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The Historiathek – collection of historical films and photos
The Historiathek Over the last 20 years, the production company zb Media has collected a large historical archive of films and photos. I recommend this carefully edited archive, the Historiathek, and can support enquiries on many historical topics with research services. With a variety of high-quality [...]
We Sleepwalkers – Never Again War
We sleepwalkers - Never again war One hundred years after 1914, we sleepwalkers are watching war and threats return to Europe, directed against a state that has been sovereign since 1919. The peace movement is silent. There is no initiative of the people to [...]
Whales
Whales A French cameraman friend of mine filmed whales in the Pacific. How much longer will we be granted such images? Plastic is spreading in the oceans. Again and again we read about new bad news. Just a [...]
Once upon a time there was a garden of earth – A song by Georges Moustaki from 1970
Once upon a time there was a garden of earth - A song by Georges Moustaki from 1970 Parlé: C'est une chanson pour les enfants qui naissent et qui vivententre l'acier et le bitume, entre le béton et l'asphalte, et [...]
John F. Kennedy elected US President 60 years ago
John F. Kennedy elected US President 60 years ago Sixty years ago, on 10 November 1960, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was elected US President after one of the most exciting election battles in US history. The outcome of the election was very close. The defeat of [...]
The orphans of Dachau
The orphans of Dachau In the summer of 1945 the newsreel of the American occupation zone shows a film "The Orphans of Dachau" about the camp Kloster Indersdorf in the district of Dachau, which had been set up for surviving orphans from Nazi concentration camps. [...]