Plans to build a sausage museum at an annex of the former Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald Thursday sparked protests over a"lack of historical awareness" in Germany. There is also a sausage hotel situated near Nuremberg, though from different private owners. But the Mühlhausen site was once part of the Buchenwald camp, where the Nazis imprisoned almost a quarter of a million people between 1937 and 1945. Rikola-Gunnar Lüttgenau of the Buchenwald memorial foundation said the redevelopment plan showed a "lack of sensitivity" and a "lack of historical awareness". Thousands of Jews were among the dead, but also Roma and political opponents of the Nazis, gays and Soviet prisoners of war.

Source: The Local January 31, 2019 16:52 UTC