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Journalists Travel & Culture - Germany
  • Studs Terkel continues his interview with Erich Luth in Hamburg discussing the aftermath of the war on Germany's youth. [part 3] [Hamburg]

    1967

    This is Studs third interview with Erich Luth. [part 3] There is a silence in the tape from 3:48 to 3:58 due to Studs changing the tape. It should be noted that the word "clever" in this discussion means intelligent. The interview concludes at 35:36 where Studs offers his reflections on his stay. Luth is the retired Press Chief of Hamburg and has also helped with remunerations for the Jewish people in the aftermath of World War II. He has also facilitated detente between Israel and West Germany.

  • Werner Burkhardt

    Werner Burkhardt German jazz critic and translator speaks with Studs in Hamburg, Germany.

    Mar. 1, 1967

    Werner Burkhardt, German music journalist, critic, and translator, discusses his life and work with Studs. Mr Burkhardt speaks about his life during the time of Adolph Hitler, the Hitler Youth, and World War II. They end the interview talking about Jazz in Munich, a recording of "My Man" by Billie Holiday closes the interview.

  • Eric Lüth

    Interview with Eric Lüth ; part 3

    1968

    Interviewing Eric Lüth while Studs was in Germany.

  • Dieter Lattman discusses division between intellectuals and the general public and touches on the German general public and the Nazi situation prior to WWII ; part 2

    Mar. 1, 1967

    Studs interview with Dieter Lattman, German author and journalist. They discuss the powerful influence that German intellectuals have over the general public and how this led to the silent acceptance and ignorance of concentration camps and euphemism in Germany pre WWII. Littman praises William Shirer's book, "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" but warns that he did not know about the average German family. Littman shares some of his memories as a German youth living during the Nazi reign. Interview takes place in Germany.

  • Dieter Lattman discusses his career as a German writer and freelance journalist and his life after WW II ; part 1

    Mar. 1, 1967

    Studs interview with German writer and freelance journalist, Dieter Lattman, who shares his military family background and the influence that WW II had on his desire to involve himself in politics. They discuss other German authors and the German family and culture. Studs quotes German journalist and political critic, Joachim Kaiser, who called the young people of Germany a "fatherless generation." Studs interviews Lattman in Germany.

  • Interview with Dieter Lattman

    Mar. 1, 1967

    Interviewing Dieter Lattman : Studs Terkel in Germany.

  • Terkel comments and presents German Lach und Schiess Gesellschaft (political cabaret)

    1967

    Terkel comments and presents German Lach und Schiess Gesellschaft (political cabaret). Freilien Margo Schtega is the interpreter for Sammy Drechsel. However, Terkel comments that Sammy understands him 'just fine'.

  • Eric Lüth

    Studs Terkel talks with Eric Lüth on his first hand experiences living in Hamburg through the rise and fall of Hitler ; part 1

    1968

    Eric Lüth discusses his experiences, observations, and accounts of life in Hamburg, Germany during the rise and fall of Hitler. He recounts how as a member of Parliament he brought in Hitler's, "Mein Kampf" and read portions aloud and was laughed at by his colleagues. He states they were blind to what Hitler declared in his book he would do and some are still blind by wanting to rub out their past, their history.

  • Eric Lüth

    Eric Lüth talks with Studs Terkel on life under Hitler and its aftermath ; part 2

    1968

    Studs continues his interview with Eric Luth in Hamburg, Germany. The audio breaks at 25:23 and continues on a Sat at 25:28 till its conclusion at 35:43. Eric Luth conveys stories of humanity by both German prisoners towards Russian prisoners whose treatment was dictated by the Nazi party to not offer any winter clothing or shoes to provide comfort. The German laborers provided a human solidarity that brought them food, clothes and soap.

  • Eric Lüth

    Studs Terkel concludes his interview with Eric Lüth going more in depth on the aftermath of the war on Germany's youth ; part 4

    1968

    Eric Lüth's discussion with Studs Terkel is similar to part 3 but Luth offers a more in depth conversation on the role of teachers in schools and how the time of Hitler is taught. There were those teachers that joined the party to continue their love of teaching and those teachers that were brought into the Nazi Party to follow their convictions. This lack of courage to resist influences pupils today because teachers are not saying they were cowards. The relationship is altered out of shame, and embarrassment.

  • Interviewing Erich Lüth reflecting on Hamburg while Studs Terkel was in Germany

    Apr. 20, 1967
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