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Multimedia Station at the German Historical Museum
Excerpts from twelve interviews are displayed in a multimedia station in the permanent exhibition of the German Historical Museum.
Screenshot of the multimedia station
Screenshot of the PC station
While the online portal inspires a profound confrontation with the subject of forced labor in all its facets, the multimedia station of the German Historical Museum provides visitors with an introduction to this chapter of German history on the basis of a selection of interviews.
The selected interviews represent the main groups targeted for persecution: A Ukrainian “OST-Arbeiter”, a Polish forced laborer, a Soviet prisoner of war, slave laborers from concentration camps and an Italian military internee give accounts of their various areas of deployment in industry, agriculture, and mining and in private households.
The interviews can be selected using a map according to place of origin and place of deployment as well as according to the themes “Origin and Family”, “Labor and Terror”, “Return and Emigration”.
Visitors obtain background information through introductory texts, information and facts about forced labor. The interviews have been subtitled in German. The station has been developed and implemented by the research assistants of the Department for Central Documentation.
The multimedia station has also been available online in a web-optimized version since April 27th, 2009: http://www.dhm.de/zwangsarbeit.
Additional Museum Related Activities
Other exhibitions also use materials from the interview archive “Forced Labor 1939-1945. Memory and History“.
“Im Totaleinsatz. Zwangsarbeit der tschechischen Bevölkerung für das Dritte Reich" (In Totaleinsatz. Forced Labor of the Czech People for the Third Reich) at the Documentation Center of Nazi Forced Labor in Berlin Schöneweide (2008-2009). more»
„Deutsche und Polen - 1.9.39 - Abgründe und Hoffnungen" (Germans and Poles –September 1st, 1939 – Abyss and Hope) at the German Historical Museum (2009). more»
"Städtedreieck unterm Hakenkreuz. NS-Zwangsarbeit im ländlichen Raum" (Three-City-Triangle under the Swastika. Nazi Forced Labor in Rural Areas) at the “Hüttenschänke” in Maxhütte-Haidhof (2010). more»
"Zwangsarbeit. Die Deutschen, ihre Zwangsarbeiter und der Krieg" (Forced labour in the national socialist era) at the Jewish Museum Berlin (2010-2011). more»
The digital interview archives on Nazi forced labor are also relevant for use by memorial sites and for other out-of-school educational purposes.
News
Life Story Interviews for the Classroom: Keeping memory alive and imparting history
New multimedia teaching material on forced labor presented to public.
New archive version online
Additional search functionality - Growing number of indexed interviews
Presence at "didacta 2010"
The educational materials of the multimedia archive projects "Forced Labor 1939-1945. Memory and History" and "Witnesses of the Shoah. The Visual History Archive in School Education" will be introduced at the education fair "didacta" from March 16th to March 20th in Cologne.
