Tag: National Socialism
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…
Käthe Kollwitz Graphics and Bronzes in Frankfurt – Culture
Some people are so loved and so hated that they almost threaten to disappear behind all the distorted images that others paint of them. Käthe Kollwitz is such a person.…
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…
Commemorative campaign “Return of Names” in Munich: How thousands remember Nazi victims – Munich
During the “Return of Names” campaign, thousands remember Munich residents who were killed by the Nazis. About the fates of the murdered – and how godparents tell about them today.…
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…
Hitler’s rocket: The last secret of the V2 is examined in the German Museum – Munich
On October 3, 1942, a rocket rose into the sky over the island of Usedom. It reaches a height of almost 90 kilometers before falling into the Baltic Sea. The…
Munich: Questionable commentary from the SZ predecessor newspaper on the Hitler trial – Munich
There was a lot of excitement in the packed courtroom at the infantry school on April 1, 1924. “I see this acquittal as a disgrace for the coat and for…
Contemporary art on a gigantic ex-Nazi site? “I get nervous” – Bavaria
A huge art area in Nuremberg exactly where the Nazis wanted to surpass the Colosseum in Rome with gigantomania? The thought makes the art historian Wolfgang Brauneis nervous. He fears…
The “Fate” project at the Munich Kammerspiele researches those persecuted by the Nazis – Munich
After the Second World War, a cloak of silence and repression hung over the years of National Socialism for a long time, not only in politics, the judiciary and the…
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…