Hanne Lessau
Documentation Center Nazi Party Rally Grounds, Nuremberg
Hanne Lessau is a historian at the Documentation Centre Nazi Party Rally Grounds at Nuremberg.
Her field of research concerns the history of National Socialism, facing the Nazi past after 1945, as well as presentation and transfer of contemporary history through digital and museum forms.
The Nazi Party Rally Grounds in Nuremberg as a hub of forced labour deployment in northern Bavaria
At the Symposium in Nuremberg, Lessau presented her research on the use of the Nazi Party Rally Grounds, as a large-scale camp for the prisoners of war. Between 1939 and 1945, several hundred thousand soldiers from different countries were held captive at this camp and subjected to forced labour either in Nuremberg or other cities in northern Bavaria. The camp was also the hub for civilian forced labourers.