"Expertly contextualized by two leading historians in the field, this unique collection offers 13 accounts of individual experiences of World War II from across Europe. It sees contributors describe their recent ancestors' experiences ranging from a Royal Air Force pilot captured in Yugoslavia and a Spanish communist in the French resistance to two young Jewish girls caught in the siege of Leningrad. ...

This book shows how Communist state and party authorities stage-managed the Soviets' memory of World War II, transforming a national trauma into a heroic exploit that glorified the party while systematically concealing the disastrous mistakes and criminal cruelties committed by the Stalinist tyranny. Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-236) and index. x, 242 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of ...

"Traumatic Defeat is a comparative study of wartime and postwar Prisoner of War (POW) and Missing in Action (MIA) activism and politics in Germany after World War II and the US after the Vietnam War. Patrick Gallagher argues that under certain circumstances, a postwar form of national mythology develops, derived from POW/MIA activism and the belief that substantial numbers of MIAs continue to survive ...

This book examines how the British people came to terms with the massive trauma of the First World War. Although the literary memory of the war has often been discussed, little has been written on the public ceremonies on and around 11 November which dominated the public memory of the war in the inter-war years. This book aims to remedy the deficiency by showing the preeminence of Armistice Day, both ...

"Half a century after the Holocaust, on European soil, Bosnian Serbs orchestrated a system of concentration camps where they subjected their Bosniak Muslim and Bosnian Croat neighbors to torture, abuse, and killing. Foreign journalists exposed the horrors of the camps in the summer of 1992, sparking worldwide outrage. This exposure, however, did not stop the mass atrocities. Hikmet Karčić shows that ...

Contents: Introduction: Gay German History: Future Directions? / Clayton Whisnant. Racializing Sex: Same-Sex Relations, German Colonial Authority, and Deutschtum / Daniel J. Walther. Colonial Intimacy: The Rechenberg Scandal and Homosexuality in German East Africa / Heike I. Schmidt. Male Sexuality and Psychological Trauma: Soldiers and Sexual Disorder in World War I and Weimar Germany / Jason Crouthamel. ...

Roughly ten million children were victims of political repression in the Soviet Union during the Stalinist era, the sons and daughters of peasants, workers, scientists, physicians, and political leaders considered by the regime to be dangerous to the political order. Ten grown victims, who as children suffered banishment, starvation, disease, anti-Semitism, and trauma resulting from their parents' ...

With its specific focus on British representations of masculinity in relation to the trauma of the First World War and notions of national identity, class and sexuality, this book provides a much needed addition to the historiography of visual culture during the period. Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-210) and index. xii, 217 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

This volume is a biography of Stella Goldschlag (1922-1994), a Jewish woman born in Germany who collaborated with the Gestapo during World War II, exposing and denouncing Berlin's underground Jews. The author chronicles Stella's agonizing choice, her three murder trials, her reclusive existence, and the trauma inherited by her illegitimate daughter in Israel. She suffered from severe depression due ...

Papers of Kölner Fachtagung Besatzungskinder und Wehrmachtskinder : Auf der Suche nach Identität und Resilienz, held May 7-8, 2015, 311 pages : some illustrations ; 22 cm

Scope and content: Herinneringen van de Nederlandse biochemicus (1930) aan het trauma dat hij als kind tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog opliep en de gevolgen daarvan voor zijn latere leven. 148 p. : illustrations ; 22 cm

Originalausg. 306 pages ; 21 cm.

Americans are justly proud of the role their country played in liberating Europe from Nazi tyranny, but Americans often overlook the wartime experiences of European people themselves--the very people for whom the war was fought. Here, historian William I. Hitchcock surveys the European continent from D-Day to the final battles of the war and the first few months of the peace, and shows that the liberation ...

Includes bibliographical references. 302 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Examines the devastating influence of Nazism on the lives of the children of Europe, who were confronted with euthanasia, racist education, eugenics, forced relocation, homelessness, poverty, trauma, and starvation. Includes bibliographical references (pages 597-606) and index. xix, 632 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

1st. 298 pages ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references. xiii, 145 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm

Proefschrift Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden. 240 p. : tab., graf. ; 24 cm.

Scope and content: De auteur, die tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog in een Japans jongenskamp zat, probeert zich via een dialoog met jonge Japanners van de daar opgelopen trauma's te bevrijden. 108 p., [8] p. foto's. : foto's. ; 22 cm

Deals with various topics relating to the aftermath of the Holocaust in the Netherlands, including Holocaust historiography (both Jewish and non-Jewish); commemoration; the indifference of the Dutch population and Dutch officials to the suffering of the Jews, both during the war and afterwards; postwar alienation of Holocaust survivors from the surrounding society; psychological trauma of the war and ...

Includes bibliographical references (pages 66-67). iv, 68 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

"In the aftermath of World War II, a succession of mass supernatural events swept through a war-torn Germany. As millions were afflicted by a host of seemingly incurable maladies (including blindness and paralysis), waves of apocalyptic rumors crashed over the land. A messianic faith healer rose to extraordinary fame, prayer groups performed exorcisms, and enormous crowds traveled to witness apparitions ...