Protesters build Holocaust memorial at home of far-right German politician

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Agence France-Presse


Replica of Berlin monument erected by art collective after AfD’s Björn Höcke told Germans to stop atoning for wartime guilt
Agence France-Presse
Wednesday 22 November 2017 20.40 EST

A group of activists unveiled a replica of Berlin’s Holocaust Memorial secretly erected outside the home of a far-right AfD politician who says Germans should stop atoning for Nazi guilt.

Art collective Centre for Political Beauty set up 24 large concrete slabs in a garden next to Björn Höcke’s house, saying it wanted to send a daily reminder of the second world war horrors that led to deaths of 6 million Jewish people.

“We are doing our neighbourly duty,” the group’s leader, Philipp Ruch, told the Frankfurter Rundschau newspaper. “We hope he enjoys the view every day when he looks out the window.”

The slabs are a smaller-sized replica of the famed Holocaust Memorial in Berlin, which consists of a solemn field of 2,700 grey blocks meant to evoke a cemetery.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/23/protesters-holocaust-memorial-far-right-german-politician-afd

[leftynyc]

1. Scary times

The right wing has overturned a rock and all these sleazy bigots - all over the world - is what has slithered out.

[Nitram]

2. Not anywhere near as scary as it would be if no one was responding and protesting.

The pushback is awesome.