"Die Nazis waren ja nicht einfach weg!" (The Nazis didn’t just disappear) — this is the title of a current special exhibition at the Topography of Terror documentation center. It was also a fundamental realization for the persecuted and tortured victims of the Nazi regime that, after 1945, former Nazis continued to form an influential part of West German society.
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In her book "Unerwünscht. Die westdeutsche Demokratie und die Verfolgten des NS-Regimes" ("Unwelcome: West German Democracy and the Persecuted of the Nazi Regime"), Stefanie Schüler-Springorum examines how the Federal Republic of Germany — through neighbors and municipalities, social and housing offices, doctors and lawyers — treated these persecuted individuals after the fall of National Socialism. She shifts the perspective and shows us the young Federal Republic through the eyes of the victims of the Nazi regime.
Their sense of newfound freedom was often overshadowed by feelings of rootlessness — and in many cases, by continued forms of persecution, as seen in the treatment of homosexuals or Sinti and Roma. The path toward recognition for the crimes they suffered has been long and remains unfinished to this day.
About the author:
Prof. Dr. Stefanie Schüler-Springorum is the Director of the Center for Research on Antisemitism (ZfA) at the Technical University of Berlin. Her research has included studies on Jewish history in Berlin as well as the history of the Condor Legion during the Spanish Civil War.
(Language: German)
Additional information
Free entry - Registration required: Lesung mit Stefanie Schüler-Springorum: „Unerwünscht.“
Dates
October 2025
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