Category: Modern
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Edited version of Hitler’s Mein Kampf is still to be published
Despite the cancellation of the Bavarian state government to fund a scientifically annotated edition of Adolf Hitlers’s ‘Mein Kampf’, the Institute of Contemporary History (Institut für Zeitgeschichte) continues to work on this edition. They state that ‘Mein Kampf’ is an important source to historical research on the Third Reich, and should therefore be publicly available. The…
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Nazi-loot or rightful property: How Gurlitt sr. obtained the Munich art-treasure
The Munich art-treasure keeps raising questions. Journalists have now researched the background Cornelius Gurlitt’s father, Hildebrand Gurlitt ( 1895-1956 ). Hildebrand Gurlitt was a respected art dealer in the Third Reich and was connected to Hitler. Nonetheless, Gurlitt’s role in the nazi-era remained ambiguous. Right after the war he was suspected of cooperation with the nazi’s, but…
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Remembered: The murder of the Mirabel sisters
Today it is exactly 53 years ago that the three Mirabal sisters were killed. The women opposed the dictatorial regime of Rafael Trujillo in the Dominican Republic. The sisters openly opposed against the oppressive regime by distributing pamphlets. Rafael Trujillo staged a coup in the 1930’s in the Dominican Republic. This marked the beginning of…
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Hitler’s private albums sold for 10.000
A World War II veteran from France, Paul Gerbi, has auctioned four photo albums from Adolf Hitler. He had taken them as loot from Berchtesgaden, the former residence of the Führer on the Obersalzberg, at the end of the Second World War. The albums contain photo’s of the fallen dictator and fan-mail send to him…
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Oskar Schindler remembered in Hildesheim
On Friday a statue was inaugurated in Hildesheim, in remembrance of Oskar Schindler. Schindler lived in Hildesheim from 1971 until his death in the 9th October of 1973. In proximity of his last residence the stone monument depicts Schindler. Schindler saved approximately 7000 Jews during the Second World War, but only received worldwide recognition after…
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Munich art-treasure should be open to public, says Bavarian minister of Justice
The soap on the Munich art treasure continues. Two weeks ago, the German authorities seized 1500 masterpieces with an estimated value of 1 billion euro’s on the allegation that most of them were stolen by the nazi’s in the Third Reich. The owner, Cornelius Gurlitt had inherited them from his art-dealing father, who worked with…
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Making money with Lenin
The city council of Ulyanovsk, the birthplace of the Russian revolutionary leader Lenin (1870-1924), plans to create a national memorial to the Soviet Union. The plans encompass dozens of museums and shops were communist kitsch can be bought. If the Russian government approves, the construction of the 120-hectare site may begin. The costs for the “Museum of the…