Tag: Nazi history
The question of the opera house divides Nuremberg’s city policy. – Bavaria
The question of where exactly an alternative venue should go is driving Nuremberg’s city policy apart. In the end, the town hall alliance could even end. When Nuremberg got the…
Nuremberg: Congress hall on Nazi party convention grounds open to the public – Bavaria
Pneumatic hammers rattle on the NS congress hall torso, but have nothing to do with the major plans that the city of Nuremberg is currently considering. The Documentation Center of…
Denmark: A museum about refugees – politics is being built in Oksbøl
Oksbøl is a small place on the Danish North Sea coast, not 3000 souls: a school, a church, a train station. But sometimes such a place hits “world history right…
Paranoid Fantasies – Conspiracy Theories in the Nazi Era – Culture
Conspiracies and conspiracy theories are part of history like intrigues and conspiracies are part of everyday life. Since the 18th century, when opponents of the revolution, clerical and conservative authors…
The Kunsthaus Zürich and the arms dealer Emil Bührle – culture
So this is it, the room that is supposed to present the history of the Bührle Collection in “great detail and clarity”. It is a bright room on the second…
Nazi contemporary witness: How Elisen gingerbread came to the USA – Bavaria
Interview by Clara Lipkowski It’s eight o’clock in the morning in Chatham, New Jersey; William Freund, 94 years old, logs into the zoom call at home and wants to get…
Audio book column: From Heligoland to Dostojewski to Hermynia Zur Mühlen. – Culture
Heinrich Heine raved that the sky over Heligoland was “full of violins”. Hoffmann von Fallersleben wrote “Das Lied der Deutschen” there, and August Strindberg married. Writers have always been drawn…