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Preserving History
Remembering – Commemorating - Acting
To preserve history is to act responsibly
This principle is part of our philosophy as a street furniture provider and outdoor advertiser. We understand it as our duty to keep the memory of the victims of National Socialism and dictatorship alive, and thus to ensure that the past remains comprehensible for future generations.
Places of remembrance
since 1998
Besides the many well-known memorials for the victims of National Socialism, there are numerous places all over Berlin, where the practice and everyday reality of the NS dictatorship have left their mark. As a provider of street furniture, we feel committed to making such places visible. To this end, we implement permanent street furniture and displays free of charge. Commemorative plaques help to keep alive the memory of the National Socialist crimes and their victims. We are bearing the full costs of the projects and ensure the regular cleaning and maintenance of each place of remembrance by our service employees. Wall AG has already furnished nine places of remembrance throughout the city: on Kurfürststenstraße 115/116, on Franzensbader Straße 7-8, in the bus shelters on Varian-Fry-Straße, on Eichborndamm 179, on Tiergartenstraße 4, on Kurfürstendamm 140-143, on Guernicaplatz and on Skutaristraße as well as on Kurstraße.
Memorial for the NS Book Burning
since 1996
To us, preserving memories means to take over responsibility. Thus, we are committed to one of the central memorials of the National Socialist terror: the memorial for the NS Book Burning on Bebelplatz in Berlin-Mitte. We cover the maintenance costs of the memorial, including the air condition, power supply and the regular replacement of the special glass plate. The underground memorial, designed by artist Micha Ullmann and set into the pavement of the square, shows a library with empty shelves commemorating the book burning which took place on Bebelplatz in the first weeks of the Third Reich. On May 10th 1933, National Socialist students burned around 30,000 books by several hundred authors on the square. The flames consumed works by scientists like Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud, writers like Bertolt Brecht, Alfred Döblin, Stefan Zweig and Ricarda Huch and political authors like Karl Marx, August Bebel, Eduard Bernstein, Hugo Preuß and Walter Rathenau.
Hanukkah candelabrum of the Jewish educational institution Chabad Lubavitch
ince 2012
We feel committed to the promotion of Jewish life in Germany. This particularly includes Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights. Hanukkah is an annual Jewish holiday lasting for eight days, which commemorates the rededication of the second temple in Jerusalem in 164 BC. It starts on the 25th day of the month Kislev (November/December). We accompany this important holiday with a poster campaign throughout the city and the financing and construction of the 10m high Chanukka candelabrum at the Brandenburg Gate .
Poster campaign: Stand up! Never again anti-Semitism
since 2014
We take a stand for acceptance and against anti-Semitism. On occasion of the rally ""Stand up! Never again anti-Semitism!" organized by the Central Council of Jews in Germany on September 14th, 2014 at the Brandenburger Tor in Berlin, we contributed 500 free advertising spaces throughout Berlin. The posters for the rally were mounted on our transport shelters and city information panels.
Poster campaign: I am still alive!
since 2014
"I am still alive" – this was the tagline of the poster campaign launched by the foundation Erinnerung Verantwortung Zukunft (Remembrance Responsibility Future), which aims at keeping the memory of the victims of National Socialism alive. Survivors of the Second World War were made visible in the public space: On 38 digital City Light Boards and up to 500 City Light Posters all over the city, individuals and their histories were impressively portrayed. We provided free advertising displays to keep the memory of the victims of war and forced labour alive.
