Intoxicated youth urinated on the Memorial to the Murdered
Jews of Europe in the heart of Berlin on New Year's Eve, video posted on
YouTube shows
The four-minute clip, first released on Arutz Sheva,
documents a group of youths drinking beers, urinating, spraying graffiti,
lighting fireworks and standing on the concrete slabs. German police officers
stationed there did not intervene, nor did passersby try to stop them.
Since the memorial was inaugurated in 2005, several acts of
vandalism or inappropriate behavior have been reported. The 2,711 concrete
slabs that comprise the memorial have become a popular tourist attraction and
site for photo ops. Children have played hide and seek or hopped over the
slabs, while others visitors have been spotted lying on them to suntan, and
couples have been seen fooling around on the slabs as well.
Peter Eisenman, the Jewish American architect who designed
the memorial, rejected having tight security around the memorial when it
opened, according to reports.
Years ago, he said it would not disturb him if the memorial
became a target for graffiti artists. In an interview with German weekly news
magazine Stern, Eisenman said, "there are these destructive feelings once
in a while...but we cannot keep everything squeaky clean. That would be the
same behavior as in the 1930s."
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