Activists taunt AfD politician with mini Holocaust memorial

A group of activists unveil a replica of Berlin’s Holocaust Memorial secretly erected outside the home of a far-right AfD politician who has urged Germany to stop atoning for Nazi guilt.

With 24 large concrete slabs set up in a garden next to Bjoern Hoecke’s house, the art collective “Centre for Political Beauty” says it wanted to send a daily reminder of the World War II horrors that led to deaths of six million Jews.

“We are doing our neighborly duty,” the group’s leader Philipp Ruch told the Frankfurter Rundschau newspaper.

Art collective @politicalbeauty have built a replica of Berlin's Holocaust memorial outside the home of AfD politician Björn Höcke (Photo: Spiegel) pic.twitter.com/jqxWl6ifQf

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“We hope he enjoys the view every day when he looks out the window.”

The slabs are a smaller-sized replica of the famed Holocaust Memorial in Berlin, which consists of a solemn field of 2,700 grey blocks meant to evoke a cemetery.

— AFP