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Insanely important, especially with the renewed rise of antisemitism - sad to see this downvoted.
It hasn't even been 100 years and already it is relatively easy to find people who are genuinely and openly sympathetic to the Nazis
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So I don't think the "grave insult" applies here, or else why would the Stolpersteine have been inserted into the middle of the boardwalk of streets with lots of pedestrian traffic? If you're in a hurry and don't look down, you will not even know they are there. And if you read the artistic statement, that's exactly what they are meant to be - a part of daily life, not a sculpture to stand in front of and study.
Of course, if someone wanted to insult the dead, they could make a show of repeatedly stepping on them. I don't think it would provoke much of a reaction other than people thinking "what a pitiful loser".
Insanely important, especially with the renewed rise of antisemitism - sad to see this downvoted.
It hasn't even been 100 years and already it is relatively easy to find people who are genuinely and openly sympathetic to the Nazis
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It's an awesome idea, because it brings the painful past right into our daily lives. You're forced to serendipituously "stumble" across them every now and then. The stories on them, told in a brief phrase, are mostly heartbreaking, sometimes uplifting, always relevant. "Executed for making fun of the Führer", "Deported and gassed for hiding Jewish neighbors", "Survived concentration camp but parents, siblings and rel…
Although I see these stones all over Vienna, and find myself in contemplation every single time I see them elsewhere around Europe, it is even more jarring to see them in a seemingly random outer suburb/town of the region at the footstep of a local grocery store, and is a severely jarring reminder of the atrocities that occurred in this land, not so long ago.
I wish Australia, my native land, would have the courage to do something similar to highlight the atrocities we committed there, on the original peoples. Alas, Australian war hubris is too heavy to pierce that veil ..
There's also a OpenStreetMap based map on top of that: https://stolpersteinmap.de/ And the German public TV station created an app with additional information on Stolpersteine: https://stolpersteine.wdr.de/web/en/