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Geschichtswerkstatt Weimar-Apolda was founded, later merged into the Prager-Haus Association, and published further material regarding Jewish life, persecution in the first Thuringia concentration camps in
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Peter Franz, Udo
Wohlfeld: Jüdische Familien in Apolda. Diffamierung, Ausgrenzung, Entrechtung, Vertreibung, Deportation, Vernichtung, Ungehorsam. Die Apoldaer Judenheit während des Faschismus, Weimar 2006,
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Peter Franz: Der gewöhnliche
Faschismus. Über die alltägliche Herrschaft der "Nationalsozialisten" am Beispiel einer Mittelstadt des Deutschen Reiches. Eine Chronologie in Jahresscheiben. Weimar 2001,
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of the family's property is documented in a book with historical primary sources published by the Thüringer
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Wolfgang Peller, Peter Franz, Udo
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