Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Dietrich Bonhoeffer:

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was one of the few church leaders who stood in courageous opposition to the Fuehrer and his policies. To honor his memory, the Church Relations department of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum asked Victoria Barnett to write an essay about Bonhoeffer spanning the years from the rise of Nazism until his death in the Flossenbürg concentration camp in 1945.

Over the past 50 years, many Christians have been engaged in the process of reexamining the role of the Church in Germany during the Nazi era. What has become evident in this undertaking is the depth of the chasm between the ideals the Church had always set for itself and the way it responded to the brutalization of the German government under Adolf Hitler.


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The 1916 Rising in Ireland

The 1916 Rising:

The National Library of Ireland’s online exhibition The 1916 Rising: Personalities and Perspectives. This study resource draws almost exclusively upon the collections of the National Library, including the Library’s rich holdings of books, newspapers, photographs, drawings, proclamations and, not least, manuscript material. In all, over 500 images have been selected for study and analysis.

Through the medium of contemporary documents, The 1916 Rising: personalities and perspectives focuses upon those who set the stage for the events of Easter Week 1916, the seven signatories of the proclamation, the others executed in the aftermath of the Rising, the casualties and the survivors.

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Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg: short biography

Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg

Online biography produced by the German Resistance Memorial Center. Also available are a vast selection of biographies of other members of the 'German resistance'. The physical museum and exhibition space in Berlin is a fantastic place to study and learn about this topic, although when I last visited, two-three years ago, much of the displays were in solely in German. Very much worth a visit, and the site of Stauffenberg's planning of the coup and execution by firing squad.

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Richard J. Evans: Why did Stauffenberg plant the bomb?

Richard J. Evans: Why did Stauffenberg plant the bomb?

Was it because Hitler was losing the war? Was it to put an end to the mass murder of the Jews. Or was it to save Germany's honour? Whatever his motives for killing Hitler, Stauffenberg was no role model for future generations, says British historian Richard Evans, in an article published in Sign & Sight online. The article was originally published in Süddeutsche Zeitung, 23 January 2009.

Richard J. Evans is Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University.

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