The Communist Party of Yugoslavia regarded the interpretation and the commemoration of World War II as one of the most important pillars of the ideology of “brotherhood and unity” and the socialist revolution. Accordingly, the issues of the civil war and the nationality and ethnic identity of the perpetrators and victims were suppressed. The article examines war memorials in the Yugoslav Federal Republic ...

(Paris 479) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, January 8, 1946. Rear views, Col. Wheeler of the US prosecution continues speaking about the persecution of religious groups, particularly "Bibelforscher," in Germany and occupied countries. Enumerates other victim groups incarcerated at Dachau, including Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, asocials. Rear view, US prosecutor addresses the Tribunal about ...

"Before Germany was engulfed by Nazi dictatorship, it was a constitutional republic. And just before Dachau Concentration Camp became a site of Nazi genocide, it was a state detention center for political prisoners, subject to police authority and due process. The camp began its irrevocable transformation from one to the other following the execution of four Jewish detainees in the spring of 1933. ...

Helen Fein is the executive director of the Institute for the Study of Genocide, based in New York.

Tekst in het Engels, Indonesisch en Japans. IX, 94, [55] bl. : ill. ; 30 cm.

Copyright Holder: Fundacja Polsko-Niemieckie Pojednanie

[32] p. : ill. ; 18 cm.

The effects of the genocides of modern history--Rwanda, Armenia, Guatemala, the Holocauset, and countless others--have been well documented, but how do the experiences of female victims and perpetrators differ from those of men? In Women and Genocide, human rights advocates and scholars come together to argue that the memory of trauma is gendered and that women's voices and perspectives are key to ...

"During the Nazi regime many children and youth living in Europe found their lives uprooted by Nazi policies, resulting in their relocation around the globe. The Young Victims of the Nazi Regime is a significant attempt to represent the diversity of their experiences, covering a range of non-European perspectives on the Second World War and aspects of memory. The book is unique in that it places the ...

Includes bibliographical references (pages 48-55). 62 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

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In March 2009, staff at Panzi Hospital in the Congo visit Bosnia and Herzegovina for five days to exchange their work experiences as they help women rebuild their lives after being the victim of rape in conflict zones. Documentary short. 1 videodisc (19 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

The inspiration for this special issue rests on the insight that since war's effects on sexual lives are Janus faced, it makes sense to view the various forms of sexual activity that follow in its wake as dimensions of the same phenomenon. Since the stakes were particularly high for the victims of Nazi terror and the Holocaust, I will begin with a discussion of how recent developments in Holocaust ...

This volume examines the myth of Austrian victimization at the hands of both Nazi Germany and the Allies from the years just before World War II through the mid 1990s. The author explains that the several interconnected themes that make up the myth turned the Austrian experience from 1938 to 1955 into a redemption narrative marking the birth of a democratic, prosperous, neutral, and non-German Austria. ...

Abstract: The German military, Red Army, and partisans inflicted a massive amount of sexual violence onto unarmed civilians on the eastern front during World War II. Under the German occupation, civilians were driven into prostitutional relationships and prostitution, which caused widespread venereal disease. The Germans established military brothels and forced females to serve, indirectly by starvation ...