Thingstätte Heidelberg
Nazi-era open-air amphitheatre of stone terraces hidden in the forest atop a hill above the river.
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About this audio guide
This audio guide to the Thingstätte on Heidelberg's Heiligenberg begins in June nineteen thirty-five, when Joseph Goebbels opened a stone arena for twenty thousand people high in the woods. It follows what the regime left behind, and the crowds of fire-dancers and jugglers who climbed up in the dark on Walpurgis Night decades later. Best heard from the top rows, looking back toward the town.
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