{"id":629442,"date":"2026-09-27T21:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T21:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/629442\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T21:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T21:42:08","slug":"german-town-sparks-outrage-as-far-right-and-conservatives-rally-against-holocaust-memorial-plaques","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/629442\/","title":{"rendered":"German town sparks outrage as far-right and conservatives rally against Holocaust memorial plaques"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"5J7X74FBQJCS5CTYXEYB7GHBEM\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">GENEVA \u2014 A decision by a city council in in eastern Germany to halt the laying of memorial plaques that <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/germany-holocaust-berlin-decentralized-memorial-stones-stolpersteine-b9422e336d969ddb1063e96a17831214?utm_source=app&amp;utm_medium=iOS_share&amp;utm_campaign=copy_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">honor Holocaust victims<\/a> has sparked outrage, not least because some of Chancellor Friedrich Merz\u2019s conservatives joined the far-right Alternative for Germany in supporting the move.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"J5FO3QIXQBAQDMOU7J5AVELN54\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The city council of Heidenau, southeast of Dresden, on Thursday voted to end the practice of laying the engraved brass plaques featuring the names of Holocaust victims into sidewalks \u2014 often in place of cobblestones and near the homes where they once lived.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GENEVA \u2014 A decision by a city council in in eastern Germany to halt the laying of memorial&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[14142,284495,122,11161,42,43,238,40,38,41,39,126],"class_list":["post-629442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-conservatism","tag-eu-germany-holocaust-remembrance","tag-general-news","tag-government-policy","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}