This is an exhibition about people persecuted under National Socialism as „asocials“ and „career criminals“. Here, their experiences are at the forefront. Between 1933 and 1945 the German authorities and police acted on prejudices inherent in society. They subjected people to surveillance and harassment and robbed tens of thousands of their freedom. Many were murdered.
West Germany, East Germany and Austria refused to grant them compensation. Politicians and society denied recognition of the suffering and injustice they had endured.
In February 2020 the German parliament declared: „No one was rightly interned in a concentration camp, those persecuted as ‚asocials’ and ‚career criminals’ were also victims of National Socialist tyranny.” Following this resolution, the parliament commissioned the Foundation Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and the Flossenbürg Concentration Camp Memorial to develop an exhibition. It represents one of the most significant remembrance policy initiatives of the decade in the Federal Republic of Germany.









