Tag: Nazi history
European Parliament names building after Munich resistance fighter Sophie Scholl – Munich
The European Parliament in Brussels is honoring the Munich resistance fighter Sophie Scholl by renaming one of its buildings. “It is a small recognition of what we owe to this…
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…
High treason trial in Munich in 1924: Hitler’s propaganda in the courtroom – Munich
From February 26, 1924, Adolf Hitler and other defendants stood trial in Munich. It’s about high treason, the attempted coup in November 1923. He poses as the savior of the…
Covered in vain: Criticism of the Jodl grave on Fraueninsel – Bavaria
The slightly trapezoidal stone slab, which is only two or three centimeters thick, could itself be a symbol of a certain way of dealing with Germany’s Nazi past. “The Jodl…
Allersberg: SA man signs were put up – Bavaria
The market town council of Allersberg (Roth district) had already made the decision in 2021, but now it has been put into action: signs honoring the former SA man Wilhelm…
Bavaria: About honoring an SA man in the new development area – Bavaria
Google Maps already knows this thing. From the center of the Central Franconian market town of Allersberg, you head south, take Lampersdorfer Straße and then, in the new development area,…
Fate of the Sinti and Roma under National Socialism: Würzburg street fighting
Should a conductor with brown spots on his tailcoat continue to be honored with street names? Or does a dancer whose career was destroyed by the Nazis deserve much more?…
Exhibition “Existentialism” in the Nuremberg Congress Hall – Bavaria
The exhibition “Existentialism” in the Nuremberg Congress Hall tells of the burden of the past, but also shows how one could deal with the non-place in the future. There is…
Author Kehlmann does not see his book about the Nazi era as “historical” – economics
It’s small steps that gradually lead the Austrian film director Georg Wilhelm Pabst onto a path that leads to something morally problematic. A commitment here, a compromise there, and the…