Contemporary history archive Pragser Wildsee

Hotel "Pragser Wildsee"

Memorial plaque at the “Pragser Wildsee” hotel for the liberation of SS prisoners in April 1945

The contemporary history archive Pragser Wildsee (ZaPW) was founded in 2005 by Hans-Günter Richardi and Caroline M. Heiss and is located in South Tyrol in the hotel “Pragser Wildsee” on the Pragser Wildsee .

It documents

• early tourism in Alta Pusteria
• the beginning of alpinism in the Braies Dolomites
• the Dolomite Front during the Mountain War 1915–1918 as part of the First World War
• the liberation of special prisoners and clan prisoners from the hands of the SS on April 30, 1945 in nearby Niederdorf and their subsequent billeting in the “Pragser Wildsee” hotel until the end of the Second World War .

The archive works with the South Tyrolean Provincial Archives in Bolzano and the German Resistance Memorial Center . It organizes seminars on contemporary history and publishes the book series “Pragser Schriften”.

In 2011 the ZaPW received the "Martin Niemöller Peace Dove". This challenge award is named after Martin Niemöller , who was one of the one hundred and forty-one SS prisoners liberated in Niederdorf.

literature

• Hans-Günter Richardi : SS hostages on Lake Braies. The suffering of prominent concentration camp prisoners from 17 European countries to South Tyrol . Contemporary history archive , Prags 2006, ISBN 88-902316-0-2 .
• Ders .: SS hostages in the Alpine fortress. The deportation of prominent concentration camp prisoners from Germany to South Tyrol . Edition Raetia , Bozen 2006, ISBN 88-7283-229-2 .
• Ders .: The development of the Dolomites. In the footsteps of the pioneers Paul Grohmann and Viktor Wolf-Glanvell in the pale mountains . Athesia Publishing House, Bozen 2008, ISBN 978-88-8266-524-1 .
• Ders .: The hotel on Lake Braies. History of a grand hotel in the Dolomites . Contemporary history archive, Prags 2009, ISBN 978-88-902316-3-6 .
• Ders .: To the Sorrowful Mother of God. Marienkapelle of the hotel "Pragser Wildsee". A place of church history and contemporary history . Contemporary history archive, Prags 2010, ISBN 978-88-902316-5-0 .

Web links

• Website of the contemporary history archive Pragser Wildsee
• Liberation on Lake Braies. Tyrolean archive commemorates the deportation of prominent SS hostages to the Dolomites. In: Sonntagsblatt No. 31, July 30, 2006, p. 25 (PDF).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Website of the contemporary history archive Pragser Wildsee .
2. ↑ Peter Koblank: The Liberation of Special Prisoners and Kinship Prisoners in South Tyrol , online edition Mythos Elser 2006.
3. ↑ Kinship and special prisoners in the Hotel Pragser Wildsee on the website of the South Tyrolean regional administration.