Plan for a sausage museum at ex-Nazi concentration camp sparks outcry in Germany
- Project would move the Bratwurst Museum to annex of the Buchenwald camp and would include a theatre and a hotel
- Critics decry a ‘lack of historical awareness’
Plans to build a sausage museum at an annex of the former Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald sparked protests on Thursday over a “lack of historical awareness” in Germany.
An association called Friends of the Thuringer Bratwurst had announced plans to move the Bratwurst Museum from its current location in Holzhausen to Muehlhausen, where a theatre and a hotel will also be built.
But the Muehlhausen site was once part of the Buchenwald camp, where the Nazis imprisoned almost a quarter of a million people between 1937 and 1945.
Around 700 Jewish women were held in the outlying location that is to be redeveloped into a tourist attraction.
The prisoners had been sent from the Auschwitz death camp to work in a weapons factory nearby, and warned that they would be returned to the death camp when they could no longer work.