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ID-card of a member of the Committee "Free Germany" for the West [de; fr]; on the card, the organisation is called the "representative" of the NKFD in German-occupied France. The NKFD was a part of a broader Movement for a Free Germany . Although this movement began before the creation of the NKFD, the latter profoundly affected the movement.
In West Germany, the first works to appear on the subject, such as the books by Hans Rothfels and Gerhard Ritter, were intended both to rebut the "collective guilt" accusations against the German people by showing the existence of the "other Germany", and to prevent another Dolchstoßlegende from emerging by portraying those involved in ...
Those who were unfortunate enough to fall into this category could be arrested even if an offence had not been committed. Homosexuality was a criminal offense in Weimar and Nazi Germany. Protective custody, however, was aimed at the regime's political opponents, in particular those from the left, such as the communists and the social democrats.
The images of men, and still more of women, were heavily stereotyped, [40] with physical perfection required for the nude paintings. [41] This may have been the cause of there being very few anti-Semitic paintings; while such works as Um Haus and Hof , depicting a Jewish speculator dispossessing an elderly peasant couple exist, they are few ...
Germany saw significant political violence from the fall of the Empire and the rise of the Republic through the German Revolution of 1918–1919, until the rise of the Nazi Party to power with 1933 elections and the proclamation of the Enabling Act of 1933 that fully broke down all opposition.
The film follows a young naïve ethnologist who begins to reject the racial theories of the era that were largely based on physical differences among people, namely the size and shapes of skulls.
A study by German historian Rüdiger Overmans puts the number of German military dead and missing at 5.3 million, including 900,000 men conscripted from outside of Germany's 1937 borders. [153] Richard Overy estimated in 2014 that about 353,000 civilians were killed in Allied air raids. [154]
Germany’s top diplomat on Friday accused Russian agents of “intolerable” hacking of the emails of a key governing party, and joined NATO and European Union countries in warning that Russia's ...