A student project of the Institute of History

with the support of the local radio station oldenburg eins - www.oeins.de/

You can listen to a thematic audio introduction by Warner Willm Altmanns here:

"workshy, antisocial, criminal"

A big thank you goes to Ann-Kathrin Büüsker, who, in addition to her own project, also recorded numerous contributions and supported other students with her expertise!

"Who is asocial here?" asks one of the audio tracks available here. Under National Socialism, countless people were labelled as "work-shy", "asocial" or "criminal", persecuted and murdered. These were categories that were subject to constant negotiation. They labelled "deviant behaviour", were sometimes charged with hereditary biology and were used to register "vagrants", the destitute, Sinti and Roma, homosexuals and "strangers to the community", among others. In Oldenburg, too, the wide-ranging persecution measures were legitimised as "preventive crime prevention".

The results of a project seminar are now available in the form of audio tracks produced by the students, which approach the topic and individual fates of persecution in different ways. They thematise the negotiation processes regarding the range of concepts and the resulting consequences for those affected - particularly in the state of Oldenburg.

You can listen to the individual audio projects under "Map with place markers".