Dutch row over which victims of Nazis get ‘stumbling stone’ plaques
by Senay Boztas in Amsterdam from World news | The Guardian on (#6QX64)
Commemorations of 45 people experimentally' gassed reveal dark moments in the Netherlands' history
They call them stumbling stones - little brass plaques in the pavement marking addresses where Holocaust victims once lived.
As the Netherlands marks 80 years of liberation, a row has sprung up about placing Stolpersteine for 45 Dutch political prisoners - Jewish activists, communists, critical Christians - who were experimentally" gassed by the Nazis at the Bernburg psychiatric clinic in Germany in 1942.
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