New initiatives in remembrance took place since the mid-1980s. They encountered the unified resistance of politics and administration. Unions and SPD, traditional custodians of labor movement history kept quiet. The naming of streets, squares, schools or hospitals after Nazis, continued. There was a wave of street naming in the 1960s and 1970s, so to Friedrich Flick, Lothar Irle, Jakob Henrich, Ernst Bach, Bernhard Weiss, etc. streets were dedicated. This was, up to the 1980s, not considered problematic and each of the broad political majorities vehemently defended these actions against strong criticism.
