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The Stumbling Stones are a project by the artist Gunter Demnig, which began in 1992. Small memorial plaques laid in the ground are intended to commemorate the fate of people who were persecuted, murdered, deported, expelled or driven to suicide during the National Socialist era (Nazi era). The square brass panels with rounded corners and edges are inscribed with hand-wrapped letters and are supported by a cast concrete cube with an edge length of 96 × 96 and a height of 100 millimeters. They are usually embedded in the pavement or pavement of the respective sidewalk at the same level in front of the last freely chosen residential buildings of the Nazi victims. In October 2018, Gunter Demnig laid the 70,000th stone in Frankfurt am Main.

Stumbling stones were laid not only in Germany, but also in 23 other European countries. The Stolpersteine are the largest decentralized memorial in the world. The Stumbling Stones trademark has been protected by Gunter Demnig at the German Patent and Trademark Office since 2006 and at European level since 2013.

• List of Stumbling Stones in Brandenburg