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Lower Saxony

Lüneburg Heath

Gifhorn

Brome

Kurt Lichtenstein Memorial

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Lüneburg Heath

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Brome

Kurt Lichtenstein Memorial

Kurt Lichtenstein Memorial

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    1. Stork Nest in Kaiserwinkel – Kurt Lichtenstein Memorial loop from Rühen

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    September 14, 2020

    The 59-year-old journalist was the son of a Jewish cobbler from Berlin and had already joined the KPD in the 1920s. In 1933 he went underground, fought on the side of the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War against Franco, was interned, fled and joined the French resistance movement. After the war he supported the rebuilding of the KPD and trade unions in the Ruhr area and was a KPD member of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia from 1947-1950. Herbert Wehner's companion became editor-in-chief of "Freiheit" and other communist newspapers. Because of his critical positions on the GDR, he was expelled from the KPD and later joined the SPD. Two months after the Wall was built, he wanted to report on life on the inner-German border for the “Westfälische Rundschau”. When he left the street in Zicherie to speak to the (east) German harvest workers, he was noticed, under fire and fatally wounded. The two border police officers were honored for their "exemplary fulfillment of the oath of the flag and the given combat orders" and were immediately promoted. A laudatory report appeared in the "Army-Rundschau" under the title "Well done, Peter".

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      August 1, 2020

      Now coming from Kaiserwinkel, the border between Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt runs in the eastern ditch ... it is difficult to imagine that the iron curtain between East and West once ran there. The memorial for Kurt Lichtenstein teaches us that and I am grateful that it is peaceful here now and that nobody has to fear for his life because he wants to talk to other people.

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        December 19, 2022

        A tragic story and I can still remember it well, I just didn't know the details anymore. But time heals even this wound, just don't forget that!

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          Location: Brome, Gifhorn, Lüneburg Heath, Lower Saxony, Germany

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