During the Nazi era, Kaiserslautern was to become the Gau-Capital. One of the streets that ran directly past the synagoge was intended as a parade route for marches. Mayor Richard Imbt used this as a pretext to have the synagogue demolished, as he claimed that the synagogue never fit into the cityscape and was hindering the necessary road improvements.
The jewish community was forced to sell the synagogue to the city, and after a farewell service was held in August 1938, the demolition began. However, the massive walls of the Synagogue withstood the initial demolition attempts, so the nazis eventually blew it up.
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I added the subtitles myself
I found this clip on the ARD website, Germany's public broadcaster. According to their website, this is from the 5th of January 1960
(sorry for the shitty quality)
Sub-titles added by me
This is from a german documentary made in 1959. I added the subtitles myself. If you notice any mistakes, please point them out (:
The first scene shows Gymnasium students. The "best" form of High school
The next scene shows Volksschule students. I guess it best translates to Grade or Primary school, although it seems that older students went there, too, at the time. (The german school system has changed since then, so I'm not quite sure)
The last scene shows a Berufsschule, so a vocational school.
I had to cut all the parts together, that's why some clips might look a bit choppy.
This is from a german documentary made in 1959. It was made to encourage schools to teach more about the nazi period and the division of Germany.
Hans Rosenthal was born April 2, 1925, in Berlin into a jewish family. His father died in 1937 from kidney failure. His mother died in 1941 from intestinal cancer, leaving Hans and his younger brother, Gert, orphaned. They were sent to a Jewish orphanage in Berlin.
His brother was deported to Riga in October 1942 and shot shortly thereafter shot in a nearby forest. Hans also lost other family members in the Holocaust.
Hans was initially in a Jewish vocational training camp in Jessen near Sommerfeld in Lower Lusatia. After it's closure, he was forced into labor by the nazis; he worked, among other things, as a gravedigger and later as a pieceworker in a sheet metal packaging factory.
From March 27th 1943, he went into hiding in the "Dreieinigkeit" allotment garden complex in Berlin and survived in hiding until the end of the war. He was supported by three non-jewish women from Berlin: Ida Jauch (1886-1944), and later Maria Schönebeck (1901-1950) and Emma Harndt (1898-1977). Ida Jauch and Maria Schönebeck were later honored as Righteous Among the Nations.
He had his first appearance as a TV quizmaster in 1955 on the show "Wer fragt, gewinnt". His most famous show is "Dalli Dalli", which he hosted from 1971 to 1986.
From episode 53 onward, when a contestant on "Dalli Dalli" scored a particularly high number of points, Rosenthal would ask the audience "You think that was...?" The audience would then respond with "Spitze! (Great!)", while Rosenthal jumped into the air (you can see that on the second photo).
Hans Rosenthal died of stomach cancer on 10 February 1987.
She was one of 65 people, 4 women and 61 men, called up to work on the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany in September 1948. She was the main force behind ensuring that explicit equality between men and women was included as a fundamental right in the Basic Law:
Article 3, paragraph 2:"Men and women have equal rights."
Unfortunately it took until 1958 for the law to actually be enforced.