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  • Topics and Projects
    • Remembering the 90th anniversary of Nazi book burnings in Erlangen
    • Controversial remembrance – the problems surrounding names given to streets and academic institutions
    • Publication: “Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen 1918-1945”
    • Revocation of doctoral degrees at the University of Erlangen during the National Socialist period

Topics and Projects

Research projects, publications and events

Remembering the 90th anniversary of Nazi book burnings in Erlangen

In May 2023, FAU and the City of Erlangen held a series of events to remember the Nazi book burnings that took place in 1933.

Information about the event

Human anatomical specimens from the National Socialist era at the Faculty of Medicine at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg and Universitätsklinikum Erlangen

The research project investigates the issue of the extent to which unethically acquired medical specimens are still part of FAU’s collections and how access to human remains developed during the first half of the 20th century.

Research projects at the Institute of the History of Medicine and Medical Ethics

National Socialist “Euthanasia” in Erlangen

The project comprehensively investigates National Socialist “euthanasia” in Erlangen for the first time by recording National Socialist health policy in a clinical, communal and regional context.

Research projects at the Institute of the History of Medicine and Medical Ethics

Publication: “Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen 1918-1945”

This collective volume about FAU during the Weimar Republic and the National Socialist era examines the history of faculties and people based on the findings of new archive research and current research questions.

Information about the collective volume

Lecture series “Controversial remembrance – the problems surrounding names given to streets and academic institutions”

During a series of 11 lectures, examples of names given to places in Erlangen and Nuremberg associated with FAU were discussed as well as ways of dealing with problematic names.

Information about the lecture series

The private collection of Georg Dehn and the Erlangen Collection of Antiquities

This project from the field of provenance research investigates the case of the collector Georg Dehn who had to flee National Socialist persecution and sold pottery fragments to the FAU Collection of Antiquities in 1939.

Information on the website of the Institute for Classical Archeology

Audiowalk: “Patient murders behind stone walls: Between demolition and remembrance.”

The audiowalk follows the traces of Nazi medical crimes through the streets of Erlangen and its purpose is to keep alive the memory of the victims of these crimes in the Erlangen sanatorium.

Information on the website of the Department of History

Revocation of doctoral degrees at the University of Erlangen during the National Socialist period

The procedure in individual faculties, which was humiliating for several alumnae and alumni at FAU and caused them great difficulties and in some cases even meant the end of their academic careers, has been investigated in detail in several projects.

Information and publications about revocations of doctoral degrees

This site is being continuously updated and will successively include access to earlier topics and projects on the subject of remembrance culture at FAU.




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