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November 23, 2017

How would you like having a Holocaust memorial built just outside your house?

Filed under: Germany, Holocaust — furtherglory @ 3:00 pm

November 22, 2017 – Nachbau als symbolische Auflenstelle des Berliner Denkmals fuer die ermordeten Juden Europas durch das Zentrum f??r politische Sch??nheit in unmittelbarer Nachbarschaft zum Wohnhaus von Bj??rn H??cke (AfD) in Bornhagen. Bj??rn H??cke hatte das Mahnmal zuvor als Denkmal der Schande bezeichnet snapshot-photography/F.Boillot *** Replica as a symbolic outpost of the Berlin Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe by the Center for Political Beauty in the immediate vicinity of the home of Bj??rn H??cke AfD in Bornhagen Bj??rn H??cke had previously described the memorial as a monument to shame snapshot photography F Boillot (Credit Image: ? Imago via ZUMA Press)

How would you like to have a monstrosity like this built just outside your house? This is what people in Germany have to put up with now!

The following quote is from this news article which you can read in full at http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/23/europe/holocaust-memorial-german-politician/index.html

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(CNN)Political activists built a replica of Berlin’s Holocaust Memorial outside the home of a far-right German politician to protest his call for Germany to stop feeling guilty about Nazi atrocities.

The Center for Political Beauty erected 24 large concrete slabs next to the house of Alternative for Germany (AfD) politician Björn Höcke, to serve as a reminder of the six million Jews who were murdered during the Holocaust.
The plan was first conceived in the aftermath of Höcke’s controversial Dresden speech in which he said that Germans were the “only people in the world who planted a memorial of shame in the heart of their capital,” referring to the 2,711 gray blocks that were first unveiled in Berlin in 2005.
Höcke also said Germany needed to make a “180-degree turn” when remembering its past and labeled the country’s citizens as “brutally defeated people.” He later described criticism of his remarks “a malicious and deliberately denigratory interpretation” of them.
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