A long-standing controversy in the city of Paderborn (North Rhine Westphalia) about a plaque recalling the deaths of about 2000 people in a nearby Nazi concentration camp from 1941-43 has had a happy ending–for the time being at any rate. Following the refusal since 1973 of the local authorities, controlled by the conservative opposition Christian Democratic Party, to restore a memorial plaque it removed in that year, five members of the Federal Assembly in the Parliament in Bonn belonging to the ruling Social Democratic Party have personally put up a new memorial plaque. This was done last Wednesday, on the 39th anniversary of “Kristallnacht.”
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