Worst City in Germany or Offseason Travel Problems? The Home of Oskar Schindler
Could this be the worst city in Germany to visit? We made a trip to see the home of Oskar Schindler in this fairy tale city, but what we found we didn't expect.
This is quite the departure from our normal videos. The reality is this probably isn't the worst city in Germany to visit, but we were unimpressed. Watch this video to find out why. Have you visited Oskar Schindler's home town? Tell us what you thought about it in the comments.
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Oskar Schindler
Oskar Schindler (28 April 1908 – 9 October 1974) was an ethnic German industrialist, German spy, and member of the Nazi party who is credited with saving the lives of 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust by employing them in his enamelware and ammunitions factories, which were located in what is now Poland and the Czech Republic respectively. He is the subject of the 1982 novel Schindler's Ark, and the subsequent 1993 film Schindler's List, which reflected his life as an opportunist initially motivated by profit who came to show extraordinary initiative, tenacity, and dedication in order to save the lives of his Jewish employees.
Schindler grew up in Zwittau, Moravia, and worked in several trades until he joined the Abwehr, the intelligence service of Nazi Germany, in 1936. He joined the Nazi Party in 1939. Prior to the German occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1938, he collected information on railways and troop movements for the German government. He was arrested for espionage by the Czech government but was released under the terms of the Munich Agreement in 1938. Schindler continued to collect information for the Nazis, working in Poland in 1939 before the invasion of Poland at the start of World War II.
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The Jews of Würzburg During Kristallnacht
Holocaust survivors from Würzburg, Germany, describe their experiences in Würzburg during the period of Kristallnacht and its aftermath
Survivors' names: Herbert Mai, Ellen Miles, Sidney Reiter, Jack Lewin, Margo Reiser, John Franklin, Margot Kaiser
The video is part of the exhibition The History of the Jewish Community in Würzburg on the Yad Vashem website:
Oskar Schindler
Oskar Schindler was an ethnic German industrialist, German spy, and member of the Nazi party who is credited with saving the lives of 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust by employing them in his enamelware and ammunitions factories, which were located in what is now Poland and the Czech Republic respectively. He is the subject of the 1982 novel Schindler's Ark, and the subsequent 1993 film Schindler's List, which reflected his life as an opportunist initially motivated by profit who came to show extraordinary initiative, tenacity, and dedication in order to save the lives of his Jewish employees.
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Regensburg
Regensburg (German pronunciation: [ˈʁeɡənsbʊɐ̯k]) is a city in Bavaria, Germany, at the confluence of the Danube and Regen River. To the east lies the Bavarian Forest. Regensburg is the capital of the Bavarian administrative region Upper Palatinate. The medieval centre of the city is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Generally known in English as Ratisbon until well into the twentieth century. The city is known as Ratisbonne in French.
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Holocaust Survivor Testimonies: Kristallnacht in a Small German Town
Marga Randall was born in Lemfoerde, Germany, in 1930. Margas father had a fatal heart attack upon hearing of his imminent arrest by the Nazis. Marga sought refuge with her mothers family in the small town of Schermbeck, and after Kristallnacht Marga moved with her mother and sister to Berlin. They eventually immigrated to New York in 1941 via France, Spain and Portugal. In addition to establishing a family, Marga widely lectured on her experiences during the Holocaust, publishing her memoirs under the title Grandfather Didnt Come Home. Marga Randall passed away in 2005.
Yad Vashem Archives V.T. 294
The video is part of the exhibition It Came from Within: 71 Years Since Kristallnacht
Killing of Sienkiewiczówka Jews (until 1939 Poland) in October 1942
Sonia Resnick (Tetelbaum) who was born in 1924 in Sienkiewiczówka and was living there during the war years testifies about the liquidation of Sienkiewiczówka ghetto in early October 1942. She recounts how she managed to hide in the ghetto and escape the murder operation.
Interview conducted by the USC Shoah Foundation Institute.
Regensburg | Wikipedia audio article
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Regensburg
00:00:44 1 History
00:00:52 1.1 Early history
00:03:45 1.2 Middle Ages
00:05:42 1.3 Modern history
00:07:19 1.4 Nazism and World War II
00:08:32 1.5 History after 1945
00:10:30 2 Geography
00:10:39 2.1 Topography
00:11:18 2.2 Climate
00:12:46 3 Main sights
00:12:55 3.1 The city
00:17:04 3.2 The surrounding
00:18:29 4 Culture
00:18:38 4.1 Museums and exhibitions
00:20:38 4.2 Theaters
00:21:30 4.3 Music
00:22:17 4.4 Film and cinema
00:22:52 4.5 Buildings
00:23:09 4.6 Recreation
00:23:34 4.7 Memorial sites
00:24:11 4.8 Events
00:24:47 4.9 Nightlife
00:25:06 5 Demographics
00:25:15 5.1 Population
00:25:52 5.2 International communities
00:26:09 5.3 Religion
00:26:38 6 Politics
00:26:47 6.1 Government
00:27:27 6.2 Boroughs
00:28:11 6.3 Twin towns – Sister cities
00:28:23 7 Economy
00:28:44 7.1 Companies
00:30:54 7.2 Tourism
00:31:31 8 Infrastructure
00:31:41 8.1 Transport
00:32:12 8.2 Energy
00:33:01 8.3 Health
00:33:51 9 Education
00:34:00 9.1 Universities and academia
00:34:48 9.2 Research
00:35:21 9.3 Schools
00:36:01 10 Sports
00:36:10 10.1 Football
00:36:48 10.2 Ice hockey
00:37:05 10.3 Baseball
00:37:44 10.4 Athletics
00:38:04 11 Notable residents
00:41:44 12 Gallery
00:41:53 13 See also
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Regensburg (German pronunciation: [ˈʁeːɡŋ̍sbʊɐ̯k] (listen); Latin: Castra-Regina; Polish: Ratyzbona; Czech: Řezno; French: Ratisbonne; older English: Ratisbon; Bavarian: Rengschburg or Rengschburch) is a city in south-east Germany, at the confluence of the Danube, Naab and Regen rivers. With more than 150,000 inhabitants, Regensburg is the fourth-largest city in the State of Bavaria after Munich, Nuremberg and Augsburg. The city is the political, economic and cultural centre and capital of the Upper Palatinate.
The medieval centre of the city is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. In 2014, Regensburg was among the top sights and travel attractions in Germany.
Historiador fala da contribuição do alemão Hermann Görgen, o Schindler de Minas, para Juiz de Fora
Em 27 de abril de 1941, 48 exilados – sendo 30 homens, 15 mulheres e três crianças – deixaram o porto de Lisboa, em Portugal, no navio espanhol Cabo de Hornos, fugindo da implacável perseguição nazista. Não havia outra opção. Era fugir ou morrer nos campos de concentração e extermínio que já se espalhavam pelo continente europeu àquela altura da Segunda Guerra Mundial. Formado por “não arianos” – segundo a doutrina nazista –, o grupo era constituído por judeus e perseguidos políticos de pelo menos três países (Alemanha, Tchecoslováquia e França), que deixaram para trás familiares e bens conquistados ao longo de suas vidas. O destino era Juiz de Fora, então uma pequena cidade do interior de Minas Gerais, da qual nenhum deles tinha ouvido falar. O lugar significava a salvação para os refugiados e a expectativa de uma nova vida, bem distante do cenário de horror arquitetado por Adolf Hitler.
Catholic Church and Nazi Germany during World War II | Wikipedia audio article
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00:09:17 1.1 German Catholics and the Holocaust
00:27:33 2 Catholic Church in the Nazi Empire
00:27:44 2.1 Central Europe
00:46:08 2.2 Eastern Europe
01:08:56 2.3 Southern Europe
01:20:52 2.4 Western Europe
01:35:16 3 See also
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Several Catholic countries and populations fell under Nazi domination during the period of the Second World War (1939–1945), and ordinary Catholics fought on both sides of the conflict. Despite efforts to protect its rights within Germany under a 1933 Reichskonkordat treaty, the Church in Germany had faced persecution in the years since Adolf Hitler had seized power, and Pope Pius XI accused the Nazi government of sowing 'fundamental hostility to Christ and his Church'. Pius XII became Pope on the eve of war and lobbied world leaders to prevent the outbreak of conflict. His first encyclical, Summi Pontificatus, called the invasion of Poland an hour of darkness. He affirmed the policy of Vatican neutrality, but maintained links to the German Resistance. Despite being the only world leader to publicly and specifically denounce Nazi crimes against Jews in his 1942 Christmas Address, controversy surrounding his apparent reluctance to speak frequently and in even more explicit terms about Nazi crimes continues. He used diplomacy to aid war victims, lobbied for peace, shared intelligence with the Allies, and employed Vatican Radio and other media to speak out against atrocities like race murders. In Mystici corporis Christi (1943) he denounced the murder of the handicapped. A denunciation from German bishops of the murder of the innocent and defenceless, including people of a foreign race or descent, followed.Hitler's invasion of Catholic Poland sparked the War. Nazi policy towards the Church was at its most severe in the areas it annexed to the Reich, such as the Czech and Slovene lands, Austria and Poland. In Polish territories it annexed to Greater Germany, the Nazis set about systematically dismantling the Church—arresting its leaders, exiling its clergymen, closing its churches, monasteries and convents. Many clergymen were murdered. Over 1800 Catholic Polish clergy died in concentration camps; most notably, Saint Maximilian Kolbe. Nazi security chief Reinhard Heydrich soon orchestrated an intensification of restrictions on church activities in Germany. Hitler and his ideologues Goebbels, Himmler, Rosenberg and Bormann hoped to de-Christianize Germany in the long term. With the expansion of the war in the East, expropriation of monasteries, convents and church properties surged from 1941. Clergy were persecuted and sent to concentration camps, religious Orders had their properties seized, some youth were sterilized. The first priest to die was Aloysius Zuzek. Bishop August von Galen's ensuing 1941 denunciation of Nazi euthanasia and defence of human rights roused rare popular dissent. The German bishops denounced Nazi policy towards the church in pastoral letters, calling it unjust oppression.From 1940, the Nazis gathered priest-dissidents in dedicated clergy barracks at Dachau, where (95%) of its 2,720 inmates were Catholic (mostly Poles, and 411 Germans), 1,034 died there. Mary Fulbrook wrote that when politics encroached on the church, German Catholics were prepared to resist, but the record was otherwise patchy and uneven 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. Influential members of the German Resistance included Jesuits of the Kreisau Circle and laymen such as July plotters Klaus von Stauffenberg, Jakob Kaiser and Bern ...