The Rastatt City Museum is presenting an exhibition co-created by the Lernort Kislau e.V. working group "Memorials at Sites of Early Concentration Camps". When the term "concentration camp" is mentioned, many people think first and foremost of gas chambers, crematoria and industrialized mass murder. Few people today are aware that this crime against humanity was only set in motion in the second half of the Second World War.
At the same time, the history of the so-called "early camps", which played a central role in implementing and securing the Nazi dictatorship, has been forgotten: the Nazis' political opponents were to be neutralized and humiliated, and any resistance was to be nipped in the bud. In the early camps, the National Socialist rulers tried out instruments of violence. This did not pave the way for mass murder by the millions, but it did pave the way. The early camps thus marked the beginning of the terror.
Eleven themed stations in the "Prelude to Terror" exhibition shed light on the function of the early concentration camps in the National Socialist system of rule. Using numerous biographies of those persecuted, it demonstrates the brutality that characterized the early phase of the Nazi regime. The 15 camps commemorated in the memorials participating in the exhibition form the starting point for the presentations. They are exemplary for the more than 90 early concentration camps in the German Reich.
"Prelude to Terror" has been shown nationwide since February 2023. The patron is Minister of State for Culture Claudia Roth MdB. The show was funded by the Foundation Remembrance, Responsibility, Future (EVZ).
Öffnungszeiten
- Do, Fr, Sa: 12 bis 17 Uhr
- So u. Feiertage: 11 bis 17 Uhr
- Gruppenführungen nach Vereinbarung
Eintrittspreise
Erwachsene 4 Euro, ermäßigt 2 Euro
Eintritt frei am 1. Freitag im Monat
Führungen: 45 Euro (Mo-Fr), 55 Euro (Wochenende/Feiertage)
Freier Eintritt mit dem Museums-Pass-Musées
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Newsletter des Stadmuseums Rastatt: Mai 2024 (PDF) (374 KB)