Monument9c00a5b3…8b9ePlace of Remembrance
Ernst-Thälmann-Denkmal
Commemorating Victims of Nazism and Ernst Thälmann
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The Ernst Thälmann Monument in Weimar, unveiled on August 17, 1958, commemorates the murder of 56,000 inmates at the former Buchenwald concentration camp, particularly political opponents of the Nazi regime and former KPD leader Ernst Thälmann. Sculptor Walter Arnold created this memorial as a reminder against forgetting.
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Quick Facts
- Opening Date
- August 17, 1958
- Wheelchair Access
- Partially accessible
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- Authorship
- Authorship unavailable
- Publication approval
- Approval provenance unavailable
- Editorial review
- Not reviewed
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