatory for all pupils in Bavaria.

Simon Wiesenthal Centre Director for International Relations, Shimon Samuels, wrote in a letter to German Federal Education Minister Dr Johanna Wanka: "At a time of increasingly rampant antisemitism and even antisemitic terrorism across Europe, the Steiner Bavarian plan… seems a recipe for jihadism.

"By suppressing the concentration camp visit, Germany may evoke for some, memories of the 1930s Fuhrer-Mufti alliance."