The Director-General of the State Archives, Dr. Margit Ksoll-Marcon, the Mayor of the City of Landshut, Mr Alexander Putz and the aegis of the Seligenthal Monastery, Sister M. Petra Articus sign on the 16th. July 2019 at 10 a.m. in Landshut State Archives, Libraries and Museums (“Landshuter Archives, Libraries and Museums”). The agreement includes: joint trainings and exercises, the preparation and exchange of emergency plans, and the permanent exchange of those responsible with each other and with external partners such as the fire department and the technical aid. For the hopefully never-ending emergency, the archives secure mutual support to bundle resources, as well as to ensure faster and more effective recovery and initial supply of the affected archives, books and exhibits. For the institutions involved, the protection of the cultural goods they hold against fire, water, external violence or other unpredictable events is one of the most important tasks. The past has shown that the staff of the individual institutions are often overwhelmed without external assistance, which has shown great disasters such as the Elbhochwasser 2002, the fire in the Weimar Anna-Amalia Library 2004 or the collapse of the historical archives of the city of Cologne 2009. Due to the fire of the Trausnitz Castle on 21 October 1961, which also seriously affected the state archive Landshut, which was then housed there, the city of Landshut and the Landshut archives had to make their o

After the Second World War with more than 50 million dead, the question of the responsibility, for the guilt and atonement of the crimes committed by the Nazis, was raised. In addition to the allied war criminal processes in Nuremberg, the Americans led the twelve Nuremberg follow-up processes as well as the Dachauer war criminal processes to punish criminal organisations as well as perpetrator groups and individual workers. Since the end of 1945 the German courts were allowed to speak right again and since 1950 they had so far-reaching competencies in order to be able to judge war crimes. In addition, investigative authorities and courts have now been able to clarify and judge crimes with a national-socialist background. The exhibition at the State Archive Munich provides an insight into the procedures and introduces some processes that stand out from the mass of criminal proceedings. A large section of the exhibition is dedicated to crimes in concentration camps. The legal work-up of Dachau was exclusively within the jurisdiction of the prosecutor's office Munich II, to the Passau outer camps of the concentration camp Mauthausen determined the prosecutor's office Passau. A further section examines the legal work-up of the Nazi violent acts by the Coburg prosecutor's office, as in the Coburger area. The exhibition at the State Archive Coburg (Herrngasse 11) is from 26. June to August 2, 2019 to see. Admission is free. Opening hours: Mo–Do: 8.00–16.00