pitfalls marked the occasion of Constitution Day Federal Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble (CDU) and Justice Minister Brigitte Zypries (SPD), the Cologne "stumbling block" artist Gunter Demnig and other persons with the Award of the Federal Government as "ambassadors for democracy and tolerance" from.
Demnig moved since 1995 in 277 German, Austrian and Hungarian villages around 12,500 brass paving stones in sidewalks in front of houses where residents of racist anti-Semitic reasons, deported and murdered in.
Other winners:
- Ibraimo Alberto, in 1981 came from Mozambique in the East, now active as Honorary Commissioner for Foreigners of Schwedt and initiatives against right. Ibraimo Alberto was for these reasons several victims of right-wing extremist attacks.
- The Nazi persecution bonkas Hans (86 years old) for his work as chairman of the "kingdom Banner Black-Red-Gold", which aims to promote democracy. Bonkas was arrested in GDR times seven years in Bautzen.
- The border monument Hötensleben association in Saxony-Anhalt in remembrance of the repression in East Germany and the symbolic preservation of a portion of the barrier.
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