For 20 years, domestic and foreign organizations have been protesting against the operation of an industrial pig farm on the territory of the former concentration camp at Lety by Písek, Czech Republic.

Few in the Czech Republic know, however, that a similar problem existed for decades in Germany.

It also took German society a long time before it managed to come to grips with a very similar scenario. Desperate, vehement protests lasting for decades were aimed against the existence of a prison on

the site of the former concentration camp in Neuengamme, part of the city of Hamburg.

The prison was in operation from 1948-2003, and this year marks the 10th anniversary of a dignified memorial being opened at the site instead. Why did it take 60 years after the end of WWII to solve this problem?

In postwar Germany, efforts to preserve the memory of Nazi crimes were weak. Hamburg lay literally in ruins after the Allied bombing of German cities.

Right after the war's end, the surviving prisoners of the concentration camps had too many other worries to be able to go demonstrate for the establishment of memorials at the sites of their suffering during Nazism.

The majority of them had to build a new life - frequently abroad, in the places to which they emigrated after the war - and therefore reconciled themselves to the fact that the German "Nazi nation" would remain the way it was.

Czech scandal of pig farm on Holocaust site has a precedent - in Germany - Romea.cz

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The former concentration camp at Neuengamme, part of the City of Hamburg, today