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I found the link to this home movie on a forum in Germany and thought you might like it just as much as I did. It shows Traunstein on 2nd May ´45, the Wehrmacht and Waffen SS leaving the town, liberated jews in their striped suits sitting near the bombed out railway station, German civilians queuein...

Legend has it that the triumphal march of television began in the United States in the 'fifties. But in reality its origins hark back much further. As early as the 'thirties, a bitter rivalry raged for the world's first television broadcast. Nazi Germany wanted to beat the competition from Great Bri...

I would like to recommend the following film - book

"Anonyma"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6Ill1r1TvA

Here a link to Wikipedia, giving you background information about the author

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marta_Hillers

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Did you know.... that in Berlin alone, there were at least 60000 "Trümmerfrauen" (rubble women) clearing the streets from debris and demolishing bombed houses. While their husbands and sons were in captivity as POW´s, too wounded to work or sadly died at the front.... these courageous wom...

Here some prices for everyday goods from 1938 ( excerpt from „Und morgen gibt es Hitlerwetter!-Alltägliches und Kurioses aus dem Dritten Reich“) A suit cost 60 RM (Reichsmark) Silk stockings 1,45 RM Saucepan 2,88 RM Woolen dress 18,68 RM Coffee pot 2,35 RM Pine kitchen table 22,78 RM Per Kilo / Lite...

Here an interesting link about the motorway, AUTOBAHN, in Germany:

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=74998


Abandoned Autobahn listed as a historical monument:

http://www.thelocal.de/society/20090917-21991.html

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During WW II the dockyard in Bremen (Weser AG) build 41 U-Boats from December 1942 onwards. Frau Marie Rosiefsky "adopted" all crew members of those 41 U-Boats and became their caring "U-Boot-Mutti". She would listen to all their small and bigger worries, she supplied them with r...

Here a special ration card that everyone would have loved to have received



I love this sentence:" Junge, hübsche Damen können eine Zusatzkarte beantragen".
Young, beautiful women can apply for a second card.

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Here a link to the German Resistance Memorial Center that might be of interest

http://www.gdw-berlin.de/bio/namen-e.php

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What I would be really interested in is hearing what those 'moral crusaders' have to say about that in Germany? Hi at all, first i should say, i am new here in the board and i think i have to work on my english, because it is a long time ago for me, when i had to use it. I´am an german reenactor. I...