Antifascist city tour

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As Antifascist city tour (also: Alternative city tour ) City tour are referred to the historical sites of Nazi -Terrors and the resistance against Nazism lead. At the end of the 1970s, along with visits to memorial sites and discussions with contemporary witnesses, they were founded as an initiative against right-wing extremism . Antifascist city tours are put together and offered by various organizations in many cities in Germany. Its aim is to make the history of National Socialism visible and tangible in the local area.

history

In Hamburg, the State Youth Association began in 1979 with “alternative” city tours “to the sites of the Hamburg labor movement and the anti-fascist resistance”. Resistance veterans accompanied them on tours of the Neuengamme concentration camp .

The association of those persecuted by the Nazi regime - Bund der Antifaschisteninnen und Antifaschisten ( Association of Antifascists) has been organizing antifascist city tours in Munich, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Dortmund, Duisburg, Bonn, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Stuttgart and Nuremberg since the 1980s. The particularly extensive tour in Munich led from historical sites of the Soviet Republic from 1919 to sites of the Hitler putsch from 1923 to the time of the Third Reich to sites of the Nazi regime and the persecution of the Jews, such as the Old Synagogue and the resistance. In Hanover , the former communist resistance fighter and VVN-BdA activist Grete Hoell was one of the founders of the city tours there. In Berlin, the communist resistance fighter Wolfgang Szepansky accompanied anti-fascist city tours until his death in 2008.

In Stuttgart, the former resistance fighter Alfred Hausser initiated anti-fascist city tours. On March 29, 1980, the first was held under the motto “In the footsteps of the Third Reich”. Since then, around 600 journeys with over 20,000 people have taken place up to the year 2000. When the contemporary witnesses were only able to accompany the city tours to a limited extent due to their old age, the anti-fascist city tour working group was founded in autumn 1999 on the initiative of the city ​​youth association , which also undertakes memorial tours to Auschwitz.

In Bremen , the State Youth Association, supported by the city's youth welfare office, organized the first anti-fascist city tour on May 9, 1980. In his memories of a life of resistance , Willy Hundertmark wrote that the idea of ​​an anti-fascist city tour in Bremen first appeared on May 1, 1979 had been discussed in the festival tent of the DKP .

The first anti-fascist city tour in Kiel was carried out by the Asche Trial Working Group , which was founded in 1980 on the occasion of the trial against the former SS-Obersturmführer Kurt Asche , together with other initiatives in May 1982 with bicycles. The AK documented some of the stations in an accompanying booklet.

In Bremerhaven , the Socialist Youth of Germany - The Falcons since 1983 has been tracing the traces of National Socialism in Bremerhaven. For this she was awarded the Bremen Youth Prize in 2006.

In Gelsenkirchen , the anti-fascist city tours in the course of the processing of police work under National Socialism from 1999 onwards were intended to convey the historical and current situation of the city to police officers newly transferred to Gelsenkirchen.

literature

  • Gisela Lehrke: The anti-fascist / alternative city tours , in this: Memorials for victims of National Socialism. Historical and political education in places of resistance and persecution . Campus Verlag , Frankfurt / New York 1988, ISBN 978-3-593-34013-5 , pp. 222-257 (also dissertation, University of Osnabrück 1987)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Michael Hammerbacher: Right-wing extremism and xenophobia: Strategies for action against a right-wing extremist youth culture and xenophobic attitudes . Diplomica Verlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3-95934-688-7 , p. 23
  2. ↑ Nikolaus Brender: City tour alternative. Instead of Reeperbahn to the sites of resistance , Zeit Online, March 30, 1979
  3. ↑ Marco Finetti: Schauplätze des Resistance , Zeit Online, June 24, 1988
  4. ↑ Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter. Vol. 44-45, 1990, p. 197
  5. ^ Donations for Szepansky, the daily newspaper, March 3, 2015
  6. ↑ 20 years of anti-fascist city tours in Stuttgart: "We are the future - never again war!" , Hagalil, online May 12, 2000 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hagalil.com
  7. ↑ Hartmut Müller, Günther Rohdenbur: End of the war in Bremen. Memories, reports, documents , Edition Temmen, second edition 2001, ISBN 978-3-86108-265-1 , p. 187
  8. ↑ Hendrik Bunke (Ed.): Willy Hundertmark. Memories of a resistant life. Edition Temmen, Bremen 1997, ISBN 3-86108-323-X , p. 100f.
  9. ↑ website AK Asche.Prozess. Kiel under National Socialism
  10. ↑ Anti-fascist city tour. Sites of Fascist Persecution and Anti-Fascist Resistance in Bremerhaven , ed. Socialist Youth of Germany Die Falken, Bremerhaven District Association, 1983 (72 pages and city map), made available in libraries in Frankfurt, Leipzig and Bremerhaven
  11. ^ Antifascist city tour in Bremerhaven on "National Socialism in Bremerhaven"
  12. ↑ Stefan Goch: Political education through history work: The project “Social history of the police in Gelsenkirchen” , in: Peter Leßmann-Faust (Ed.): Police and political education . Springer, 2008, ISBN 978-3-531-15890-7 , p. 150