Germany Archives - rroma.org https://rroma.org/de/category/news-western-europe/germany/ Fri, 07 Feb 2025 13:09:46 +0000 de hourly 1 https://rroma.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/cropped-greenwheel_large-1-32x32.png Germany Archives - rroma.org https://rroma.org/de/category/news-western-europe/germany/ 32 32 Germany: Racism https://rroma.org/de/27034-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=27034-2 Fri, 07 Feb 2025 13:01:55 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=27034 In 2024, more crimes against Muslims and Sinti and Roma were reported than in the previous year. Zahl der antimuslimischen […]

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]]> In 2024, more crimes against Muslims and Sinti and Roma were reported than in the previous year.

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]]> Germany: Social Innovation https://rroma.org/de/germany-social-innovation/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=germany-social-innovation Fri, 07 Feb 2025 12:58:07 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=27030 For the first time, projects in the “Social Innovation” funding line are being supported in Baden-Württemberg through the European Social […]

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]]> For the first time, projects in the “Social Innovation” funding line are being supported in Baden-Württemberg through the European Social Fund (ESF) Plus. “Almost half of all 77 applications received in 22 urban and rural districts can be funded with European Union (EU) funds. This means that ‘Social Innovation’ is already a great success,” said Social Affairs Minister Manne Lucha in Stuttgart. In addition, due to the large number of applications, the funding has been increased from the original 1.5 million euros to over two million euros.

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]]> Racism in the Church https://rroma.org/de/racism-in-the-church/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=racism-in-the-church Thu, 06 Feb 2025 07:49:11 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=27020 A Protestant pastor in Hamburg who was suspended for racist statements against Sinti and Roma (he used the Z-word) has […]

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]]> A Protestant pastor in Hamburg who was suspended for racist statements against Sinti and Roma (he used the Z-word) has been back on duty since the beginning of January. The man had filed a lawsuit against his suspension before the church court, the disciplinary chamber of the Evangelical Churches in Germany (EKD) and was successful at the end of last year on labour law grounds.

Shame …

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]]> Hamburg: Graves Desecrated https://rroma.org/de/hamburg-graves-desecrated/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hamburg-graves-desecrated Thu, 06 Feb 2025 07:48:16 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=27017 Unknown perpetrators have desecrated graves of Sinti and Roma in a cemetery in the Altona district of Hamburg. Graves were […]

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]]> Unknown perpetrators have desecrated graves of Sinti and Roma in a cemetery in the Altona district of Hamburg. Graves were damaged and materials such as copper were stolen. According to the Sinti Association of Hamburg, a gravestone was even sawn into pieces. In a joint statement, all parties in Altona City Hall, except for the AfD, (surprise?) condemned the acts. The public prosecutor’s office is investigating.

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]]> Alice Weidel https://rroma.org/de/alice-weidel/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=alice-weidel Fri, 31 Jan 2025 09:40:48 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=26926 At first glance, there is nothing to suggest that Alice Weidel, the official AfD candidate once wrote an email in […]

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]]> At first glance, there is nothing to suggest that Alice Weidel, the official AfD candidate once wrote an email in which she said, among other things: “These pigs [the German government under Angela Merkel] are nothing more than puppets of the victorious powers of World War II and their job is to keep the German people down (…).” Or that she described Sinti, Roma and Arabs as “culturally alien peoples” who “are inundating us”.

Well, we knew where we stand.

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]]> Philomena Franz https://rroma.org/de/philomena-franz-4/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=philomena-franz-4 Tue, 28 Jan 2025 07:29:58 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=26893 The Nazis would never have imagined that she would outlive them. The almost centenarian Philomena Franz, who escaped certain death […]

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]]> The Nazis would never have imagined that she would outlive them. The almost centenarian Philomena Franz, who escaped certain death several times, in an extermination camp and four concentration camps, delivers these words to the director, producer and film actor Detlev Buck, who meets her in her Berlin home to arrange an interview. It was 2020, Buck had decided to shoot a documentary on the Holocaust for the Arte TV network. Until then he had never dared to make a film about the Nazi persecutions. It was the survivors who encouraged him. They feared that future generations would forget what happened. Among them Philomena Franz, a Sinti, born in 1922 and died a hundred years later, on December 28, 2022.

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]]> Reimar Lust Award https://rroma.org/de/reimar-lust-award/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=reimar-lust-award Tue, 10 Dec 2024 07:38:44 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=26063 The historian Kateřina Čapková is a leading expert on modern Jewish history in Central and Eastern Europe, the history of […]

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]]> The historian Kateřina Čapková is a leading expert on modern Jewish history in Central and Eastern Europe, the history of the Sinti and Roma, and on flight and migration in the 20th century. She teaches at the Institute of Contemporary History of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. The central focus of her research is on the experiences of Jewish communities in what was then Czechoslovakia during and after World War II. Čapková opens up new perspectives on the interactions between nationalism, minority policy, and transnational networks in Europe. The Reimar Lüst Prize will enable her to conduct research at the Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture – Simon Dubnow in Leipzig.

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]]> Leni Riefenstahl https://rroma.org/de/leni-riefenstahl-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=leni-riefenstahl-2 Mon, 09 Dec 2024 07:36:56 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=26050 A documentary about Hitler’s favourite director Leni Riefenstahl only sparingly illuminates how Riefenstahl took legal action against critics of her […]

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]]> A documentary about Hitler’s favourite director Leni Riefenstahl only sparingly illuminates how Riefenstahl took legal action against critics of her Nazi involvement.

She produced “The Beautiful Appearance of the Third Reich” and was a dancer, actress and director. With three NSDAP party congress films and her films about the 1936 Olympic Games in Nazi Germany, she was the award-winning cinematic figurehead of the National Socialist dictatorship. Director legends such as George Lucas and Quentin Tarantino are among her admirers. Alice Schwarzer defended the artist against the accusation of being a Nazi propagandist.

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]]> Germany: Prosecution https://rroma.org/de/germany-prosecution/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=germany-prosecution Thu, 05 Dec 2024 08:03:00 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=26001  A hundred years old former guard at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp will finally have to face prosecution for his crimes […]

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]]>  A hundred years old former guard at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp will finally have to face prosecution for his crimes after a court overturned the decision of a lower court that he is unfit for trial.

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]]> Saarbrücken: Memorial https://rroma.org/de/saarbrucken-memorial-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=saarbrucken-memorial-2 Wed, 27 Nov 2024 06:53:21 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=25917 A memorial was inaugurated in Echelmeyer Park in Saarbrücken on Sunday. It commemorates the victims of the persecution of Sinti […]

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]]> A memorial was inaugurated in Echelmeyer Park in Saarbrücken on Sunday. It commemorates the victims of the persecution of Sinti and Roma during the Nazi regime in the Saarland.

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