Stumbling Stone Dissenchener Straße 98

This small brass memorial plaque (Stolperstein or stumbling stone) commemorates:
* Wilhelm Bode, born 1886, arrested 1940, Brandenburg Prison, dead.

Wilhelm Bode worked as a locksmith in the Central Railway Workshop in Cottbus. He worked in the union and was elected a member of the main board of the railway. From 1933, he maintained contact with trade unionists who had left the country. His name was found by the Wehrmacht in documents in the Netherlands of emigrants who had been arrested. He was arrested in Cottbus in June 1940 and sentenced to 8 years in prison for treason. He was put into Brandenburg Prison, where traces of him are lost. The Nazis also punished his son by transferring him to a battalion on the front lines, where he was killed.

"Stolpersteine" is an art project for Europe by Gunter Demnig to commemorate victims of National Socialism (Nazism). Stolpersteine (stumbling stones) are small, 10x10cm brass plaques placed in the pavement in front of the last voluntary residence of (mostly Jewish) victims who were murdered by the Nazis. Each plaque is engraved with the victim’s name, date of birth, and place (mostly a concentration camp) and date of death. By doing this, Gunter Demnig gives an individual memorial to each victim. One stone, one name, one person. He cites the Talmud: "A human being is forgotten only when his or her name is forgotten."

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