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newyorkthegoldenage · 18 days
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Herbert Zipper was an internationally renowned composer, conductor, and arts activist who was imprisoned at Dachau in the 1930s. During that time, he had had crude musical instruments constructed out of stolen material and formed a secret orchestra that performed on Sunday afternoons for the other inmates.
Released in 1939, he accepted an invitation to conduct the Manila Symphony Orchestra but was jailed for four months by the Japanese during their occupation of the Philippines. After his release, he worked secretly for the Allies, transmitting shipping information by radio. In 1946 he emigrated to the United States, where he conducted the Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra and promoted music education. In this photo, taken on March 10, 1949, he was conductor of the Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra, and he makes some observations on an opera to violinist Sylvia Medford.
Photo: Associated Press
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er1chartmann · 11 days
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Himmler inspecting Allach porcelain at Dachau on 20 January 1941
Photograph: Image Bank WW2 – NIOD/Amsterdam
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A German woman is overcome as she is forced to witness the crimes committed in her name and with her permission, Nammering, Germany. 17 May 1945
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girlactionfigure · 11 months
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gliklofhameln · 5 months
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Ludwig Neumann shortly after his release from Dachau in 1938 • Wiener Holocaust Library
During a time of increasing antisemitism, especially after Kristallnacht, many German Jewish men were sent to Dachau, which was set up by the Nazis in 1933, initially to hold Jews and political prisoners. Dachau served as a prototype and model for the other German concentration camps that followed.
Ludwig Neumann was a German Jewish businessman who owned an industrial clothing company. As a result of anti-Jewish measures, he was forced to sell his factory in 1938 and was interned in Dachau for a number of weeks. He was released on the understanding that he would leave the country immediately, and travelled to Great Britain where he was briefly interned as an enemy alien. Following his release however, he served as an anti-aircraft gunner for the British. After the war, Neumann returned to Germany to try and re-establish the family business, but eventually came back to Britain where he held a number of posts as a production manager in the clothing industry.
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sumbluespruce · 6 months
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History should not be forgotten.
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ladyorlandodream · 1 year
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Today, Lucy Salani passed away at the age of 98. She was not only a survivor of one of the most horrific periods in history, she was also the oldest transgender woman in Italy. She survived Dachau, the first concentration camp built by Nazi Germany.
RIP
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tenth-sentence · 3 months
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"The Complete Maus" - Art Spiegelman
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whenweallvote · 11 months
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On April 29, 1945 the prisoners of Dachau concentration camp were liberated by American soldiers. Dachau was the first concentration camp to be constructed by the Nazis and one of the last to be liberated.
Seventy-eight years after the liberation of Dachau, we honor the victims and survivors and reflect on the horrific consequences of hatred and prejudice.
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carbone14 · 1 month
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Camp de concentration de Dachau - Allemagne - 28 juin 1938
Photographe : Friedrich Franz Bauer
©Bundesarchiv - Bild 152-27-04A
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dirjoh-blog · 2 months
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Muslims who saved Jews during the Holocaust.
This may be a bit controversial in the light of the current situation, but it is an important subject to be addressed. Nowadays there are those who would want you to believe that all Muslims want to kill all Jews, and vice versa. However, that is not the case, it isn’t the case now and it wasn’t the case during World War 2. I had done a piece on the Palestinian leader Amin Al Husseini, an ally…
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er1chartmann · 2 months
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This is Dachau, the first nazi concentration camp, timeline:
1933: Adolf Hitler was appointed Reich Chancellor.
1933: The Dachau concentration camp open his doors with the arrival of about 200 prisoners.
1933: The concentration camp regulations were issued by Theodor Eicke.
1934: Dachau increased its importance throughout the Bavarian area.
1935: With the Nuremberg Laws, Dachau acquires the special legal framework that legitimizes its existence. New groups of German prisoners were interned in the camp and not only political opponents, but also common criminals, gypsies, Jews, Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals.
1936: Work began on the construction of the new buildings which will transform the Dachau concentration camp into a huge complex, one of the largest in the Nazi concentration camp universe.
1938: The first prisoners from Austria recently annexed with the Anschluss arrived at the camp.
1939: The Second World War began.
1940: The control of the camp passed to the SS section that took care of the armaments and forges, carpentry and saddlery workshops were opened.
1940: Faced with the sharp increase in the number of deaths, it became necessary to build a crematorium in the tree-lined area adjacent to the end of the camp.
1941: An experimental station was created in the infirmary, which began its activities with homeopathic treatment on 114 patients suffering from tuberculosis.
1941: The Death Registry was established within the camp.
1942: Construction began on a new large brick crematorium, called Baracke X, which was built next to the first one.
1942: Large-scale experiments began and doctors were instructed to test the effects on the human organism of staying at high altitude and suddenly falling from a great height.
1943: Construction of more than 150 satellite work camps begins in the area surrounding Dachau.
1944: The gas chamber was completed.
1944: A brothel was created in the camp, with six women arriving from Ravensbrück. It was closed towards the end of the year
1944: A women's camp was opened inside Dachau
1945: The camp was liberated by the Americans.
1945: The Second World War ended.
1945: The camp was used as a prison for SS graduates and officers.
1965: 20 years after the liberation, the first large concentration camp memorial was opened on the territory of the Federal Republic of Germany.
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Wikipedia: Dachau
Military Wiki: Dachau
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Survivors of the Dachau concentration camp demonstrate the operation of the crematorium by dragging a corpse toward one of the ovens, Dachau Germany, c. May, 1945
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girlactionfigure · 1 year
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The Comedian of Dachau Mocked the Nazis
Fritz Grünbaum was an Austrian-Jewish comedian, singer and cabaret star who never stopped cracking jokes, even after being deported to a concentration camp.
Born in 1880, Fritz attended law school in Vienna. After graduating, instead of practicing law, Fritz pursued his dream of being an entertainer. He wrote his first operetta in 1903, and in 1906 began a longtime gig as the master of ceremonies at Cabaret Die Hoelle in Vienna. Fritz told funny stories, sang songs, and made sure everyone had a great time every night.
In 1910, an Austro-Hungarian imperial army officer in the cabaret audience started heckling Fritz with anti-Semitic insults. Fritz left the stage, went over to the officer’s table, and slapped him, then calmly returned to the stage. The officer challenged Fritz to a duel. The two men fought and Fritz was injured.
Fritz joined the army in 1914 and fought for Austria-Hungary in World War I. After the war, he resumed his successful show business career, commuting between Vienna and Berlin. In Berlin, Fritz acted in movies and recorded pop songs. In Vienna, he was co-founder and master of ceremonies of the legendary cabaret Simpl.
After Hitler’s rise to power in the 1930’s, Fritz was no longer allowed to perform in Germany. He relocated full time to Vienna, where he used his nightclub act to relentlessly skewer the Nazi party. In 1938, he walked out onto a darkened stage and flailed around, crying, “I see nothing, absolutely nothing! I must have wandered into National Socialist culture.” The next day Fritz was banned from performing in Austria.
Germany invaded Austria, and Fritz and his wife tried to escape the country but were caught at the border and deported to labor camps. Fritz was later sent to Dachau, but he never stopped entertaining people. At Dachau, he mocked the Nazis and found levity in the grim absurdities of life in a death camp. One former inmate remembered Fritz comforting the other inmates “by arguing that absolute deprivation and systematic starvation were the best defenses against diabetes.”
Before his deportation, Fritz had been a well-known art collector specializing in Austrian modernist art. He had a large collection of works by Egon Schiele. After Fritz was deported, his prized art collection was looted by the Nazis. A fourth of the collection appeared in the 1950’s through a Swiss art dealer. The fate of the other ¾ of Fritz’ collection remains unknown.
Fritz’ last performance was on New Year’s Eve 1940 in Dachau. He was desperately ill with tuberculosis, but summoned the strength to perform a comedy and musical act for his fellow inmates, most of whom were dying. One of the prisoners was excited when he recognized Fritz from his performances in Vienna. Fritz said, “I beg of you, Fritz Grünbaum is not performing for you, but instead it is the number [he recited his camp number], who just wants to spread a little happiness on the last day of the year.” Fritz died two weeks later.
May his memory always be for a blessing, and may his missing art collection return to his family.
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Dead Fred's Genealogy Photo Archive
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ortodelmondo · 9 months
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Unknown photographer. Dachau Liberation, Entomologisches Institut der Waffen SS Camp, Germany, 1945.
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engel-herz · 10 months
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The Jewish artist Egon Marc Lövith was а survivor of the Dachau camp.
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