Germany honors gay victims.

[dancing-loon]

Berlin remembers persecuted gays

Germany has inaugurated a 600,000 euro concrete memorial to honour the thousands of homosexuals persecuted by the Nazis between 1933 and 1945.
The four-metre high monument, which has a window showing a film of two men kissing, was unveiled in Berlin.
The Nazis branded homosexuality an aberration threatening their perception of Germans as the master race, and 55,000 gay men were deemed criminals.
As many as 15,000 of those were killed in Nazi concentration camps.
Very few who survived ever received compensation from post-war German governments for the persecution they suffered.

The new memorial - which was inaugurated by Berlin's gay mayor, Klaus Wowereit, and Germany's Culture Minister, Bernd Neumann - is situated close to that for the six million victims of the Holocaust.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7422826.stm
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Quite the idea! Just a huge block of concrete with a peephole in it!;-)

The concrete monument has a window showing a film of two men kissing

Careful...

The new memorial saw a large number of visitors after the opening

 

[karrie]

huh... eternally locked away and hidden like something shameful. Is that a good remembrance? While it speaks to the way they were treated, I would kind of think that a better honor would be to speak to future treatment, no? Maybe that's just me.

 

[FUBAR]

Does look a bit like a mens toilet though......

 

[dancing-loon]

Does look a bit like a men's toilet though......

... how appropriate... in a way!:lol: That mayor has a great sense of humor! Perhaps trying to loosen-up suppressed feelings. He is very popular and makes no bones about being gay himself.
I bet that "toilet" will be a great tourist attraction. They should charge a fee for "peeking"!

 

[I think not]

It seems appropriate and inappropriate at the same time. Perhaps that was the message the designer had mind.