Tag: Nazi past
Further construction work on the Nuremberg Nazi Party Rally Grounds – Bavaria
The Nuremberg Nazi Party Rally Grounds will be used more for educational work in the future. As the city of Nuremberg announced on Monday, construction work on the Zeppelinfeld learning…
Art crime thriller about Gustav Klimt’s “Portrait of Fräulein Lieser” – culture
This was announced on January 25th Vienna auction house in Kinsky the sensation. “Fräulein Lieser” had resurfaced, a late portrait of a woman by Gustav Klimt. It is a life-size…
Brown mob? “I already had that, I don’t need that again” – Bayern
Maria Herbst experienced the rise of the Nazis. Later also the fall of Old Würzburg. She really wanted to take part in the demonstrations against right-wing extremism, but she couldn’t…
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…
Leo Baeck Institute opens its archives to writers like Dana von Suffrin – Culture
In order to preserve the memory of the life and intellectual history of the Jews of Central Europe before the Shoah, German-Jewish emigrants founded the Leo Baeck Institute in New…
TU Munich removes names of Nazi personalities – several halls and buildings affected – Munich
Four halls and two parts of the building at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) still bear the names of people whose history is closely linked to the Nazi era.…
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…
A special Munich novel: Elisabeth Bronfen’s “Dealer of Secrets” – Munich
The renowned literary scholar Elisabeth Bronfen has published her first novel, which has a lot to do with her childhood in post-war Munich. An exciting book about family secrets, Nazi…
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…