The Steady Drip: George Soros explains his childhood and Nazi collaboration

George Soros explains his childhood and Nazi collaboration

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George Soros explains his childhood and Nazi collaboration. From a Steve Kroft interview, 60 minutes, 1998.

Former AP German-Language Service Head Ulrich Renz, Who Covered Nazi Trials, Dies at 90 (Connecting the Dots: The Frankfurt School, Columbia University, Duke University, University of Michigan & Soros Funding, All Networking)

Newsmax.com

Thursday, 14 November 2024 02:02 PM EST

https://www.newsmax.com/world/globaltalk/germany-obituary-ulrich-renz-associated-press/2024/11/14/id/1188093/

Ulrich Renz, a former head of The Associated Press German-language service who also covered the trials of leaders of the Auschwitz death camp in World War II, has died at the age of 90.

Renz died Monday, according to Peter Gehrig, a close friend for 50 years and a former AP colleague who lived in the same senior citizen residence in Frankfurt. No cause of death was given.

Widely known as “Uli,” Renz began working for the AP in Germany in 1971, after a stint at United Press International. At AP, he first worked on the foreign desk and eventually headed the German-language service at its Frankfurt headquarters from 1986-92.

The German-language news service was begun after World War II to help establish a free press and support democracy in postwar West Germany. It was sold to the German news agency DDP in 2009.

Renz was born in Stuttgart in 1934 and grew up in the village of Giengen an der Brenz in southwestern Germany. After graduating from high school, he worked as a reporter for the Heidenheimer Zeitung newspaper, where he stayed until moving to UPI in 1959.

During his decades as a journalist in Germany, he focused on reporting about the country's highest court, the Federal Constitutional Court, and wrote extensively about the trials of many former Nazis, including the Auschwitz trials.

The 1963-65 trial in Frankfurt of 22 men who helped run the Auschwitz death camp in Germany-occupied Poland was one of the biggest following the Allies’ Nuremberg war crimes trials immediately after World War II. It confronted people in then-West Germany with the Nazi past and is credited as a turning point in German efforts to address the crimes of that period.

After retiring in 1992, Renz devoted his time to researching the life of Georg Elser, a carpenter who tried to kill Hitler in Munich but was thwarted because the Nazi leader unexpectedly left the room minutes before a bomb exploded. Renz published several books on Elser‘s life and the failed attempt, gaining recognition from scholars and political leaders. He was honored with the German Cross of Honor for his work.

“Renz’s passion for researching the Third Reich sprang at least partly from his father’s refusal to talk about his own role in it as a civilian administrator in Nazi-occupied Poland,” Gehrig said. “Across vanquished Germany, there wasn’t much interest into digging into the dark past. Uli was among the young Germans who thought otherwise.”

Former AP Bonn correspondent Terrence Petty said that “as a journalist and digger into uncomfortable truths, Uli was an inspiration to those who knew him and worked with him, myself included.”

Renz enjoyed biking, visiting coffee shops in Frankfurt and reading, although recently his sight had diminished, he added.

Renz is survived by his son, daughter-in-law and a granddaughter.

The Frankfurt School

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_School#European_interwar_period_(1918%E2%80%9339)

European interwar period (1918–39)

As the anti-intellectual threat of Nazism increased to political violence, the founders decided to move the Institute for Social Research out of Nazi Germany (1933–45).[8] Soon after Adolf Hitler's rise to power in 1933, the Institute first moved from Frankfurt to Geneva, and then to New York City, in 1935, where it joined Columbia University. The School's journal, the Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung ("Journal of Social Research"), was renamed "Studies in Philosophy and Social Science". This began the period of the School's important work in Marxist critical theory. By the 1950s, the paths of scholarship led Horkheimer, Adorno, and Pollock to return to West Germany, while Marcuse, Löwenthal, and Kirchheimer remained in the U.S. In 1953, the Institute for Social Research (Frankfurt School) was formally re-established in Frankfurt, West Germany.

Institute for Social Research and University of Michigan College of Engineering select three projects for 2025 Rural Life Program grants

University of Michigan

July 21, 2025

https://isr.umich.edu/news-events/news-releases/institute-for-social-research-and-university-of-michigan-college-of-engineering-select-three-projects-for-2025-rural-life-program-grants/

ANN ARBOR — Now in its third year, the joint Rural Life Program maintained by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research and College of Engineering has selected three new projects aimed at an in-depth look at key issues of rural life.

“The Rural Life Program is a highlight of ISR’s commitment to interdisciplinary partnerships, and we’re pleased to continue our relationship with the College of Engineering,” said ISR Director Kate Cagney. “This research will offer important insights into the issues facing rural communities, as well as explore creative, sustainable, data-driven solutions to those issues.”

This year’s projects tackle novel approaches to tracking infectious disease and improving both access to and the reliability of electricity in rural communities. Brief outlines of the three projects selected for this year’s grants are presented below.

Columbia ISERP

https://iserp.columbia.edu/content/about#!/search/Institute%20for%20Social%20Research%20

Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy.

Frankfurt School

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Institute-for-Social-Research

In Frankfurt School

…of researchers associated with the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, who applied Marxism to a radical interdisciplinary social theory. The Institute for Social Research (Institut für Sozialforschung) was founded by Carl Grünberg in 1923 as an adjunct of the University of Frankfurt; it was the first…

Goethe University Frankfurt

Sunday, April 27, 2014

https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2014/04/goethe-university-frankfurt.html

Duke University

https://ssri.duke.edu/

Social Science Research Institute.

Sidley Austin LLP

Layers.Com

https://www.lawyers.com/frankfurt-am-main/germany/sidley-austin-llp-32015845-f/

Meet Our Team in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Legal Business

25 February 2014

https://www.legalbusiness.co.uk/law-firms/blogs/divided-we-fall-sidley-austin-announces-review-of-frankfurt-office-following-partner-departures/

Europe’s largest and one of its most highly divided economies, Germany has put many law firms’ strategy to the test and today (25 February) Sidley Austin announced that it has placed its Frankfurt office under review following a number of partner departures.

The Global 100 top 15 firm’s announcement – which follows the decision by Shearman & Sterling last year to close its Dusseldorf and Munich offices and consolidate its efforts in Frankfurt, as Latham & Watkins also last May announced the launch of a further German office in Dusseldorf – comes after Sidley tax partner Werner Geisselmeier left for Pinsent Masons’ Munich office in December last year, leaving the office with only one partner.

Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Sidley Austin LLP

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Specific Areas of Practice for our Frankfurt am Main office:

Connecting the Dots:

Siemens

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siemens#1933_to_1945

1933 to 1945

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Commercial Club of Chicago, Members Directory A-Z (Past Research)

Tuesday, December 17, 2013

http://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2013/12/commercial-club-of-chicago-members.html

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