Opening: Marco Brauchmann, District Councillor for Further Education, Schools, Culture and Sport Musical contribution: Julián Croatto (guitar, mandolin) with the kind support of the Joseph-Schmidt Music School

On June 21, 1933, an unprecedented wave of arrests and violence by the National Socialists began in Köpenick. In the days from June 21 to 26, 1933, units of the Sturmabteilung (SA) and Schutzstaffel (SS) abducted and mistreated several hundred political dissidents and Jews, leaving at least 23 people dead. The “Köpenick Blood Week” is representative of the phase of the reign of power in which the National Socialists acted deliberately and publicly with intimidation, torture and murder. The violence did not take place in secret, but in public and before the eyes of fellow citizens. To this day, these events show how important cohesion and a strong civil society are.