Shots on Königstraße - Luitpoldstraße Corner
A memorial plaque marks the corner where, on the night of June 24, 1982, a racially motivated shooting took three lives outside the Twenty Five disco. For over four decades the attack was largely forgotten, but the victims' names now stand in stone exactly where they fell.
Sobre este lugar
Shortly before ten on the evening of June 24, 1982, a 26-year-old neo-Nazi approached the Twenty Five discotheque at Königstraße 74, a popular club with many Black customers and US soldiers stationed near Nuremberg, and opened fire. William Schenk (24), US Army sergeant Rufus Surles (27), and Egyptian student Mohamed Ehap (21) were killed. Three others were wounded. A guest wrestled one weapon from the attacker, who fled to nearby Klaragasse, was shot by police, and then shot himself. He never stood trial. The crime disappeared from public memory for over forty years. A plaque at this corner, installed after years of advocacy by survivors and activists, now names all three victims and explicitly criticises the forgetting that allowed this racist attack to go unacknowledged for so long.
Datos clave
- 3 people killed — William Schenk (24), US Army sergeant Rufus Surles (27), and Mohamed Ehap (21) were shot and killed in the June 24, 1982 attack outside the Twenty Five disco.
- 3 others wounded — Three more people were injured as the neo-Nazi attacker opened fire inside the disco and continued shooting along Luitpoldstraße before being cornered in Klaragasse.
- 40 years without a memorial — No official monument existed for over four decades after the attack. The plaque at this corner is the first public acknowledgment naming all three victims and criticising the silence.