Stemwede under National Socialism

The motif

The subject is distantly based on the painting "The Banality of the Banality of Evil" by the street artist Bansky.

A middle-aged man in a Wehrmacht uniform sits with a young girl on a bench on Stemweder Berg and looks out over the municipality of Stemwede. Next to him is a travel bag. The picture is open to interpretation, each person gets an individual impression of the event and connects it with different emotions.

On the one hand, the picture is intended to illustrate the silence between the generations that prevailed in the post-war years and often did not allow any discourse on the subject of National Socialism. On the other hand, it is intended to illustrate this: It was normal people who also became victims and/or perpetrators in Stemwede during the Nazi dictatorship. They had families, were neighbors, were an active or passive part of the Nazi state.

The exhibition is intended to provide a look back at this time and enable people to approach the topic of "National Socialism in Stemwede" and to confront the effects of the National Socialist dictatorship on their own biography.

Stemwede under National Socialism

Our own research

The following (online) archives are suitable for starting your own research on National Socialism in Stemwede and the region:

• The Lübbecke town archive
• The Federal Archives
• The central database of Yad Vashem
• The Forced Labor Archive of the Federal Agency for Civic Education
• The research database of the USHMM
• The Media Archive of the Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe
• The State Archive of North Rhine-Westphalia
• Federal Agency for Civic Education
• Brochure on the culture of remembrance in the Minden-Lübbecke district
• Porta Westfalica Memorial
• Yad Vashem Archive
• Petershagen Synagogue

Some were neighbors

Contact

If you have any questions or suggestions, please contact us:
E-Mail: ausstellung@zuhause-in-stemwede.de