What questions would you have for Holocaust victim Anne Frank if you could interview her today? What kind of artwork would you make to memorialize her life? These are the kinds of questions that pupils are asking at the Anne Frank Educational Institute in Frankfurt, and inside its roving exhibit on nationwide tour.

These red figures are not mutated garden gnomes, they are the founding father of Communism, Karl Marx! Artist Ottmar Hörl from Nuremberg created 500 of these statues to celebrate Marx's 195th birthday.

A string of Murders in the first decade of the 2000s by the Neo-nazi terrorist group NSU has left Germany reeling in a scandal which has yet to be resolved: Why did the constitutional authorities stop an investigation by Hessian police into the murders, and why were clues as to the racist motivation for the murders covered up?

The city of Frankfurt is looking for new ways commemorate the lives of victims of national socialism. As part of Margarete Rabow's artistic initiative, 250 passersby fell to the ground as a symbolic gesture. To learn more visit the artist's website: Margarete Rabow.

This report on the Wiesbaden Jewish Memorial for the Wiesbaden victims of the Holocaust is a remarkably well made mini-documentary, featuring historical photographs as well as interviews with the chairman of the Wiesbaden Jewish Community, the mayor of Wiesbaden, and the architect who designed the memorial site.

In this next part, Yabla star reporter Diane tells us tales of the battle between Bretten and the Duke of Württemberg, of the fattened puppy that fooled him into retreat! We are also presented with the conjuring of a court jester. Viel Spaß!

Part two of this series takes Yabla star reporter Diane to a catapult stand, where the carnie gives her a detailed account of the history of the catapult, and on to the "Mercenaries" club, whose members wear medieval costumes and barter their services in Bretten's Peter and Paul Festival. Enjoy!

In part one of this series, Yabla star reporter Diane attends the Peter and Paul festival in Bretten, where she not only dons medieval garb, but proceeds to take lessons in loading and shooting a replica of an ancient matchlock musket, and all in a genuine Baden dialect!

Did you miss your German class last week? Well you can be glad you didn’t live in the Middle Ages, as the concept of punishment in those days was… torturous. The director of the Middle Ages Torture Museum of Rüdesheim/Rhein shows us the instruments of torture used on people who misbehaved, and points out that some Middle Age methods such as waterboarding are still used by some dubious governments today. Viel Spaß beim Lernen!

Most people tend to associate symbols like roses and hearts with the term "Romanticism." However, visitors' searches for such things at the special exhibit "Black Romanticism" in Frankfurt am Main are proving futile. Instead, images of nightmares and demons lie in wait for them. Copyright: Deutsche Presse Agentur [The German Press Agency]

Do you believe in witches? In the Middle Ages many people did, and so-called witches were simply burned at the stake. Larissa Anton made a film about the history of witches.

Join Diane yet again on the medieval Christmas Market! Find out about the interesting history of the crossbow, its early controversial use in battle, and witness a demonstration of how to use it properly.

In this RheinMain TV report provenance researcher Forster continues his account of how the Museum Wiesbaden came to own a large collection of stolen art from the Third Reich.

On occasion of the commemoration of the Holocaust victims, Hesse’s Minister President Volker Bouffier visits the Isaak Emil Lichtigfeld School in Frankfurt and talks to the Jewish students about tolerance and mutual acceptance.

In this report on RheinMain TV, the Wiesbaden Museum’s provenance researcher Peter Forster discusses his work researching works of art stolen from Jews during the Third Reich.