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Herchen Thingplatz Memorial

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Herchen Thingplatz Memorial

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Herchen Thingplatz Memorial

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Location: Windeck, Rhein-Sieg-Kreis, Cologne District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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February 28, 2022

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Hero worship from the Third Reich. Built as a theater space for the masses. Now a relic to remember against forgetting.

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May 7, 2020

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Impressive illustrative material about the manipulation and falsification of history for political purposes.

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September 16, 2021

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The Thingplatz in Windeck-Herchen contained a National Socialist memorial in memory of those who fell in the First World War. In the rotunda, which has been preserved to this day, …

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