- The tranquil feudal hamlet of Wetter, Germany was an ideal place to fall in love. It was not acceptable in the 1920's for a Jewess and a Christian to conceive of building a life together. That was the case for Flora Hess and Fritz Kutsch. Their short-lived happiness, however was shattered by a new cruel reality. In fact, the entire community would be torn apart as Germans enslaved Germans. Separated only by religion, some neighbors became oppressors while others became the victims scarring Wetter for generations. Fast forward 70 years when the past and the present come face to face to reconcile the dismemberment of their once serene existence. A boy who once escaped the brutal reach of the Nazis would return to Wetter a man seeking resolution of the past.—Frank Borres
- In November 2008, The town of Wetter, Germany held a series of events commemorating one fateful night, known as Kristallnacht, a night which will forever live in infamy as what many label as the beginning of the final solution; the Holocaust. Seventy years after that fateful night the town invited its former Jewish inhabitants and their families back in order to reconcile with their history. Over the course of five days, the town hosted over twenty former Jewish inhabitants and their families in order to pay tribute to a history that was forcefully wiped from the map in many communities throughout occupied Germany some seventy years prior. However, both the town of Wetter and its Jewish guests soon realize that not all the problems of the past have been resolved. On the seventieth anniversary of Kristallnacht Neo-Nazi supporters cause damage to the only Jewish Cemetery in town and post Anti-Semitic messages all over the town's Middle School, where Students and Teachers gather together in an open discussion with former Jewish residents of the town. Following these incidences, the town bands together and protests against the attacks in their community by marching to the cemetery and planting bushes to symbolize a "living fence"rather than a dead one made of wood, which the vandals knocked down and destroyed. Following the 'living fence' planting both students and teachers alike march to the town square whether they rally with other townspeople young and old, and hold a candlelight vigil condemning the attacks in their community.
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