Giants of Literature and a Nazi Concentration Camp: In Weimar, Good and Evil Sit Side by Side

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Weimar is world-famous. A number of important philosophers, musicians, and literary figures used to live here - including renowned poets Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller. Weimar Classicism attracts tourists even today.
But the city of Thuringia is also home to a dark chapter of German history. There, the Nazis built one of their largest concentration camps, Buchenwald, where a total of around 266,000 people were imprisoned.
How does Weimar cope with this paradox today? DW reporter Hannah Hummel searches for answers.
CREDITS:
Report: Hannah Hummel, Andreas Kirchhoff
Camera: Holm Weber
Editing: Klaus Hellmich
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@relaxationstation7374 Жыл бұрын

Fascinating and that big German tour guide is very attractive and highly informative.

@JefiHaredi 25 күн бұрын

Guide wasn't big instead the reporter was too short

@julianosvonskingrad7009 Жыл бұрын

12:26 - I think the dark past is a question of mindset and philosophy. We try to remind ourselves and the world of the past. Try to make suffering comprehensible. Try to learn from mistakes and let wounds heal and to lay foundations for a better future without suffering. And that is something very good.

@IceCryTV Жыл бұрын

Another awesome video! I was in Weimar a few times and it is admirable. Even the first german democracy is named after the city - The weimarer republic.

@einzuwasu5563 Жыл бұрын

ohh boi and one democracy it was !

@nanangarifin5359 Жыл бұрын

Now I know Germany and Japan have different views on the black history of the past. Japan is so denial with black history while Germany accepts it as learning by the younger generation. So that similar incidents never happen again

@Chaplain161 Жыл бұрын

I love this channel. I started following Eva zu Beck's KZfaq channel a few months ago, which lead me to DW Travel. I'm hooked on this travel channel now.

@DWTravel Жыл бұрын

Glad you like it! Stay tuned..

@theinigosilvastation6232 Жыл бұрын

So am I. I’ve known Eva zu Beck for some time and I didn’t realize that she was working with DW. It’s really nice that her travels brought me here to DW. What a wonderful channel!! ❤

@ericderami Жыл бұрын

This video just played for me after watching one of Eva's videos!

@mrpeel3239 Жыл бұрын

Like how she color coordinated her yellow sweater with the Gropius sofa!

@enigma0u812 Жыл бұрын

after experiencing the horrors of Buchenwald, I and my german family (I American) spent an afternoon in the city of Wiemar. What a contradiction!

@MagnificentGermanywithDarion Жыл бұрын

Thank You so much for this great video of the present and the past. I was stationed in Schweinfurt, Germany while I served in the US Army and I had heard about Buchenwald but I have never visited to date. I will fix this on my future trip to Germany. Thank You again Hannah for your efforts. :) BTW, where was your "green partner" in this video? LOL!!!

@terrypmusic Жыл бұрын

Great stuff, keep it up

@marticarreras Жыл бұрын

Very interesting, thank you

@diegoacosta8168 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for share so quality video! I wish to visit many places in Germany soon! Congrats!

@lucindayu2541 Жыл бұрын

“Culture strong hold”, I like this phrase. It’s good not cover the dark, when something is really nasty and schmutzig, just let people see it. Or discover it rather than cover it up. And they will make up their own minds.

@MrJynxi Жыл бұрын

You need the darkness to appreciate the light. Great video. And Hannah was amazing as usual ❤

@DWTravel Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@rakibjibon6407 Жыл бұрын

I wish i could visit this place

@loveformeditation Жыл бұрын

I think it was the Mustard that made the sausage spicy x)

@altoM40 Жыл бұрын

Hannah and Andreas you do a very good job. You show how Weimar was a place of great intellect and innovation and the furious reaction to it.

@abrahamk9 2 ай бұрын

It's great to see Germany acknowledging all of it's past. The beauty and the terrible.

@dravikrish7323 Ай бұрын

I don’t find any video KZfaq how you explored like you ?

@wuilfredocarrozza8940 Жыл бұрын

Weimar si a very beautiful city. The test is out

@bamargerin Жыл бұрын

The design of that chair is VERY suspect !

@billfish5913 Жыл бұрын

England has to live with its mistreatment of people in its colonies. And it’s treatment of the Scottish and Irish people. America has to live with its treatment of slaves, black people after slavery was abolished, and its continued marginalization of Native Americans. America is so divided right now that there are some people who would like to abolish democracy in favor a one party fascist government. We will see with the 2022 elections if democracy can hold on. No Empire has lasted forever. Even the Roman Empire fell. Very thoughtful visit to Weimar. The man who doesn’t study history is doomed to repeat it.😎

@combat-2156 Жыл бұрын

SA MAGA

@ryoukwjdbwopqmqpzl73819 Жыл бұрын

All these colonies had their own people who worked with the colonisers for profit. These people brought to the colonial lands were already under slavery btw. It's just from one owner to an another owner

@ryoukwjdbwopqmqpzl73819 Жыл бұрын

A man should know real history from both sides before acting all knowledgeable Bill

@prinzeisenherz93 Жыл бұрын

Weimar - the capital of Thüringen!

@DWTravel Жыл бұрын

Let's agree on Erfurt as the state capitol of Thuringia.. 😉

@wuetend9 Жыл бұрын

Ah yes American wisdom 😂😂

@teryvt888 Жыл бұрын

agree even when it's wrong

@eliaseis6093 Жыл бұрын

423 ist die Hood

@diallolamin3803 Жыл бұрын

Ich wohne auch in weimar

@adnanrasheed9176 5 ай бұрын

It's damn near impossible to find any German willing to speaker English. DW somehow managed. :)

@maestroadam Жыл бұрын

2:51 is that Ravel in the background music?

@theeeternalsun Жыл бұрын

Its Debussy

@balaramsharangi9747 Жыл бұрын

Love from India.

@claiborneeastjr4129 Жыл бұрын

Hannah is a lovely, charming hostess!

@teryvt888 Жыл бұрын

I love my home town

@aloha2713 Жыл бұрын

Wie wäre es nächstes mal mit einer etwas natürlicheren Moderatorin? Ich finde die im Video schrecklich aufgesetzt. Allein schon dieses gekünstelte Lächeln die ganze Zeit 😬

@4a11e2 Жыл бұрын

Ein sehr schönes und authentisches Lächeln. Ist es Ihnen nicht unangenehm sowas zu kommentieren? Peinlich.