Some of the monuments to different communities of WWII

So there are 4 main ones that I know of and have been too, these are one is for all the murdered Jews of Europe another one is for the Homosexuals and lastly one the is for the Sinti and Roma. and also the one that is for the Political Prisoners.

so to begin thought I would do pictures of each of them and then share the stories of the memorials so first up is .......

Memorial to the Sinti and Roma Murdered under the National Socialist Regime , which is an amazing little memorial in the Tiergarten in a small enclosed space, and it has a peaceful quiet atmosphere around it where you can, sit and think,

Must say what I had learnt from this memorial I had never even heard about before, but all the information that surrounds the outside of this small enclosed area is amazing there is a timeline of what happened to this group of people through the years of the Nazi regime, things happened to this group way before the Jewish community, so its nice to hear something different. Inside there is some soft music playing, that plays all the time with a pool in the middle, and a white flower on the middle and written on some of the tiles is the names of the concentration camps that these people would have been sent too. They were mainly labelled as Gypsy, they discrimination for them began in 1933.
To me anyway I found such a moving place and area to be.

Now to look at the Homosexual memorial, this is just a big concrete block in the Tiergarten also is across the road from the big Jewish memorial, inside of the block is a small movie screen that plays all the time it shows a film of couple different couples, same sex and different sex couples together, of course now in Berlin this no longer matters as Berlin is one of the most known lgbt areas of the world. Only way in Nazi time that the SS would have known that someone was in a relationship with someone of the same sex was  if a neighbour or someone of the community had pointed it out of them, this was the main was that homosexuals happened to get deported and sent to camps.

Now to look at the next memorial this one is to the Political prisoners this is of course actually the first lot of people who were sent away to camps, pretty much because they either did not support the Nazi party, or  if they were believed to be a threat against the Nazi party when they were elected to run the country, or lastly because of the parties they were apart of themselves.
This memorial is located outside of the Reichstag Building, the building of Parliament, which I will talk about at a later date.

On this memorial there are tiles sticking up and separated and placed on each different one, are names of a politician when they were born, what party they were apart of, date of death, and also which camp they were sent to.



And now the last basically because it is the largest one around that is situated in a big square in the city that is down from the Brandenburger tor and across from the Tiergarten and also the American Embassy if you ever get lost :), not that its not hard to see loads of concrete blocks, all different sizes.
The idea of how it is presented is to get you thinking yourself and decide how it makes you feel about it, there are no numbers or anything on the blocks, all that information is underground in the Museum which is free to go and look at and worthwhile to do, its just amazing.
The way the blocks are put out is in my way, especially with the way they are on a lean is to bring the feeling of not knowing what is going on being displaced from where you once were to somewhere completely different,

there is only one rule here and that is that you can sit on the blocks but you can not jump between them or stand on them.