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My Grandpa Was a Nazi
- But in '43 two people from our factory were arrested and one was decapitated. They had listened to English radio stations and transcribed the broadcasts on a typewriter and passed it on. This was discovered because of the typed copy. The typewriter was identified and the owner, he was one of our mechanics, his name was Zur, he was beheaded. The sec... See more
from An Interview with Curt Herzstark by Curt Herzstark
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- There was a will from 1913 and my parents each left everything to the other partner so that there could be no dispute. This will was still in existence but my mother did not want to use it. Instead she suggested, "You get the factory and your brother Ernst, will get the cinema and I will receive a pension from each of you." That was '37, '38 and we... See more
from An Interview with Curt Herzstark by Curt Herzstark
Alex Dobrenko added
and then, the nazis.
- After the Nazi death camps were discovered in 1945, and with all the horrors that unfolded in World War II, Western culture became exhausted with itself, with its will to dominion, its appetites, its capacity to destroy. Extravagant emotional gestures suddenly seemed inappropriate, even dangerous.
from The Rise of Dissociation Music by Jayson Greene
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- HERZSTARK: It would be too much [and range too far] if I were to tell you all of the details, then I would have to relive the hours until I came to Buchenwald. So, in any case, how I was delivered in Bochum is a really terrible story. I was already spiritually at zero [seelisch am Nullpunckt], and then I came to this so called "small camp". I can s... See more
from An Interview with Curt Herzstark by Curt Herzstark
Alex Dobrenko added
- respect my paternal grandmother above everyone. She was widowed in 1872 and was the daughter of a doctor. In order to support herself she took on the profession of a midwife. I think, that she did have a university degree. She was a woman who knew life with all of its good and bad sides. I was in her care until her death, until I was nine years old... See more
from An Interview with Curt Herzstark by Curt Herzstark
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As a Jew, he expected in the first week of the war to be shot or sent to a concentration camp.
from The German War: A Nation Under Arms, 19391945 by Nicholas Stargardt
Many years later, a debate was sparked in post-war Germany over the ‘barbarization’ of soldiers on the Eastern Front.22 It was widely believed that the Wehrmacht, unlike the SS, had generally upheld the standards of good soldiering, and that ordinary German soldiers had not been guilty of serious atrocities. This myth was easily shown to be false.
... See morefrom Europe at War 1939-1945: No Simple Victory by Norman Davies
- Thirty years ago I had a high school history and government teacher who forever changed the way I think about the power of identity, especially group identity, in affecting human behavior. In my senior year of high school, in the early 1990s, he taught a section on Nazi propaganda that I’m sure these days would be posted to social media in a hot mi... See more
from True believers and mass movements by Antonia Malchik
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