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[1106] War Memorial

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A chronicler from Lohr wrote in 1955 that "the history of Lohr's Judaism is closely linked to the creation of the Lohr War Memorial and deserves to be recorded in the annals of Lohr's history."
The significance is as follows: The current form of the war memorial is largely attributed to a donation of 5000 RM from the Jewish honorary citizen Joseph Schloßmann in 1930. However, the donation was defamed in 1934 by the Lohr City Council, which had by then been co-opted and became purely Nazi, as "Jewish money," and the Christ relief created by Hermann Amrhein was replaced by a Germanic standard-bearer. In a cynical manner, the Christ relief was handed over to Schloßmann as "compensation for his Jewish money," which of course was retained. After the name of Benno Markus, who had fallen in 1916 and came from a Jewish family in Lohr, was also chiseled out, there was nothing to prevent the corresponding ceremony with the usual Nazi pomp in 1935.
However, the relief had been "luckily," as the chronicler mentioned, "carefully" stored by the executing Lohr stonemason, Nikolaus Wirth. The Christ relief was reinstated in November 1945. Benno Markus also regained his place on the list of fallen soldiers. The figure of the Germanic standard-bearer broke during dismantling and was soon afterwards shredded.