A monument dedicated to prostitutes persecuted by the Nazis was unveiled yesterday in Hamburg’s famous “red light” district, Sankt Pauli. During the presentation ceremony of the bronze monument, its initiator, Sieghard Wilm, who is a pastor in a local church, explained that the iron gate that even today closes behind it the “Bordellgasse”, the street of the Houses of Tolerance and serves often used as a backdrop for tourists’ photos, it was built on the orders of the Nazi leadership in 1933 to “limit the sex trade”. This move “fully corresponds to the cynical and inhumane policy of National Socialism, not to prohibit prostitution, but to limit it to a restricted area,” said Mr. Wilm, and emphasized that “it cannot be so many years after the end of the war that we do not have an information plaque or something explaining that these iron gates and the concept of forbidden prostitution were created by the National Socialists.’ Its head […]
Source: News Beast
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