Karola Fings

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Karola Fings (* 1962 in Leverkusen ) is a German historian and author .

Life and accomplishments

After studying history, Eastern European history and German doctorate Karola Fings at the Heinrich-Heine University in Dusseldorf to Dr. phil. with the work The communes, the war and the concentration camps. Himmler's SS construction brigades .

The focus of her work, on which she has published numerous essays and publications since 1990, is research into the persecution of minorities during National Socialism , the structure and structure of the concentration camps and their relationship to the environment. Fings is particularly interested in the recent history of the European Roma and above all in the history of persecution during the National Socialist era.

Karola Fings has been working as a research assistant at the NS Documentation Center in Cologne since 2001 . There she directed u. a. the extensive forced labor project . In 2003 she became the facility's deputy director.

Since 2004, Fings has been teaching at the historical seminar of the University of Cologne on topics such as minority politics, National Socialism and the persecution of gypsies.

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • with Frank Sparing : The gypsy camp in Cologne-Bickendorf 1935-1958. In: 1999. Journal for Social History of the 20th and 21st Century. 1991, No. 3, pp. 11-40.
  • with Frank Sparing: “z. Currently gypsy camp ”. The persecution of the Düsseldorf Sinti and Roma under National Socialism. Volksblatt Verlag, Cologne 1992, ISBN 3-923243-97-9 .
  • with Frank Sparing: "Oh friends, where have you gone ...?" Otto Pankok and the Düsseldorf Sinti. Ed. Evangelical Johanneskirchen-Gemeinde & Mahn- und Gedenkstätte, Düsseldorf 1993. (2nd revised edition 2006)
  • with Frank Sparing: Covered up, denied, hidden. Files on the Nazi persecution of Sinti and Roma. In: Contributions to the National Socialist Health and Social Policy, 12. 1995, pp. 181–201.
  • Cologne exhibition center. A satellite concentration camp in the center of the city. Emons Verlag , Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-924491-78-X .
  • with Wolfgang Blaschke, Cordula Lissner: Subject to change. Return from emigration. Exhibition catalog, Emons Verlag, Cologne 1997, ISBN 978-3-924491-24-6 .
  • Encounters at the crime scene. Visiting programs with former forced laborers, prisoners of war and concentration camp inmates. Düsseldorf 1998.
  • with Reinhold Billstein, Anita Kugler u. Nicholas Levis: Working for the Enemy. Ford, General Motors and Forced Labor in Germany during the Second World War. New York / Oxford 2000, ISBN 978-1-57181-224-7 .
  • Slaves for the Home Front: War Society and Concentration Camps. In: Jörg Echternkamp (Ed.): The German War Society 1939-1945. Politicization, annihilation, survival. DVA Verlagsanstalt, Munich 2004, ISBN 978-3-421-06236-9 , pp. 195-271.
  • End of war, war legends. Coping strategies in a major German city. In: Bernd-A. Rusinek (Ed.): End of the war 1945. Crimes, catastrophes, liberations from a national and international perspective. (= Dachau Symposia on Contemporary History), Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2004, pp. 219–238.
  • together with Sabine Würich , Rolf Sachsse, Martin Stankowski: The memory of places. Emons Verlag, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-89705-349-7 .
  • "Hunted like animals": Sinti and Roma in the Aachen region 1900 to 1945. In: Zeitschrift des Aachener Geschichtsverein, 106 . Aachen 2004, pp. 353-388.
  • War, Society and Concentration Camps: Himmler's SS Construction Brigades. (also dissertation, University of Düsseldorf 2001), Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2005, ISBN 3-506-71334-5 .
  • with Frank Sparing: Racism, Camp, Genocide The national-socialist gypsy persecution in Cologne. Emons Verlag, Cologne 2006, ISBN 978-3-89705-408-0 .
  • 9th SS railway construction brigade. In: Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (eds.): The place of terror . History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Volume 3: Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald. CH Beck, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-406-52963-1 , pp. 160f.
  • Düsseldorf-Stoffeln (SS Construction Brigade I). In: Wolfgang Benz, Barbara Distel (eds.): The place of terror. History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Volume 3: Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald. CH Beck, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-406-52963-1 , p. 148f.
  • The "expert statements" of the Racial Hygiene Research Center and their influence on the National Socialist Gypsy policy. In: Michael Zimmermann (ed.): Between education and destruction. Gypsy Policy and Gypsy Research in Europe in the 20th Century. Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 2007, pp. 425–459.
  • as ed. with Frank Möller: Zukunftsprojekt Westwall. Ways to a responsible handling of the remains of the Nazi system (= materials for the preservation of monuments in the Rhineland, vol. 20), Verlag Ralf Liebe, Weilerswist 2008, ISBN 978-3-941037-05-2 .
  • with Hildegard Jakobs: Deported to the ghetto. The deportations of Jews from the Rhineland in autumn 1941 to the Litzmannstadt ghetto (Lodz). Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-938636-16-9 .
  • with Ulrich Friedrich Opfermann : Persecution of Gypsies in the Rhineland and Westphalia 1933-1945. History, processing and memory. Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2012, ISBN 978-3-506-77356-2 .
  • Sinti and Roma. History of a minority . CH Beck, Munich 2016.

literature

  • Annual report 2011 / NS Documentation Center of the City of Cologne. City of Cologne, Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-938636-17-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Leverkusen: Holocaust Remembrance Day (At 26:02 minutes)
  2. ↑ See: NS Documentation Center of the City of Cologne, Annual Report 2003/2004, p. 22, museenkoeln.de (PDF).
  3. ↑ See: NS Documentation Center of the City of Cologne, Annual Report 2012, p. 114, museenkoeln.de (PDF).
  4. ↑ konejung-stiftung.de
personal data
SURNAME Fings, Karola
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and specialist author
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Leverkusen