Raid at the train station: Police are looking for witnesses for injured women in Zweibrücken

Raid at the train station: Police are looking for witnesses for injured women in Zweibrücken

At the Zweibrück train station, an injured woman was discovered on January 30, 2025, who apparently has been the victim of a raid. A witness reported the 40-year-old, who was found with several hematomas on the face. To make matters worse, the woman only speaks Hungarian, which makes communication with the policemen difficult. The investigation shows that the attack took place at an unknown train station on January 28, probably two or three stops in front of the train station in Zweibrücken. According to the police, three perpetrators were involved: two men and one woman. The authorities ask the population for clues, in particular witnesses who may have observed an argument near a train station. Ads are possible via the number 0631 36915999 or the email address kipirmasens@polizei.rlp.de. Die Rheinpfalz reports on this incident and the urgent call from the police.

While the investigation is ongoing for this current incident, Zweibrücken also draws attention to itself with a historical commemoration. In the city, a stumbling block is laid that is supposed to commemorate the forced laborers during the National Socialist rule. A total of around 4,349 people in Zweibrücken were forced to work, which came from almost all occupied countries in Europe. Three quarters were men and a quarter women. These forced laborers worked under extreme conditions, for example for companies such as Heinrich Lenz AG and Dingler. SWR Aktuell the project, which has been initiated by the BUNDNIS BUTTES Zweibrücken Stumbling threshold comprises a gold brass plate that addresses the atrocities of the Nazis.

The stumbling threshold is laid next to the Helmholtz-Gymnasium, which served as a camp for forced laborers during the Second World War. A gymnasium on the site was intended as accommodation for these people. Dr. Gertrud Shanne-Raab and her team have had an intensive research for over four years in order to process the history of these forced laborers in Zweibrücken. These comprehensive research included newspaper calls, archive studies and the review of death certificates, and the results are an urgent certificate of suffering that has suffered more than 350 forced laborers in this city. SWR Aktuell describes the central role that plays in the culture of memory in the city.

Forced labor during World War II was a dark chapter in which the German war economy was strongly dependent on foreign workers. From 1940 more and more men and women from Western Europe were obliged to work for forced labor, and it is estimated that around six million civilian forced laborers worked in the German Reich by August 1944, many of them under inhumane conditions. bp.de offers a comprehensive overview of the forced work during this time, including the considerable discrimination, from many forced labor.