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Stolperstein for Liddy Bacroff, introduced under her legal name. Liddy Bacroff (19 August 1908 – 6 January 1943) was a performer and sex worker of Weimar Republic era, persecuted and killed by the Nazi regime during World War II. Bacroff rejected her male gender role assigned at birth and self-identified as a "transvestite".
The Gedenkbuch – Opfer der Verfolgung der Juden unter der nationalsozialistischen Gewaltherrschaft 1933–1945 ("Memorial Book – Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny in Germany 1933–1945") is a memorial book published by the German Federal Archives, listing persons murdered during the Holocaust as part of the Nazis' so-called "Final Solution".
The League published the NS-Frauen-Warte, the only Nazi-approved women's magazine in Nazi Germany; [354] despite some propaganda aspects, it was predominantly an ordinary woman's magazine. [355] Women were encouraged to leave the workforce, and the creation of large families by racially suitable women was promoted through propaganda campaigns.
As Allied troops entered and occupied German territory during the later stages of World War II, mass rapes of women took place both in connection with combat operations and during the subsequent occupation of Germany by soldiers from all advancing Allied armies, although a majority of scholars agree that the records show that a majority of the rapes were committed by Soviet occupation troops. [1]
The historiography of "ordinary" German women in Nazi Germany has changed significantly over time; studies done just after World War II tended to see them as additional victims of Nazi oppression. However, during the late 20th century, historians began to argue that German women were able to influence the course of the regime and even the war.
Germany's Cabinet on Wednesday approved plans to reduce a one-year minimum sentence for spreading child sexual abuse images, changing a rule that was introduced less than three years ago but ...
Activist groups have sued Elon Musk's social media platform X in a Berlin court, accusing it of breaking European law by not giving them the information they need to track disinformation online ...
However, the city-republics such as Frankfurt and Hamburg tended to have a free press, a rarity in 19th century Germany. [4] The Prussian invasion, occupation and annexation of Frankfurt was in large part motivated by the Prussian government's irritation with the Frankfurt free press; unlike Frankfurt, Prussia had severe censorship laws.