Demolition on Karl Marx Square
Andrew Demshuk Demolition on Karl Marx Square Cultural Barbarism and the People’s State in 1968 Communist East Germany’s demolition of Leipzig’s perfectly intact medieval University Church in May 1968 was an act decried as “cultural barbarism” across the two Germanies and beyond. Although overshadowed by the crackdown on Prague Spring mere weeks later, the willful destruction of this historic landmark on...
