Témoignages strasbourgeois - Buchenwald Memorial

Médaille de la Résistance, die die Université de Strasbourg als einzige französische Universität im Jahr 1947 erhielt.

German Empire and Weimar Republic

The prominently located square at the central link from the main railway station to Weimar city centre has a long tradition as a memorial site. Until 1946, there was a war memorial on today's Buchenwaldplatz, which commemorated the victory and the...

National Socialism

On 31 July 1932, the NSDAP became the strongest party in the Thuringian state parliament elections with 42.5 percent of the vote. Under its Gauleiter Fritz Sauckel, a new state government was soon formed - still in alliance with the...

The early post-war period

After the liberation of Weimar, the city was faced with the question of how to deal with its recent past. The cleansing of the cityscape from relics of the Nazi era began under American occupation. At the same time, a group of former Buchenwald...

François Amoudruz bei der Gedenkfeier zur Razzia von 1943 im Jahr 2018

Tendering and conception

The establishment of a working committee for the erection of a Thälmann memorial on 2 February 1954, initiated by the Weimar district leadership of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED), reactivated the efforts that had been repeatedly postponed...