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The cemetery is the burial place of 7,646 soldiers from Great Britain and Allied armies killed during the Second World War: 406 English, 706 Canadians, 327 Australians, 127 New Zealanders, 1 South… more
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In the autumn of 1889, the Munich author and editor Julius Beck (1852-1920) published a two-instalment article in the popular magazine Vom Fels zum Meer, published by Wilhelm Spemann’s Union-Verlag… more
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For many years, little pieces of information from very specific periods in time were known about Dora Diamant. The writer Max Brod (1884–1968), Franz Kafka's close friend who later became the… more
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An “intellectual programme” in Basel
On 31. October 2014, just 11 months after being appointed the future head of the Documenta, Adam Szymczyk took his leave as the director of the Kunsthalle in… more
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Introduction
A glance at the two-volume encyclopedia of surnames of Polish origin in the Ruhr area is enough to get an idea of how close the genealogical relationship between Germans and Poles is -… more
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“I am a Pole, a Jew, a free artist and a pan-European. In each of these four character traits, I must see Hitlerism as my mortal enemy, I have to fight it with all the means at my disposal as my… more
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After the referendum that sealed the partition of Upper Silesia into Polish and German sections, the Union of Poles in Germany (Związek Polaków w Niemczech)[1] attempted to set up a secondary school… more
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In 1980, Kasimir Zgorecki died in northern France, after working for many years as a successful photographer there. He passed on his passion for photography to both his sons Jacques and Alfred. They… more