Which still works today: Stories of past small and big events, who have left their mark in Kassel.
Am 20. July 2001 23-year-old Carlo Giuliani died when the Italian Carabinieri were shot at the G8 summit in Genoa. A short conversation with two people from Kassel about the summit protests in the Italian port city and what political significance the death still has today.
On the occasion of the “Day of Remembrance of the Victims of National Socialism”, the 27. January 2021, had the local association of those persecuted by the Nazi regime – Association of Antifascists (VVN-BdA) called for decentralized and virtual commemoration.
Am 8. May public events also took place in Kassel despite Corona, to approach the end of the war 75 Years to remember. Numerous left groups were calling for the German Federation of Trade Unions (DGB), Kassel Peace Forum and Association of Those Persecuted by the Nazi Regime - Association of Antifascists … ▷
Before today 75 years, am 8. May 1945 The Second World War in Germany ended with the unconditional surrender of the Wehrmacht. The Kassel communist Willi Belz experienced the long-awaited end of Hitler's Germany on the Eastern Front, but on the side of the Red Army.
Am 6.4.2020 In Kassel, numerous people thought of Halit Yozgat in various forms, the before 14 Years in his internet café on Holländische Strasse by the neo-Nazis of the NSU and their network of helpers.
About 100 People followed on 27.01. the call of the Association of Those Persecuted by the Nazi Regime - Association of Antifascists (VVN-BdA) as well as the Open Antifa Meeting and took part in a memorial rally on the occasion of 75. Anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp by the Red Army … ▷
Paula Lohagen be am 17. January 1897 Born in Herford and lived until their deportation by the Nazis in the Garden Street 27 in the district of Kassel Wesertor. As avowed socialist she was active after the ban of their party in an anti-fascist resistance group. For her in it … ▷
Since May, the square in front of the slaughterhouse is 1988 unofficially Kemal-Altun-Platz. Who was Kemal Altun? What he stands? What led to the unofficial designation of the square?