Saxony-Anhalt in the NS: places of remembrance of victims and crimes

On 8 May 1945 the crimes of the National Socialists ended. But for the survivors the suffering was often not over – many Jews had no family and home any more, forced laborers met with rejection or hatred after returning home In the end Zofia B. simply waited. More than a year and a half the young Polish, who was a member of an underground group in Łódź, had spent in German concentration camps; first from September 1943 in Auschwitz, before an od…

Bernburg, Halle, Gardelegen: 80 years after the end of the Second World War, there are traces of National Socialism throughout Saxony-Anhalt. Today, memorial sites in the places of Nazi crimes commemorate the victims.