Language:
German
Year of publication:
1994
Titel der Quelle:
Jahrbuch für Antisemitismusforschung
Angaben zur Quelle:
3 (1994) 121-139
Keywords:
Jews
;
Antisemitism History 1945-
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Commemoration
Abstract:
Discusses repeated desecrations between 1987-92 of a memorial to the tens of thousands of Jews deported by the Nazis from the Putlitzstrasse rail terminal in Berlin. Several times the vandals placed pigs' heads on the memorial; pigs' heads or pictures of them were also affixed to other Jewish sites throughout Germany. Discusses the history of this anti-Jewish symbol (e.g. the "Judensau"). The vandals also left Nazi symbols and slogans against Jews, foreigners, and liberal politicians. In 1992 the memorial was partly destroyed by dynamite and had to be rebuilt. Suggests that it was the visibility of the memorial and its clear message that made it a target for neo-Nazi ideology.
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