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June 11, 2015

A German Town Resists Holocaust Memorialization

Villingen's vanished "stumbling-stones."

In the 1990s, a German artist began to place cobblestone-sized brass markers on the sidewalks of German cities, each one commemorating a single victim of the Nazis who lived nearby. Now over 40,000 of these Stolpersteine (stumbling-stones) can be found throughout several European countries. The German town of Villingen, however, has repeatedly refused to take part. Lisa Lampert-Weissig writes:

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