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Here you can find out about how people persecuted by the Nazis as »asocials« and »career criminals« are remembered. How do their families address the history of persecution? How do initiatives and research contribute to it? What types of remembrance and commemoration exist?

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The Forgotten Women of Aichach

From 1933 to 1945, numerous women were imprisoned by the National Socialists in the Aichach women’s prison, with many of them deported to concentration camps. For decades, there was little interest in…

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Rudolf – The beggar with the harmonica

»If I reported him, he said, he would never be set free.« In 2022, Alfons L. Ims published a book about his family’s fate under National Socialism»Eine ›asoziale‹ Pfälzer Familie. Wie in…

Menschen werden als »asozial« bezeichnet und verfolgt, weil sie in der nationalsozialistischen »Volksgemeinschaft« keinen Platz haben. Das betrifft vor allem Arbeits- oder Wohnungslose, Bettler, Fürsorgeempfänger/-innen, Prostituierte oder unangepasste Jugendliche. Ihnen wird vorgeworfen, die Gemeinschaft zu gefährden. Bei ihrer Verfolgung arbeiten Behörden wie Fürsorgeämter, Justiz und Polizei zusammen. Sie schaffen ein engmaschiges Netz aus Überwachungs- und Zwangsmaßnahmen.

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Investigating Family History: My Research into the Life of my Great-Great-Aunt Irmgard Plättner

In 2021 Daniel Haberlah published a book about his great-great-aunt titled »Sent to Ravensbrück as an ›Asocial‹: The Brief Life of Irmgard Plättner«. Irmgard Plättner was persecuted by the Nazis for supposedly being »asocial« and she died in Ravensbrück concentration camp at the age of 24. In this article Daniel Haberlah from Braunschweig describes his attempts to trace her life history and how his family has dealt with it.

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