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,...
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 while awake. One of her dream descriptions says, "I'm important in the city in a way that they can't keep quiet about me." source site
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 Futura font. This was found out by a group of students from the Franconian Switzerland high school in Ebermannstadt, who visited the printing workshop of the Dachau Artists' Association (KVD) last Monday during a three-day educational program.The 15 schoolgirls between the ages of 16 and 19 stayed at the Max...
Many guests have been announced for the commemoration of the 83rd anniversary of the first deportation from Poland to the Dachau concentration camp. Among them were Holocaust survivors, their relatives and the Thuringian Prime Minister Bodo Ramelow.On the occasion of the 83rd anniversary of the first deportation of Poles to the Dachau concentration camp, the Evangelical Church of Reconciliation in the concentration camp memorial and the German-Polish Society Munich are holding a commemoration on Sunday, September 18, at 3 p.m....
The former contemporary history consultant and SPD city councilor Günter Heinritz once said that in addition to dealing with the history of the Dachau concentration camp, one must also examine how this past has been dealt with since 1945. Maybe with a special research project sponsored by the city. Now his demand was apparently not heard much in politics, if one disregards the Dachau Symposium on Contemporary History, which repeatedly focuses on questions about coming to terms with Nazi history...
A service at the Dachau concentration camp memorial site is intended to commemorate the eleven Israeli victims of the 1972 Olympic attack. The service to mark the 50th anniversary of the assassination will take place next Sunday, September 4, at 11 a.m. in the Evangelical Church of Reconciliation, as Pastor Björn Mensing announced on Thursday. Short biographies of the victims should also be presented. Some of the victims had survived the Holocaust or came from families of victims of Nazi...
Many Germans lie to themselves about the Nazi era and believe that their own ancestors were not Nazis. Ralph Schwerdt is the son of a former Dachau concentration camp commander - and that's exactly what he doesn't do. About dealing with a heavy family inheritance.On this evening in the visitor center of the Dachau concentration camp memorial site, the all-pervading and still effective lie about the successful processing of the Nazi legacy becomes tangible. The Catholic pastor Karl Morgenschweis, clergyman...
The German Wehrmacht officer Wilm Hosenfeld saved around 60 Poles, including many Jews such as the pianist Władysław Szpilman, from death during the Second World War. In the Dachau Church of Reconciliation, his daughter Jorinde Krejci has now told her father's story.Of Walter Gierlich, Dachau"What is the meaning of this terrible war?" This question - topical again today - was asked by the German Wehrmacht officer Wilm Hosenfeld in the fall of 1939, a few weeks after the invasion of...
A bracelet, a fountain pen or a farewell letter - the National Socialists stole all personal belongings from concentration camp prisoners. The traveling exhibition #StolenMemory helps to pass these on to their rightful heirs.Of Carim Soliman, FürstenfeldbruckWiesława Brzyś they took her bracelet. They stole Theodor Butler's watch and Rafał Czeczott's fountain pen. They forced Peter Will to hand over the suicide note to his family. During their reign of terror, the Nazis abducted millions of people and imprisoned them in...
The clacking of the concentration camp inmates' clogs - that's what he had in mind when he drove along the route of the Dachau death march on his motorcycle that day, says Oliver Westermann. With his anti-fascist motorcycle gang "Kuhle Belly" he drove the 90 kilometers from Waakirchen to Dachau this Saturday, via Starnberg, along the Würm. The route that thousands of concentration camp inmates had to walk in the opposite direction in 1945, until they were exhausted and died....
