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Holocaust Memorial Rebuilt Outside Far-Right Politician's House By German Activists

Bjoern Hoecke, a leading politician in Germany’s far-right AfD party, sparked outrage at the start of the year when he criticized Berlin’s world-famous and highly acclaimed Holocaust memorial.

“Germans are the only people in the world who plant a monument of shame in the heart of the capital,” Hoecke said, according to Reuters.

Now, 10 months later, a group of German artists have come up with a powerful response: They have built a replica of the memorial outside Hoecke’s rural home.

Read entire article at Newsweek