Martina Staats

Martina Staats, historian, is the director of the Memorial at Wolfenbüttel Prison as well as the project leader of a research project about compensation “Ewige Zuchthäusler?!”. Her research focuses on the history of National Socialism and the culture of memory. She was the head of the redesign project of the Memorial at Wolfenbüttel Prison. Most recent publications: Martina Staats, Jens-Christian Wagner (Ed.): Law. Crime. Consequences. Wolfenbüttel Prison under National Socialism. Göttingen 2020. Tomke Blotevogel, Janna Lölke, Gustav Partington, Martina Staats (Ed.): outSITE Wolfenbüttel. Das Strafgefängnis Wolfenbüttel und sein Netzwerk im Land Braunschweig. The Wolfenbüttel Prison and its Network in the State of Braunschweig. Langenhagen 2022.

Broken Silence. How Family Members Deal with the Consequences of Nazi Court Verdicts

10/01/202406/11/2023 by Martina Staats

My text is about the issue of the consequences of National Socialist court verdicts and the prison sentences for survivors and their families, an almost forgotten group of victims of Nazi persecution, by the example of Wolfenbüttel Prison. Wolfenbüttel Prison was the main penal facility in the former State of Braunschweig (Brunswick), in northern Germany, … Read more