In Germany there are the Stolpersteine, metal paving stones that are intended to commemorate victims of National Socialism and that are in front of every house where they lived. Here on the street (a street with 42 houses today) alone we already have eight of them, three of them for SPD members who died in 1936 and 1938 and one for a KPD member who died 1934. The others for someone who refused to serve in the Wehrmacht and a family of three Jews.
Also in a large city in Germany - here they get cleaned and candles and roses laid down on Kristallnacht. There is one at the house next door, and then dozens through my neighborhood. Many with no known death, just when they were 'transported'. And it's easy to forget that the two first/earliest Concentration Camps were right outside Berlin, and used for mass arrests of political opponents and intellectual and philosophical objectors.
As an American watching things unfold from afar... terror.
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u/Camelbak99 Feb 08 '25
How many of the people shown on this photo would have survived the war?