On December 19, 1980, Shlomo Lewin, the former chairman of the Jewish community in Nuremberg, and his partner Frida Poeschke were shot dead in their house in Erlangen. Instead of pursuing the leads that led to the right-wing extremist group Wehrsportgruppe Hoffmann, investigators concentrated on Lewin’s social environment for a long time. In this lecture, the German historian Uffa Jensen reconstructs the crime and its motivations, unearthing a history of violence, trivialization and repression that continues today.

• 2024-03-07

• Jensen, Uffa

• Ratner, Laurayne

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• Germany (West)

• 20th century

• Wehrsportgruppe Hoffmann (WSG)

• Lewin, Shlomo, 1911-1980
• Poeschke, Frieda, 1923-1980

• Antisemitism
• Hate crimes
• History
• Holocaust commemoration
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
• Jews
• Right-wing extremists
• Right-wing terrorism
• Violence
• World War, 1939-1945

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