A new art installation at the bathhouse was recently unveiled.
It cannot be overlooked, and that is by design.
The artificial poppies are meant to be a reminder.
Wolfratshausen - The message that Badehaus Waldram and artist Walter Kuhn wanted to convey is short and to the point: "Never again - never again" was written on a small board in the middle of a sea of red flowers.
An art installation was unveiled around the site of remembrance on Wednesday, International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Kuhn, known for a similar action on Munich's Königsplatz, built 170 "Mahnblumen" - red works of art reminiscent of poppies - around the museum on Kolpingplatz.
“As a reminder of all the victims of wars” and “as a resolute call to lay down arms and work towards peaceful solutions to conflicts”.
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In his greeting, Ludwig Spaenle recalled the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp on January 27, 1945. "They knew about the dimensions of their guilt," said the Bavarian State Government's anti-Semitism officer about the murderers in Auschwitz.
This was shown not least by her "hectic efforts to cover up and cover up tracks" in the last days before the liberation.
The Nazi government's “industrial mass murder” was an attempt “to tear people from their lives for insane reasons and to erase them from memory”.
That is precisely why it is all the more important to "keep everyone in memory".
Spaenle particularly emphasized the fact that this was doing an art installation in the Waldram bathhouse, “a place that was hope and a future for those who survived the madness”.
And he expressed his hope that one thing can be deduced from memory for the future: "that human dignity must be protected under all conditions."
The appeal “never again” applies to current and future politics, Waldram has “a special responsibility to remember”, emphasized Dr.
Sybille Krafft in her speech.
In the former Föhrenwald camp, "the rest of the rescued - people who had lost everything - met" after the end of the World War.
Even if the corona pandemic is currently making museum operations and a major event impossible, "we don't want to postpone commemoration and remembrance," said the head of the bathhouse association.
The big reminders are a possibility to still carry this reminder outward.
Until May 8th, the day the Second World War ended in Europe, the plastic plants will bloom around the house “as a sign of peace”.
Then the association wants to sell the 70 artificial flowers for 30 euros each.
They should "remember in gardens and on balconies", explained Krafft.
Artist Kuhn took the symbol of the poppies from a poem: "In Flanders Fields" is the name of the lines written by the Canadian medical officer John McCrae, who was deployed in the First World War and whose friend had died the day before in an attack in Flanders.
Then the poppy blossom became a symbol for the fallen.
"I have extended this symbolism to all victims of war," Kuhn explained on the sidelines of the performance.
Because no guests were allowed at the event on Wednesday lunchtime, the Badehaus Association will be showing a video cut on Sunday, January 31.
The film will be available on the association's website from 5 p.m.
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