Lecture and reading: The Nazis called them "asocials" and "professional criminals"

The Nazis called them "asocials" and "professional criminals"
Persecuted, despised, denied - before and after 1945

In March 2024, Prof. Dr. Frank Nonnenmacher was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon. This was in recognition of his commitment to the recognition of persecuted and denied victims of National Socialism. In the German culture of remembrance, the socio-racist persecution of people who were considered "asocials" and "professional criminals" by the National Socialists and were locked up in concentration camps with a green or black corner on their prisoner's clothing is hardly taken into account.

As part of the event on 14.11.2024, 18:00 at the vhs Region Kassel (Wilhelmshöher Allee 19-21, 34117 Kassel), Nonnenmacher will talk about the reasons for the decades-long social silence surrounding this group of victims after 1945 and read passages from the anthology "Die Nazis nannten sie "Asoziale" oder "Berufsverbrecher". Stories of persecution under National Socialism and in the Federal Republic of Germany" (2024). In this recently published book, 20 descendants talk for the first time about the fates of ancestors who were marked with the green or black angle in concentration camps and in some cases murdered.

The event is being held in cooperation with the Kassel Adult Education Center and the Department of Didactics of Political Education at the University of Kassel.

The event is free to attend and registration is not required. Detailed information can be found here.