Outrage as East German town bans Holocaust ‘stumbling blocks’

CNN: ‘Stolpersteine,’ meaning ‘stumbling blocks’, are found across Germany, as well as in other European countries, and are intended as a daily reminder of Nazi atrocities.

The motion was proposed by the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) and the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU), who argued that passersby are “walking over or even stepping onto the names of the victims.” On Thursday, the city council of Heidenau, a town near Dresden in Saxony, backed the motion…

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