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Demonstrators at a rally in Munich (2018): Signs with portraits of the NSU victims
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In the future, the names of the victims of the right-wing extremist terrorist group NSU are to be visible with lights and shadows on a square in front of the Thuringian state parliament.
This is what the winning design for the design of a memorial at the Parliament of the Free State, which was presented in Erfurt, envisages.
The NSU trio grew up in Thuringia and became radicalized in Jena in the 1990s.
A metal construction with steel arches on which ten steel plates are to be mounted is planned for the memorial site.
The names of the ten victims murdered by the "National Socialist Underground" are said to have been lasered into these metal plates and projected onto the ground by solar radiation.
The federal government's ombudswoman for the victims of the NSU, Barbara John, emphasized that the involvement of the victims' families was something special.
She praised the chosen memorial site and the concept of the winning design.
"I think that will move people and that it will have an impact," she said.
A committee with 13 voting members unanimously decided in favor of the draft by Dagmar Korintenberg and Wolf Kipper.
Regardless of the jury, the families of the victims also unanimously voted in favor of this draft.
"I call that a small miracle," John said.
The NSU terrorists Beate Zschäpe, Uwe Mundlos and Uwe Böhnhardt murdered Germany between 1999 and 2007.
The NSU murdered ten people, carried out bomb attacks and committed robberies.
Zschäpe, Mundlos and Böhnhardt went into hiding in Saxony.
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