A Berlin memorial to gay victims of the Holocaust was vandalized over the weekend, police report. The memorial, designed by artists Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset and unveiled in , is located in in Tiergarten Park, near the city's monument to Jewish victims of the Holocaust. A giant concrete cube, it features a cutout through which visitors can peer and see a video of a same-sex couple kissing inside. But guards say sometime Sunday night the window had been painted over.
Monument to Homosexuals Persecuted Under National Socialist Regime, Berlin - TripAdvisor
The Cuboid is made of concrete. On the front side of the cuboid is a window, through which visitors can see a short film of two kissing men. The memorial was discussed by all parties in the Bundestag , which granted permission in Near the memorial is a signboard , which is written in German and English. There visitors can read over persecutions during Nazism and under Paragraph , the law during the s and s that outlawed homosexuality. It was reformed in , attenuated in and finally voided in
Memorial to Gay Victims of Holocaust Vandalized in Berlin
This monument stands in memory of the homosexuals persecuted by the Nazis as undesirables of civilization. The monument is a large roughly rectangular block and is rather nondescript were it not for its size. The monument plays a video through a roughly half a metre This memorial is across the road from the Jewish memorial in the park. The memorial is in a similar block to the ones built for the Jewish memorial but one single block and higher.
We use cookies to improve our service for you. You can find more information in our data protection declaration. Yael Bartana's concept was chosen from among a total of 11 entries, the German Foundation Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe said in a statement on Thursday.