Montagsloch

The Montagsloch was a building project in

Essen Essen () is the central and, after Dortmund, second-largest city of the Ruhr, the largest urban area in Germany. Its population of makes it the fourth-largest city of North Rhine-Westphalia after Cologne, Düsseldorf and Dortmund, as well as ...

during the time of

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. It would have become one of the biggest stadiums in Germany. Its name may refer to the day when 35

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n forced labourers were killed by the

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at this place. It was on March 12, 1945, a Monday (in German, ''Montag''). Some of the murderers were judged to long term prison sentences by a British military court in 1948. {{coord, 51, 25, 28.64, N, 6, 59, 41.33, E, dim:500_scale:5000_region:DE-NW_type:landmark_source:dewiki, display=title 1945 in Germany History of North Rhine-Westphalia Buildings and structures in Essen