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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. [...]
The Man Who Planted Trees
The Man Who Planted Trees A few years ago I made a documentary film for the Bayerischer Rundfunk about the Durance region in the south of France. In this film I also made reference to the Provençal writer Jean Giono and interviewed his daughter. The [...]
75 years later
75 years after (1) "Homo homini lupus; who, after all the experiences of life and history, has the courage to deny this sentence?(2) "The fate of the human species seems to me to be the question of whether and to what extent its cultural development [...]
Leonore Goldschmidt School
Film footage from the Leonore Goldschmidt School in Berlin The Dr. Leonore Goldschmidt School in Berlin was founded in 1935 as a Jewish private school in Berlin to enable Jewish children to attend school without reprisals. Jewish schoolchildren were systematically harassed in Nazi Germany since 1933 and [...]