Tag: Nazi history
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…
Radio: Comes in waves
In its hundred-year history in Germany, radio has been a means of propaganda, a promise of freedom and a place for bold dreams. Birthday greetings from the present. source site
Sophie Scholl: She is not Sophie Scholl
How does teaching history work on social media? The public Instagram project “@ichbinsophiescholl” is being discussed at the LMU Munich. source site
Bavaria receives 52 million euros for memorial sites of the Nazi era – Bavaria
Bavarian places of remembrance of the horrors of the Nazi era are to receive more than 51 million euros from the federal government. The federal government is funding the preservation…
"The strongest substance" by Norman Ohler: "My ego was floating somewhere in space"
Adapted from his bestselling book on drugs in the Nazi regime, Norman Ohler tells the breathtaking story of psychedelics like LSD. For a very personal reason. source site
Special exhibition in Nuremberg: A German monument
The Kaiserburg in Nuremberg was celebrated, exploited by the Nazis, bombed and then forgotten for decades. About the history of a national document. source site
Allersberg sticks to SA man on street sign – Bavaria
There will continue to be a Wilhelm-Burkhardt-Straße in the market town of Allersberg in the Franconian district of Roth. The council made the decision on Monday. In 1934 Burkhardt was…
Allersberg: The SA man on the street sign – Bavaria
A market town waiting months for a student’s work is not the order of the day. In the Franconian town of Allersberg, however, a town with 8,000 inhabitants in the…
Fund on the Isar: The double destruction of the Munich synagogue – Munich
In 1938 the Nazis had the magnificent building in the old town demolished, and eleven years after the war the partially decorated stones were used to repair a weir on…
Wreath under the swastika – Bavaria
Hermann Kriebel was a Nazi from the very beginning and, as an early confidant of Adolf Hitler and a leading participant in his march to the Munich Feldherrnhalle in 1923,…