Nazi Germany

A small town in eastern Germany has banned the installation of new 'stumbling blocks' — brass plaques laid in pavements to mark the last known homes or workplaces of Jews and other victims of the Nazis. The decision has drawn widespread outrage across Germany, with critics calling it a dishonour to Holocaust victims and part of a worrying trend of historical revisionism in parts of the former East Germany.

A German town has decided to stop allowing Stolpersteine, the small brass plaques set into pavilions across Europe to commemorate Nazi victims at their last homes. Germany's education minister called the ban a "scandal", and critics see it as part of a broader debate over how Germany remembers the Holocaust.