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Irmtrud Wojak
Irmtrud Wojak (born 1963) is a German historian. From the end of March 2009 until November 2011, she was the founding director of the Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism. Life Wojak studied history, Social History, social history and economic history as well as political science at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum. She gained her doctorate with a thesis on German Jewish and political emigration during the National Socialist, NS period to Latin America, also in Bochum. She then completed several research stays, including at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem and at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., Washington. Subsequently, she was a research associate and deputy director of the in Frankfurt. In Frankfurt, she created the exhibition "Auschwitz-Prozess. 4 Ks 2/63. Frankfurt am Main" and Habilitation, habilitated herself with a biography of Fritz Bauer. She then became head of research and a member of the managem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Munich Documentation Centre For The History Of National Socialism
The NS-Dokumentationszentrum is a museum in the Maxvorstadt area of Munich, Germany, which focuses on the history and consequences of the Nazi regime and the role of Munich as ''Hauptstadt der Bewegung'' (′capital of the movement′). Establishment In December 2005 the government of Bavaria announced that the museum would be situated at the site of the former Brown House, the Nazi Party headquarters, which played an important role in Munich as "capital of the movement" during the rise of the party and the enforcement of Nazism. The Königsplatz, a square for the Nazi Party's mass rallies, is in sighting distance. The cornerstone for the building was laid in March 2012. The museum opened to the public in May 2015. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
