Hilde Schramm
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Hilde Schramm is a German politician. Internationally she is known mainly as the daughter of the German architect, senior Nazi official and war criminal Albert Speer
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As a teenager, Schramm was awarded a competitive scholarship to study in the United States. The US government initially refused her a visa, but reversed its decision in the face of publicity, including offers of hospitality from several families (some of them Jewish).
Schramm became a prominent Europe
an political figure who distinguished herself for helping victims of anti-semitism
and Nazi
atrocities. She is also a publisher and sociologist. In 1994, she was awarded the Moses Mendelssohn Award from Berlin
for her work. Schramm is active in politics, and has been a leader of the Green Party in Berlin. She has also served as vice president of the Berlin city council.
She is interviewed extensively in the 2005 docudrama
Speer und Er
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Albert Speer
Albert Speer, born Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer, was a German architect who was, for a part of World War II, Minister of Armaments and War Production for the Third Reich. Speer was Adolf Hitler's chief architect before assuming ministerial office...
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As a teenager, Schramm was awarded a competitive scholarship to study in the United States. The US government initially refused her a visa, but reversed its decision in the face of publicity, including offers of hospitality from several families (some of them Jewish).
Schramm became a prominent Europe
Europe
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an political figure who distinguished herself for helping victims of anti-semitism
Anti-Semitism
Antisemitism is suspicion of, hatred toward, or discrimination against Jews for reasons connected to their Jewish heritage. According to a 2005 U.S...
and Nazi
Nazism
Nazism, the common short form name of National Socialism was the ideology and practice of the Nazi Party and of Nazi Germany...
atrocities. She is also a publisher and sociologist. In 1994, she was awarded the Moses Mendelssohn Award from Berlin
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
for her work. Schramm is active in politics, and has been a leader of the Green Party in Berlin. She has also served as vice president of the Berlin city council.
She is interviewed extensively in the 2005 docudrama
Docudrama
In film, television programming and staged theatre, docudrama is a documentary-style genre that features dramatized re-enactments of actual historical events. As a neologism, the term is often confused with docufiction....
Speer und Er
Speer und Er
Speer und Er is a three-part German docudrama starring Sebastian Koch as Albert Speer and Tobias Moretti as Adolf Hitler...
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