Tag: Adolf Hitler
Nuremberg Nazi Party Rally Grounds: History of the Nazi Congress Hall – Bavaria
from Olaf Przybilla, Nuremberg How the National Socialists held the congresses as part of their party congresses in Nuremberg is a fairly well-preserved picture of it. In any case, this…
Munich: How the bourgeoisie helped Adolf Hitler to power – Munich
In just a few years, Adolf Hitler managed to rise from a would-be artist to the “leader” of a terror regime. He could rely on the support of the “better…
Documentary “Speer Goes To Hollywood” in the cinema: One epic, please! – Culture
It just shouldn’t be a documentation, says Albert Speer at the beginning of the conversation: the further away from it, the better. The young man he has just received agrees…
Opera in Nuremberg: The messed up house – Bavaria
from Olaf Przybilla, Nuremberg In 1935, when it came to commemorating the 30th birthday of the Nuremberg Opera House, a speaker from the house felt compelled to give all kinds…
Historiography of the Nazi Era – Painful Legacy – Politics
It is fascinating to follow thirty articles which, according to the conception of the editor Magnus Brechtken, are intended to depict the status quo of the academic analysis of National…
Paranoid Fantasies – Conspiracy Theories in the Nazi Era – Culture
Conspiracies and conspiracy theories are part of history like intrigues and conspiracies are part of everyday life. Since the 18th century, when opponents of the revolution, clerical and conservative authors…
Contemporary history as a collage: “February 33 – The winter of literature” – culture
For some years now, books have been popular that look at historical events as if through a prism, revealing a multitude of fates, stories and surprising connections. Florian Illies’ pre-war…
Podcast of the month September 2021 – media
Enter Europe entereuropa.podigee.io It starts with a break-in into a high-security building, perpetrated by a group of the greatest experts in their field. What sounds like the thrill of a…
München: Der Kampf um die Macht in den 1920er Jahren – München
Gegen Ende der 1920er-Jahre sieht es so aus, als könnte München, dieser “Hort der Reaktion” (Thomas Mann), in dem nationalistische, antidemokratische und antisemitische Akteure den Ton angeben, wieder herauskommen aus…
Royal fool: Lothar Machtan’s book on the Hohenzollern dispute – culture
On a foggy autumn morning, Kaiser Wilhelm II left the Great Headquarters in Spa and went into exile in Holland without a sound. It was November 10, 1918, the emperor…