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Former Hitlerjugend (Hitler Youth Movement) member Franz Albrecht Schall's early diaries show how he became caught up in the maelstrom of National Socialism as a young man. Rallies, parades, political lectures and publicity tours are ...
Many members of the older generation remember how the Nazis determined the course of their childhood without having understood it at the time. What did the sons and daughters of Jewish parents go through?
Inge Deutschkron grew up in Berlin and personally experienced the consequences of ...
Michael Wolffsohn's paternal grandfather Karl was a leading light of the Berlin entertainment industry-but in 1939 he was forced into exile and immigrated to Palestine. Justus Saalheimer, Wolffsohn's maternal grandfather, was interned in Dachau in November 1938. Following his release in ...
Goethe, co-opted
Goethe's life is so richly documented and his life so multi-faceted that he is easily co-opted by vastly different opinion leaders. For the Goethe Society - founded in 1885 in Weimar - even before the Machtergreifung in 1933, he was less of the enlightened humanist ...
From the four zones, two nations emerged
At the Potsdam Conference in July and August 1945, the "Big Three" - the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, the American President Harry Truman, and the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, discussed the future borders of Europe, the ...
The centennial of the Revolution: an extraordinary historical overview
On November 7, 1918, the House of Wittelsbach fell from power in Bavaria, followed in short succession by all of the other German royal houses. Prior to the founding of the Republic on November 9, Kurt Eisner ...
The year 1968 stands for an entire decade of rebellion. All around the globe young people took to the streets in their hundreds of thousands. Norbert Frei traces the roots of this worldwide revolution, marking the differences in what triggered unrest amongst an entire generation: in Germany it ...
