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Vollmer, Double Life Doppelleben
Antje Vollmer, A Double Life - Doppelleben Page 1 of 46 TITLE PAGE Antje Vollmer A Double Life. Heinrich and Gottliebe von Lehndorff and Their Resistance against Hitler and von Ribbentrop With a recollection of Gottliebe von Lehndorff by Hanna Schygulla, an essay on Steinort Castle by art historian Kilian Heck, and unpublished photos and original documents Sample translation by Philip Schmitz Eichborn. Frankfurt am Main 2010 © Eichborn AG, Frankfurt am Main, September 2010 Antje Vollmer, A Double Life - Doppelleben Page 2 of 46 TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface History and Interest /9/ Six Brief Profiles /15/ Family Stories I – Illustrious Forebears /25/ Family Stories II – Dandies and Their Equestrian Obsession /35/ Childhood in Preyl /47/ The Shaping of Pupil Lehndorff /59/ Apprenticeship and Journeyman Years /76/ The Young Countess /84/ The Emancipation of a Young Noblewoman /92/ From Bogotá to Berlin /101/ Excursion: The Origin, Life Style, and Consciousness of the Aristocracy /108/ Aristocrats as Reactionaries and Dissidents during the Weimar Period /115/ A Young Couple. Time Passes Differently /124/ A Warm Autumn Day /142/ The Decision to Lead a Double Life /151/ Hitler's Various Headquarters and "Wolfschanze” /163/ Joachim von Ribbentrop at Steinort /180/ Military Resistance and Assassination Attempts /198/ The Conspirators Surrounding Henning von Tresckow /210/ Private Life in the Shadow of the Conspiracy /233/ The Days before the Assassination Attempt /246/ July 20 th at Steinort /251/ The Following Day /264/ Uncertainty /270/ On the Run /277/ “Sippenhaft.” The Entire Family Is Arrested /285/ Interrogation by the Gestapo /302/ Before the People's Court /319/ The Escape to the West and Final Certainty /334/ The Farewell Letter /340/ Flashbacks /352/ Epilogue by Hanna Schygulla – My Friend Gottliebe /370/ Kilian Heck – From Baroque Castle to Fortress of the Order. -
The Postwar Transformation of German Protestantism
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Carolina Digital Repository FAITH AND DEMOCRACY: POLITICAL TRANSFORMATIONS AT THE GERMAN PROTESTANT KIRCHENTAG, 1949-1969 Benjamin Carl Pearson A dissertation submitted to the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of History. Chapel Hill 2007 Approved by: Dr. Konrad H. Jarausch Dr. Christopher Browning Dr. Chad Bryant Dr. Lloyd Kramer Dr. Terence McIntosh ©2007 Benjamin Carl Pearson ALL RIGHTS RESERVED ii ABSTRACT BENJAMIN CARL PEARSON: Faith and Democracy: Political Transformations at the German Protestant Kirchentag, 1949-1969 (Under the direction of Konrad H. Jarausch) In the decades following World War II, German Protestants worked to transform their religious tradition. While this tradition had been previously characterized by rigidly hierarchical institutional structures, strong nationalist leanings, and authoritarian political tendencies, the experiences of dictatorship and defeat caused many Protestants to question their earlier beliefs. Motivated by the desire to overcome the burden of the Nazi past and by the opportunity to play a major role in postwar rebuilding efforts, several groups within the churches worked to reform Protestant social and political attitudes. As a result of their efforts, the churches came to play an important role in the ultimate success and stability of West German democracy. This study examines this transformation at the meetings of the German Protestant Kirchentag, one of the largest and most diverse postwar gatherings of Protestant laity. After situating the Kirchentag within the theological and political debates of the immediate postwar years, it focuses on changing understandings of the role of the church in society, the pluralization of Protestant political attitudes, and the shift from national to international self-understandings within the churches. -
Morgen Tanzt Die Ganze Welt Amend/Morgen Tanzt Die Welt 30.12.2009 16:03 Uhr Seite 2 Amend/Morgen Tanzt Die Welt 30.12.2009 16:03 Uhr Seite 3
Amend/Morgen tanzt die Welt 30.12.2009 16:03 Uhr Seite 1 Christoph Amend Morgen tanzt die ganze Welt Amend/Morgen tanzt die Welt 30.12.2009 16:03 Uhr Seite 2 Amend/Morgen tanzt die Welt 30.12.2009 16:03 Uhr Seite 3 Christoph Amend Morgen tanzt die ganze Welt Die Jungen, die Alten, der Krieg Karl Blessing Verlag Amend/Morgen tanzt die Welt 30.12.2009 16:03 Uhr Seite 4 Umwelthinweis: Dieses Buch und sein Schutzumschlag wurden auf chlorfrei gebleichtem Papier gedruckt. Die Einschrumpffolie (zum Schutz vor Verschmutzung) ist aus umweltschonender recyclingfähiger PE-Folie. Der Karl Blessing Verlag ist ein Unternehmen der Verlagsgruppe Random House GmbH. 2. Auflage Copyright © by Karl Blessing Verlag GmbH München 2003 Umschlaggestaltung: Design Team München unter Verwendung des Gemäldes alle wollen den Führer sehen von Norbert Bisky / Galerie Michael Schultz, Berlin Satz: Uhl+Massopust, Aalen Druck und Bindung: GGP Media, Pößneck Printed in Germany ISBN 3-89667-199-5 www.blessing-verlag.de Amend/Morgen tanzt die Welt 30.12.2009 16:03 Uhr Seite 5 Inhalt Warum ich mich mitten im Chaos der Gegenwart auf eine 7 merkwürdige Reise in Deutschlands Vergangenheit begebe Als Richard von Weizsäcker von seiner Angst im Dritten 16 Reich erzählt, höre ich ihn immer wieder kichern Warum wir lieber über Nutella-Gläser diskutieren, als unsere 31 Großeltern nach Hitler zu fragen Als der Derrick-Erfinder Herbert Reinecker vom Berlin der 38 Nazi-Zeit erzählt, fühle ich mich an das Berlin von heute erinnert Warum ich nachts in einem Berliner Club einer Blondine -
Heldenpolitik: Ritterkreuz, Ideology and the Complexities of Hero Culture Under National Socialism
Heldenpolitik: Ritterkreuz, Ideology and the Complexities of Hero Culture under National Socialism By Colin Gilmour A thesis submitted to McGill University in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy December 2018 Department of History and Classical Studies McGill University Montreal, Quebec ©Colin Gilmour 2018 i Abstract This dissertation explores the political history of Germany’s highest award for military excellence during the Second World War: the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross, or “Ritterkreuz.” Expanding upon a limited foundation of existing scholarly research, its primary focus is to examine the role played by this famous medal as a vessel of “symbolic capital” for the National Socialist regime. Designed not only as a tool to help forge a new archetype for military heroism, it was also to represent the “revolution” that the Party claimed to have produced in German society and politics. Using this function as a framework, the component chapters of this study document different ways in which it informed or affected official usages of the Ritterkreuz and the activities of its recipients – called “Ritterkreuzträger” – during the war years. Through this investigation, the dissertation argues that while achieving an impact on wartime culture that continues to be felt in Germany today, both medal and men proved as much a source of frustration and embarrassment to the regime as they did ideological success. As such, it challenges several existing assumptions regarding the role of orders and decorations created by National Socialism while highlighting an underrecognized layer of complexity in its “Heldenpolitik” (Hero Politics). ii Résumé Cette thèse explore l'histoire politique de la plus haute distinction militaire accordée en Allemagne durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale : la croix de chevalier de la croix de fer, la « Ritterkreuz ». -
Jahrbuch 1993
DÖW - Bibliothek Handbibliothek ,,\4~ 1 r b I 19500 Dokumentationsarchiv des österreichischen Widerstandes IBLIOTHEK okumentatlonsarchlv des österreichischen Widerstandes JAHRBUCH 1993 Redaktion: Siegwald Ganglmair BIBLIOTHEK Dokumentationsarchiv des österreichischen Widerstandes UNIV. DOZ. DR. HERBERT STEINER VIZEPRÄSIDENT DES DÖW ZUM 70. GEBURTSTAG (3. 2. 1923) © 1993 by Dokumentationsarchiv des österreichischen Widerstandes, Wien Printed in Austria Umschlaggestaltung: Atelier Fuhrherr, Wien Layout: Florian Freund, Winfried R. Garscha Hersteller:Plöchl-Druckgesellschaft m. b. H. & Co. KG., 4240 Freistadt ISBN 3-901142-13-4 4 5 DÖW-VIZEPRÄSIDENT UNIV. DOZ. DR. HERBERT STEINER - (als D r. phil. an der U niversität Wien nostrifiziert) 70 JAHRE seit 1%1 Vorarbeiten für das Dokumentationsarchiv des österrei chischen Widerstandes 1923 am 3. Februar in Wien geboren 1%3 Mitarbeiter des österreichischen Instituts für Zeitgeschichte 1929- 1933 Besuch der Volksschule in Wien 9., D'Orsaygasse (Forschungsprojekt der Bundesregierung über den öster reichischen Widerstand) 1933-1934 Kinderfreunde und Rote Falken seit 1%3 Sekretär und Wissenschaftlicher Leiter des Dokumenta ab 1933 Besuch der Realschule in Wien 9., Glasergasse tionsarchivs des österreichischen Widerstandes 1937 Antifaschistische Tätigkeit im KJV 1964 Mitbegründer der "Internationalen Tagung der Historiker der Arbeiterbewegung" 1938 Schulausschluß Berufstitel Professor 1938 November: Flucht über H olland nach England, Jugendlager seit 1972 Obmann der Gesellschaft Österreich - KDVR -
1943 Claus Schenk Graf Von Stauffenberg
Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (Retrieved on October 6, 2009 from http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claus_Schenk_Graf_von_Stauffenberg and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claus_Schenk_Graf_von_Stauffenberg ) Claus Philipp Maria Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (15 November 1907 – 21 July 1944) was a German army officer and Catholic aristocrat who was one of the leading members of the failed 20 July plot of 1944 to kill German dictator Adolf Hitler and remove the Nazi Party from power in World War II Germany. Along with Henning von Tresckow and Hans Oster, he was one of the central figures of the German Resistance movement within the Wehrmacht. Early life Stauffenberg was the third of four sons (the others being the twins Berthold and Alexander and his own twin brother Konrad Maria Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, who died in Jettingen on 16 November, 1907) of Alfred Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, the last Oberhofmarschall of the Kingdom of Württemberg, and Caroline Schenk Gräfin (Countess) von Stauffenberg, née Gräfin von Üxküll-Gyllenband. Claus was born in the Stauffenberg castle of Jettingen between Ulm and Augsburg, in the eastern part of Swabia, at that time in the Kingdom of Bavaria, part of the German Empire. The Stauffenberg family is one of the oldest and most distinguished aristocratic Catholic families of southern Germany. Among his maternal Protestant ancestors were several famous Prussians, including Field Marshal August von Gneisenau. In his youth, he and his brothers were members of the Neupfadfinder, a German Scout association and part of the German Youth movement. Like his brothers, he was carefully educated and inclined toward literature, but eventually took up a military career. -
Forstleute Im Widerstand Gegen Adolf Hitler - Eine Spurensuche
er vor hundert Jahren in Deutschland Forstwirtschaft studierte, der kam häufi g aus gutbürgerlichen Verhältnissen oder entstammte Weiner Adelsfamilie. Diese jungen Männer fühlten sich in aller Regel den militärischen Traditionen ihrer Väter verpfl ichtet und wussten mit der Ver- Band 9 Band 9 Göttinger Forstwissenschaften fassung von Weimar wenig anzufangen. Sie genossen die Privilegien ihrer Herkunft und das Renommee ihres Berufsstandes. Das „Dritte Reich“ und sein „Führer“ wurden von ihnen freudig begrüßt und die frühen Kriegs- erfolge begeistert gefeiert, an denen sie als Reserveoffi ziere nicht selten Peter-Michael Steinsiek auch selbst beteiligt waren. Dennoch fanden einige von ihnen den Weg in den Widerstand gegen Hitler. Forstleute im Widerstand Wie aber verträgt sich das landläufi ge Bild von den Forstleuten als „staats- treue Funktionseliten“ mit Konspiration und Attentat? gegen Adolf Hitler Im vorliegenden Band wird der Versuch unternommen, die Vorausset- Eine Spurensuche zungen und Spielräume „forstlichen“ Widerstands gegen das national- sozialistische Regime anhand biographischer Skizzen darzustellen. Soweit möglich, wurden auch die Biographien der Ehefrauen dieser Forstleute in die Recherchen einbezogen. Sie waren zumeist in die geheimen Aktivi- täten ihrer Männer eingeweiht und trugen die Entscheidung mit, nicht nur das eigene Leben, sondern auch das ihrer Familien aufs Spiel zu setzen. Peter-Michael Steinsiek Forstleute im Widerstand gegen Adolf Hitler - Eine Spurensuche ISBN: 978-3-86395-444-4 eISSN: 2512-6830 Universitätsverlag -
The Letters of Holocaust Victims Leave a Lasting Legacy
Why Do We Study History, If Not to Make a Better Future? Rebecca Lim Georgetown University, Class of 2011 NEW YORK – Why do we study history, if not to make a better future? That was the thought that filled my mind as the documentary ―A Film Unfinished‖ came to an end and the shades over the windows in the auditorium rolled up to reveal a magnificent sunset. The documentary, about the Nazi effort to make a propaganda film about the Warsaw Ghetto, was probably one of the most intense I’d ever seen, along with The Conscience of Nhem En (about a photographer who documented the Khmer Rouge genocide in Cambodia). It was the end of the first day on the FASPE journalism program and we had spent the day in discussions and seminars on the role of the press during the Holocaust and covering conflict. We had also been taken on a tour of the Jewish Heritage Museum in New York by a Holocaust survivor from Poland. We were warned that the film was hard to watch, but even then, there was a cloud of silence hanging over the room for a few minutes when it ended. I’m hardly ever at a loss for words, but in that moment, I was only able to come to terms with the horrific images I had just seen, by capturing images myself. I grabbed my camera and shot the sunset through the window. Being behind the lens made me feel safe again, even as the questions and thoughts were racing through my head about the people who shot that film in the ghetto, of the dead and dying, and the one man who recounted the process in an interview years later. -
BAVARIA and GERMAN FEDERALISM This Page Intentionally Left Blank Bavaria and German Federalislll Reich to Republic, 1918-33, 1945-49
BAVARIA AND GERMAN FEDERALISM This page intentionally left blank Bavaria and German Federalislll Reich to Republic, 1918-33, 1945-49 D. R. Dorondo Assistant Professor of History Western Carolina University M St. Martin's Press © D. R. Dorondo 1992 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1992 978-0-333-53825-8 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions ofthe Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London WIP 9HE. Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. First published in Great Britain 1992 by THE MACMILLAN PRESS LTD Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 2XS and London Companies and representatives throughout the world This book is published in the St Antony's I Macmillan Series General Editor: Rosemary Thorp A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN 978-1-349-38984-1 ISBN 978-0-230-37211-5 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9780230372115 First published in the United States of America 1992 by Scholarly and Reference Division, ST. MARTIN'S PRESS, INC., 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010 ISBN 978-0-312-06878-3 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Dorondo, D. R., 1957- Bavaria and German federalism: Reich to republic, 1918-33, 1945-49/ D. -
Reunified Germany's Selective Commemoration of Resisters To
Colby College Digital Commons @ Colby Honors Theses Student Research 2007 Obstacles and Stepping Stones to the Hero’s Pedestal: Reunified Germany’s Selective Commemoration of Resisters to National Socialism Suzanne J. Swartz Colby College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/honorstheses Part of the History Commons Colby College theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed or downloaded from this site for the purposes of research and scholarship. Reproduction or distribution for commercial purposes is prohibited without written permission of the author. Recommended Citation Swartz, Suzanne J., "Obstacles and Stepping Stones to the Hero’s Pedestal: Reunified Germany’s Selective Commemoration of Resisters to National Socialism" (2007). Honors Theses. Paper 277. https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/honorstheses/277 This Honors Thesis (Open Access) is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Research at Digital Commons @ Colby. It has been accepted for inclusion in Honors Theses by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Colby. Obstacles and Stepping Stones to the Hero’s Pedestal: Reunified Germany’s Selective Commemoration of Resisters to National Socialism Suzanne Swartz Senior Honors Thesis in History Thesis Advisor: Professor Raffael Scheck Colby College 2006-07 Swartz 1 “You could not endure the shame; you resisted; you gave the great, eternally vital sign of 1 change, sacrificing your glowing lives for freedom, justice, and honor.” 1 Translation of the plaque in the center of the courtyard at the Memorial to German Resistance in Berlin;, where a firing squad murdered four army officers for their role in the most famous plot to kill Hitler on July 20, 1944. -
Transcription of Audio
http://collections.ushmm.org Contact [email protected] for further information about this collection STORY PRESERVATION INITIATIVE CLAUDIA CORDS-DAMON TRANSCRIPTION OF AUDIO TRACK 01 – INTRO TO RECORDING Today is Wednesday, the 15th of April 2015. This recording is of Claudia Cords-Damon, the daughter of Jutta and Helmuth Cords, who were involved in Operation Valkyrie, the 1944 plot to assassinate Hitler. It is being made at CedarHouse Sound and Mastering in North Sutton, New Hampshire. This recording is a production of Story Preservation Initiative, copyright, Nexcord’s Generation Partnership, LP. All rights reserved. TRACK 02 – HITLER’S RISE TO POWER I’m Claudia Damon. I am the daughter of Jutta and Helmuth Cords. My mother was born in 1920, in Berlin. My father, Helmuth, was born in Cologne, in 1919. They were living in, respectively, Berlin and in Cologne at the time that Hitler came to power in 1933. I want to tell the story of my parents and their involvement in the plot to kill Hitler that took place on July 20, 1944. It was probably the twenty-third plot or attempt, none of which worked. They were involved in that one, in particular. Actually, my mother would say it’s not so much a story about the plot to kill Hitler, as it is their own love story. So, in 1930, my mom and her parents moved to Berlin. She was in school, and school was a wonderful place. It wasn’t always interesting for Mom, but some of the classes were, and she loved being with the kids and had a lot of friends. -
1 Address by Dr. Antje Vollmer Former Vice-President of the German
Address by Dr. Antje Vollmer former Vice-President of the German Bundestag at the official memorial ceremony for Dr. Richard von Weizsäcker, former President of the Federal Republic of Germany, Berlin, 11 February 2015 Mr President, Excellencies, Ladies and gentlemen, members of the Weizsäcker family, On the last day of January, as the news began to spread that Richard von Weizsäcker had died, for a moment the world came to a stop. It seemed as though the old Federal Republic of Germany had passed away – or part of the old Europe. If it were still possible, Vaclav Havel would be standing here today and describing what kind of a person Richard von Weizsäcker was. The two men shared the kind of friendship that is extremely rare among politicians. Each was for the other a model, mentor, motivator in a relationship of almost tender admiration and the highest respect. The difference in their ages made no difference. Havel’s principle of “living within the truth” was translated by Weizsäcker thus: “We must find the standards alone ... We need the power and we have the power to look the truth in the eye as best we can, the whole, unvarnished truth.” All their lives, they both worked to heal the split dividing the European continent and their own people. They wrote to each other already before the Velvet Revolution. After only three months in office, the president of Czechoslovakia invited the German Federal President to Prague for a state visit, on a date with great symbolic significance: the 15th of March, the anniversary of Nazi Germany’s violent subjugation in 1939 of what was left of Czechoslovakia.