Nohra Concentration Camp.
Le Figaro
Of the first Nazi concentration camp, there is no trace left, except for the location of a snowy terrain in the countryside of Weimar, but from this nothing, Florian Kleiner and Christian Handwerck draw a piece of history, always salutary during the multiple anniversaries of the Nazi tragedy.
On September 30, 1933, 90 years ago, Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor by President von Hindenburg and very quickly the repressive machine set in.
It is this tiny cog in the future mass persecutions, leading to the killing of six million Jews, that these two ordinary citizens from Weimar are now trying to document by bringing the memory of the place to life.
Tormented history
The first is an engineer at the city's physics university.
He was 4 years old when the wall fell in 1989. Fifteen years his senior, the second is a computer technician in the administration managing the parks of the region.
Both manage a museum of odds and ends located in the basement of a municipal building, closed…
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