Can history be audible? Why should we cross national borders to understand our past in a better way? 24 high-school students from Italy and Germany spent one week in Berlin to answer these questions together. This audio blog presents the results of a one-week radio project on fascism and National Socialism at the Nazi Forced Labour Documentation Centre Berlin. In cooperation with Istoreco and Radio CORAX.
The Nazi Forced Labour Documentation Center
Have you ever heard of nazi forced labour during World War II? If so, how much do you know? Let’s listen to the reportage and to the interviews we made at the Nazi Forced Labour Documentation Centre in Berlin Schöneweide in order to learn something about this topic. Maia, Alex,...
Conceptions of Humans during Nazitime
Is every human being equal? During the Fascist regime in Italy and under the Nazi power in Germany the answer was no. We wanted to know more about it, so we asked people and experts at the Exhibition „The Topography of Terror“ and on the streets of Berlin about their...
The Holocaust Memorial in Berlin
What do you know about the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin? We visited it and interviewed some people about the place, their feelings and opinions. We also talked to Adam Kerpel-Fronius, one of the guides of the memorial, about the meaning of the stones. We hope to answer some of your...
The Italian Military Internees
Who were the IMI? Why were they deported? What happened to them? We will answer these questions in this podcast. We interviewed the historian Pierluigi Pironti and visited the IMI exhibition and some barracks of a forced labour camp in Berlin. Now the barracks have become the Documentation Centre of...
Interview about the Holocaust Memorial
At the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin we interviewed Adam Kerpel-Fronius from the „Stiftung Denkmal“. We asked him about the history of the Holocaust Memorial, its meaning and the actual discussion about it, led by a right wing party in germany.
What motivates us?
One week working on the topic of Nazi forced labour … What would you expect? We are a group of 24 Italian and German high school students who tried to exactly do that. We interviewed the students of the groups working on the other topics, the teachers and the organisers...
Interview about Nazi Forced Labour
To learn more about the history of Nazi Forced Labour, we also have talked to Andrea Genest from the Nazi Forced Labour Documentation Center in Berlin Schöneweide. Listen to our interview to learn more about it.
