Plaques commemorating the crimes of the Nazi era in Babenhausen

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Around the market square of Babenhausen there are two commemorative plaques for the victims of National Socialism. 


On the wall of the town hall there is a plaque commemorating the victims in great detail:

"The secret of reconciliation lies in the memory. We commemorate the victims of the National Socialist tyranny, the six million Jews murdered in German concentration camps, the Sinti and Roma, the homosexual men and women killed, the mentally ill, the people killed, who had to die because of their religious or political convictions, the hostages shot, the dead of the invaded peoples, murdered men and women of the resistance in all occupied states and of the German resistance and of the people who accepted death rather than to bow their consciences. Built by the city of Babenhausen on September 1^st 1988".

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A little further on is a commemorative plaque at the city church, which fifty years after the end of the war also expresses gratitude for the time of peace:

"In memory of unspeakable suffering, out of gratitude for peace. And for the liberation from National Socialism. 8.5.1945 -8.5.1995" and the Bible verse "Justice exalts a people, but sin is the ruin of people (Prv 14,34)".