The recent "discovery" of German wartime suffering has had a particularly profound impact in German visual culture. Films from Margarethe von Trotta's Rosenstrasse (2003) to Oliver Hirschbiegel's Oscar-nominated Downfall (2004) and the two-part television miniseries Dresden (2006) have shown how ordinary Germans suffered during and after the war. Such films have been presented by critics as treating ...

A classic treatment of the morality of war written by one of our country's leading philosophers, with a new introduction considering the wars in Bosnia and Kosovo. Just and Unjust Wars examines a variety of conflicts in order to understand exactly why, according to Walzer, "the argument about war and justice is still a political and moral necessity." Walzer's classic work draws on historical illustrations ...

Cover title. iii, 55 pages : maps ; 28 cm.

Christina Lamb has worked in war and combat zones for over thirty years. In Our Bodies, Their Battlefield she gives voice to the women of conflicts, exposing how in today's warfare, rape is used by armies, terrorists and militias as a weapon to humiliate, oppress and carry out ethnic cleansing. Speaking to survivors first-hand, Lamb encounters the suffering and bravery of women in war and meets those ...

This work traces the evolution of women's position as victims of war showing also how they have been increasingly incorporated into battle as actors and perpetrators. It documents women's experiences from World War I through to the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia. Includes bibliographical references and index. ix, 377 pages ; 23 cm

Scope and content: Persoonlijke getuigenissen van en gesprekken met nu volwassen mensen die tijdens of na de oorlog werden geboren of wier kindertijd met de oorlog samenviel. 224 p.

A key ambition that emerged right after the Holocaust in Hungary was to collect the names of the hundreds of thousands of victims, most of whose exact fates still needed to be clarified. Compiling name lists of victims who in most cases had no graves was understood as an essentially important task but also proved a difficult and prolonged process that has lasted until today. By beginning to collect ...

Holding the post of US Ambassador to the EU, among others, during the Clinton Administration, Stuart Eizenstat was responsible for negotiating with the Swiss, German, French, and Austrian governments to gain reparations for the victims of WWII, while maintaining positive diplomatic relations. This volume comprises his personal account of his work, which ultimately secured settlements totaling $8 billion ...

Klaus Barbie (1913-1991), was the SS-Obersturmfuehrer and the Gestapo Chief of Lyon in German occupied France. Barbie was born in Bad Godesberg, Germany on October 25, 1913. Following a stint in the Hitler Youth, Barbie joined the SS and SD after September 26, 1935. He joined the NSDAP later, in May 1937. In Lyons, he was head of Section IV, the Gestapo, at SD headquarters. From 1942 to 1944, Barbie ...

Maksudyan approaches the experience of World War I in the Ottoman lands from the perspective of social history, focusing on how total mobilization altered the "lives behind the lines" through the testimony of children. She discusses how issues like lack of education, work force shortages, economic dire straits, ethnic hatred, and nationalism affected children's lives, and how these were partially shaped ...

15:47 Mrs. Ennat Vitte, a civil party, continues to testify regarding her experience in Ravensbrück 15:48 President Cerdini asks the witness to describe the circumstances under which she lost her eyesight in Ravensbrück, and whether her inability to walk is a consequence of her time there; the witness has difficulty answering the questions posed 15:52 Prosecutor Vuillard asks the witness to confirm ...

This book reveals the pain, the despair, the loneliness of the rape victim, but more than that it is an indictment of an entire group of men who decided consciously and rationally to use rape as a weapon of war and to use it in a widespread fashion. It is a study of the mass rape perpetrated by Serbian forces in Bosnia-Herzegovina, consisting of interviews with victims, comments by experts and discussions ...

"This brief volume looks at institutional interactions between the news media (both print and electronic) on the one hand, and government policymakers and humanitarian agencies on the ogher. Case studies from Liberia, northern Iraq, Somalia, the former Yugoslavia, Haiti, and Rwanda distill some of the experiences gained from calamities that have elicited widely varying coverage and responses. Acknowledging ...

Female agency in times of war / Eveline Buchheim & Ralf Futselaar ; 'Falange's female comrades [and] their German and Italian sisters': cross-border affinities between women's Fascist organizations, 1936-1946 / Toni Morant i Ariño ; Tales of a wartime vagabond: Hayashi Fumiko and the travels of Japanese writers in early wartime Southeast Asia / William Bradley Horton ; Aunts at war: loss and guilt ...

Japan has long wrestled with the memories and legacies of World War II. In the aftermath of defeat, war memory developed as an integral part of particular and divergent approaches to postwar democracy. In the last six decades, the demands placed upon postwar democracy have shifted considerably--from social protest through high economic growth to Japan's relations in Asia--and the meanings of the war ...

Proceedings of an integrated Boerhaave post-graduate course, May 7th, 1988. 186 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

The collection contains 7793 questionnaires. Information for questionnaires were gathered by the The Central Historical Commission (CHC) of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the U.S. Zone, Munich) from a large number of Holocaust survivors. This data concern the estimated number of Jews before the war in their communities, the number of Jewish victims, destroyed and robbed Jewish property, ...

Met lit.opg. 380 p. ; 22 cm.

The author "examines, from an Eastern European perspective, Eastern Europe's apparent political and military failures in the face of Nazi aggression. Until now, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Romania and the Baltic States have generally been seen as powerless victims. Prażmowska suggests an alternative view, namely seeing them as states which had to grapple with complex economic, political and military dilemmas."--Cover. ...

"The First World War and Health: Rethinking Resilience considers how the First World War (1914-1918) affected mental and physical health, its treatment, and how the victims - not only soldiers and sailors, but also medics, and even society as a whole - tried to cope with the wounds sustained. The volume, which contains over twenty articles divided into four sections (military, personal, medical, and ...