54 men from the Miesbach district were deported to the Dachau concentration camp 91 years ago. High school students read out the names of the deportees from the two lists.
District Administrator Olaf von Löwis (CSU) appealed with glowing words to defend democracy. “Repel the beginnings,” he warned, “We must not allow racism and anti-Semitism to become fashionable.” “Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it,’ he quoted the U.S. philosopher George Santayana, who said that those who don’t remember their past are doomed to repeat them.“They stayed in the concentration camp for anywhere from a few months to many years. Some remained in prison until 1945, others died there,“ explained Lisa Hilbich from the history workshop, which initiated the memorial event and organized it with the Catholic District Education Center.. A moment that gave you goosebumps was when Wolfgang Klaus played the trumpet and flowers were laid.