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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Deborah Cole in Heidenau, Germany

The German town where the right has banned new ‘stumbling stones’ for Nazi victims

The Reiner family’s Stolpersteine.
Stolpersteine for the Reiner family, who lived near Heidenau’s railway station. Photograph: Deborah Cole/The Guardian

The town hall of Heidenau, Germany has a freshly restored cream-coloured facade, tidy flower boxes on the windowsills and a charming shingled clocktower.

At the entrance, closer inspection reveals a single brass plaque embedded in the pavement honouring the former mayor Paul Gröger, whom the Nazis hounded into killing himself.

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