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Travel & Culture - Germany World History & Politics
  • 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.

  • Discussing Klaus Barbie with authors Francine du Plessix Gray and Erhard Dabringhaus

    Mar. 1, 1984
  • Interviewing Wagenbach editor and Green Party member, Thomas Schmid

    Sep. 1, 1986
  • 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.

  • William L. Shirer

    William L. Shirer discusses his book "The Collapse of the Third Republic"

    1970

    William L. Shirer discusses his book "The Collapse of the Third Republic". Shirer talks about the fall of the third republic of France. Shirer also discusses World War II Europe.

  • Discussing the book "The German Comedy: Scenes of Life after the Wall" with the author Peter Schneider

  • German novelist Gunter Grass discusses his books "The Tin Drum" and From the Diary of a Snail"

    Oct. 1, 1973
  • Schindler's List

    Thomas Keneally discusses the book "Schindler's List"

    Nov. 12, 1982

    Thomas Keneally discusses the book "Schindler's List," detailing the actions of Oskar Schindler saving Jews during WWII.

  • 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.

  • Interviewing in West Germany with Greens Party spokesperson Otto Schily

    Sep. 1, 1986
  • Ed Ruff, Joe Polowski in conversation with Studs Terkel

    Apr. 17, 1985

    Terkel talks with three World War Two veterans

  • Interviewing in West Germany with veterinarian and Nazi resistor Maria Grafin von Maltzan

    Sep. 1, 1986
  • 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

    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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