A plan to build a pork sausage museum on land that housed an annex of the Buchenwald concentration camp has been shelved, with local Jewish community representatives saying they were “shocked by the lack of sensitivity” about the plans.
On Thursday, as reported by Deutsche Welle, the city council of Muhlhausen in Germany approved the rezoning of a site known as “Martha II” to be the new home of the German Sausage Museum, after an application by the “Friends of the Thuringian Sausage” group.
During the Second World War, the Martha II site housed a sub-camp of Buchenwald, where hundreds of women, most of them Jewish, worked as forced labourers.
The sub-camp was closed in March 1945, when the Nazis transferred most inmates to the Bergen Belsen camp, where many died of starvation or illness.
