Memorial Walter Benjamin
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 ended his own life in Portbou at the French-Spanish border because he was send to the Gestapo.
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Source
- Text: Fedor de Vries
- Photos: Wikimedia Commons
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