VelEx Politics18 MAR 1992 | First free parliamentary election in East Germany | East Germany
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ResearchBuzz: FirehoseDeutsche Welle: Dispute with the Hohenzollerns ends after almost 100 years. “The House of Hohenzollern — a German noble family which the last German Emperor, Wilhelm II, also belonged to — had long laid claim to various objects housed in German museums. They had also demanded millions in compensation for expropriated palaces and inventory. The whole saga went to court — until Georg […]
ᕼI, IT’ᔕ GEᖇᗩᒪᗪ ✌🏼📍Maximilianbrücke Mühldorf, Germany 🇩🇪 (2025)
Originally constructed by Karl Kaerner in the late 19th century, the first version of this bridge was an important crossing over the river Inn. In May 1945, it was destroyed during the final days of World War II.
The current structure, known as the Inn Bridge (Maximilian Bridge), was built in the postwar years and serves as a vital connection in the region to this day.
[📷: Sony A7 IV 🔎: Tamron 28 - 200mm]
#Mühldorf #Bavaria #Bayern #Bridge #River #WWII #BavarianHistory #History #GermanyHistory #nightphotography #architecture #architecturephotography #city #cityphotography #longexposure #sony #sonyalpha #tamron
Originally constructed by Karl Kaerner in the late 19th century, the first version of this bridge was an important crossing over the river Inn. In May 1945, it was destroyed during the final days of World War II.
The current structure, known as the Inn Bridge (Maximilian Bridge), was built in the postwar years and serves as a vital connection in the region to this day.
[📷: Sony A7 IV 🔎: Tamron 28 - 200mm]
#Mühldorf #Bavaria #Bayern #Bridge #River #WWII #BavarianHistory #History #GermanyHistory #nightphotography #architecture #architecturephotography #city #cityphotography #longexposure #sony #sonyalpha #tamron
The Berliner: Scanning the Horizon: Documenting Berlin’s queer spaces. “An initiative titled Scanning the Horizon: An Immersive Archive is capturing the city’s queer establishments threefold: on a website, through audio interviews with the scene’s protagonists and through a unique virtual reality experience. Created by US-born visual artist Benjamin Busch, Scanning the Horizon looks […]
FAU: The Subsequent Nuremberg Trials 1946-1949: Digitalization project launched. “The Subsequent Nuremberg Trials started immediately after the Nuremberg Trials against the main war criminals of the Second World War. Unlike the main trials that were heard by an international tribunal, these trials that were held in Nuremberg between 1946 and 1949 were heard entirely by US military tribunals. […]
Google Blog: The importance of preserving history on International Holocaust Memorial Day. “This year, the decade-long partnership between the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum Archive and Google Arts & Culture supports and amplifies the Memorial’s vital digitization efforts that will commemorate and share stories of victims and survivors of the German Nazi concentration and extermination […]
Wiener Holocaust Library: Wiener Digital Collections: Thousands of pages documenting Nazi persecution digitised for unprecedented online access. “To mark International Holocaust Memorial Day, the Wiener Holocaust Library, one of the largest Nazi-era archives in the world, has launched a new online portal putting over 150,000 pages of evidence of the Holocaust and those who resisted it at the […]
Heise Online: Object database: Online visit to the German Historical Museum. “Sound recordings over 100 years old, a Luther Bible from the 16th century or a call for a climate strike: the German Historical Museum (DHM) in Berlin has revised and expanded its object database. Many exhibits can be viewed online. The DHM’s collection comprises around one million objects. Around 780,000 of these […]