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Memorial at Murellenberg

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    July 17, 2018

    At the end of World War II, the Wehrmacht used the Murellen Gorge as an execution site for deserters and evaders. Today, no trace of this horrific episode remains. Therefore, an art installation was created in 2002 to commemorate it.

    The Argentinian artist Patricia Pinsani installed over 100 traffic mirrors in the forest. Just as such mirrors can point to initially hidden or invisible dangers in everyday traffic, the mirrors in the now peaceful forest are intended to remind us of its sad history. Texts dealing with the executions are engraved on 16 mirrors.

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      December 27, 2017

      The memorial was inaugurated on 8.5.2002 by Senator for Urban Development, Peter Strieder and District Mayor Monika Thiemen.
      At the Murellenberg there were military facilities with barracks and shooting ranges since the time around 1840. ...
      Under the National Socialists, a Wehrmacht execution site was built here: In the Murellenschlucht, on the slope of the Murellenberg between 12 August 1944 and 14 April 1945 deserters, conscientious objectors and command refusers of various ranks, mostly by judgments of the Reichskriegsgericht, shot dead.
      ... ca. 230 have so far been determined by name; ...
      An initiative of the evangelical circle synod and individual citizen strove since 1994, ..., to the establishment of a memorial place. ... In March 2001, the jury decided unanimously on the design by the Berlin artist Patricia Pisani: 106 traffic mirrors were installed along the forest path from the Glockenturmstraße at the Olympiastadion to the vicinity of the shooting site behind the Waldbühne. The exact location is unknown.
      berlin.de/ba-charlottenburg-wilmersdorf/ueber-den-bezirk/geschichte/gedenkstaetten/artikel.177394.php

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        January 8, 2025

        Engraved texts on 16 mirrors provide information about what is happening in the Murellenschlucht. The remaining 90 mirrors have no text. The artist explains her installation as follows: "Just as traffic mirrors point out dangerous spots on the road, here too they are intended to show a specific situation that lies outside of the field of vision and in this way virtually refer to the repressed crimes of the Nazi justice system."

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