Memorial St. Nikolai

The Memorial St. Nikolai is Hamburg's central place of remembrance for the time of the bombing of Hamburg in the summer of 1943 in the context of the National Socialist war of extermination. The former main church of St. Nikolai was almost completely destroyed during the air raids on Hamburg in 1943. Today, a museum in the former crypt of the church recalls the causes and consequences of the air war in Europe. It addresses, among other things, the questions: What did war mean for the population then and now? How do we deal with the memory of the victims of the Second World War?