The application for funding for a forward-looking project at the Dachau concentration camp memorial appears to have been rejected. For formal reasons, as they say. But why didn't the federal government seek talks with Bayern?A no by the Minister of State for Culture, Claudia Roth, to the application for funding for the concentration camp memorial - and all indications point to this - would be a catastrophe for the learning and memorial site of Dachau and for the new overall...
Ioanna Taigacheva works as a volunteer at the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial. Because of the invasion of Russian troops in the Ukraine, the Russian cannot and does not want to go back home. About a situation between turmoil, determination and hope.It's cold on this November day and the surroundings don't warm you up. The barbed wire, the watchtowers, the entrance gate, the lettering "Work sets you free" - the Dachau concentration camp memorial. Small groups of students are led across...
Since 1959, district administrators, the Bundeswehr and citizens have been commemorating the victims of World War II at the military cemetery in Hofkirchen, Lower Bavaria. Research by the SZ shows that hundreds of SS men, some of them high-ranking, are also buried there. How can that be? source site
On Wednesday in Munich, hundreds of people commemorated the victims of the pogrom night of 1938 and the subsequent persecution of the Jews, including the Holocaust. For the first time, the reading took place under the motto "Everyone has a name" in the Old Town Hall - where on November 9, 1938 at around 10 p.m. Joseph Goebbels, with a hate speech to NSDAP and SA leaders, the organized attacks on Jewish private individuals, shops and facilities started.On the evening...
On Wednesday morning in Munich, hundreds of people commemorated the victims of the pogrom night of 1938 and the subsequent persecution of the Jews, including the Holocaust. For the first time, the reading took place under the motto "Everyone has a name" in the Old Town Hall - where on November 9, 1938 at around 10 p.m. Joseph Goebbels, with a hate speech to NSDAP and SA leaders, the organized attacks on Jewish private individuals, shops and facilities started.After the...
Another day of remembrance - and thus an occasion to perform the celebrated play on the stage of the German Memorial Theater about the "return to good" of non-Jewish Germans. The deceased historian and publicist Eike Geisel coined this perhaps sarcastic but true word with a view to the much-vaunted German culture of remembrance. On the anniversary of the nationwide pogrom on the night of November 10, 1938, politicians from the federal, state and local governments, also in the city...
Shortly after 1 p.m. on this sunny Sunday afternoon, the approximately 180 people present at the Dachau concentration camp memorial site set out. The gravel crunches under their feet. Together and side by side, they walk across the former roll call area along the camp road, where the prisoner barracks once stood. They carry wreaths and roses, which they place at the memorial to the unknown inmate at the crematorium to commemorate the victims of National Socialism, as they did...
Leopold Figl was Austria's first democratically elected chancellor after the Second World War. The devout Catholic had previously survived several concentration camps, including Dachau - and despite years of torture never lost hope or confidence. About an indomitable. His head is shaved, the blue and white striped prisoner's uniform hangs from his body. 35-year-old Leopold Figl, prisoner number 13897, is standing on the roll-call square of the Dachau concentration camp. Shortly after their deportation on April 1, 1938, a Sunday,...
A Dachau pastor reports a businessman because he is said to have used an image of SS runes to advertise the purchase of products from the former Allach porcelain factory. Concentration camp prisoners had to do forced labor in the factory.The police and state security officers from the Fürstenfeldbruck criminal investigation department are investigating a Dachau art dealer on suspicion of using anti-constitutional symbols: the businessman is said to have used a depiction of SS runes to advertise the purchase...
The anti-Semitic smear campaign in the district of Dachau does not stop. Since September 2020, a letter with exactly the same content, in which the Holocaust is denied and incited against Jews, has been sent to randomly selected recipients. It has been quiet since February of this year - until a week and a half ago. The stranger has now chosen the Carmel Holy Blood at the Dachau concentration camp memorial site as the addressee. Since its founding in 1964,...
