Expanding our Understanding of the Holocaust
Dan Stone’s 2024 important book entitled The Holocaust: An Unfinished History documents and explains that the images of concentration camps and gas chambers do not tell the whole story of …
Germany
Nuremberg War Crimes Trial Recordings Available Online
The complete recordings of the Nuremberg War Crimes trials are online. The International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands, the custodian of the original materials, arranged the digitization of its archive, collaborating with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial …
Pegnitz River, Nuremberg
The Pegnitz is a river in Franconia in the German state of Bavaria. The source of the river is in the town of Pegnitz which has a population of about …
Frauenkirche, Nuremberg
The Frauenkirche (“Church of Our Lady”) is a church in Nuremberg, Germany. It stands on the eastern side of the main market. An example of brick Gothic architecture, it was …
Nazi Party Rally Grounds in Nuremberg
Nazi Germany held huge party rallies in Nuremberg between 1933 and 1938. The former Nazi Party Rally Grounds in Nuremberg are the Federal Republic of Germany’s largest surviving assemblage of …
Audiobook: ‘The Liberation of Paris’
The Liberation of Paris is a gripping book that is packed full of interesting details about Nazi-occupied Paris and its last commander Dietrich von Choltitz. At the end of WWII, Adolf Hitler …
London’s Wiener Holocaust Library Celebrates 90 Years of Service
The Wiener Holocaust Library in London is celebrating its 90th birthday. It is the oldest continuously functioning archive documenting Nazi crimes. The Library has its origins in the work of Dr. Alfred …
Remembering Maisie Hitchcock
I recently learned that, Maisie Hitchcock, a guide on a Rick Steves tour of Switzerland I took in 2018 died peacefully of ovarian cancer on August 9, 2023 in the …
Germany’s Far-Right AfD Gaining Ground
DW reports that the right-wing German Alternative for Germany (AfD) party is now in second place nationwide at 23% — up from 10.3% in the last general election in 2021. AfD expects success …