Tag: Dachau concentration camp memorial
Nazi history: the graveyard of the perpetrators
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…
Pogrom night: Munich commemorates the victims of Nazi terror – Munich
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,…
Pogrom night: Munich commemorates the victims of Nazi terror – Munich
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…
Commemorating November 9th: Why the past has to be dealt with – Dachau
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.…
Dachau: “Remembering the Shoah is a struggle for recognition” – Dachau
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…
Leopold Figl: From the concentration camp prisoner to the Austrian chancellor – Dachau
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…
Dachau: SS runes in the art trade – pastor reports businessman – Dachau
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.…
Dachau: The smear campaign continues – Dachau
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…
Munich: An artist who combines Dachau’s history – Dachau
Nina Schiffner dreams of “blue-faced” bears, of her grandmother, of the cemetery. What she experiences subconsciously at night and what she can still remember from it, she sometimes writes down…
Dachau: Students from Upper Franconia visiting – Dachau
Letters are political. Not only do they form words, they also come in different fonts. The Nazi pamphlets often used an archaic serif typeface. Progressive lyrics were often in the…