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Faculty of Arts and HumanitiesMartin Buber Institute for Jewish Studies

Milan Spindler, M.A.

E-Mail: mspindleSpamProtectionuni-koeln.de

 

Short biography

2016 - 2019 Master's degree in Contemporary History at the University of Jena and LUMSA Rome

 

Master's thesis:

"Eravamo maestri nell'arte di arrangiarsi..." - On the primacy of survival in the diaries and memoirs of Italian military internees of the main camps IV B Mühlberg and IV B/Z Zeithain

2012 - 2016 Bachelor's degree in European History and Communication and Media Studies at the University of Leipzig

 

Activities in the project

  • Archive research
  • Assistance to the project management
  • Writing, editing and proofreading texts and articles
  • Concept, design and coordination of the project website
  • Coordination of contacts with European partners

 

Previous activities:

Since July 2024: Research assistant in the "Nazi perpetrators in Italy" project

Since January 2023: Consultant for public relations and education at the Ehrenhain Zeithain Memorial / Saxon Memorials Foundation

2019 - 2022 Employee in projects of the German-Italian Future Fund, the Saxon Memorials Foundation and the German Historians' Day, among others

 

Board member of the Association of Sponsors of the Forced Labor Memorial in Leipzig

 

Scholarships:

2013 - 2019 study scholarship from the Hans Böckler Foundation

 

Publications:

2013 Article Antifascismo between the Apennines and the Po, published in AIB number 99 / 2.2013

2015 Articles in 70 Years of Violence, Murder, Liberation. The end of the war in Lower Saxony, edited by Jens-Christian Wagner

2022 Article Italian military internees as forced laborers at HASAG - The diary of Giuseppe Caroli in the GfZL anthology Forced labor at the armaments company HASAG. The Leipzig factory site under National Socialism and its post-history

 

Last lectures :

  • "Riconoscere il passato degli altri - Goals and problems in the development of a German-Italian traveling exhibition on the Second World War in Italy" in Erfurt (German) and Milan (Italian), 2024
  • "Riscrivere i morti di Zeithain - Recent research on the hospital train from the Zeithain POW reserve hospital in 1944" at conferences in Berlin (German) and Modena (Italian), 2024

Areas of research and interest:

  • Italian military internees in the former military district IV / Saxony
  • Medicine in the Wehrmacht prisoner of war system
  • German-Italian World War II history, focus on Trieste, Rome and Reggio Emilia
  • NS forced labor in the greater Leipzig area