Germany — Priscilla Presley has fond memories of studying at a U.S although she admits she wasn’t in class often After attendance was taken in the mornings at H and her friends often “got on a bus that took us in town It was a lot of fun,” Presley told reporters Thursday during a visit to the region Elvis lived off-post in the historic spa town of Bad Nauheim from 1958 to 1960 while stationed with the Army in nearby Friedberg “Being back brings back so many memories of that time.” was an Air Force officer whose career meant frequent relocations for the family The teenager was “crushed” when she learned she would be moving from Austin as she was about to enter high school and didn’t want to leave her friends behind “The teenagers that I knew back in Texas would all say He’s over there at the same place that you’re going to go to,’” Presley recalled “I never in my imagination thought that I would meet him.” a mutual acquaintance who was in the Air Force introduced the two at a party at Elvis’ rented home but the owner didn’t seem to share the community’s general enthusiasm for Elvis and his former wife “I knocked on the door and the woman who owns the place wouldn’t let me in,” Presley said “I told her … I was Priscilla and I had very very wonderful memories of the home and I just wanted to take a look at it Bad Nauheim Mayor Klaus Kress said as of Thursday town officials were still trying to convince the owner to let Presley visit Elvis’ deployment ended about six months after he met Priscilla “I did not hear from Elvis till about 14 days after he left,” she said “I thought he was not going to call me anymore and then on that day Elvis and Priscilla kept in regular contact as he continued his movie and music career in Hollywood as a 17-year-old about to start her senior year Presley moved to Memphis at Elvis’ invitation — with her parents’ reluctant approval and under strict conditions set by Elvis and his manager she enrolled at Immaculate Conception High School Presley said she keeps in contact with some of her classmates from her school days in Germany and empathizes with military children to know that this friend I won’t have very long because they’re going to be going to another base.” Arnold High School was demolished to make way for a new facility that opened in 2017 It was named Wiesbaden High School but maintains the history and legacy of H The original crest mosaic was preserved and incorporated into the new building When asked if she had any advice for students at the school today Presley smiled and said she was probably not the best person to ask considering her behavior when she was a student Presley has spoken positively about the military troops by signing the organization’s thank-you card and (he) didn’t understand why he had to go in the military,” she said That sorrow of going in was erased by the people he met here.” Mar 23, 2025Priscilla Presley took a meaningful walk down memory lane while on an overseas trip to Germany recently for a special show called An Intimate Evening With Priscilla Presley on March 22.  While in Germany, she stopped in the town of Bad Nauheim, where she first met her late husband, Elvis Presley, in 1959, when she was in high school and he was in the U.S 🎬 SIGN UP for Parade's Daily newsletter to get the latest pop culture news & celebrity interviews delivered right to your inbox 🎬  Priscilla shared a video showing a montage of photos from the trip including visits to displays honoring Presley with old photos of the singer and what appeared to be one of his army uniforms in a case.  "More of my trip in Germany-P🌹," Priscilla captioned the update which also included photos from her show at the Dolce Jugendstil-Theater so many precious memories 💗💗," and "This is so beautiful how Germany forever remembers the endless love between you and Elvis ❤️❤️❤️." While in Bad Nauheim, Priscilla also got to see the town's new statue of Presley for the first time, sharing a photo of herself posing in front of it She shared how much the moment meant to her while speaking with reporters in Germany, via Stars and Stripes "This is very important to me. Being back brings back so many memories of that time.” Priscilla moved from Texas to Germany with her stepfather She shared what her classmates said when she left Texas "The teenagers that I knew back in Texas would all say you’re going to where Elvis Presley is He’s over there at the same place that you’re going to go to.'" "I never in my imagination thought that I would meet him," she concluded.  While Presley left Germany about six months after the two met they kept in contact for years before Priscilla moved to Memphis Next: Priscilla Presley Reveals the Truth About the End of Her Relationship With Elvis The Hessian police are searching with a large contingent for a gunman who is said to have killed two men in Bad Nauheim The two men were found lifeless in front of an apartment building in the spa town in the Wetterau district Neighbors had alerted the police on Saturday afternoon The "Bild" newspaper first reported the story The police have not yet revealed more than the gender of the deceased It is also unclear whether the perpetrator and victim may have known each other but we cannot rule out the possibility that other people are also involved in the crime." The police were deployed in large numbers and cordoned off the suspected crime scene in front of a three-storey building It is a housing estate with several apartment buildings near a swimming pool Bad Nauheim is located in Hesse between Frankfurt am Main and Giessen Get the biggest stories and wackiest takes from the Daily Star Thank you for subscribing!We have more newsletters A huge manhunt is under way in Germany after a gunman killed two people and is believed to still be at large Investigators have also not yet identified the victims The German news outlet DPA reported that a police spokesperson hinted at signs pointing to a lone wolf attacker, but they're not dismissing the possibility that there might have been more accomplices Hessenschau, a local news source tied to a public broadcaster, says that after the Saturday shootings, a hefty squad of police was dispatched, with locals saying that special forces were at the scene, along with ambulances and a police helicopter flying overhead, reports the Mirror "A big force deployment" of police "The current understanding is that there is no danger for inhabitants or other people," the police reassured Cops have launched a chopper to hunt down a suspect on the loose as they're also grilling locals and potential witnesses for clues "We will then use the information we gain from this for the manhunt," said the spokesperson just 15 miles north of Frankfurt and home to some 33,000 souls is famous for its Elvis Presley connection The King did his US military service there from 1958 to 1960 and it's where he first crossed paths with his future wife For the latest breaking news and stories from across the globe from the Daily Star, sign up for our newsletters Story SavedYou can find this story in  My Bookmarks.Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right We are unable to display the requested content in your country Two years after Bad Nauheim last rocked to the strains of Elvis Presley soundalikes with slight German accents it again welcomed thousands of visitors to its mid-August celebration of the king of rock ’n’ roll Women in swing dresses walked through the spa town’s parks the last day of the European Elvis Festival where Elvis briefly stayed in 1958 when he arrived in Germany to serve as a U.S people laid flowers and left candles and pictures at a stone memorial to the star Germans had their picture taken next to shiny Chevrolets and Cadillacs The 19th edition of the Elvis festival also brought a new attraction to Bad Nauheim: a bronze statue of the American icon on a bridge spanning the aptly named Usa River crowd control officials allowed only small groups of people onto the bridge to take pictures by the statue which replicates a pose Presley struck on the same spot in a photo shoot in March 1959 people ignored coronavirus rules and stood close to one another before handing their phones to strangers to take snaps of them close to what some said wasn't the best likeness of Elvis Coronavirus-wary Elvis fans can take photos by the statue after the festival is over; it’s staying put on the bridge The three-day tribute to the King has been held every year since 2002 except for last year when it was canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic It always takes place over the weekend in August that falls closest to the anniversary of Presley’s death on Aug Presley was already a star when he shipped out to Germany in early 1958 to serve in Company D where he first lived in the Hotel Villa Grunewald on what is now Elvis-Presley-Platz grandmother and some friends from Tennessee who had booked the entire hotel for one of his regular visits for spa treatments in the town aren’t huge fans of his or visit the town outside of the festival dates Bad Nauheim has plenty of other attractions many within walking distance of one another visitors can sip the waters that bubble up from springs under Bad Nauheim and are said to treat heart conditions and backache tour a duck habitat or breathe in air laced with sea salt at any of the five giant “gradierbauten” around town bronze plaques lining the “walk of fame” show that other notable Americans — including a young Franklin D George Patton — also spent time in Bad Nauheim Hearst reportedly met Italian dictator Benito Mussolini in the town and is said to have described him afterward as “a marvelous man.” But no one was bending over any of their commemorative plaques snapping photos in mid-August Bad Nauheim and its visitors move to the beat of Elvis Presley probably the coolest resident the town has ever had Directions: Bad Nauheim is about one hour from Wiesbaden 2½ hours from Spangdahlem and three hours from Stuttgart Cost: The large outdoor parking lot on Frankfurterstrasse costs 2.50 euros for four hours or 3.50 for 24 hours Walk from there through the Kurpark into the center of town The Elvis statue on the bridge over the Usa River is a few hundred yards away Food: The many dining options include Fellini Cafe Vinoteca at Kurstrasse 3 where a salad and cappuccino run around $13 on a pedestrian bridge crossing the Usa River in Bad Nauheim This bridge was the location of a photoshoot of Elvis in 1959 and the statue emulates one of those famous photos The statue of Elvis will be leaning against the bridge’s railings like Elvis did in the photo; however the ones the King leaned against have long been removed the current railings are to be replaced with ones more closely matching the railings in the photo raised the money for the project with a GoFundMe campaign allowing the creation of the nearly 6-foot tall figure of Presley The statue was crafted from a 3D rendering of the original image Elvis Presley received a letter containing his draft notice in 1957 Elvis was already a global superstar and was offered a chance to serve in the Special Services a branch of the military focused on entertainment Despite being beloved by younger fans, older audiences perceived Elvis as a menace to society and were glad to have him out of sight. Both Elvis and his manager believed taking the deal to become a member of the Special Services would be seen as an unfair out available to him thanks to his fame His manager also realized that any performances would be recorded by the U.S military only and would become their property and any profits earned would go to Uncle Sam instead of Presley and his manager viewing him as a true American who serves his country and spent the following 18 months serving in Company D He and his division would be stationed in Friedberg he took up residence in the Grunewald Hotel in Bad Nauheim he would move to a five-bedroom house close by after King Saud of Saudi Arabia booked the entire Grunewald Hotel for him and his entourage More from us: The First Intercontinental Weapons Were Ineffective Balloon Bombs Elvis was honorably discharged from the military in early 1960 before returning back to the U.S Annually, the usually quiet town holds the European Elvis Festival where it is flooded with “a sea of Cadillacs petticoats and Elvis quiffs.” The festival is held near the anniversary of the King’s death on August 16 The COVID-19 pandemic put a stop to the yearly festivities in 2020 The bronze statue of Elvis is due to be unveiled at this year’s festival Jesse is a U.K.-based writer for Tank Roar passionate about military history and storytelling through digital content Jesse brings a deep enthusiasm for historical narratives to every piece Three groups were at the heart of post-war German fears of revenge: Jewish Holocaust survivors Top Image: Protest march against housing requisitions in Bad Nauheim 1951.The banner at this demonstration in Bad Nauheim then we want to be friends.” Image courtesy of dpa Picture-Alliance American occupation authorities in the Bavarian town of Bad Tölz recorded this blatantly antisemitic and racist poem: Now you stand on the street with your broomIt would have been better to have been a real NaziThe Jew is a black marketer the Pole stabs youBut the Ami doesn’t see itNo matter whether you were a Nazi or notThe Ami will rob you and won’t spare youThe Ami lets the Jews come inBecause he himself is a Jewish Swine The poem listed the three groups that were at the heart of German fears of retribution: Jewish Holocaust survivors The poem articulated a paranoid fantasy in which the alleged criminality of the Holocaust survivors (“the Jew is a black marketer”) and DPs (“the Pole stabs you”) was tolerated or even encouraged by US occupation officials (“But the Ami doesn’t see it”) It also anticipated an indiscriminate prosecution of Germans for Nazi crimes and it articulated the antisemitic notion that the United States had fought World War II on behalf of Jewish interests Post-war German fears of revenge echoed the unprecedented escalation of violence during the last stages of the Second World War As many German soldiers were killed during the last 10 months of the war as during the entire preceding five year period The month with the highest German casualties was January 1945 Allied and Soviet casualties exhibited a similar peak during the final months of the war.  These staggering casualty figures resulted from the tenacity of the Nazi regime in the face of certain military defeat The tide of the Second World War had turned by 1943 with German defeats on the Eastern Front and in North Africa With the collapse of Army Group Center in June 1944 and the concurrent Allied landing in Normandy Nazi Germany’s military defeat was all but certain the German army did not surrender but rather continued to fight with persistent ferocity and commitment A variety of factors explain the German army’s tenacity in the face of certain military defeat including the Allied demand for unconditional surrender the increasing terroristic violence of the Nazi regime and the ideological indoctrination of Wehrmacht soldiers But German fears of revenge also significantly contributed to the unbroken German morale in the last few months of the war These fears derived from on an extensive knowledge of and participation in Nazi criminal warfare especially but not only on the Eastern Front Fears of revenge and the ensuing commitment to fight to the last minute resulted from the fearful anticipation that the victors of World War II would do to Germans what Germans had previously done to millions of victims of Nazism Many ordinary Germans found the possibility of defeat in World War II inconceivable and could not imagine a future beyond Hitler could “simply not imagine how it might be if the enemies take Germany by storm.” She wondered “what will be next year around this time?” A few months later Magdalena M.’s diary repeatedly invoked the future “in horrible images,” and “dark.” Lili H confessed to her diary in March 1945 that “I cannot imagine any future don’t know what I should be looking forward to.”  the inability to imagine a future beyond National Socialism led to suicide The spring of 1945 witnessed a wave of suicides of high Nazi officials escaped the prospect of being called to task for their deeds during the Third Reich by taking their own lives Yet most Germans did not commit suicide and as members of the German national community they now faced the threat and reality of Allied retribution German fears of Jewish revenge centered on the Nazi propaganda notion of a “Jewish war.” By the end of the war Germans had firmly internalized the antisemitic idea that the Second World War had been waged on behalf of a worldwide “Jewish conspiracy.” According to the reports of the Security Service (SD) many Germans saw the bombing of German cities as retaliation for the anti-Jewish pogrom of November 1938 when synagogues all over Germany had been burnt down tens of thousands of Jewish people had been arrested and hundreds of them had been killed News of Soviet atrocities in Eastern Germany also led some Germans to draw parallels to “how we murdered thousands of Jews” and have “shown the enemy what they can do to us if they win.” The persecution of the Jews provided the images and fantasies of what might happen to Germans in the case of defeat Rumors circulated that the Allies would force Germans to wear a swastika on their clothes in analogy to the Jewish star that the Nazis had forced Jewish people to wear.  Actual Jewish acts of violent revenge were exceedingly rare in occupied Germany The very nature of the Holocaust as a bureaucratically organized genocide with diffused responsibility and often remote perpetrators made it difficult to identify local and individual targets for such actions German fears of Jewish revenge were therefore located largely in the realm of fantasy; they had little basis in actual reality fears of retribution defined the ways in which Germans imagined their post-Nazi future These fears also resulted from the fact that the number of Jewish survivors in post-war Germany increased rapidly from only 20,000 in 1945 to 250,000 in 1947 largely because of the influx of Polish Jews who had survived the war in the Soviet Union and then fled a series of antisemitic pogroms in post-war Poland such as higher food ratios and preferred housing that American occupation authorities granted Jewish survivors.  post-war society appeared as a world turned upside down in which previously reviled people seemed to enjoy a superior status thanks to the protection of American occupation authorities Even Jewish survivors’ facial expressions seemed to reflect this new anxiety-producing social order “Many foreigners walk around in the city grinning who knows how they will behave now?,” Edeltraut G wrote in her diary in April 1945 Survivors’ self-confident assertion in public stood in stark contrast to the (self) intimidation of ordinary Germans who felt pressured to downplay their national identification.  “We are no longer Germans or at least must not show it.” Germans perceived such role reversals also as a direct threat to their personal safety several rumors circulated widely that “on Nov[ember] 8 or 9 all foreigners would have the right to loot and pillage without fear or harm.“ American occupation officials considered the rumors important enough that they posted notices to deny them and arrested a man in connection with them It is no accident that looting was to occur on November 9 the anniversary of the Reichskristallnacht As an act of highly visible and open violence against Jews this event featured prominently in German feelings of guilt and hence in fears of revenge.  This emotional dynamic occasionally also led to open violence such as in Landsberg in April 1946 when rumors of the German kidnapping of Jewish DPs provoked Jewish attacks on German civilians German fears of violent Jewish revenge proved to be unfounded These fears largely remained a figment of the German imagination rather than an empirical fact of life in post-war Germany Demonstration of Jewish Displaced Persons in Frankfurt am Main This discrepancy between fact and fantasy was not quite as pronounced in the case of Displaced Persons from Eastern Europe Polish and Russian forced laborers had often faced abominable conditions German fears of Displaced Persons extended into the last years of the war when extensive rumors had anticipated an uprising of foreign workers former forced workers celebrated their liberation with carnivalesque actions revolving around alcohol According to a report of the local press in Nuremberg former Russian POWs and slave workers marched through the city drunken and with a “hostile and aggressive” attitude They entered the Nuremberg zoo where some of them had worked during the war and killed “heartless and without mercy…defenseless and frightened animals,” including a deer The symbolic significance of the incident was obvious: like the animals in the Nuremberg zoo frightened Nuremberg citizens faced potential violence and thirst for revenge on the part of former forced laborers while not being able to count on protection by US occupation forces DP violence was not purely imagined or symbolic German officials constantly complained about marauding “foreigners,” usually labeled as “Poles,” “Russians,” or “Ukrainians,” sometimes also “KZlers” (concentration camp inmates) The Regierungspräsident (a high county official) from Ansbach in the American occupation zone reported “nightly robberies” by “gangs of Poles” who shot the unarmed and unresisting population with machine guns.  torture and rape of the inhabitants of the targeted farms constantly accompany these episodes of plunder.”  30 Poles broke into the home of Theodor E in Heimbuchtal committed violence against his daughter and a farm laborer The population reacted to these murders with “great embitterment” and “paralyzing fear.” Inhabitants of remote farms were particularly at risk of becoming a target of such attack and thus reported as being in particular fear A variety of factors drove DP violence against ordinary Germans escaped or bombed-out slave workers committed lootings and robberies simply to survive They mostly stole food and were only violent with those Germans who refused them former slave laborers sought explicit revenge They were in a better position than Jewish Holocaust victims because they often knew the identity of their tormenters a former employee of the electric power station on the Isar was reportedly killed by “his slave workers,” because he had “treated them badly.” Former superiors of DPs—“master foremen camp commanders or plant security guards”—also frequently became targets of acts of DP violence.  attacks and robberies,” “the Poles” had shot one farmer and were threatening to kill another unless he paid “back pay” for their five years of slave labor.” Former foreign workers made use of their local knowledge and targeted those individuals who had mistreated and tortured them during the war Reporting a robbery and plundering by 10-15 people of a farm in Mehring in the Altöttingen district a German official cited a frequent justification “especially by Poles,” that the “German SS has done the same thing.” Stoked by persistent stereotypes of Eastern Europeans as “criminals,” panicked Germans clearly exaggerated the extent of actual DP violence DP criminality remained equal or slightly below general German crime rates in the immediate post-war period and was only slightly higher than German crime rates by 1947 Reports of DP violence were inflated in German sources due to a variety of factors German farmers occasionally invented alleged DP robberies in order to conceal the selling of their livestock on the black market.  Police reports also consistently inflated DP criminality in order to lobby the occupation authorities for the expansion and rearming of German security forces Germans blamed DPs for their own sense of helplessness and constructed DPs as the “active and criminal counterpart of German society.” DPs themselves protested against the press campaign that portrayed them as “criminals” and “fascists.” Indeed it is important to emphasize that the overwhelming majority of DPs never resorted to violence individual acts of DP violence assumed a disproportionate symbolic significance Stories of DP violence tended to confirm and intensify preexisting German fears of the consequences of defeat And fears of retribution from DPs were at least partly grounded in actual events While the German imagination of DP violence exceeded its actual reality these occurrences lent at least some credibility to post-war fears of retribution Rumors of widespread DP violence were contagious and fears of retribution thus also affected those individuals who never experienced any violence from DPs.  Preexisting and lingering racist stereotypes about “Poles” and “Russians” as well as widespread knowledge of actual Nazi atrocities fueled popular fears of retribution the threat and the imagination of DP violence intensified the general climate of uncertainty and insecurity of the immediate post-war period “We have never had such [terrible] conditions in Bavaria as we are experiencing now not even during the war,” as one official reported.  that Germans associated with the arrival of the occupation authorities was the restoration of order and a new sense of personal security Yet many were shocked when they realized that post-war occupation confronted them with new threats and challenges Germans had not experienced the complete foreign occupation of their country since the Napoleonic wars in the early nineteenth century Post-war Germans were now completely dependent on Allied victors and lacked the coveted self-determination that assumed new global significance after 1945 with the onset of decolonization German testimonies from the spring of 1945 invoked the specter of “slavery.” Lore N in Silesia in March 1945 that she did not “ want to work as slave for another people then we would have no joy in life whatsoever.” For many Germans foreign occupation constituted an unprecedented leap in the dark Fears of Allied revenge centered especially on the “Russians.” Soviet atrocities during the conquest of Germany especially the mass rape of up to 2 million German women by soldiers of the Red Army which were often based on a thoroughly racist imaginary Commenting on the entry of the Red Army into Leipzig (born in 1928) described the “animal like faces of the Asiatics” who represented to her “uncultivated humanity.”  German soldiers and civilians alike made desperate efforts to reach British and American lines in order to escape the Red Army Some Germans also articulated great relief even joy and happiness to be under American rather than Soviet occupation “They are here,” one woman from Heidelberg noted in her diary in March 1945 of American troops despite such widespread preference for the Western allies many Germans perceived occupation in general as a massive threat to their personal lives and imagined futures Rumors of Soviet atrocities also enhanced German anxieties about Allied retribution in general “our darkest fears have become reality over the last few days Germany has experienced the most dishonorable and miserable defeat in centuries and has been completely defeated and thrown to the ground by the three powerful enemy powers Russia it is and will be looked down upon in the whole world the country and its people will be shunned and despised.” American soldiers also did not see themselves as liberators of Germans The main directive of the Joint Chiefs of Staff for General Eisenhower demanded a punitive and harsh treatment of defeated Germans Instructions to individual American soldiers in the Pocket Guide to GermanyITALICS stated unambiguously: “You are in enemy territory These people are not our allies or friends.”  Guidelines for troop behavior warned that “the majority of Germans supported the Nazis” and that German civilians would “try to make friends with us – to get information to create sympathy for the ‘poor down-trodden’ German people or just to get a good chance to slip a knife into Allied soldiers.”  An opinion survey among US soldiers in April 1945 indicated that 76 percent “hated” or had “negative feelings” toward German civilians while 71 percent of soldiers felt that “all or most Germans” were responsible for the war The discovery and liberation of the concentration camps in the following month most likely intensified these negative feelings Whatever hopes individual Germans had associated with the arrival of American occupation troops in 1945 these positive feelings were not reciprocal It is true that the relationship between Germans and American GIs improved progressively and eventually prepared the ground for the later integration of the Federal Republic into the Western alliance during the Cold War But Germans living at the time could not anticipate this later development They instead experienced US occupation as a massive intervention into their personal emerged as sources of popular fear and anxiety: violent transgressions of American occupation soldiers One source of post-war fear were American acts of violence toward German civilians Such violent transgressions were not surprising in light of the ferocity of the fighting during the final stage of the war black market offenses etc” reportedly increased from 3.7 per 10,000 troops in August 1945 to 11.1 per 10,000 troops in January 1946 GI violence against German civilians assumed a multiplicity of forms Some transgressions took place in broad daylight and served the purpose of publicly humiliating individual Germans for their complicity with Nazism.  American soldiers invaded the house of ex-soldier Georg W and forced him to stand naked at his window in broad daylight occurred at night and lacked such public dimensions GIs approached and stopped German civilians seemingly at random In several cases reported from Amberg in the fall of 1946 or asserted their superiority by brandishing their pistols A rapid increase in automobile accidents involving American GIs—7,800 between June and November 1945 according to one source—signaled a lack of discipline among occupation troops A resident from the Hessian town of Marburg spoke for many when he complained in March 1946 of random and violent assaults by American occupation forces against German civilians including several university professors.  “have become notorious among the civilian population of Marburg; nobody risks going out in the evenings and people feel as if they were exposed to acts of indiscriminate brutality with no means of protection.” constituted a permanent feature of the relationship between American GIs and German civilians as well US court martial records documented 552 cases of rape of German women by American soldiers This was much lower than the comparable figures in the Soviet zone though other estimates also cite higher numbers of up to 1,500 rapes between January and December 1945 A similar script governed rapes in both zones: they often resulted from soldiers’ frustration over excessive violence and German persistence during the final stages of the war; soldiers considered German women as part of a defeated and subjugated people; sexual violence served the purpose of meting out revenge by humiliating German men.  The involvement of African American soldiers in sexual relations with German women represented a particular issue of German concern Such relationships activated preexisting racist dispositions among German civilians “There are rumors that soon negroes will arrive as occupation troops,” wrote Edeltraut G in her diary in April 1945 then one will no longer be able to be in the street as a girl.” Undoubtedly due to their own racist dispositions in a still-segregated army (White) American occupation officials tended to agree with German officials and citizens.  African-American GIs became a ready scapegoat for tensions between American troops over such sentiments Official US army statistics suggested a much higher rate of “serious incidents” among “colored” troops than among White troops which almost certainly reflected racist selectivity quickly learned that certain forms of racism were quite compatible with American military rule even the curtailed authority of African American GIs as occupiers confirmed German perceptions of the occupation period as a world turned upside down Housing requisitions were another source of post-war German fears Housing was an extremely scarce resource in occupied Germany three quarters of the housing stock had been destroyed due to Allied bombing; the average for all four occupation zones was about 30 percent Millions of refugees and expellees from the former German territories in the East and the gradual return of German POWs further stoked demand for housing.Therefore it is not surprising that Germans perceived housing requisitions by the occupation army as a severe burden.  mayor Karl Scharnagel reported to the city council in December 1946 that “in every part of the city popular concerns are growing that the same fate [of requisitioning every house.” Rumors and news of further requisitions caused great “concern and embitterment” among the population; and Munich residents publicly proclaimed their fear of the “specter of requisitioning houses and farms.” Even those Germans who had initially welcomed the American occupation feared the loss of their home.  Evamaria Küchling-Marsdem noted in her diary: the arrival of American troops had made “life in Heidelberg… normal again.” Yet she immediately added that “we fear a confiscation of our home.” The fact that the American military requisitioned houses for Jews and other Nazi victims worsened German resentment When the American military government ordered the requisitioning of 240 small houses in the Kaltherberge settlement for 2,000 Jewish Holocaust survivors in December 1945 Germans charged that the new inhabitants were not Nazi victims but “illegally immigrated and work-shy elements” who engaged in Black Market and other criminal activities Outrage about requisitions also turned into violence against Jews American occupation officials sought to elicit Germans’ empathy for Jewish Holocaust survivors but German civilians and officials displayed little understanding for these arguments The only official program that concerned individual Germans more than housing requisitions was denazification a process designed to eliminate Nazi influence from the defeated country Historians have long viewed American led-denazification as an abysmal failure it eventually had the effect of whitewashing former Nazis.  Of the 900,000 denazification proceedings in the US zone the process only rated 1,654 persons (0.17 percent) “major offenders,” 22,122 (2.33 percent) “offenders,” and 106,422 “minor offenders.” Therefore denazification did not significantly disrupt the continuity of personnel in the civil service its long-term failure to accomplish a comprehensive purge of former Nazis reveals little about the subjective experience of denazification at the time the onset of denazification confirmed some of their worst fears of Allied retribution “How the Nazis are afraid now,” a woman from Hamburg wrote in a letter on May 7 they will catch the right ones now.”  Initial denazification measures in the American zone undermined such hopes in the Allied ability to identify “real Nazis.” The occupation directive JCS 1067 stipulated the dismissal of all Nazi party members from public office as well as the “automatic arrest” of war criminals and Nazi party functionaries down to the local level 8 of March 1946 increased the range of affected individuals to require the dismissal of anybody who had been a member of the Nazi party before 1937 and its affiliated organizations.  Given the mass support for National Socialism these stipulations had a significant impact on post-war German society some 100,000 persons had been arrested and were interned in the American zone while another 340,000 persons had lost their jobs by March 1946 denazification affected a quarter of all city employees Local German communities found it difficult to maintain public services as a result of denazification. Indiscriminate arrests fueled strong German popular resistance and undermined initial support for denazification.  the Regierungspräsident from Würzburg reported that the “measures against the NSDAP and its members lacks moral support among the people.” Christian churches mobilized against denazification as well and church officials became the main spokespersons of popular opposition the South German Protestant Bishop Wurm denounced denazification as an expression of Allied “revenge and retribution,” particularly objecting—in a language deliberately reflecting the Nazi persecution of Jews —to the “undifferentiated extinction of all Nazi civil servants.”  Since the denazification of the economy proceeded on the same criteria of formal party membership many individual Germans reportedly worried about their “possessions” and feared becoming part of “the outlaws and the dispossessed.” A report from Würzburg claimed in January 1946 that denazification affected 50 percent of all people in the city and called on occupiers “to take away the fear from people.” Popular attitudes toward denazification did not significantly change with the transition of denazification into German hands in March 1946 Local denazification courts (Spruchkammern) comprised of former German anti-Nazis took charge of processing individual cases The “Law for the Liberation from National Socialism and Militarism” required all inhabitants 18 years or older to account for their political pasts.  More than 13,000,000 Germans filled out the questionnaire on denazification more than one fourth or 3,441,800 persons needed to undergo formal denazification because they had been members of the Nazi party or of one of its organizations A completed denazification procedure was necessary to assume anything else than a manual labor position Because denazification targeted overwhelmingly middle-class men this clause implied the temporary suspension from influential positions of a large segment of the male educated middle class those affected by denazification reacted furiously and defiantly to these sanctions the well-known right-wing activist of the interwar period mocked the entire denazification procedure The fact that this book became the most successful bestseller of the early post-war period indicates the depth of the resentment regarding denazification among Germans at that time the German-Jewish philosopher Hannah Arendt observed that postwar Germans displayed a “genuine inability to feel” and a “general lack of emotion.” The intense fears of retribution that Germans articulated during the immediate post-war period contradict this statement Fears of revenge and anxiety about an uncertain individual and collective future constituted a foundational experience for post-war Germans in the aftermath of the “Third Reich.”  Fears of retribution defined postwar Germans’ experience of defeat and shaped their anticipation of the future The emotional function of these fears of retribution was complex and contradictory: fear served both as a veiled expression of guilt and as a defense mechanism against it the extensive knowledge of Nazi crimes and hence a clear sense of guilt were among the causes of fear private and public articulations of fear and anxiety blocked a more extensive self-reflection and admission of guilt The real and imagined consequences of this guilt appeared as too severe to many Germans fears of retribution delayed a more extensive confrontation with the actual catastrophe that Germans had brought about for the millions of victims of Nazism Frank Biess is Professor of History at the University of California San Diego social and cultural history of Germany in the 20th Century The German version of his most recent book Eine andere Geschichte der Bundesrepublik (2019) was a finalist for the non-fiction award of the Leipzig book fair; the English version German Angst Fear and Democracy in the Federal Republic of Germany (Oxford 2020) received the Norris and Carol Hundley Award from the Pacific Branch of the American Historical Society for the most distinguished book in any category He is currently working on a new project on the global history of the interwar Weimar Republic This article is part of a series commemorating the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II made possible by the Department of Defense Copy MLA Citation Copy APA Citation Copy Chicago Style Citation The concept of genocide has fundamentally altered international law transforming the way we understand mass violence in the modern world.  Roosevelt envisioned a plan for veterans to return home and better their lives through the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 But administering the massive welfare program required navigating social and political challenges Moscow announced the dissolution of the Communist International The Allies created the International Tracing Service (ITS) to centralize postwar efforts to locate missing persons and help survivors discover the fate of family members in the aftermath of World War II and the Holocaust In an address to the Harvard graduating class on June 5 Marshall called for a European Recovery Plan for war torn Europe continues to resonate today with respect to the war in Ukraine and the need to rebuild in its aftermath The Marshall Plan was a massive commitment to European recovery after World War II that was largely supported by Americans View Campus Map Public sector workers in Germany are striking again this week Hundreds of thousands have already stopped work and virtually all federal states are affected public transport companies and administrative offices have long been working at their limit in the face of rampant staff shortages and cuts in real wages There is also growing anger at the service sector union Verdi which does not want to organise an effective joint strike movement Verdi officials may be making big speeches about the “frivolous” offer from the other side but behind the scenes they are preparing a sell-out Postal workers voted 86 percent in favour of an indefinite strike in a ballot but Verdi subsequently struck an agreement with the Deutsche Post board within hours The Verdi negotiating committee has accepted a contract that is just as bad as the first offer a social worker from Hesse summed up the general mood of public sector workers For a fundamental improvement in their situation retirement homes and providing care for the disabled streetcar drivers and many others went on strike yesterday While in Saxony there was a strike on Monday in Bavaria and North Rhine-Westphalia Verdi called for a separate strike on Tuesday Around 30,000 took part in three rallies in Gelsenkirchen Another 20,000 took part in warning strikes in Baden-Württemberg on Wednesday and there are to be further actions and a central rally in Leipzig on Friday staff at the Employment Agency and Job Centre were on strike on Wednesday along with employees in vocational training and student services Vivantes and the Vivantes subsidiaries as well as the Jewish Hospital were again on strike Workers in the city's sanitation services and water companies were also set to strike on Thursday and Friday Apprentices at various municipal companies and the local transport provider BVG also took part in the warning strike Thursday Drivers are planning to strike March 27 together with EVG railroad workers Germany's largest port remained closed to large ships on Wednesday morning workers on the Kiel Canal (NOK) at the locks in Kiel and Brunsbüttel are also to go on strike for the first time on Friday several thousand workers from the city's public utilities Mainova (electricity and gas supplier) and the municipal transport company took part as no streetcars or subway trains were running About 2,000 strikers from the city and surrounding areas participated in a central rally in the city centre in front of the headquarters of the employers' association (KAV) Many of them felt that Verdi was demanding too little while others expected at least the official demand would be enforced this time This amounts to a 10.5 percent wage increase for a period of one year with a minimum of €500 per month and €200 for apprentices federal and local public sector employers rejected raising basic rates something that would particularly benefit low-wage earners they are offering a total of 5 percent over 27 months plus an additional one-time payment of €2,500 This does not come close to compensating for the loss in wages due to inflation and the pay freezes of recent years who works at Bad Nauheim's municipal utility provider We definitely need the ten percent for one year and that’s what we have to achieve.” Low wages meant that hardly anyone was interested in the profession three educators from a municipal after-school care centre in Mühlheim we’re all exhausted because there’s a lack of staff thinks Verdi was asking for far too little “Giving everyone a thousand euros more per month that would be a start,” Horst says.”'Why is our work worth less than that of IT specialists and bankers?” But he has no confidence that Verdi will follow through: “What Verdi did at Deutsche Post was a breach of trust; they should have gone on strike.” An employee of the Offenbach Youth Welfare Office also agrees: “It’s an outrage what happened at Deutsche Post office.” But no one is talking about it and then it’s all concluded [by the union] very quickly.” He suspects Verdi doesn’t want a big strike at all Many reacted with horror to information about the hasty deal struck at Deutsche Post “We’re fighting for higher wages and better working conditions here the situation is so tense that there is no time at all for proper pre- and post- case processing “This also affects the children and young people The staffing shortage affects everything; it’s built up over decades.” Steve feels the union leadership has “slept through” the situation “but compared to engineers and all the other degrees Why is it worth more to build a house or a bridge than to take care of your kids and take care of society?” Steve says he does not understand “why we’re so tame here.” At the same time there was a real strike going on in France right now Very many felt that under no circumstances should Verdi be allowed to make a deal for two years One worker said: “Who knows what will happen in a year and several banks—like Credit Suisse—have already collapsed.” The warning strikes foreshadow the power workers could unleash to truly change conditions Some 2.5 million federal and local public service workers are affected by the current pay round But federal and municipal public sector employers will not offer an acceptable solution next week either Especially after the sell-out at Deutsche Post hoping the union will succeed—as it has every time so far—in stalling the labour dispute and pushing through a new sell-out To prevent this, workers must wage their struggle independently of Verdi and—as in the case of workers at Deutsche Post—set up independent action committees in the public sector as well. These committees, as part of the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees (IWA-RFC) will coordinate struggles in the public sector with those in the postal service on the railroads and in the private sector The wage disputes in Germany are part of a European-wide and worldwide upsurge in the class struggle The World Socialist Web Site and the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Socialist Equality Party) support the building of independent action committees and contend that the struggle for good wages and working conditions must be directly linked to the struggle against militarism and war and requires a socialist program Germany — Elvis Presley is set to return to a German town where he lived in the late 1950s as a U.S in the form of a nearly 6-foot-tall bronze statue The statue will be placed by August in Bad Nauheim on a pedestrian bridge spanning the aptly named Usa River where Presley took part in a photo shoot in March 1959 postwar railings were replaced with decorative wrought-iron ones similar to what was there when the pictures of Presley were taken The statue will be on the bridge in time for Bad Nauheim’s annual Elvis festival when the usually quiet spa town is transformed into what it describes on its website as “a sea of Cadillacs petticoats and Elvis quiffs,” with rock ‘n’ roll as the soundtrack The celebration of the life and music of Bad Nauheim’s most famous former resident was canceled last year because of the coronavirus pandemic but the 18th edition of the festival is scheduled for Aug It’s always held around the anniversary of Presley’s death in Memphis raised more than $42,000 to pay for the statue which was made based on a 3D rendering of the 1959 image of Presley on the bridge The 440-pound statue has been cast by a foundry and was presented to the media last month It will remain on the bridge after the August festival Presley was already a star when he received his draft notice from the Army in December 1957 with a string of hit records including “Heartbreak Hotel,” “Blue Suede Shoes” and “Hound Dog,” and a movie He received a deferment to allow him to finish work on the movie “King Creole” and reported on March 24 where he spent 18 months serving in Company D They lived briefly in a hotel in Bad Homburg and then in one in Bad Nauheim But they were told they would have to move out because King Saud of Saudi Arabia who regularly visited the spa town for health care had booked the entire building for himself and his entourage Stars and Stripes reporter Karin Zeitvogel contributed to this report Silhouettes of Elvis Presley appear on a traffic light in Friedberg Elvis Presley's image has been used to create action figures slippers and soap – and countless other products over the decades since the American rock legend first got audiences all shook up The town of Friedberg, Germany, this week installed three pedestrian traffic lights that incorporate images of the King The don't-walk light shows Presley at a microphone while the walk light depicts him in his trademark dance pose – heels up Presley was stationed in Friedberg from October 1958 to March 1960 while he was in the U.S It was in Friedberg, a town located about 16 miles north of Frankfurt, that Presley met his future wife, Priscilla Beaulieu, according to the German news organization Deutsche Welle Friedberg already has an Elvis Presley Square and decided to add the three traffic lights as another attraction for the many Elvis fans who visit the town Become an NPR sponsor They both lived in the Frankfurt Rhine-Main region in Germany the celebration of The European Elvis Festival takes place in Bad Nauheim exciting things are happening in Darmstadt and we want to present to you a hidden spa gem of the region Have you ever experienced Jewish Frankfurt Don`t miss your chance to learn more about it in this press release receive the latest museum news and read about one of the greatest inaugurations in Europe this year!  Redesigned Jewish Museum and Jewish history in Frankfurt The city of Darmstadt – full of surprises and a new hotel opening The European Elvis Festival in Bad Nauheim Bad Vilbel – the city of wells and springs Guided tours in English can be booked here: Frankfurt has several museums not to miss out on and here is an overview of some of the news coming up 2018/19: Frankfurt special – A spectacular inauguration in 2018 Our tip: use the new RheinMainCard which offers discounts on several attractions and free public transport within the region It`s available for download in our press room More information on the Frankfurt Rhine-Main region and pictures are available in the download area of the press release For more information, please visit www.frankfurt-rhine-main.com Email: charlotte.jakobsen@tourcomm-germany.com Glossop Town Twinning Association recently made the trip over to Germany to visit Bad Vilbel for the first time since the pandemic.  Each member of the British committee was given a ‘kit’ to make the famous Frankfurt Green Sauce comprising a set of the appropriate herbs and a tea towel showing the recipe took framed photos of the Peak District to give as gifts to our hosts.” On Friday the German group had organised a full day trip to Bad Nauheim which happens to be twinned with Buxton.   Bad Nauheim is famous for its Art Nouveau style bath houses dating from the beginning of the 20th century.   Karen explained: “We were able to have a peep inside one of them although they were currently undergoing a refurbishment programme.  Nevertheless tiled interior and lovely outdoor courtyard during a guided tour of the town.”   Other highlights for the group included a visit to the graduation towers and ‘inhalatorium’ part of the history of salt refinement and related health treatments in the town Also seeing the life size statue of Elvis on  the River Usa.  Elvis was stationed near Bad Nauheim when he did his national service in Germany in the 1950s He is celebrated with an annual Elvis Festival in the town “Saturday is the time when individual hosts choose somewhere to take their guests.  This year it was the hottest day of the trip at 33C so many of us sought out shaded spots or places with air conditioning.  A few cooled down in Bad Vilbel’s lovely open air swimming pool The highlight of Saturday is the Social Evening he outlined some of the initiatives and changes taking place in Bad Vilbel at present.  The town has been chosen to host ‘Hessentag’ in 2025.  This is a prestigious showcase event the oldest and one of the largest state celebrations in Germany which Herr Wysocki was keen to invite us all to attend.  In return the British group extended its invitation for him and his family to visit Glossop with the partnership group next year.   We were entertained at the Social Evening with a super performance by Ukrainian musician Naina Doroshenko who fled to Germany two years ago and is now studying at the Frankfurt Conservatoire Her range extended from traditional Ukrainian folk songs accompanied on the bandura to well well-known international pop songs.” Karen said: “Quite a few of the British members are keen gardeners so this was something particular on their ‘wish list’.  We were treated to a fabulous display of numerous beautiful and fragrant varieties in the rose hall the rose museum and the rose church and we had a go at pinning roses on to a display to create an image for a float.   The highlight of the day was the famous rose parade themed floats decorated completely with roses and interspersed in the parade with numerous bands dance groups and processions of rose queens from surrounding towns.  The carnival atmosphere was enhanced by the super fragrance of thousands of fresh roses as the floats passed by.”  The final gathering for the group was back in Bad Vilbel on Sunday evening in the beer garden of a local pizzeria where they shared their favourite moments from the trip and remembered absent friends.   Some members of the British group travelled home the following day whilst others extended their stay to continue their travels in Germany.   After 20 years of searching scientists discover the mystic gene controlling vessel and blood cell growth in the embryo The decade-long search by researchers worldwide for a gene which is critical in controlling the formation of blood and blood vessels in the embryo It is more than 20 years since Didier Stainier director at the Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research in Bad Nauheim discovered a zebrafish mutant named cloche This mutant lacks development of both blood vessels and blood cells his research group has succeeded in finding the gene responsible for it It had quasi hidden itself at the very end of chromosome 13 and was discovered using the latest molecular biological methods The discovery of the gene is not only of scientific interest but could also become important for regenerative medicine No blood vessel growth without cloche: While in the control embryo after 16 hours blood vessel cells can be detected (blue in the cloche mutant neither blood nor vessel cells develop (arrows) At a very early stage of embryonic development blood vessels and blood cells form from common progenitor cells The timing and manner in which the blood and vessels form is regulated in a genetic program by multiple genes This program is characterized by a cascade-like activity pattern Director of the Department of Developmental Genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research in Bad Nauheim discovered in the model organism zebrafish a mutant "possessing one of the most exciting developmental defects ever found in zebrafish" together with Oliver Stone and Alethia Villasenor none of the genes involved in the genetic program for blood and blood vessel cells were activated.  Consequently Stainier named the mutant "cloche" after another unique feature of the mutant various laboratories around the world took part in a real hunt for the gene behind the mutant like solving a decades-old criminal case of genetics it was not the perpetrator who was unknown but the victim says Reischauer.  The Max Planck researchers in Bad Nauheim "The search was made extremely complicated due to the fact that the cloche gene is located at the very end of chromosome 13 which have only recently become available (for example do we have the tools to analyse these areas we had to assume that the gene is only active prior to the time at which the lack of vascular growth is evident This made it much more difficult to identify the embryos" the Bad Nauheim researchers examined the entire portion of the genome in which they suspected cloche to be located Analysis of data from 26,000 genes revealed 17 genes which could be regarded as potential candidates they deactivated all of these candidate genes separately by producing knockout lines and examined the blood vessel growth in these embryos "Only in one case did we find the expected picture namely that vessel growth failed to be induced Then we were sure that we had found the cloche gene" the Max Planck scientists showed how important Cloche is for the development of blood vessels and blood cells in the embryo:  It transpired that all genes which were previously known to be involved in vessel formation are only active after Cloche has been active Cloche itself controls the activity of the entire program This scenario was confirmed in so-called overexpression experiments in which the researchers injected pure cloche mRNA into embryos This approach enabled them to start the program for vascular and blood cell formation at a time during embryo development at which it is not normally active propose we had found the gene responsible for controlling the developmental program" Cloche seems to be highly conserved in nature: The gene is present even in birds.  In mammals there is a closely related gene that can take over the function of cloche in the zebrafish model the Bad Nauheim scientists assume "that with the identification of the gene and its function there will be great opportunities to develop new applications in the context of personalized stem cell therapy" The Hessian based dressage rider Simone Stanzel-Kunze tragically passed away on Friday 25 March 2011 near her home in Bad Nauheim She leaves behind a husband and a 4-year old daughter Stanzel-Kunze went missing on Friday after she took her two Jack Russel Terriers for a walk who staged a search and rescue with a search detachment and helicopter but that attempt was unsuccessful A hunter found the lifeless body of the 42-year old rider yesterday in the forest where she took her own life Stanzel-Kunze started her own equestrian stable in 1990 She earned her Golden Rider Badge at the 1996 CDI Frankfurt Aboard her renowned Swedish warmblood gelding Gassendi (by Gassendi) Simone was the Hessian figurehead in the nineties booking over 70 victories at small tour level and becoming one of Germany's most successful small tour combinations at the time In 2010 Stanzel-Kunze competed the Westfalian mare Rhaissa (by Rubinstein x Palisander) up to Intermediaire I Simone Stanzel-Kunze will be greatly missed www.simone-stanzel-kunze.de Related LinkGerman Olympian Herbert Krug Passed Away Stalls for Rent at Durondeau Dressage in Peer, Belgium Exceptionally Well Located Equestrian Facility in Wellington, Florida Well-built Equestrian Estate With Multiple Business Opportunities in Sweden Stable Units for Rent at Lotje Schoots' Equestrian Center in Houten (NED) For Rent: Several Apartments and Stable Wing at High-End Equestrian Facility Stable Wing Available at Reiterhof Wensing on Dutch/German border Real Estate: Well-Appointed Country House with Extensive Equestrian Facility in the U.K. Rémi Blot Did you find any incorrect or incomplete information? 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An exhibition of Elvis memorabilia has opened in Bad Nauheim the town where the King of Rock ’n’ Roll spent 17 months of his military service over 50 years ago The exhibition includes personal instruments records and scripts of the legendary singer three Elvis fans from the German town of Gelsenkirchen – Oskar Hentschel Adreas Schöeder and Michael Knorr – have collected what must be the largest privately owned Elvis memorablia collection outside the United States The entire collection of the Gelsenkirchen trio includes some 1,500 exhibits from all three decades of the artiste’s career – the 1950s 1960s and 1970s – as well as 2,000 original images and documents the goods are located in bank vaults or in secret locations,” said Mr Hentschel The exhibition also features the early life of the Presley family with two family Bibles dating back to 1872 and the diary Elvis Aaron’s mother kept when he was born in 1935 allowing visitors of this year’s 10th European Elvis Festival – which takes place from August 12 to 14 in Bad Nauheim – to admire this extraordinary collection please register for free or log in to your account A tragedy has shaken the town of Bad Nauheim where two people lost their lives in a violent shooting while the police immediately intervened to start investigations the alleged perpetrator of the attack is on the run and the police are trying to reconstruct the dynamics of the event in order to arrest the culprit On the afternoon of Saturday, April 19, two people were killed by gunfire in a residential area of ​​Bad Nauheim The attack occurred around 17:40 on the street Am Deutergraben near a residential complex: Law enforcement cordoned off the area in front of a three-story building German authorities have confirmed that the alleged attacker is currently runaway no details have been released about the identities of the victims or a possible connection to the attacker including a helicopter and special units (SEK) there is no danger to residents or the population” "At the moment we assume that there is only one person responsible“, the spokesperson said. No further details were provided on the incident. The police It was deployed in large numbers and cordoned off the crime scene in front of a three-story building that they currently have information about a suspect but stressed that he could not rule out that other people may have been involved in the shooting Authorities have not provided any details about the circumstances that led to the attack or about a possible motive The investigation is still ongoing and the agents are trying to reconstruct the dynamics of the crime Notizie.it is a newspaper registered with the Court of Milan n.68 on 01/03/2018 Impara come descrivere lo scopo dell'immagine (si apre in una nuova scheda) Lascia vuoto se l'immagine è puramente decorativa