Tag: History of Munich
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…
Mysterious shipwreck: How the “Munich” disappeared in the Atlantic – Munich
The sinking of the freighter is considered one of the most mysterious accidents in shipping history. And it almost seems as if the city administration had a bad premonition even…
Munich: Felix Fechenbach, sentenced by the “stupidest court” – Munich
Felix Fechenbach was secretary to Kurt Eisner, leftist, a pioneer of the revolution – and was therefore sentenced to eleven years in prison. The judiciary, on the other hand, was…
Munich: How Mayor Kronawitter’s policy continues to have an impact – Munich
A city caught between boom and limitation of the negative consequences of growth: the time after the 1972 Olympic Games was politically turbulent in Munich. 50 years ago, the social…
Munich: Former teacher publishes chronicle of the Luisengynasium – Munich
Horst Rückert was 14 years old at the Luisengymnasium. From 1979 to 1990 as a teacher and again from 2009 to 2012 as an “employee in the directorate”. Years he…
Munich: How the first children’s hospital in Bavaria was founded – Munich
Being a child in the 19th century was no easy task: even in the wealthy residential city of Munich, a third died before the age of five. The main causes…
Commemoration of the Oktoberfest attack: “The memory is awake” – Munich
In this Wiesn year, it is no longer so easy to overlook the memorial sites for the Oktoberfest attack. To the right of the main entrance to the Festwiese, in…
Dachau: German-Polish Culture Days – Dachau
The third German-Polish Culture Days are taking place in Dachau. It is an attempt to improve relations between the two neighboring countries, despite all the political upheavals – and not…
Oktoberfest Munich: cultural program at the Wiesn – Munich
Heart Punch Tent It may well be that the heart makes a little jump when you do that program read. Kofelschroa stands there, Oberammergau’s favorite trance folk musicians, “The Laundry”,…