Tag: National Socialism
Documentation Center Nuremberg: The Hitler picture above the sofa
Nazi sticker pictures, anti-Semitic children’s books, mother crosses: when people clean up, they sometimes find legacies from the Nazi era. Museologist Daniela Harbeck-Barthel and historian Alexander Schmidt work where Nazi…
Holocaust survivor Trude Simonsohn has died – politics
The Holocaust survivor Trude Simonsohn is dead. She died on Thursday at the age of 100. “We are stunned and saddened by this great loss,” said Salomon Korn, chairman of…
Munich: Ludwig Quidde, the forgotten Nobel Prize winner – Munich
A street in Neuperlach is named after him and there is an underground station. But who knows today who Ludwig Quidde was? About a fighter for peace who did not…
High above the Rhine – car & mobile
No matter what time of year – the Black Forest High Road keeps making headlines. In the summer it causes trouble, among other things, because motorcyclists loudly heat up their…
"The hate" in the times of Corona: the poison of irrationality
What we can learn about us and our dangerously excited time from Heinrich Mann’s great essay “Der Hass” from 1933. .source site
Obersalzberg: place of the crime – Bavaria
This place stands for both, and like hardly anywhere else in Germany both terms come together at Obersalzberg: That’s why the historians from the Institute for Contemporary History want to…
Responsibilities of ministries: Dahoam is at home
The Federal Ministry of the Interior continues to be a home ministry under the SPD. Where’s the mockery of #HeimatNancy? .source site
George Orwell’s reports from defeated Germany – culture
Orwell’s reportages from March to November 1945 are collected in the volume “Travel through Ruins”. He was a war correspondent for the Allies in Germany and documented the defeat of…
Opera in Nazi ruins? Historian Drecoll warns of time constraints. – Bavaria
Interview by Olaf Przybilla, Nuremberg The city of Nuremberg wants to decide in the coming week whether an interim opera building should be built on the former Nazi party rally…
The author and concentration camp survivor Margot Friedländer is 100 years old – culture
Margot Friedländer survived the Holocaust, made a living in America and returned to the land of the perpetrators, where she tirelessly writes and speaks to young people in schools. About…