Stolperstein
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Stolperstein
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#2Insanely important, especially with the renewed rise of antisemitism - sad to see this downvoted.
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#3It'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 relatives did not make it out alive".
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#4There'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/
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#5Many central european cities are full of these Stolpersteine and it is sometimes quite interesting where people lived that have been taken away — and what took their place decades later.
Typically people who live there, children from nearby schools or community projects look to keep them clean and polished, although depending on how remote that area is you might also "stolper" over some that haven't got the treatment for a while.
I think there is a real benefit to these small, decentralized "micromonuments", as they remind you of actual history in the many places where it happened. The genocidal horror of the nazis did not happen in some megalomaniac central spot after all, it was in every neighbourhood.
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#6There'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/
Impressive to see how many Stolpersteine are out there. I never saw/recognized one on my own even though I walk around a lot in areas with a high density of them.
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#7It's weird that the article explicitly mentiones various groups that were killed/deported to German concentration camps across Europe and commemorated by the stones, but does not mention the second largest one - Poles. German historical policy tends to not include Poles as victims the 1939-1945 Germany, but in spite of that, there are multiple stones commemorating them in today's Berlin.
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#8Insanely 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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#9No post body was provided.
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#10It's weird that the article explicitly mentiones various groups that were killed/deported to German concentration camps across Europe and commemorated by the stones, but does not mention the second largest one - Poles. German historical policy tends to not include Poles as victims the 1939-1945 Germany, but in spite of that, there are multiple stones commemorating them in today's Berlin.
Apparently putting down the stones in Poland is met with resistance. If poles want to commemorate killed poles with these stones they will have to take the initiative.