The controversial playwright, Rolf Hochhuth, has called upon the Mayor and the Senate of Berlin to establish a memorial to the Jewish victims of Nazism at the villa on Grosser Wannsee street where, in January, 1942, Nazi leaders prepared the blueprint of the “final solution”, the destruction of European Jewry.
Mr. Hochhuth, whose play, “The Deputy” created a storm of controversy over its charge that Pope Plus XI failed to intervene with Nazi authorities against the deportation and slaughter of Jews, proposed the memorial in a letter to the acting Mayor, published in the newspaper, Welt am Sonntag, He pointed out that, except for obelisks at the death camp sites of Bergen-Belsen, Dachau and Buchenwald, there is no monument in all of West Germany to remind the nation of the “final solution” and what it was.
He suggested that the villa, now used as a recreation center for children, be converted in part to a center for documentation and historical research into the Nazi period. He said sufficient space would remain to maintain the facilities for children.
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