Team behind memorial to Nazi-era prostitutes close to Reeperbahn excluded area’s sex workers from its planning and drew on incorrect information, it is claimed
Hamburg’s Reeperbahn red-light district: While Nazi authorities cracked down in the rest of Germany , sex workers were tolerated in the northern port city if they restricted themselves to a handful of areas, including the Herbertstrasse. Photograph: Morris Mac Matzen/AFP via GettyHamburg’s new memorial to Nazi-era sex workers in its red-light district has been attacked as “tasteless” and “superficial” by local critics and a leading German memory campaigner.
Up to 250 women still work from windows in this street, blocked off from curious passersby with metal barriers at each end. Few of the tourists who snap selfies at the gates know they were erected on Nazi orders in 1933. “Many ended up in concentration camps and were forcibly sterilised,” said Mr Neubauer. “Even if they didn’t die, they came back broken from the war.”
“Why is no one discussing that the barriers still exist, even though they were an invention of the Nazi regime?” the letter continues.
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