German town Heidenau blocks Stolpersteine; Holocaust remembrance initiative protests

Local council in Heidenau, backed by CDU, AfD, and Bündnis Heidenauer Bürger, voted against laying further Stolpersteine (memorial cobblestones for Holocaust victims). The Marsch der Lebenden initiative demands reversal, framing it as a break with Germany's remembrance culture. This is a local political decision with national symbolic weight, reflecting shifting local attitudes toward Holocaust commemoration.