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Adolf Eichmann behind Bulletproof Glass during his Trial in Jerusalem (1961)
During the Third Reich, Adolf Eichmann (1906-1962) had served as an SS Obersturmbannführer and as the head of Department IV B 4 (Jewish Affairs and Evacuation)....
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Official Opening of the Memorial at the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp (April 22, 1961)
Dedicated in April 1961, the memorial at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp was the third “National Memorial” opened in the GDR; it was preceded by the Buchenwald (1958) and Ravensbrück (1959)....
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Memorial Site at the Dachau Concentration Camp (1968)
The Comité International de Dachau (Dachau International Prisoners’ Committee) was founded in 1955 on the 10th anniversary of the camp’s liberation. The group campaigned for the establishment of....
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Poster Protesting the Invasion of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic by Warsaw Pact Troops (August 21, 1968)
After Warsaw Pact troops suppressed the "Prague Spring" in a military intervention that began in....
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Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games in Munich’s Olympic Stadium (August 26, 1972)
The architectural firm Behnisch and Partners designed the “Olympiapark” complex for the 1972 Summer Games in Munich; construction began in 1968. For the roof of Olympic Stadium (shown here) architect....
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Section of the Berlin Wall, Potsdamer Platz, Berlin (1973)
As a direct response to the construction of the Berlin Wall on August 13, 1961, Berliners in East....
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Willy Brandt Visits Jerusalem (June 7-11, 1973)
Following an invitation by Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir, Willy Brandt traveled to Israel in June 1973, becoming the....
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Helmut Schmidt in his Office in the New Federal Chancellery (July 7, 1976)
Helmut Schmidt was the first federal chancellor to occupy the new Chancellery....
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Demonstration against the National Democratic Party March on June 17th in Frankfurt am Main (June 17, 1978)
The National Democratic Party [Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands or NPD] was founded in 1964 as an umbrella organization for 80 different radical right-wing groups. Between April 1964....
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Helmut Schmidt giving an Address at the Cologne Synagogue (November 9, 1978)
On November 9, 1978, the Central Council of Jews in the Germany held a service at the Cologne Synagogue to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Kristallnacht....
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