“When the Nazis took power in 1933, Christmas was one of their first targets.
Not even Santa was safe.” >full text (c) FAST CO. DESIGN, 2013
Archive for Germany
Reconsidering prostitution in Germany
Posted in Uncategorized with tags ban, Feminism, Germany, prostitution, sex work on 10 December 2013 by delclem
“Germany rethinks its liberal ways on sex workers. Prostitution was decriminalised in ‘the bordello of Europe’ in 2002. Now feminists want to overturn that law.” The sex workers resist. >text & photo (c) THE GUARDIAN, 2013
Story of a Kindertransport survivor
Posted in Uncategorized with tags 1938, Germany, Greta-Britain, Judy Benton, Kindertransport, London on 9 December 2013 by delclem
“I escaped Hitler’s Germany and built a new life. As one of the Kindertransport refugees, I arrived in London knowing no one: 75 years later I’m blessed with my own family.” memoir (c) THE GUARDIAN, 2013
Krampus: Santa’s dark side
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Alps, Austria, customs, folklore, Germany, Krampus, Saint Nicholas, Saint Nicholas Day, Santa Claus, Yule on 5 December 2013 by delclem
“While Saint Nicholas may bring gifts to good boys and girls, ancient folklore in Europe’s Alpine region also tells of Krampus, a frightening beast-like creature who emerges during the Yule season, looking for naughty children to punish in horrible ways — or possibly to drag back to his lair in a sack.” >text & photo album (c) THE ATLANTIC, 2013 – more questions: see another text (c) THE GUARDIAN, 2013
Did Nazi spies like Ireland?
Posted in Uncategorized with tags espionage, Germany, Ireland, National Socialism, national stereotyping, Second World War on 4 December 2013 by delclem
“Research for a thriller set in 1940s Ireland revealed an influx of German agents who despaired about their gossipy, amateurish Irish sympathisers.” >full text & photo (c) IRISH TIMES, 2013
The GDR’s secret 1980s skater scene
Posted in Uncategorized with tags GDR, Germany, skateboarding, Stasi, youth culture on 3 December 2013 by delclem
“Skateboarding was American, therefore subversive and dangerous, so the Stasi began monitoring the skating community to keep tabs on any potential troublemakers or ringleaders.”>full article (c) vice.com 2013
Surviving on Music
Posted in Uncategorized with tags concentration camp, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Holocaust, survivors, Terezín, testimony, Theresienstadt on 1 December 2013 by delclemHow Alice Herz-Sommer, the oldest Holocaust witness, survived the horrific ordeal of Theresienstadt (Terezín) with music. >article (c) open culture 2013
The former concentration camp >photos
Anniversary of Viennese anti-Semitism
Posted in Uncategorized with tags 1938, anti-Semitism, Austria, commemoration, Germany, National Socialism, November Pogrom, Vienna on 9 November 2013 by delclem
A commemoration for the co-called “Night of Broken Glass”, the Nazi Pogroms
on 9 November 1938. >text & photos (c) wieninternational.at 2013
Modernist art ‘looted by Nazis’ recovered
Posted in Uncategorized with tags 'degenerate art', art haul, Germany, modernism, Munich, National Socialismu on 5 November 2013 by delclem
“About 1,500 modernist masterpieces – thought to have been looted by the Nazis – have been confiscated from the flat of an 80-year-old man from Munich, in what is being described as the biggest artistic find of the postwar era.”
>article & photo (c) THE GUARDIAN, 2013
A Curious Creation of Conflict
Posted in Uncategorized with tags 1916, Belgium, First Wolrd war, France, Germany, shell cases, trench art, Verdun on 31 October 2013 by delclem
“During the hellish Battle of Verdun that raged from February to December of 1916, approx. 60 million shells were blasted between the French and the Germans, leaving the people and the ground around them mutilated. This was a new and grisly type of war, yet there was an unexpected by-product of these mounds of used shell cases: trench art.” >text (c) hyperallergic.com 2013
delirium clemens 