Tag: History of Bavaria
Composer Paul Winter: The esthete and the war crimes – Bavaria
The Neuburg composer Paul Winter is honored in many ways in his hometown: on street signs, in schools and at dances. But new research reveals his burdensome Nazi past –…
Berchtesgaden defends itself against Nazi tourists – Bavaria
Nazi nostalgics still haunt the Obersalzberg. After an attack by neo-Nazis last summer, an initiative was formed down in town that no longer wants to accept all of this. Just…
Mystical Bavaria: The Walberla – home of pagans, witches and demons – Bavaria
A fish lives in Walberla and bites its own tail. And right next to it the devil is dancing with a young woman. Stories like these and many more are…
SZ series “Fabulous Bavaria”, Part 2: The Walberla – Bavaria
A fish lives in Walberla and bites its own tail. And right next to it the devil is dancing with a young woman. Stories like these and many more are…
Bavaria: Ten million year old sensation in the district of Erding – Erding
An animal cemetery with the remains of three ancient elephants, skeletal and tooth remains of a big cat, an antelope and a large rhinoceros has been discovered in a small…
Albert Speer as the favorite Nazi of the post-war Germans – Bavaria
Did he ever hear the name Auschwitz during this time? The man who was part of Adolf Hitler’s inner circle all these years, who was his star architect and the…
Square in Nuremberg named after Benjamin Ferencz – Bavaria
A square in Nuremberg has been named after Benjamin Ferencz, one of the chief prosecutors at the Nuremberg Trials. In the presence of Ferencz’s family, Mayor Marcus König (CSU) inaugurated…
Bavaria and the Palatinate: unity on a white-blue background – Bavaria
Now don’t let it be said again: Bavaria and their eternal small states! Well, in 1832, apparently not too many unity-loving, freedom-loving democrats from Munich, Mühldorf or Miesbach made their…
Hell made of stone: After 79 years, granite mining ends at the Flossenbürg concentration camp quarry – Bavaria
79 years after the liberation of the Flossenbürg concentration camp, granite mining at the former concentration camp quarry ends. Many prisoners died during the inhumane work. About the long struggle…
Klaus Wolf new President of the Bavarian Unification – Bavaria
The Constitution Day celebrations, which have taken place on December 1st since 1967, will continue even after the death of Florian Besold. This was announced by the new President of…