Historical Revisonism at the Ohlsdorf Cemetery
Around 37,000 people died in Operation Gomorra, the Allied air raids on Hamburg in the summer of 1943. The memorial to the victims of the firestorm is located at a mass grave at the Ohlsdorf Cemetery. Between 2003 and 2008, Hamburg neo-Nazis gathered at this memorial. They laid wreaths on the anniversaries of the July and August bombings and spread historical revisionist myths about an alleged “bomb holocaust” and a “criminal work of extermination by the Allies”.

In 2009, anti-fascist initiatives came together to form an alliance, which has since held a peace festival lasting several days at the memorial on the anniversary of Operation Gomorrah. Despite repeated attacks on tents and banners at the peace festival, the alliance has succeeded in preventing neo-Nazis from marching at the graves through its presence and a varied program.







