Tag: Memorials
War memorials as UNESCO heritage: Here the Americans, there the British
… and Germans and French sometimes together: military cemeteries from the First World War are now world cultural heritage sites. A journey along the former Western Front brings insights for…
More right-wing extremist attacks in concentration camp memorials
As of: November 4th, 2023 5:12 p.m Concentration camp memorials in Germany are recording more and more attacks from the right-wing spectrum. Right-wing extremists are apparently no longer afraid to…
Right-wing extremism: More right-wing extremist attacks on concentration camp memorials
Right-wing extremism More right-wing extremist attacks on concentration camp memorials The international memorial in the Dachau concentration camp memorial. There are increasing cases of vandalism and other attacks there. photo…
Right-wing extremism: Concentration camp memorials: More right-wing extremist attacks
Right-wing extremism Concentration camp memorials: More right-wing extremist attacks The international memorial in the Dachau concentration camp memorial. There are increasing cases of vandalism and other attacks there. photo ©…
AfD: Concentration camp memorials refuse to take part in memorial events
Dachau, Buchenwald, Bergen-Belsen Concentration camp memorials no longer want AfD at memorial events Concentration camp memorials like Dachau argue that the AfD has never sufficiently distanced itself from anti-Semitic and…
Police: Attack on the foundation of Lower Saxony memorials
police Attack on the foundation of memorial sites in Lower Saxony Several window panes of the foundation in Celle have been destroyed. photo © Lower Saxony Memorials Foundation/Lower Saxony Memorials…
Eleven memorials inaugurated – which fates Munich remembers – Munich
Melitta and Max Wallach once provided the people of Munich with fabrics and fashion – then they were expropriated, deported and murdered in Auschwitz. Why the official commemoration of this…
Six war memorials vandalized with red paint in one night
During the night from Saturday to Sunday, Martinique was the object of “intolerable and deeply shocking behavior” in the words of the prefect Jean-Christophe Bouvier. Six war memorials were indeed…
Upper Bavaria: Dealing with war memorials – Bavaria
Elisabeth Tworek and Norbert Göttler attach great importance to the positive examples. The one in the city park in Traunstein, Upper Bavaria, for example. There has been an obelisk there…
30 years of stumbling blocks: memorials against forgetting
Status: 16.12.2022 11:23 a.m Gunter Demnig leaves traces. The artist has been laying stumbling blocks for 30 years, which he places in houses to commemorate the victims of National Socialism.…