Tag: NSDAP
NSDAP party congress 100 years ago: Hitler challenges the republic
The NSDAP celebrated its first party congress in Munich at the end of January 1923 with beer cellar speeches and mass marches. Adolf Hitler, the obscure WWII corporal, challenged the…
Regensburg: The secret room
The Wiedamannhaus is one of the most enigmatic buildings in Regensburg. It leads to underground passages or to a mysterious room from the Nazi era. Who or what was hidden…
Bavaria: The war criminal of Pielenhofen – Bavaria
For decades, a picture of a man in an SS uniform hung in the monastery church. This was a war criminal sentenced to death who sent people to the gas…
Bavaria: Ammunition probably buried in the state parliament in 1933 – Bavaria
The weapons and everyday objects found in the Bavarian state parliament in September probably date back to 1918. But they were probably hidden there much later, as a restorer has…
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:…
Gersthofen: City holds on to Wernher-von-Braun-Strasse. – Bavaria
After years of debate, the city of Gersthofen is sticking to the controversial Wernher-von-Braun-Straße. The majority of the city council spoke out against renaming on Wednesday evening – although a…
Allgäu: Kempten works on Nazi times – Bavaria
Who represented the Nazi regime in Kempten, who implemented National Socialist policies? Was there room for manoeuvre, how did clubs, bourgeois elites, individual decision-makers position themselves? Kempten now wants to…
Nuremberg 40 years ago: Eleven minutes of terror – Bavaria
A neo-Nazi shoots three people he thinks he recognizes as “foreigners” in the middle of Nuremberg. Almost 40 years after the crime, the Nuremberg Trials Memorium is looking for witnesses.…
Why the job as Mayor of Coburg is complex. – Bavaria
History doesn’t repeat itself, but in Coburg you could get the feeling that the groundhog may not say hello there every day, but that it is in constant use. In…
Raubkunst und Restitution – Kultur
Diese Geschichte beginnt an einem sonnigen Münchner Morgen. Sogar im lichtgeschützten Saal der Graphischen Sammlung scheint alles zu leuchten, vor allem die sanft hingetuschten Farben des Aquarells, das prominent auf…