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Friday, 4 May 2018

Peace Pole on Petriplatz

The end of the Second World War was commemorated in a moving ceremony on Tuesday, May 8, 2018, on Petriplatz. "Even today, religion is still being used as legitimation for violence," said Rabbi Andreas Nachama of the House of One. In addition to commemorating the war and the end of National Socialism, the stake emphasizes as well the reconciling message of the House of One.

"May peace prevail on earth" - this sentence is written in German, English, Arabic and Hebrew and burned on the four sides of one in a spruce trunk. Cantor Esther Hirsch, Imam Kadir Sanci and priest Gregor Hohberg have placed the pole together in front of the pavilion on the Petriplatz.


The action was initiated and made possible by Berlin event manager Florian Filtzinger with his collective "WeMind", a group of politically and socially committed people who designed the three meter long wooden pole themselves. "Peace - in any society - is one of the deepest desires of all of us," said Filtzinger. The stake is supposed to be a silent memorial for this.


The idea of peace poles goes back to the Japanese philosopher Masahisa Goi. The first was set up in the mid-1970s. There are now more than 200,000 of these memorials worldwide, including places like Sarajevo and Hiroshima.

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