Tag: History of Bavaria
Bavaria: Diaries of Sisi’s niece – Bavaria
Sisi, the fairytale empress, likes to be romanticized. Now the memories of her niece Amelie von Urach shed new light on her personality, her family and the time in which,…
House of Bavarian History: New Exhibition – Bavaria
UN Refugee Aid assumes that currently more than 80 million people around the world are fleeing war, persecution and economic hardship. After the end of the Second World War, the…
Indersdorf: Zofia Oglaza about the time in the children’s center – Dachau
The little woman stands inconspicuously in the crowd that gathers at the Sankt Vinzenz kindergarten in Indersdorf. Nevertheless, Zofia Oglaza is a sought-after conversation partner for many of the people…
New app from the Dachau memorial site: Culture of Remembrance 2.0 – Dachau
The concentration camp memorial is introducing a new app that virtually displays prisoner drawings on the former camp site. It is primarily intended to appeal to younger visitors. The technology…
Open Monument Day: Be amazed at 600 locations – Bavaria
Only the most important events in his life made it into the annals of Charlemagne. One of these is the construction of the Fossa Carolina, now known as the Karlsgraben.…
Traunstein: The change in urban society – Bavaria
How strongly people are shaped by the attitudes of their time is aptly expressed in the old portrait photographs. The flyer used by the Traunstein City Archives to advertise its…
Nazi contemporary witness: How Elisen gingerbread came to the USA – Bavaria
Interview by Clara Lipkowski It’s eight o’clock in the morning in Chatham, New Jersey; William Freund, 94 years old, logs into the zoom call at home and wants to get…
Glentleiten: The Marosen fiefdom has moved – Bavaria
from Hans Kratzer, Glentleiten “Obersalzbergstrasse 66” is clearly visible on the sign above the front door. When you stroll past the property, which is picturesquely embedded in a humpback meadow,…
Bavaria: Research on Hitler’s menu – Bavaria
Oatmeal soup and crispbread with egg yolk paste: For weeks, a dietician documented what Adolf Hitler ate in 1943, the year of the war. Why this is so valuable for…
Nuremberg: New usage idea for the congress hall – Bavaria
Nuremberg is once again discussing a new usage idea for the Nazi congress hall. Now there is the idea of using the building as an interim quarter for the opera…