Animals under National Socialism
Potato beetles as weapons of war and pigs for educating the masses – under National Socialism, animals weren’t exempt from (mis)appropriation. Jan Mohnhaupt tells their stories vividly and ...
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Jan Mohnhaupt was born in 1983 in the Ruhr area. He works as a freelance journalist and author for a variety of magazines and newspapers including Spiegel Online, Zeit Online and PM History. In 2017 Hanser Verlag published his book Der Zoo der Anderen, which was translated into several languages. He lives and works in Magdeburg.
The Zoo on the Other Side
When the Cold War was at its peak at the beginning of the sixties, the arms race in divided Berlin took on bizarre forms: the West Berlin Zoo director Heinz-Georg Klös asked the mayor, Willy ...
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