Hamburg’s sex workers persecuted under Hitler to be commemorated
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Planned memorial aims at ‘dignified remembrance’ of women of St Pauli detained as perverts under the NazisSex workers in Hamburg’s historic red-light district who were persecuted under Adolf Hitler are to get their own memorial at Herbertstraße, a notorious street in Germany’s second city still blocked off to all but sex workers and their clients.Few people, even residents, know that it was the Nazis who built the world-famous gates around the row of “houses of pleasure” in an attempt to shame sex workers while discreetly keeping business going. Continue reading...