Tag: Nazi history
"Berlin 1933 – diary of a big city": Birthday cake with swastika
With a collage of diary entries, propaganda films and amateur recordings, an Arte documentary traces Germany 90 years ago. source site
Holocaust Remembrance Conference in Berlin: Subtle Self-Deception – Culture
Very little, even in the 1920s, allows the intellectual republic to be so upset as the questioning of the singularity of the Holocaust. In times when not only anti-Semitic attacks…
Coburg’s Nazi era? Totally forgot! – Bavaria
It is now the beautiful autumn time, time for excursions. Coburg would be a good choice, a city on the outskirts of the Free State, but blessed with fabulous attractions:…
Bavaria: On the death of Jack Terry – Bavaria
Jack Terry, the former concentration camp prisoner and spokesman for the survivors of Flossenbürg, has died at the age of 92. Of Sebastian Beck Even in old age he did…
How Coburg became the Nazi laboratory – Bavaria
100 years ago Adolf Hitler practiced during the “Train to Coburg” how he could win the streets for himself with right-wing thugs. Ironically, the small Franconian royal town became the…
Euthanasia victims: One day, a package of ashes arrived
Berta Sewald and Franz Schweiger were murdered by the National Socialists because they considered them “not worth living”. Her relatives were left in the dark for a long time. Then…
Georg Baselitz protests against Nazi work in the Pinakothek der Moderne – Culture
Of Jörg Haentzschel Art museums all over the world shake up their exhibitions. They are showing more works by women, non-Europeans, taking alternative paths away from the canon. So does…
Resistance against Hitler: Benno Neuburger dies 80 years ago – Munich
Benno Neuburger from Munich protests against Hitler and the Holocaust with postcards – at the latest when he sends the ninth, he is aware that he will be killed. Who…
Robert Habeck’s speech commemorating July 20, 1944 – Culture
It cannot be taken for granted that you, dear Svetlana Tichanovskaya, are speaking to us today. Today we remember those Germans who had the courage to resist during the National…
The term resistance changes – culture
Not every expression of opinion is a heroic act. Resistance can be many things. A good date to remember especially these days is July 20th. Of Joachim Kaeppner Anyone who…