Alfred Wegener (Nov. 1, 1880 - Nov. 1930) studied in Berlin, Heidelberg, and Innsbruck. After obtaining his doctorate in 1904, this geophysicist, meteorologist, and climatologist followed his brother Kurt to the Aerological Observatory in Lindenberg. Alfred Wegener's first expedition from 1906 to 1908 was to set the course taken during the rest of his life, for Greenland became the place he carried ...

This article compares Italian and German memory cultures of Fascism and Nazism using an analysis of Italian and West- and East-German satirical magazines published from 1943 to 1963. In the early post-war period, as a consequence of the anti-Fascist and anti-Nazi policies in Italy and in Germany that had been put into effect by the Allied occupation authorities, a significant part of the Italian and ...

Lecture: "Peace, Planethood, and World Law: A Roadmap to the Future" First Unitarian Congregation of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. Text scroll: "Benjamin Ferencz has dedicated a good portion of his life seeking a just and tranquil world society where all may live in peace and dignity, regardless of race or creed. He is a graduate of the Harvard Law School and saw active military service in World War II ...

This collection comprises copy documents relating to the Herschel Grynszpan/ Ernst vom Rath affair. In addition there is a covering note containing commentary on the documents from Vincent Frank-Steiner.

By 1948 the majority of the estimated 250.000 Jewish Displaced Persons (DPs) in the American and British Zones of occupied Germany had managed to leave Europe. Among the minority remaining were one group of approximately 300 Orthodox Jews. The author examines these Jewish survivors' negotiations with West German authorities as they worked to recreate their communal structures outside the Föhrenwald ...

Born on July 15, 1920 and raised in West Plains, Missouri, in the heart of the Ozarks, Hoyt Wayne Jones graduated high school at 16 in 1936. Drafted into the Army in 1942 and commissioned as a second lieutenant, he served in the Signal Corps in Africa, England and France. After filming the liberation of some of the first camps in Germany, he suffered a breakdown which would alter the course of his ...

The war in the former Yugoslavia has shamed the leading nations of the world. Unspeakable crimes against humanity have been committed in Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia, yet American and European policymakers have cravenly stood aside while whole villages and communities were erased from the face of the earth. Americans are appalled by the images on their television screens of the carnage, but most of us ...

244 files, 4 opisi Manuscrips, drafts, and notebooks of the writer, correspondence with editors and colleagues. Opis 2: 1949 - 1963 Manuscripts of "Life and Fate" (1960). Notebooks, diaries, interviews with red army soldiers (1943-1945) Opis 3: Notebooks (1941-1950)

Mania Lichtenstein was born in Włodzimierz Wołyński, Poland (presently Volodymyr-Volynskyi, Ukraine) in 1923 to Gerszon and Gitel Tisch. She had two older sisters, Rivka and Nechama. The family remained in Włodzimierz Wołyński through the Soviet occupation of the city in 1939. With the German invasion in 1941 the family faced increasing persecution and in February 1942 were forced in to the first of ...

Alfred Wegener (Nov. 1, 1880 - Nov. 1930) studied in Berlin, Heidelberg, and Innsbruck. After obtaining his doctorate in 1904, this geophysicist, meteorologist, and climatologist followed his brother Kurt to the Aerological Observatory in Lindenberg. Alfred Wegener's first expedition from 1906 to 1908 was to set the course taken during the rest of his life, for Greenland became the place he carried ...

The Robert Buckley papers contains two folders. One folder contains two copies of the Jehovah's Witness magazine Awake! , from 1989 and 1995. The magazines each contain an article concerning the Holocaust, including some on the role Jehovah's Witnesses played during that time.The second folder contains photographs from Buckley's trip to West Germany in May, 1990. Besides landscape photos, there are ...

Documentation of the I. G. Farbenindustrie Company from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1928-1943
 
 The I. G. Farbenindustrie Company was established in 1925 from the amalgamation of several chemical industry companies, and it was, in its time, the largest company in this field in the west. During World War II it was notorious due to its involvement in the Nazi oppression and murder process, ...

"This is a story of an Allied power, which helped the Nazis to fight Jews and which slaughtered its own people on an industrial scale. Assisted by the West, this power triumphed on May 9th, 1945. Its crimes were made taboo, and the complete story of Europe's most murderous regime has never been told. Until now"--Container. Bonus interviews with experts discussing : Soviet terror ; famine in Ukraine, ...

Digital copy available as collection KD_00348 at Kazerne Dossin

James A. Livesay was a veteran of the 104th U.S. Infantry Division during World War II, and was at Nordhausen's liberation.

In 2013, the lawyer Hans Fertig (1929-2015) transferred his written pre-death legacy with extensive records regarding his occupation as a counsel at several proceedings regarding Nazi violent crimes (NSG-Verfahren) from the 1960s to the 1980s to the Fritz Bauer Institute. Hans Fertig was born on February 4, 1929 in Amorbach in the Forest of Odes where he passed his Abitur in 1949. He then studied law ...

Alfred Wegener (Nov. 1, 1880 - Nov. 1930) studied in Berlin, Heidelberg, and Innsbruck. After obtaining his doctorate in 1904, this geophysicist, meteorologist, and climatologist followed his brother Kurt to the Aerological Observatory in Lindenberg. Alfred Wegener's first expedition from 1906 to 1908 was to set the course taken during the rest of his life, for Greenland became the place he carried ...

Case files of Dr. Henry Krystal, a psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor based in Southfield, Michigan, who treated other Holocaust survivors who lived in the Detroit region, circa 1960s to 1990s. The files, arranged alphabetically by patient name, contain evaluations, descriptions of patients' ailments, and the descriptions of their experiences during the Holocaust. Includes reports filed by Krystal ...

Harry Lerner (1913-1992) was an attorney in Omaha, NE, served in the U.S. Army during World War II, and became director of UNRRA Team 502 after the war, taking responsibility for two Jewish Displaced Persons centers in Stuttgart (Stuttgart West and Degerloch). In 1946, he married Clare Lerner (nee Smocleare, 1913-1999), who was born in London and came to Germany as a volunteer worker for the Jewish ...

Peter Gingold was born in Aschaffenburg on March 8, 1919. His family was Polish and Jewish and he grew up in Frankfurt (Main). There, he completed a commercial apprenticeship at a big music retail business in 1930. He joined the union Zentralverband Deutscher Angestellter (ZDA) (Central Association of German Employees) and in 1931, the Kommunistischer Jugendverband Deutschlands (KJVD) (Communist Youth ...

Claude Lanzmann was born in Paris to a Jewish family that immigrated to France from Eastern Europe. He attended the Lycée Blaise-Pascal in Clermont-Ferrand. His family went into hiding during World War II. He joined the French resistance at the age of 18 and fought in the Auvergne. Lanzmann opposed the French war in Algeria and signed a 1960 antiwar petition. From 1952 to 1959 he lived with Simone ...

(Munich 68) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, March 21-22, 1946. Courtroom scene before session begins. (Rebecca West? talking to man, left of screen) Gen. Rudenko, Chief Russian prosecutor, cross-examines Goering on the authenticity of certain documents. 01:47:46 Goering says clearly, and with disdain, in response to Rudenko's question: "Jawohl. Dafuer war er der Fuehrer." [Of course. That's ...

16:21 Prosecutor Iannucci reminds the court that Barbie had been a member of the SD since 1935 and of the Nazi party since 1937; Dachau was inaugurated in March 1933; argues that Barbie cannot have been a member of the organization, for whom the concentration camps were an arm of government, without knowing they existed; gives history relating to the Reichstag Fire (February 1933) and the subsequent ...