MEMORIALS
Sonnenhalde (Georg Elser)
For his intended project, Elser collected an arsenal of 105 blasting cartridges and 125 detonators at the Vollmer quarry in Königsbronn, where he successfully strived for a job in April 1939. In the photograph Sonnenhalde we see the part of the quarry where Elser picked up his explosives. The illuminated tree on the right-hand side may allow us to perceive a picture of the detonation, and the heaps of gravel in the foreground may remind us of covered victims.
In contrast to the conspirators of the 20 July 1944, Elser was barely acknowledged in the official German commemorative culture until the 1990s.
Blutstraße
The photograph Blutstraße shows the bell tower of the later GDR Buchenwald National Memorial, built of light sandstone between 1954 and 1958. In its entrance hall there is soil and ashes from other Nazi concentration camps under a sealed bronze plate. The memorial is the burial place of thousands of concentration camp prisoners, and is now the largest monument in memory of a National Socialist concentration camp in Europe.