People and places
The stories of Germany.
Homes, streets and memorial sites.
The people who left something of themselves here.
Eduard Schulte
The prominent German industrialist who knew the Third Reich's most closely guarded secret and refused to stay silent. While everyone else turned a blind eye to evil, he risked his life to reveal the machinery of extermination to the world.
Odoardo Focherini
A devout Catholic journalist who became the director of an underground network that saved Jews from the clutches of the Gestapo. He paid with his life for acting as Italy's Schindler, proving that courage knows no boundaries.
Erich Hartmann
352 aerial victories made him the most successful and deadliest fighter pilot in the history of aerial warfare. The Luftwaffe's "Black Demon" made his enemies look to the skies in terror, and with secret admiration.
Ernst Leitz II
The man behind the legendary Leica cameras turned his life's work into a brilliant rescue operation. He smuggled dozens of Jewish employees abroad under the cover story that they were business representatives.
Magda Goebbels
She was considered a model of Aryan beauty and the First Lady of the Reich, but concealed dark secrets from her past. The woman behind the Nazi propaganda monster, who chose blind loyalty to Satan until the bitter end.
Karl Plagge
The officer raised in the traditions of the Prussian army who ran a labor camp that served as a haven. Instead of exploiting his prisoners, he did everything he could to protect them until the very end of the war.
Regina Jonas
Berlin in the 1930s was not ready for a woman to stand on a stage holding a rabbinical ordination certificate. The tragic and inspiring story of the first female rabbi in history, who refused to let convention stop her.
7 place links in this collection
- Krausnickstraße Street 6, Berlin, Germany (her residence)
- Düsseldorf, Germany (his birthplace)
- Hersbruck Concentration Camp, Germany (place of his death)
- Leica Factory (Ernst Leitz Wetzlar), Wetzlar, Germany
- Tomb of Karl Plagge, Old Cemetery (Alter Friedhof), Darmstadt, Germany
- Weissach (Weissach), Germany (his birthplace)
- Führerbunker Site, In den Ministergärten, Berlin, Germany (place of death)