Since 2008 this memorial has trained the spotlight on the tremendous suffering of Europe’s LGBT community under the Nazis. The freestanding, 4m-high, off-kilter concrete cube was designed by Danish-Norwegian artists Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset. A looped video plays through a warped, narrow window.
Denkmal für die im Nationalsozialismus verfolgten Homosexuellen
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