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A German Village and Its Past

Book Presentation: Dr. Stefanie Fischer, **
Moderator: Dr. Sabine Kritter

In their book *Oberbrechen: A German Village Confronts Its Nazi Past* (2025), Stefanie Fischer and Kim Wünschmann examine the complexity of the relationships between Jewish and non-Jewish members of the village of Oberbrechen in Hesse. Conceived as a graphic history, the book explores the microcosm of a village community and its history of violence during the Nazi era, revealing how local residents coped with the ever-present yet largely unspoken reality of the Holocaust. It also examines how varying degrees of involvement in anti-Jewish exclusion affected the post-1945 reunions between Jews and non-Jews. For the study, numerous denazification, restitution, and compensation files, as well as private sources from family archives, were analyzed.Translated with DeepL

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