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Universal Newsreel, Vol. 5, No. 130, Part 2. Release date, 03/23/1933. Jewish War Veterans parade in New York City to protest Nazi persecution of German Jews. The men are nicely dressed and some wear American flag pins in their lapels or carry American flags. There is a large crowd both watching and marching. Aerial view of two groups marching. MS of people watching the parade. Other parts of the newsreel ...

Drawn from interviews with more than eight hundred veterans, this combat history of the Pacific War recreates the most crucial battles, from raids on remote Japanese outposts to the desperate fighting on Guadalcanal and in Burma. Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-304) and index. 314 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Although it is generally considered that there was relatively little interest in the First World War throughout the 1970s and 1980s in Britain, these decades constitute a key moment in time when the embodied memories of the war transitioned into the cultural memory we are familiar with today. This article examines the transmission of memories of the First World War from veterans and their families ...

Johannes Vosskamp (1896-1945) was a veteran of World War I and so were his brothers. It is unclear when he became a Nazi party member. In World War II, he was drafted at the age of 46 (ca. 1942) as part of "Organisation Todt" behind the lines. He was sent to Serbia and was declared "missing in action" at the end of the war in 1945.

MS, multiple takes of men and women gathered around a tour bus (picture quality is poor), a man sells souvenirs (this could be another day-trip taken by the WWI veterans from the 172nd Regiment from Duisburg). Side view of Weidemann and his wife at a cafe table. The tour makes a short stop in Trier for repairs. Roll call in a field in Saarlouis, Germany. Bundesfuehrer Vorwald and other officials are ...

"This book is a study of the consequences of the Great War, on the people who fought it and on the states to which they returned once the fighting was over. It is addressed primarily to interwar Yugoslavia and to the 'New Europe' created at the end of the conflict; but it is also concerned with Europe as a whole. The end of the First World War and the Paris settlements established a brief and unprecedented ...

Verschijnt 1x per 3 maanden v. ; 29 cm.

Hans Wolfgang Lindemann (a German) married Ethel McGloclin (an American) in Philadelphia in 1929. He had come to the US looking for work, but had a strong German family heritage and served in the German army in WWI as a radio operator. After his father died, the couple moved to Germany (Braunschweig), toured Europe, and started a family (Oda b. 1934 and Karin b. 1936). Wolfgang joined the German reserve ...

[10] p. : ill. ; 27 cm

The newsletter / journal for the veterans and former soldiers of the Waffen-SS, many of whom later belonged to HIAG (in German: Hilfsgemeinschaft auf Gegenseitigkeit der Angehörigen der ehemaligen Waffen-SS, literally "Mutual Help Association of Former Waffen-SS Members") an organization founded in 1951. Aims of the organisation were to provide assistance to veterans, and campaign for the rehabilitation ...

Abstract: This article looks at the experiences and perspectives of homosexual men in Nazi Germany - in particular, at homosexual veterans of World War I. How did homosexual men perceive "hegemonic masculinity" and ideals of comradeship during the Third Reich? The central argument is that the Nazi regime's emphasis on heterosexuality as an essential masculine trait was contested by homosexual veterans, ...

"Published in cooperation with the World Veterans Federation." xxxvi, 325 pages 25 cm.

Scope and content: Verzamelbundel met herinneringen van diverse Indiëveteranen aan hun inzet in de jaren 1945-'49 en hun huidige verwerkingsproblemen als gevolg van hun ervaringen. 175 p. : ill., krt. ; 21 cm.

The G.I. Bill fueled not only the development of the middle class: it also revitalized American democracy. Americans who came of age during World War II joined fraternal groups and neighborhood and community organizations and took part in politics at rates that made the postwar era the twentieth century's civic "golden age." Drawing on extensive interviews and surveys with hundreds of members of the ...

Collection contains personal documents (autobiography, IDs, characteristics, references, etc.). of Heroes of the Soviet Union, combatants; description of the feats by Heroes of the Soviet Union; memories about forced labor in Germany; memories of participation in battles; memoirs about activities of underground organizations in the region during the war; collection of letters from the front, front ...

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt7s2034z0

1. Aufl. 591 pages ; 22 cm