STORY – The Buchenwald Memorial deplores “provocations and destruction”.
From the trunk of the decapitated tree grow already leafy branches. “It’s a sign of hope”, comments Philipp Neumann-Thein, deputy director of the Buchenwald Memorial. At the foot of the plum tree, a commemorative plaque recalls that it was planted on April 11, 2015 by Laurent Dassault, in memory of his father, Marcel, “aviation legendand detained from August 1944 to April 1945. A few meters away, a cherry tree is surrounded by stakes that hold its crown upright.
On July 20, it was this man decked out in a little goatee and earrings who discovered that seven fruit trees, dedicated to the memory of French, German, Communist and Jewish deportees or the 1,600 children who died in the concentration camp had been cut along the edge of a forest road, along the road of blood, the one that the prisoners built just before the war under the blows of the SS and the threats of the dogs. “I was cycling to work when I saw this. I took pictures and dropped…
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