Perpetrator location

The term perpetrator location refers to a location for planning and organizing violent political crimes as well as a location that the perpetrators had reserved for themselves. The term is mainly used in Germany in connection with National Socialism , but also with the GDR . The perpetrator location is a special form of the memory location .

Examples of perpetrator locations

• National Socialism
  • New Reich Chancellery
  • Wannsee Conference
  • The Obersalzberg is a restricted area
  • Reich Chancellery Berchtesgaden Office
  • Nazi Party Rally Grounds

• GDR
  • Normannenstrasse research and memorial site

literature

• Wolf Kaiser: Historical-political educational work at perpetrator locations and in memorials . Accessed June 1, 2020.

Remarks

1. ↑ Volker Dahm and a .: Documentation Obersalzberg - Didactic Manual. P. 10f, Munich, 2006, after: Stefan Plenk: Documentation Obersalzberg and the Documentation Center Nazi Party Rally Grounds in Comparison. 2008, p. 4.
2. ^ Wolf Kaiser: Historical-political educational work at perpetrator locations and in memorials . P. 1, accessed June 1, 2020.
3. ↑ formation at a Täterort . December 1, 2002, accessed June 1, 2020.
4. ^ Nina Ziesemer: Monument inventory in transition: Monuments of the GDR after 1989. Baden-Baden 2019, p. 100.