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Book Recommendation
The publishing house Hentrich & Hentrich, which specializes in Jewish culture and contemporary history, recently published the book "75 Lives", to which "Spurensuche" and Frankfurt Alpine Club member Dr. Jens Hoppe also contributed texts.
German Alpine Club Recommendations for Dealing with Right-wing Extremism
The German Alpine Club (DAV) firmly distances itself from right-wing extremist movements and parties that are currently gaining strength in Germany. The DAV would also like to actively counter such attitudes within the association. In December, the executive committee of the federal association therefore adopted recommendations on how to deal with right-wing extremism, which are intended to help sections, groups, volunteers and full-time staff.
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Lecture “100 Years of the Waldstadion--100 Years of the Workers' Olympics in Frankfurt on the Main”
From July 24 to 28, 1925, the first International Workers' Olympics took place in the recently opened stadium in Frankfurt's Stadtwald (municipal woods) area. Up to 8,000 people took part in the anti-national and anti-militaristic sporting event.
Exclusion of the Donauland Section From the Alpine Club in 1924--Important Lecture
How did the early, momentous anti-Semitism in the Alpine Club come about, long before the National Socialists came to power? Hanno Loewy, Director of the Jewish Museum Hohenems (Austria), gave a remarkable lecture on this topic in December 2024 at a DAV commemorative event to mark the 100th anniversary of the exclusion of the Donauland section. In it, he also described the central role that mountain-loving Jews played in the development of the Alps. The DAV, German Federal Association, has made the lecture available for download. In addition, there is now a wealth of further work on various aspects of anti-Semitism in the Alpine Club.
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Abused and Abducted: The Reichspogromnacht and the Victims of the Section
Jewish members of the Frankfurt Alpine Club section were also victims of the November pogroms in 1938. As far as we can reconstruct, the outbreak of violence in the city, which lasted several days, was not directly echoed in the section at the time, which had already been brought into line with the Nazis. At the same time, we cannot rule out the possibility that members loyal to the Nazis were involved in the serious riots, arson and mistreatment of Jews.
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