Articles on political persecution in the Bonn Republic (1949 to 1990)
June 2, 1967, marks one of the darkest days in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany. What began as a state visit by the Iranian Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, ended in a bloody…
It was the moment the young German democracy passed its true test of maturity. What began as a police operation against a news magazine turned out to be one of the gravest attacks on press…
The Bonn Republic (1949-1990) is considered the cradle of German democracy after the war. But behind the facade of the economic miracle and a stable democracy lay a state that surveilled its citizens, issued professional…
In 1949, with the ashes of the Third Reich still fresh, the newly founded Federal Republic of Germany promised a new beginning built on democracy and human rights. For gay men, who had suffered brutal…