(Jewish Group) Some 1,500 statues and streets honor Nazis around the world

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Investigation: Some 1,500 statues and streets honor Nazis around the world — including in Germany and the U.S.

Germany, long seen as an international model for appropriately reckoning with its Holocaust history, nonetheless currently has at least 162 streets and schools named for Nazis and their collaborators, a Forward investigation has found.

These public honorings of people who committed horrific atrocities during World War II persist despite Germany’s strict laws against displaying Nazi flags or other symbols, and even though many of its major cities have over the past two decade have commissioned reports aimed at rooting out inappropriate honorings of Nazi Party members and others with racist or antisemitic pasts. Most are in the former West Germany.

The Forward has documented each of these streets and schools as part of an ongoing effort to publicly list all statues, monuments and other public showcasing of Nazis and their collaborators around the world. For International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2021, we published our initial investigation, which included 320 such monuments in 16 countries on three continents.


After another year of reporting, we have added an additional 1,135 items to the list, bringing the total to 1,455 in 25 countries, including the United States and five Western European nations. The updated list includes 11 more Nazi monuments in seven U.S. states – Alabama, Florida, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin – bringing the total in our own country to 26.

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1. Disturbing

That’s appalling and wrong.

[SharonClark]

2. From the list included in the article,

it seems it wouldn’t be too difficult to correct this if a human rights or Jewish group took it on.

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3. Awful, thanks for posting this enlightening article:

Krupp was released from prison in 1952; after his death in 1967, the foundation he had established began funneling money into charitable causes and public works, focusing on science and education. In 2001, the foundation gave 10 million Deutsche Marks – the equivalent of about $7.6 million in today’s U.S. currency – to what is now Jacobs University Bremen to build its first residential college, named for Krupp.

And he is hardly the only Nazi collaborator whose name is showcased publicly in today’s Germany..

The country is strewn with streets honoring Wernher von Braun, who built rockets used to kill civilians in Allied nations; more than 10,000 concentration camp prisoners died constructing these weapons.

There are also streets named for Friedrich Flick, whose steel empire was built on the expropriation of Jewish businesses; Max Ilgner, an executive for IG Farben which produced the Zyklon B gas for the Auschwitz gas chambers; Albert Reinmann Jr., whose plants abused prisoners to the point where even the local Nazi Party office had to step in; and Ferdinand Sauerbruch, who headed the medicine branch of the Third Reich office responsible for authorizing horrific experiments on concentration camp inmates.

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4. Oskar Schindler and his wife were buried in Jerusalem on Mt Zion