A project puts the consequences of National Socialism on the streets .
An unusual project is currently being implemented in Berlin: the cityscape is reminiscent of the consequences of the Nazi era in countless places. Under the heading “Destroyed Diversity”, the expulsion, exclusion, murder of thousands of Berlin citizens and the conformity of public life are to be brought to mind in 2013.
There are plenty of places of remembrance in Berlin. Some are world famous, such as the Holocaust Memorial, the Topography of Terror or the Jewish Museum. But others are hardly noticeable. Around 120 such initiatives take part in the theme year. They come up with exhibitions and plays, memorial sites and films or publications. The German Historical Museum provides an overview. There are also mobile pillars in the street scene; With pictures and short biographies they remind of displaced artists, scientists and politicians.
National Socialism did not stay on the surface, it reached into the ramifications of society and culture. The annihilation of the unwanted hit great people in business and art as well as helpless prison inmates and the disabled. And that is what is really instructive about this Berlin project of many small projects: It shows how Nazism permeated society and how it got along. Medicine and health care are represented several times in the theme year. “Euthanasia” is dealt with with different focus: Under the heading “The child smiles upon friendly encouragement”, the Reinickendorf Museum of Local History provides information on the medical crimes of the municipal mental hospital for children 1941–45 (May 31 to January 31).
An art competition organized by the Pankow District Office commemorates the victims of Nazi "euthanasia" on the site of the former 3rd sanatorium and nursing home in Berlin-Buch (now the Helios Clinic) (Exhibition of the designs until October). A temporary open-air exhibition, organized by group of historians and architects, will be held from May 5 to November 17 at the “Euthanasia” headquarters at Tiergartenstrasse 4.
A project puts the consequences of National Socialism on the streets .
An unusual project is currently being implemented in Berlin: the cityscape is reminiscent of the consequences of the Nazi era in countless places. Under the heading “Destroyed Diversity”, the expulsion, exclusion, murder of thousands of Berlin citizens and the conformity of public life are to be brought to mind in 2013.
There are plenty of places of remembrance in Berlin. Some are world famous, such as the Holocaust Memorial, the Topography of Terror or the Jewish Museum. But others are hardly noticeable. Around 120 such initiatives take part in the theme year. They come up with exhibitions and plays, memorial sites and films or publications. The German Historical Museum provides an overview. There are also mobile pillars in the street scene; With pictures and short biographies they remind of displaced artists, scientists and politicians.
National Socialism did not stay on the surface, it reached into the ramifications of society and culture. The annihilation of the unwanted hit great people in business and art as well as helpless prison inmates and the disabled. And that is what is really instructive about this Berlin project of many small projects: It shows how Nazism permeated society and how it got along. Medicine and health care are represented several times in the theme year. “Euthanasia” is dealt with with different focus: Under the heading “The child smiles upon friendly encouragement”, the Reinickendorf Museum of Local History provides information on the medical crimes of the municipal mental hospital for children 1941–45 (May 31 to January 31).
An art competition organized by the Pankow District Office commemorates the victims of Nazi "euthanasia" on the site of the former 3rd sanatorium and nursing home in Berlin-Buch (now the Helios Clinic) (Exhibition of the designs until October). A temporary open-air exhibition, organized by group of historians and architects, will be held from May 5 to November 17 at the “Euthanasia” headquarters at Tiergartenstrasse 4.The medical historians of the Charité and the association “Totgeschwiegen” are organizing the exhibition “Double stigmatized” on the fate of Jewish psychiatric patients (until November 29). Two film projects are aimed at the deaf: "The deaf during the Nazi era" (September 14th to mid-November) and "Deaf Jewish life around the Centrum Judaicum" (sign language film and site inspection). The Otto Weidt workshop for the blind (in the former brush workshop, Rosenthaler Straße 39) commemorates the blind. The Berlin Medical Society reports in book about their time “under the swastika” (Jaron-Verlag, March 2013). The Mitte Museum presents racial policy based on the Reichsmütterschule Berlin-Wedding (exhibition, September 19 to summer 2014).
Despite the large number of projects - there are gaps. So no organizer seems to have been found who would have discussed the expulsion of Jewish doctors from the Charité and other clinics. After all, there are the “Jewish miniatures” published by Hentrich & Hentrich, in which today's doctors follow the fate of their specialist colleagues during the Nazi era. But in spite of such basin gauges: Some cities in Germany could take an example from the Berlin project. Until then, Berlin remains pars pro toto.
Norbert Jachertz
@Everything about organizers, topics, dates and locations at www.berlin.de/2013
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