Plötzensee Memorial


Gedenkstatte Plötzensee is on the site of the old part of Plötzensee Prison (there is still a functioning prison here). During the Nazi years around three thousand people were executed here, most of them political dissidents. I'll be showing more of the memorial site in the days to come. Until then, you can find more signs at Signs, Signs.

PS: I am posting photos from my recent trip to Paris on my other photoblog, Halcyon Travels. Please stop by and take a look. You can click here or on the link on the right side of this page. Enjoy!

20 comments:

  1. A bit pity that Germany is full of this kind of Gedenkstättes but good that they have them at least.

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  2. I just finished reading Remarque's A Time to Love and a Time to Die about living in Nazi Germany. Very scary times!

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    1. You should read Alone in Berlin. It's also a beautiful story.

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  3. Thanks for the bit of history too today.

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  4. Very sad and intense place here. Thank you so much for sharing.

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  5. The link was an interesting read. Looking forward to the rest of your pictures.

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  6. A part of history we should never forget.

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  7. A sad sad chapter in the history of mankind -- one of too many; but we must never forget.

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  8. The Nazis weren't the only ones to execute dissidents though they certainly earned a reputation for being among the most enthusiastic. I'll never understand that inhumanity and cruelty.

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  9. What a cheery place. Tom The Backroads Traveller

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  10. Serious and solid walls. At least the sunlight and the open gate suggest that old history, at last is free of strife.

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  11. It would be so sad to visit there.

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