Karl Loewenstein (banker), the Glossary
Karl Loewenstein (2 May 1887 – 9 August 1975/1976) was a German banker and naval officer.[1]
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39 relations: Australia, Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Bank, Berlin, Confessing Church, Crimes against humanity, Czech language, Czechoslovakia, European Holocaust Research Infrastructure, German Empire, German Fatherland Party, German People's Party, Germany, Gestapo, Great Britain, H. G. Adler, Imperial German Navy, Interwar period, Jakob Edelstein, Jewish Ghetto Police, Kingdom of Prussia, Literary Hub, Lutheranism, Minsk Ghetto, Nazi Party, Pankrác Prison, Prague, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, Siegen, Siegfried Seidl, Soviet Union, The Holocaust, Theresienstadt Ghetto, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, West Germany, Wiener Holocaust Library, World War I, World War II, Zionism.
- Imperial German Navy personnel
- Minsk Ghetto inmates
- People from Siegen
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.
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Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler
Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler is a spa town in the German Bundesland of Rhineland-Palatinate that serves as the capital of the Ahrweiler district.
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Bank
A bank is a financial institution that accepts deposits from the public and creates a demand deposit while simultaneously making loans.
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Berlin
Berlin is the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and by population.
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Confessing Church
The Confessing Church (Bekennende Kirche) was a movement within German Protestantism in Nazi Germany that arose in opposition to government-sponsored efforts to unify all of the Protestant churches into a single pro-Nazi German Evangelical Church.
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Crimes against humanity
Crimes against humanity are certain serious crimes committed as part of a large-scale attack against civilians.
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Czech language
Czech (čeština), historically also known as Bohemian (lingua Bohemica), is a West Slavic language of the Czech–Slovak group, written in Latin script.
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Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia (Czech and Československo, Česko-Slovensko) was a landlocked state in Central Europe, created in 1918, when it declared its independence from Austria-Hungary.
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European Holocaust Research Infrastructure
The European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) is an international digital infrastructure and community.
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German Empire
The German Empire, also referred to as Imperial Germany, the Second Reich or simply Germany, was the period of the German Reich from the unification of Germany in 1871 until the November Revolution in 1918, when the German Reich changed its form of government from a monarchy to a republic.
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German Fatherland Party
The German Fatherland Party (Deutsche Vaterlandspartei, abbreviated as DVLP) was a short-lived far-right political party active in the German Empire during the last phase of World War I. It rejected the Reichstag Peace Resolution of July 1917, which called for a negotiated peace without annexations.
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German People's Party
The German People's Party (German:, DVP) was a conservative-liberal political party during the Weimar Republic that was the successor to the National Liberal Party of the German Empire.
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Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.
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Gestapo
The Geheime Staatspolizei, abbreviated Gestapo, was the official secret police of Nazi Germany and in German-occupied Europe.
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Great Britain
Great Britain (commonly shortened to Britain) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the north-west coast of continental Europe, consisting of the countries England, Scotland and Wales.
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H. G. Adler
Hans Günther Adler (2 July 1910 – 21 August 1988) was a Czech-English German-language poet and novelist, scholar, and Holocaust survivor. Karl Loewenstein (banker) and H. G. Adler are Theresienstadt Ghetto survivors.
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Imperial German Navy
The Imperial German Navy or the Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy) was the navy of the German Empire, which existed between 1871 and 1919.
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Interwar period
In the history of the 20th century, the interwar period (or interbellum) lasted from 11November 1918 to 1September 1939 (20years, 9months, 21days) – from the end of World War I (WWI) to the beginning of World War II (WWII).
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Jakob Edelstein
Jakob Edelstein (also written as Yacov, Yaakov, Jakub Edelstein or Edlstein; 25 July 1903 – 20 June 1944) was a Czechoslovak Zionist, social democrat and the first Jewish Elder in the Theresienstadt ghetto.
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Jewish Ghetto Police
The Jewish Ghetto Police or Jewish Police Service (Jüdische Ghetto-Polizei or Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst), also called the Jewish Police by Jews, were auxiliary police units organized within the Nazi ghettos by local Judenrat (Jewish councils).
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Kingdom of Prussia
The Kingdom of Prussia (Königreich Preußen) constituted the German state of Prussia between 1701 and 1918.
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Literary Hub
Literary Hub or LitHub is a daily literary website that was launched in 2015 by Grove Atlantic president and publisher Morgan Entrekin, American Society of Magazine Editors Hall of Fame editor Terry McDonell, and Electric Literature founder Andy Hunter.
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Lutheranism
Lutheranism is a major branch of Protestantism that identifies primarily with the theology of Martin Luther, the 16th-century German monk and reformer whose efforts to reform the theology and practices of the Catholic Church ended the Middle Ages and, in 1517, launched the Reformation.
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Minsk Ghetto
The Minsk Ghetto was created soon after the German invasion of the Soviet Union.
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Nazi Party
The Nazi Party, officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP), was a far-right political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that created and supported the ideology of Nazism.
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Pankrác Prison
Pankrác Prison, officially Prague Pankrác Remand Prison (Vazební věznice Praha Pankrác) in Czech), is a prison in Prague, Czech Republic. A part of the Czech Prison Service, it is located southeast of Prague city centre in Pankrác, not far from Pražského povstání metro station on Line C.
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Prague
Prague (Praha) is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic and the historical capital of Bohemia.
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Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
The Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia was a partially-annexed territory of Nazi Germany that was established on 16 March 1939 after the German occupation of the Czech lands.
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Siegen
Siegen is a city in Germany, in the south Westphalian part of North Rhine-Westphalia.
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Siegfried Seidl
Siegfried Seidl (24 August 1911 – 4 February 1947) was an Austrian career officer and World War II commandant of the Theresienstadt concentration camp located in the present-day Czech Republic.
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Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.
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The Holocaust
The Holocaust was the genocide of European Jews during World War II.
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Theresienstadt Ghetto
Theresienstadt Ghetto was established by the SS during World War II in the fortress town of Terezín, in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (German-occupied Czechoslovakia).
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) is the United States' official memorial to the Holocaust.
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West Germany
West Germany is the common English name for the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) from its formation on 23 May 1949 until the reunification with East Germany on 3 October 1990. The Cold War-era country is sometimes known as the Bonn Republic (Bonner Republik) after its capital city of Bonn. During the Cold War, the western portion of Germany and the associated territory of West Berlin were parts of the Western Bloc.
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Wiener Holocaust Library
The Wiener Holocaust Library is the world's oldest institution devoted to the study of the Holocaust, its causes and legacies.
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World War I
World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
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Zionism
Zionism is an ethno-cultural nationalist movement that emerged in Europe in the late 19th century and aimed for the establishment of a Jewish state through the colonization of a land outside of Europe.
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See also
Imperial German Navy personnel
- Alfred Rodenbücher
- August Bier
- Duke Paul Frederick of Mecklenburg (1882–1904)
- Ernst Reinke
- Karl Loewenstein (banker)
- Karl Zörgiebel
- Paul Jaeschke
Minsk Ghetto inmates
- Anatoly Rubin
- Cläre Tisch
- Hanna Krasnapiorka
- Heinz Rosenberg
- Ida Jenbach
- Karl Loewenstein (banker)
- Nelli Neumann
- Rokhl Brokhes
- Simcha Zorin
People from Siegen
- Adolf Busch
- Adolf Schenck
- Akif Çağatay Kılıç
- Anna Angelina Wolfers
- August Wittgenstein
- Bernd Enders
- Bernward Koch
- Charles H. Daub
- Constantin Wallhäuser
- Dieter Falk
- Emir Vildić
- Ernst Achenbach
- Frank Heinrich
- Franz Hunolt
- Friedrich Middelhauve
- Friedrich Reusch
- Fritz Busch
- Heinrich Kreutz
- Heinrich Schenck
- Hermann Giesler
- Joachim Frank
- Johann Heinrich Bisterfeld
- Karl Loewenstein (banker)
- Katja Dörner
- Klaus Siebenhaar
- Nadja Becker
- Navid Kermani
- Otfried Nassauer
- Paul Giesler
- Peter Autschbach
- Peter Paul Rubens
- Peter Stein (politician)
- Philip Rubens
- Rolf Buch
- Sandra Weeser
- Sybille Witkowski
- Ulrich Stötzel
- Volkmar Klein
- Walter Kraemer
- Walter Rosenthal