Tag: National Socialism
Leni Riefenstahl’s success at WDR – Medien
A documentary 40 years ago refuted Riefenstahl’s claim that nothing happened to the extras from “Tiefland” during the Nazi era. Why the broadcaster let the film disappear – and still…
SZ research: The confession of Stepan Bandera’s murderer
On October 15, 1959, the Ukrainian KGB killer Bogdan Stashinsky murdered the Ukrainian national hero and Nazi collaborator in Munich. And enjoyed amazing leniency in court. source site
The unknown Munich Nazi resistance fighter Walter Klingenbeck – Munich
In August 1943, Walter Klingenbeck’s parents and sister received a letter. “Dear parents and Lisl,” it says. “Today is the last time I have the opportunity to write to you.…
"One Life" in the cinema: So many lives
A great actor as a savior of the Jews – can that work? In “One Life” Anthony Hopkins plays the “British Schindler” Nicholas Winton. source site
Italy remembers SS massacres 80 years ago
As of: March 24, 2024 3:27 p.m 80 years ago, the Nazis shot 335 civilians in the Ardeatine Caves in Rome. The victims of the massacre were remembered at a…
BR project “Return of Names”: Showing faces for those persecuted by the Nazis – Munich
There is Elisabeth Adler, for example. She was born in Munich in 1935. She lived with her parents Anna and Paul Adler, a lawyer, in Schwabing at Biedersteiner Strasse 7;…
TU Munich removes names of Nazi personalities – several halls and buildings affected – Munich
Four halls and two parts of the building at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) still bear the names of people whose history is closely linked to the Nazi era.…
The Netherlands’ first Holocaust museum opens in Amsterdam – Culture
With every tram that passed through the “Plantage Middenlaan” during the German occupation of the Netherlands, there was briefly a little hope. This avenue, which runs from the east of…
Radio play “No names, nobody” on Deutschlandradio: The outcasts – media
The facts in this story are substantiated by postwar court records and interviews conducted in the 1990s. The author Annette Kufner made changes for her documentary radio play No names,…
Nazi looted art: tightening of the “Washington Principles” – culture
The descendants of the Jewish banker Paul von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy have been demanding the return of Picasso’s famous painting “Madame Soler” from the Munich Pinakothek der Moderne for years. But the…