by Susan | Jan 18, 2021 | Monuments
This memorial is located in front of the Reichstag building and commemorates the 96 members of the Germany’s last democratically elected pre-war parliament who were murdered by the Nazis between 1933 and 1945, in concentration camps. In German, Denkmal zur...
by Susan | Nov 30, 2020 | Monuments
The Way of Human Rights was opened on 24 October 1993. It is sited on the street between the new and old buildings of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, connecting Kornmarkt street and the medieval city wall. Created by Israeli artist Dani Karavan it consists of a gate,...
by Susan | Sep 7, 2020 | Monuments
The 2.50 m high stainless steel sculpture was placed on Bonn’s Bertha-von-Suttner-Platz on the initiative of the Women’s Network for Peace and dedicated on September 21, 2013, the International Day of Peace. It is the work of Finnish sculptor Sirpa...
by Susan | Nov 19, 2018 | Monuments
In 2009, architect Ruedi Baur constructed a memorial in Cologne for those who have refused to fight. It is a bus shelter with these words on the roof: Homage to the soldiers who refused to shoot at the soldiers, who refused to shoot at the people, who refused to...
by Susan | Nov 12, 2018 | Monuments
Between 1939 and 1945, about 400,000 German soldiers (2% of the total) deserted or attempted to desert, not counting those surrendering in battle. 30,000 of them were caught in the act, 23,000 of those were executed. This was the first of the monuments now in Germany...
