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...democracy? Why didn't the fire department put out the fires?" says Andreas Nachama, director of the Topography of Terror Foundation, an independent research foundation that is sponsoring the Kristallnacht exhibit. The mass-circulation Bild newspaper set aside its usual fare of crime and sports to show one of Berlin's largest synagogues in flames under the headline "The Night that the Synagogues Burned!" while German TV is carrying documentaries about the pogrom...
...mayor of Berlin, Klaus Wowereit, used the coming anniversary to repeat calls for the far-right National Democratic Party, which holds seats in several local parliaments, to be banned from German public life, as politicians across the country urge heightened vigilance against anti-Semitism. Some 800 anti-Semitic incidents have been recorded so far this year, resulting in injuries to more than two dozen people...
...long time, we would put the perpetrator into the center, show pictures of horror and try to shock with numbers. It only recently occurred to me that if you don't look at the individual, you make him or her a victim a second time," one teacher in Berlin said after reviewing the archive. Foundation director Nachama agrees. "The commemoration of these events is no longer just about abstract history," he says. "It's about concrete events; the history of your street, the history of your neighborhood...
...projects involves lying small plaques in the ground in front of the former homes of Jewish Holocaust victims, each inscribed with a small biography and the circumstance of the victim's arrest and deportation. The plaques are called stolpersteine, or "stumbling blocks," and you see them all over Berlin. Some 17,000 have been placed across Europe. So while many of the survivors of Kristallnacht and the Holocaust that followed may not be alive for much longer, their suffering is not likely to be forgotten...
...pictures of Barack Obama visiting Berlin...