Die Blaue Stelen or Blue Columns is a memorial and permanent reflection site commemorating the victims of the Nazi Regime. The columns are located in public spaces — in historic and significant locations — visible and interactive throughout Ingolstadt, Bavaria, Germany. Pictured above and below, the nine columns are situated in Luitpold Park Ingolstadt, Bavaria, Germany.

Above, this column commemorates a Jewish citizen of Ingolstadt, Germany who was murdered at the Thereisenstadt camp in the former Czechoslovakia, in 1942.

(above and below) The Blaue Stelen commemorates a Catholic priest who perished at the Dachau Concentration camp outside of Münich, Germany.  (above and below) The column is situated in the courtyard of the former Nazi Headquarters which is now the annex to the Franciscan Catholic Church in inner Ingolstadt.  

This image commemorates a soldier held in a prison for the armed forces in Manching, Germany. Executed at Amwaldsee.

Die Blaue Stelen is a gedenkstätte or denkmal a permanent reflection site and memorial to the victims of Nationalsozialismus or the Nazi regime. The nine blue columns above were installed in 1988 in Luitpold park in Ingolstadt Germany. The permanent installation is the creation of German artist Dagmar Pachtner. A new blue column installation may be seen here.

Above, this image commemorates a “femdarbeiter,” or immigrant, foreign worker, who was executed in 1942 in Munich.

all photographs copyright Ana Elisa Fuentes