Germany
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Although tempted to join the debate on the current call to boycott goods from Israel, I am not going to join. I rather stick to what I know best, history. . On April 1, 1933, the Nazis in Germany began with the boycott of Jewish businesses. They claimed it was a retaliation to the calls of…
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Der Stürmer is probably the most vile newspaper ever published. It was nothing more then Julius Streicher’s Anti-Semitic propaganda tabloid. It was however popular and made Streicher a wealthy man. It wasn’t the official Nazi newspaper, in fact some leading Nazis did not like it at all. Joseph Goebbels tried to ban the newspaper in…
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The terror the Jews ,in Nazi Germany, had to undergo was not only physical. Probably the most sickest aspect was the psychological terror. The Nazis took over every element in the lives of the Jews, they decided who lived and died. And none of the victims knew when their time would come, because the criteria…
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In April 1945 the allied troops forced the citizens of Neunburg,Germany to face up to some of the atrocities ordered and committed by their elected government. They were made to look at bodies of Jewish and other slave laborers in woods outside Neunberg, where they were marched from a Nazi Gestapo camp and where thy…
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Regardless how talented you were, or how much value you could add to the German culture, if you didn’t comply to the Nazi ideology or dared to criticize it, you stood a good chance of getting executed. Karlrobert Kreiten born 26 June 1916, in Bonn, Germany) was a Dutch-German pianist, holding Dutch citizenship his short life…
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Ever since its inception , the media of film has been a perfect tool to inform the masses be it in an entertaining way or in a more sinister manner. It was and still is the perfect way to distribute propaganda material en mass, although in more recent years social media has taken over that…
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Regardless of what you think of their parents, when you analyse it, the Goebbels children were victims of the same warped ideology and regime as so many other children. The only difference—they may have died in less painful circumstances, at least five of them. So enthralled were Joseph and Magda Goebbels with Hitler that they…
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For all of you who don’t know German, the second part of the title translates to “that we will never see you again” It has always been a puzzle to me why the death of Adolf Hitler was not turned into a global holiday. Maybe it is because of fears it also may be used…
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