A larger collection in the archive of the Fritz Bauer Forum comes from the journalist and radio editor Kurt Nelhiebel (*1927), who reported on the Auschwitz trial in Frankfurt am Main for the monthly magazine of the Jewish Cultural Community of Vienna, Gemeinde , from 1963 onwards.
From 1965, Kurt Nelhiebel was news editor and later head of news at Radio Bremen.
He regularly sent his contributions to the Fritz Bauer Forum.
This comprehensive collection of articles and essays is supplemented by Kurt Nelhiebel’s personal accounts as a soldier in the Second World War, which he published in the form of his diary and correspondence with his father and which can be found in print in the Fritz Bauer Library, which is part of the archive. His essays, poems and critical texts on contemporary history, including his political caricatures, are also maintained by the Fritz Bauer Archive on a website dedicated to him: www.kurt-nelhiebel.de
The winner of the Villa Ichon Culture and Peace Prize in Bremen has also given the Fritz Bauer Forum archive an impressive collection of documentation against the forgetting of injustice and failed denazification. His collection of press cuttings (approx. 8 metres) from the 1950s onwards, analysed by topic, can be described as a critical commentary on the history of the Federal Republic, specifically on the topics of National Socialism and anti-fascism, failed denazification, right-wing extremism and nationalism as well as threats to basic democratic rights and the social cohesion of society.
The cataloguing is carried out using a finding aid. Partial collections are digitised for users in the archive. The collection is accessible to the public with major restrictions.
Duration: 1949 to 2024
Scope: Website
