Anne Klein

Anne Klein, Ph.D., historian, political and educational scientist, researcher and lecturer at the Faculty of Human Sciences, University of Cologne. After her first studies of psychology, sociology, education and art, she worked for a publishing houses, radio stations and civil right organisations. She finished her second studies of political sciences, history and languages with a Ph.D. at the Otto-Suhr-Institute of the Free University in Berlin with a study on "Flüchtlingspolitik und Flüchtlingshilfe, 1940-1942. Varian Fry und die Komitees zur Rettung politisch Verfolgter in New York und Marseille, 1940-1942" (Berlin: Metropol Verlag 2007). Anne Klein has directed several oral history projects as well as European memory projects. Her research is based on a critical epistemology to support marginalized voices and social movements in the context of democratization, (retroactive) justice and personal recognition.

The Struggle of French Jewish Descendants Against the Impunity of Former SS Functionaries in the Federal Republic of Germany in the 1970s

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Special thanks to Beate Klarsfeld for her contribution to this article. The period after the end of the Second World War in the Federal Republic of Germany was characterised by a widespread rejection of responsibility, persistent anti-Semitism and the inactivity of state authorities who did not really make an effort to prosecute former Nazi perpetrators[1]. … Read more

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