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| My name is Lorenz Knorr; born in 1921 and grown up in Eger, now Cheb, in the German populated areas of Czechoslovakia. I am a trained typesetter and typographer. After 1945 I was active in the socialistic youth as a state and federation secretary. For 25 years I was the head of the German Union of Peace and then federation spokesman for the Association of the victims of persecution by the Nazi regime. If you grew ... more |
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| date: 18.06.2008
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| I would have been disloyal to my own convictions, if I hadn’t joined the resistance. My grandfather was jailed in the KUK Empire, Emperor Royal Monarchy of the Habsburgs, because he fought for socialism. My father was jailed because he fought for socialism. It was obvious, that I would work in the same track, therefore would not passively let it wash over me, but work against it. I was not alone and we had ... more |
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length: 1:27 min
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| The main Nazis, they hid away; took shelter somewhere. Back then, when the partisans were there. Some of them came back out of their holes the end of May and for a while they were like Stasi (secret police of East Germany), you could say. Again, as time went on they showed themselves as what they were; that they were Nazis. And that told us that they believed us to be the betrayers; and even today the word ... more |
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length: 3:17 min
| date: 17.06.2008
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| You always hat to stick up for yourself and you were never accepted. At the inn you were laughed at or reviled as a betrayer of your home country. My father was playing music at the neighbour’s, when somebody took his trombone and broke it. Then he said: “Go home to Laibach or wherever you belong.” Things like that happened quite often. Or once, when we were at the inn, some youngsters came, about 16-17 years ... more |
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length: 4:51 min
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| I don’t know, whether today’s youth can imagine this situation. The war had been going on for five years already, more and more were killed, it got worse and worse. There was no real future for us. But that – it seems to me – made you stronger to go into this resistance and help wherever you could. |
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length: 0:40 min
| date: 16.06.2008
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| There were conflicts as well, because I was a Slovenian. I even had conflicts with other Slovenians. They could not understand why I had so much political interest and why I am for the Slovenes and so on. Well, the disappointment was quite big when the English came and treated us like enemies again, and we weren’t even allowed to go to church without ID and so on. Even the English were quite discriminating. When ... more |
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length: 1:59 min
| date: 15.06.2008
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| Yes, I did have problems because of that. As long as I was healthy, there was nothing; but when I was ill, I started having delusions, bad feelings and fears about people, and when I saw somebody in uniform coming, I used to hide. The Germans were my deadly enemies for a long, long time. It took many years before I had worked out for myself that it weren’t the Germans as such – it were just the fascists. But not ... more |
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length: 1:00 min
| date: 15.06.2008
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| please translate this description: Erwin Schulz ist am 13. Oktober 1912 in Berlin-Tempelhof geboren. Drei Jahre später ist seine Schwester geboren. Sein Vater wurde in den ersten Weltkrieg eingezogen. Die Ernährungslage war in den Kriegsjahren schwierig, besonders 1917 im Kohlrübenwinter. 1919 kam er in die Schule, die in der ... more |
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length: 3.30 min
| date: 13.06.2008
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| please translate this description: Erwin Schulz hatte damals gerne gesungen. 1923 mit der Inflation kauften warteten er und seine Schwester auf den Vater, um sofort von dem Geld Lebensmittel zu kaufen, weil es am nächsten Tag sonst nichts mehr wert gewesen wäre. 1927 kam er aus der Schule und er hatte keine Lehrstelle gefunden und ... more |
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length: 3.57 min
| date: 13.06.2008
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| please translate this description: 1929 kam das Buch "im Westen nichts Neues" von Remarque. Er hatte das Buch wieviele der kommunistischen und sozialistischen Jugendbewegung gelesen. |
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When I came home, I joined (I hadn’t been politically organized before) the SED (Socialist Unity Party of Germany) – you know – that was the association of the social democrats, communists and many independent people. I worked in the ministry occasionally and was temporarily at the SED in Tempelhof as the 2nd secretary (vice-president), later on even as party secretary for a company in
Johannisthal. As a last ... more |
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length: 3:05 min
| date: 13.06.2008
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| please translate this description: In der Familie von Herrn Dušek haben welche schon im ersten Weltkrieg gekämpft. |
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| date: 09.06.2008
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| Sie wurde in Berlin geboren und verbrachte ihre Zeit bis sie drei Jahre alt in einem Heim in Thüringen. Ihre Mutter heiratete nochmals und zog nach Stolpe (Ostpommern). Dort lebte sie bis zum Ende des Krieges. |
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length: 00:40 min
| date: 31.05.2008
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| Die Fotos zeigen die Familie vor dem 2. Weltkrieg in ihrer Heimatstadt Poznan (Posen). |
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length: 1:30 min
| date: 28.01.2008
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| Die Errichtung der Gedenkstätte Lichterfelde. Herr de Ruiter erzählt von seiner Tätigkeit als Zeitzeuge. |
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length: 2:17 min
| date: 18.07.2007
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length: 1:14 min
| date: 29.06.2007
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| date: 29.06.2007
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| Herr Kann erzählt ausführlich, wie es zu seinem Nachnamen kam und welche Bedeutungen dieser für ihn und seine Familie hatte. |
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Kann, Ludwig || Sonstiges || Before 1933
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team: Sophie Kemp, Anna Riemensperger, Angela Romacker, Mora Thurow, Daniel Wewer, Julian Liefeldt (web)
language: german
| length: 6:24 min
| size: 5 MB
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| date: 03.12.2006
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| Herr Kann gibt Auskunft über die Lebensumstände gegen Ende der Weimarer Republik und problematisiert die Auswirkungen der Inflation. |
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Kann, Ludwig || Sonstiges || Before 1933
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team: Sophie Kemp, Anna Riemensperger, Angela Romacker, Mora Thurow, Daniel Wewer, Julian Liefeldt (web)
language: german
| length: 4:16 min
| size: 3 MB
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| date: 03.12.2006
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| Herr Kann beschreibt sein idealistisches Bild für ein Zusammenleben im Kibbuz, einer jüdischen, zionistischen, sozialistisch eingestellten Gemeinschaft, welche nach dem Solidaritätsprinzip funktionieren sollte. |
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Kann, Ludwig || YOUTH ORGANISATION || Sonstiges || 1939
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team: Sophie Kemp, Anna Riemensperger, Angela Romacker, Mora Thurow, Daniel Wewer, Julian Liefeldt (web)
language: german
| length: 3:16 min
| size: 2 MB
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| date: 03.12.2006
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