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Berlin is full of LGBT+ memorials. Here is a list of memorials worth visiting during Pride Month leading up to Christopher Street Day.
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The Bethlehem Church was blown up after World War II. Today, a sculpture called Memorias Urbana stands as an outline of the church on the church square.
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The gay victims memorial reminds us that tens of thousands of LGBT+ individuals were convicted and sent to concentration camps in Nazi Germany.
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Platform 17 at Grunewald S-Bahn Station is no longer in use. When it was, tens of thousands of Jews were sent to their deaths from this platform.
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The Karl Liebknecht cornerstone memorial at Potsdamer Platz is more about Berlin’s turbulent history than it is about Liebknecht himself.
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Since the 1990s, the AIDS Memorial in Berlin has raised awareness in 22 languages about those who have died of AIDS and those living with HIV today.
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The pink triangle memorial at Nollendorfplatz is one of the first to honor gay people persecuted in Germany from 1933 to 1945.
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The Goethe memorial in Tiergarten is the original from 1880, but it wasn’t always the case. For many years, it was replaced by a replica made of concrete.
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The odd corner of a building at Schinkelplatz in Berlin was once the Building Academy. It was bombed during World War II, and now only a corner remains.
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A winter evening in 1919, Karl Liebknecht was taken to the Tiergarten and shot. Today, a memorial stone marks the spot of Karl Liebknecht’s murder.
