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Kassel installs memorial plaque for Gestapo victims
A new memorial plaque has been installed at the entrance of the Wehlheiden cemetery in Kassel to commemorate three mass murders committed by the Gestapo near the end of World War II. The plaque documents the crimes and the subsequent history of their investigation.
Historical records detailed in the memorial include the execution of twelve prisoners at the cemetery on Good Friday 1945, the murder of 28 prisoners from the Breitenau labor education camp in Guxhagen on the same day, and the killing of 78 Italian military internees and one Soviet forced laborer at Wilhelmshöhe station on Easter Saturday.
Separately, Elke Gryglewski, managing director of the Foundation of Lower Saxony Memorial Sites, has called for historical learning sites to become more accessible to the general public. She emphasized the need for more understandable language in exhibitions to reach audiences beyond academic circles. Gryglewski also expressed concern regarding political efforts in Saxony-Anhalt to restrict remembrance culture and memorial work.
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City of Kassel · Elke Gryglewski · Foundation of Lower Saxony Memorial Sites · Gestapo · Wehlheiden Cemetery
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- [○ 1 SOURCE] The Gestapo executed twelve prisoners at the Wehlheiden cemetery on Good Friday in 1945. nh24.de
- [○ 1 SOURCE] Twenty-eight prisoners from the Breitenau labor education camp were murdered in Guxhagen by the Gestapo on the same day. nh24.de
- [○ 1 SOURCE] A new memorial plaque has been installed at the entrance of the Wehlheiden cemetery in Kassel. nh24.de
- [○ 1 SOURCE] The Gestapo killed 78 Italian military internees and one Soviet forced laborer at Wilhelmshöhe station on Easter Saturday. nh24.de
- [● 2 SOURCES] Elke Gryglewski, managing director of the Foundation of Lower Saxony Memorial Sites, called for memorial sites to make their offerings more accessible and understandable to a broader audience. www.merkur.de · www.tz.de
- [● 2 SOURCES] Elke Gryglewski expressed concern over political attempts by the AfD in Saxony-Anhalt to restrict remembrance culture and memorial work. www.merkur.de · www.tz.de