German town bans Nazi stumbling stone memorials
The gist
Heidenau's council voted to ban new Stolpersteine memorials from its streets.
The brass plaques for Nazi victims are the world's largest decentralized monument.
How it unfolded
- 1992Artist Gunter Demnig laid the first Stolperstein in Cologne.
- 1990sMany towns across Europe, including Germany and Austria, began embedding small brass plaques in the streets in memory of Jews and other victims of Nazi atrocities.
- Sep 24, 2026The local council in Heidenau, a town just outside Dresden in Saxony, voted to ban the memorial plaques from the town's public roads and pavements in the future.