#germanyhistory — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #germanyhistory, aggregated by home.social.
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Deutsche Welle: Dispute with the Hohenzollerns ends after almost 100 years. “The House of Hohenzollern — a German noble family which the last German Emperor, Wilhelm II, also belonged to — had long laid claim to various objects housed in German museums. They had also demanded millions in compensation for expropriated palaces and inventory. The whole saga went to court — until Georg […]
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The Berliner: Scanning the Horizon: Documenting Berlin’s queer spaces. “An initiative titled Scanning the Horizon: An Immersive Archive is capturing the city’s queer establishments threefold: on a website, through audio interviews with the scene’s protagonists and through a unique virtual reality experience. Created by US-born visual artist Benjamin Busch, Scanning the Horizon looks […]
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Heise Online: Object database: Online visit to the German Historical Museum. “Sound recordings over 100 years old, a Luther Bible from the 16th century or a call for a climate strike: the German Historical Museum (DHM) in Berlin has revised and expanded its object database. Many exhibits can be viewed online. The DHM’s collection comprises around one million objects. Around 780,000 of these […]