Category: News
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‘Romantic kristallnacht’ and ‘Stolpersteine’. The Kristallnacht remembered
Exactly 75 years ago, on the 9th and 10th of November 1938, the Nazis conducted a furious attacks on Jews. They set fire to their shops and synagogues, destroyed their homes. Also known as the ‘night of broken glass’, the Kristallnacht marked a new phase in the anti-Semitic policy of the Nazis. During the early…
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Creole- and Pidgin-grammar gives insight into the history of slave-trade
Modern historical research isn’t just focussed on written sources anymore. An interdisciplinary approach is the standard, while this generates a multi-facetted perception on the historical topic. A good example is the recently published “Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structure“. This study surveys the geographical development of the mixed languages of North and South America , Africa…
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Today the last member of the French royal family was buried
Today, the remains of an unknown woman are buried again, after they were exhumed two months ago. They were dug up by a group of scientists who wanted to solve a more than 200-year-old mystery: was this woman of royal blood? A mysterious noble lady grips Hildburghausen A mysterious woman arrived in Hildburghausen in 1807.…
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Dressed to kill. Fashion in the nazi-era
It is a well-known fact that Hugo Boss designed the SS-uniform, but how people dressed in Third Reich is not a much debated topic. What did clothing of the 1930s and 40s look like? What was worn in everyday life, at home , at work or on travel? Did the nazis influence fashion? With the…
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‘Open up KGB-archives’ says Roland Jahn
Roland Jahn, Federal Commissioner for the Stasi Archives, wants an opening up of the KGB-files. Jahn met in Moscow with activists of the ‘Memorial‘-initiative, a Russian historian and civil-right-movement. ‘Memorial’ aims to reveal the truth about the historical past of the Soviet Union, much like the way the Stasi-archives are administered in Germany. Jahn states that Germany…
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Spontanious combustion after a freak chariot crash. Another theory on Tutankhamun’s death
At least that’s what Egyptologist Chris Naunton of the Egypt Exploration Society concluded, after examining tissues of the dead pharaoh. Ever since Tutankhamun was excavated in 1923, the question how and why the pharaoh died has been unanswered. Naunton isn’t the first to think to know how Tutankhamun’s life ended: Lots of scenarios were suggested…
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Sensational discovery: 1500 long-lost masterpieces (e.g. Picasso, Matisse) found
An 80-year old resident of the German city of Munich had 1500 masterpieces secretly stockpiled in his apartment. The paintings were created by masters of classical modernity, like Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Marc Chagall, Emil Nolde, Franz Marc, Max Beckmann and Max Liebermann. A Berlin art historian estimates the value on one billion euros. Art…