Thomas Muggenthaler

Thomas Muggenthaler (* 1956 ) is a German journalist .

Life

Muggenthaler studied political science and sociology. He works for Bayerischer Rundfunk and lives and works in Regensburg . In numerous contributions, especially on the radio, he dealt with the subject of forced laborers in the Nazi era in Lower Bavaria and the Upper Palatinate .

Muggenthaler revealed that at least 22 forced laborers of Polish origin were executed during the Nazi era between 1941 and 1943 because of love affairs with German women in Lower Bavaria and the Upper Palatinate. As a deterrent, many of the executions took place in public, mostly near their workplaces. In no case was there a proper legal process. Some of the executions later took place in the Flossenbürg concentration camp . The murders were carried out by the Regensburg Gestapo. Muggenthaler wrote two books about it. In January 2015, Bayerischer Rundfunk broadcast the film Verbrechen Liebe by Andrea Mocellin and Muggenthaler, for which both authors were awarded the Bavarian TV Prize in the same year .

In September 2015, Muggenthaler was awarded the Bene Merito Medal of Honor by the Republic of Poland for his contributions to the topic of Polish forced laborers in Bavaria .

Muggenthaler wrote the script for the documentary Death Train to Freedom (Bayerischer Rundfunk, 2017) together with Andrea Mocellin. The film was nominated for the Grimme Prize in 2019 . (See also Leitmeritz subcamp # film about a death train .)

Publications

• “We had no youth”: Forced laborers remember their time in Bavaria . Lichtung Verlag , Viechtach 2003, ISBN 3-929517-56-6 .
• Crime love: by Polish men and German women: executions and persecution in Lower Bavaria and the Upper Palatinate during the Nazi era . Ed. Glade, Viechtach 2010, ISBN 978-3-929517-48-4 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Thomas Muggenthaler in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Thomas Muggenthaler at perlentaucher.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Crime love. programm.ard.de, accessed on April 11, 2020.
2. ↑ Crime love. Bayerischer Rundfunk , press release, January 14, 2015, accessed on April 11, 2020.
3. ^ Prize for Thomas Muggenthaler. Bayerischer Rundfunk, press release, September 15, 2015, accessed on April 11, 2020.