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Category Archives: Germany
“Who are you?” Forensic anthropology and human rights.
From Arts & Letter Daily comes a fascinating article, Mengele’s Skull, that details “…the value of forensic anthropology to human rights…” An excerpt: It was during the Mengele investigation that the procedures and techniques of forensic identification of human remains … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology, Argentina, Germany, Holocaust, Human Rights, Science, World War II
Tagged Argentina, desaparecidos, dirty war, Eyal Weizman, forensic antrhopology, Human Rights, Mengele, Thomas Keenan
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The US Republican candidates and the view from abroad…
‘Freakshow’ They lie. They cheat. They exaggerate. They bluster. They say one idiotic, ignorant, outrageous thing after another. They’ve shown such stark lack of knowledge — political, economic, geographic, historical — that they make George W. Bush look like Einstein … Continue reading
Posted in anti-Americanism, Germany, Media, United States
Tagged Republican Party, US politics, view from abroad
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The world´s oldest Holocaust museum is in London…
and has a chilling collection of children´s books and games: One large board game is called “Juden Raus!” which means “Out With The Jews!”. It requires the players to roll dice and move smiling, brightly-coloured figures about a village, picking … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-Semitism, Culture, Germany, History, Holocaust, United Kingdom, World War II, Youth
Tagged Holocaust, Nazi children´s books, Nazi children´s games, Wiener Library
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Warsaw: City of Ruins.
The marvel of technology that shows what human cruelty has wrought: destruction and devastation. ‘City of Ruins’, a five minute-long documentary which simulates an aircraft flight over the ruined Polish capital of Warsaw in 1945, has received the prestigious Silver … Continue reading
The hideous consequences of war: Soviet Rape of Berlin women.
Frederick Kempe explains the brutality: According to estimates extracted from hospital records, between 90,000 and 130,000 Berlin women had been raped during the last days of the war and the first days of Soviet rule – a soldiers’ expression of … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Germany, History, Human Rights, Soldiers, Soviet Union
Tagged Berlin 1961, Frederick Kempe, rape, Soviet soldiers, War
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Rule of Law award to be given to Gabriel Bach.
I remember reading “The House on Garibaldi Street” by Isser Harel. This espionage account made quite an impact on me, as a young girl, especially since I happened to grow up not too far from Eichmann’s (alias Ricardo Klement) house … Continue reading
“Nazi war crimes as described by German soldiers”.
Spiegel Online magazine has a fascinating long article on the review by historian Sönke Neitzel and social psychologist Harald Welzer of 150,000 pages of transcripts of secretly recorded conversations with German prisoners of war. The prisoners the Americans had were … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Empathy, Germany, Holocaust, Soldiers, World War II
Tagged Harald Welzer, Nazi war crimes, Sönke Neitzel, Soldaten
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Remembering a massacre: Fosse Ardeatine.
“I believe in God and in Italy / I believe in the resurrection / of the martyrs and heroes / I believe in rebirth / and in my homeland / in the freedom of the people.” These words were engraved … Continue reading
Posted in Empathy, Germany, History, Holocaust, Religion, Soldiers
Tagged Ardeatine Caves, Erich Priebke, Fosse Ardeatine, massacre, reprisal
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Voyeurism and inertia in the lives of others…
The Lives of Others was a profoundly disturbing and revealing film, and to me, it became the most illustrative way to explain to others what living under a communist regime was all about. I wrote about it in “Living under … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Empathy, Germany, United States
Tagged Joseph Susanka, The Conversation, The Lives of Others
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