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On 1 October 1983, Fulbrook joined University College London (UCL) as a lecturer. [5] She was promoted to Reader in German History in 1991, and made Professor of German History in 1995. [3] She was head of UCL's Department of German from 1995 to 2006, [4] and was Executive Dean of its Faculty of Social and History Sciences from 2013 to 2018. [5]
During the Holocaust, the Catholic Church played a role in rescuing hundreds of thousands of Jews from persecution by Nazi Germany.Members of the Church, through lobbying of Axis officials, providing false documents, and the hiding of people in monasteries, convents, schools, among families and the institutions of the Vatican itself, saved hundreds of thousands of Jews.
The Nazi policy of interference in Protestantism did not achieve its aims. The majority of German Protestants did not side with either the "German Christians", or the Confessing Church. Both groups also struggled with significant internal disagreements and divisions. Mary Fulbrook wrote in her history of Germany: [27]
Mary Fulbrook wrote that when politics encroached on the church, Catholics were prepared to resist; the record was patchy and uneven, though, and (with notable exceptions) "it seems that, for many Germans, adherence to the Christian faith proved compatible with at least passive acquiescence in, if not active support for, the Nazi dictatorship". [3]
Name Position Date of birth Date of death Last residence Short summary Rosemarie Albrecht []: Aktion T4: 19 March 1915: 7 January 2008: Germany A former medical professor at the University of Jena, Albrecht was accused of killing a patient in 1941, as part of the Nazi euthanasia program which carried out mass killings of the mentally ill and physically disabled.
The town of Olkusz was occupied by German forces during their invasion of Poland, on September 5, 1939, and shortly afterward annexed to the German Province of Silesia. [1]: 15–17 Approximately a fourth of the town's population, or about 2,500 people, were Polish-Jews, the rest were ethnic Polish gentiles.
Local high school seniors Madison Steinman, Katherine Eaton and Morgan Kay were honored by the Nancy DeGraff Toll Chapter, DAR.
Drang nach Osten (German: [ˈdʁaŋ nax ˈʔɔstn̩]; lit. 'Drive to the East', [1] [2] or 'push eastward', [3] 'desire to push east') [4] was the name for a 19th-century German nationalist intent to expand Germany into Slavic territories of Central and Eastern Europe.