Talk: Why Remember? Nazi Crimes, Memorials and Relatives Today

This talk will be about politically responsible remembrance culture and the preservation of historically significant sites as memorials. The relatives of former inmates and the director of the Memorial in Wolfenbüttel Prison will discuss this with the president of the Lower Saxony state parliament.  

Dominique Verhaeghe represents the Belgian resistance group Lichtervelde. His father, Louis Verhaeghe, was part of this resistance group and was executed in 1944 in Wolfenbüttel Prison. 
Marten Lutze is the grandson of the Braunschweig Social Democrat politician Robert Lutze, who was imprisoned between 1935 and 1937 in Rennelberg Prison.
Together with Hanna Naber (SPD politician and president of the Lower Saxony state parliament) and Martina Staats (director of the Memorial in Wolfenbüttel Prison) they will talk about the significance a memorial in the former prison of Rennelberg might have.