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Sausage Museum Proposed for Buchenwald Shows “Lack of Historical Awareness”

08 Feb 2019
News

An organization called Friends of the Thuringer Bratwurst had announced plans to move the Bratwurst Museum to a new site that was once part of the Buchenwald concentration camp, sparking protest. The Nazis imprisoned nearly a quarter of a million people in Buchenwald between 1937 and 1945. Around 700 Jewish women were held prisoner in the location that is proposed for the tourist attraction.

Rikola-Gunnar Luettgenau of the Buchenwald Memorial Foundation said the proposal shows a “lack of sensitivity” and a “lack of historical awareness.”

Read more on Times of Israel