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Investigation: Some 1,500 statues and streets honor Nazis around the world — including in Germany and the U.S.

Germany, long seen as an international model for appropriately reckoning with its Holocaust history, nonetheless currently has at least 162 streets and schools named for Nazis and their collaborators, a Forward investigation has found.

These public honorings of people who committed horrific atrocities during World War II persist despite Germany’s strict laws against displaying Nazi flags or other symbols, and even though many of its major cities have over the past two decade have commissioned reports aimed at rooting out inappropriate honorings of Nazi Party members and others with racist or antisemitic pasts. Most are in the former West Germany.

The Forward has documented each of these streets and schools as part of an ongoing effort to publicly list all statues, monuments and other public showcasing of Nazis and their collaborators around the world. For International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2021, we published our initial investigation, which included 320 such monuments in 16 countries on three continents.


After another year of reporting, we have added an additional 1,135 items to the list, bringing the total to 1,455 in 25 countries, including the United States and five Western European nations. The updated list includes 11 more Nazi monuments in seven U.S. states – Alabama, Florida, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin – bringing the total in our own country to 26.

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