Tag: Nuremberg Trials
Max Süßheim – the man who stood up to Julius Streicher – Bavaria
Only a few people know Max Süßheim, the last Jewish member of the state parliament to date. And that despite the fact that he defied Nuremberg’s main Nazi agitator Julius…
Ukraine: West wants to prosecute Russian war of aggression – Politics
Andriy Kostin spoke of a “historic moment”. In a euphoric speech, the Ukrainian Prosecutor General said that this day would define an epoch when a weak point in international law…
Pioneers of International Law: Obituary for Benjamin Ferencz – Politics
Benjamin Ferencz once summed up his first mission as follows: “I was the first man in the US Army to investigate war crimes. I had a jeep that said get…
Uwe Neumahr: "The Castle of the Writers": German awfulness
A captivating book about the Nuremberg trials of 1946, the prominent reporters from Erika Mann to Willy Brandt and how they dealt with the unspeakable. source site
Climate catastrophe: because they knew what they were doing
The oil company Exxon Mobil was already well aware of the man-made climate crisis in the 1970s, but continued to cast doubts for decades. Should those responsible go to court?…
Nuremberg: floating grove before world history – Bavaria
These days in “Cube 600” on Fürther Strasse, on the forecourt of the Nuremberg Trials Memorial, the Exhibition “Right-Wing Terrorism. Conspiracy and Self-Empowerment – 1945 to the Present” to see.…
Nürnberger Saal 600: “We didn’t want Disneyland here” – Bavaria
Hall 600 is intended to make Nuremberg a World Heritage City, where Nazi criminals such as Hermann Göring were sentenced. How much can you change it? About a historical place…
Nuremberg: exhibition about forgotten right-wing terrorist acts – Bavaria
The foiled SS attack on the Nuremberg Nazi war crimes trial? The arson attack in Schwandorf with four dead? Many right-wing extremist attacks have never entered the collective consciousness, as…
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.…
Steel industry: Krupp Foundation lets the Nazi past come to terms – economy
When Hetty Berg was supposed to give a lecture at the Villa Hügel in autumn, the director of the Jewish Museum Berlin hesitated for a moment. The magnificent villa, the…