German history

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
  6/6/19
  

  Hitler told the world the Third Reich was invincible. My German grandfather knew better

  by Robert Scott Kellner

  As a political organizer for the Social Democrats, Kellner had opposed the Nazis from the beginning, campaigning against them throughout the duration of the ill-fated Weimar Republic. 

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• 5/23/19
  

  The Fall of Communism in TV’s The Weissensee Saga

  by Walter G. Moss

  The most impressive educational aspect of The Weissensee Saga is that it presents a realistic and convincing portrait of the differing lives and reactions of East German individuals in the final decade of the GDR’s existence.

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• 5/2/19
  

  The Template for the Holocaust- Germany's African Genocide

  by David Carlin

  In the 20th Century’s first genocide, Imperial Germany’s campaign of annihilation provided precedents for the racial ideologies and exterminatory tactics of the Holocaust. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  2/1/19
  

  A German Bratwurst Museum Unwittingly Starts a Holocaust Controversy

  The Bratwurst Museum had unwittingly stepped into a long-running debate about what to do with the thousands of places that were once part of the Nazis’ extensive machinery of death.

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• SOURCE: The Paris Review
  1/15/19
  

  A Lost Piece of Trans History

  The recent republication of The Third Sex by the Bibliothek rosa Winkel revives lost voices from Germany’s queer past and recovers a remarkable piece of trans history.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  1/14/19
  

  Beyond Rosa Luxemburg: five more women of the German revolution you need to know about

  by Ingrid Sharp and Corinne Painter

  There were other women who played an active role in the German revolution in cities across the country. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  1/14/19
  

  How one German city developed – and then lost – generations of math geniuses

  by David Gunderman

  Anti-Semitism brought down one of the world's greatest centers for mathematical research.