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Plaque Walter Benjamin
(Germany - Berlin - Berlin-Wilmersdorf)
This plaque commemorates Walter Benjamin who lived here. He was a well-known philosopher and writer. Because he was Jewish, he fled to France in 1933. On 27 September 1940 he committed suicide in Portbou at the French-Spanish border because he was send to the Gestapo.
Source
- Text: Fedor de Vries
- Photos: Wikimedia Commons
Address and contactinformation
- Address:
- Prinzregentenstraße 66
Berlin-Wilmersdorf - WWII grade:
- 100%
- Rating:
- 20%
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