‘We are dealing with fundamentalist rightwingers’: Berlin statues are latest battleground in Germany’s culture wars
23-03-2024 14:00 via theguardian.com

‘We are dealing with fundamentalist rightwingers’: Berlin statues are latest battleground in Germany’s culture wars

Monuments erected on the Stadtschloss are an ‘infiltration’ of the city and its skyline by nationalists, say criticsSilently towering into the grey Berlin sky, the latest addition to the German capital’s skyline is easily missed by passengers passing along the Unter den Linden boulevard below. Eight statues of Old Testament prophets, each more than 3 metres tall and weighing 3 tonnes, were installed last week in a circular formation around the cupola of the palace in the centre
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