"The Stuttgart Synagogue burns amidst jubilation from the surrounding crowd." "Cafe-owner Marcus is found dead in Düsseldorf; his tavern was completely destroyed overnight, he was shot." Those are not the kind of Twitter posts you might generally expect to see in your Twitter feed. For several years now, special commemorative pavement stones commemorate Holocaust victims by their last place of residence in many German and European cities through a project called "Stumbling Blocks" (Stolpersteine). This year, a group of German historians have been marking the 75th commemoration of Kristallnacht and the November pogroms that followed with a realtime-tweeting project to raise awareness of the historical events in Twitter feeds. Read More