Index to the Traditional Enemies of Free Speech

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New York, Wednesday, December 31, 2003

German woman ‘honored’

A GERMAN magazine named the woman behind Germany’s Holocaust Memorial as the most embarrassing Berliner of the year. On the cover of the Dec. 31 [2003] edition of Tip, Lea Rosh (right in photo), who pushed for the creation of the memorial, is seen with her feet stuck in cement blocks.Construction of the memorial, a giant field of 2,700 cement steles, hit a snag earlier this year when it turned out that a branch of Degussa, the firm responsible for protecting the memorial from graffiti, had produced the Zyklon B gas used to kill Jews in Auschwitz.

Rosh, who is not Jewish, told the magazine Der Spiegel that she had not known about the firm’s history. The magazine’s art editor, Mike Schluettler, admitted that some found the Tip cover tasteless.

 Website dossier on Auschwitz

 Work on Holocaust Memorial Stopped over Degussa Role

 Jul 2001: Lea Rosh’s Holocaust Memorial Campaign Aims to Shock Germany | Der Spiegel: “Welches Plakat?” | Holocaust Memorial Donations Sought | ‘Holocaust Never Happened’ ad prompts survivor’s lawsuit | Provocative German Holocaust Denial Poster Removed

 The 1947 Bruno Tesch trial (whose Degesch firm distributed the Zyklon B pesticide product East of the Elbe)

 Data on Lea Rosh 

 New History, new Memories, but old Problems remain

 Art versus memory

 New York Times: Old Crimes and Continuing Responsibilities (Degussa)