Reel 2, Narration refers throughout to "M.G." -- military government. Damaged hospitals, pharmacies. Transportation and communication services are repaired. View of Cologne Cathedral. Refugees receive food and clothing at an American Military Government camp. A monument to Nazi concentration camp victims is unveiled. Shows brief scenes of an American Military Government trial. 01:31... Children burn ...

An entire piece of Serbian history is missing. And in the middle of the latest Yugoslav war - Europe's worst blood bath since World War II - Serbian politicians, propagandists, and revisionist historians have made a cynical attempt at replacing the missing piece by rewriting the Holocaust record. They claim that Serbs were not Nazi collaborators in genocide, but purely victims of the same atrocities ...

Consists of one memoir, 50 pages, entitled "Süssholz Siblings: The War" by Friedl Süssholz-Wolfstein, originally of Trier, Germany. She describes her childhood, her father and brother's deportation from Germany as stateless persons in 1938, and her own escape as a child into Belgium, where her family was slowly reunited. After various attempts to escape after the outbreak of war, Friedl and her brothers ...

"Germany's changing historical memory of World War II and its aftermath, as reflected in the official and public remembrance of the German war dead, exposes an unresolved tension between a discourse of guilt and a discourse of national suffering and victimization. In Germany, under the auspices of the Allied occupation, remembrance honored the victims of the Nazis and those who had fought against the ...

Consists of four photographs taken after the liberation of the Nordhausen labor camp. They depict bodies of victims, the remains of a fire used to burn victims, and a cemetery erected after their burial. The photographs are from the collection of James A. Melka, a Private First Class in the United States Army during World War II.

An eyewitness account of the first major international war-crimes tribunal since the Nuremberg trials, this work is a guide to the prosecution of Slobodan Milosevic for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide. The historic trial of the "Butcher of the Balkans" began in 2002 and ended abruptly with Milosevic's death in 2006. The author, a lawyer who spent three years in the former Yugoslavia ...

How did the soldiers in the trenches of the Great War understand and explain battlefield experience, and themselves through that experience? Situated at the intersection of military history and cultural history, The embattled self draws on the testimony of French combatants to explore how combatants came to terms with the war. In order to do so, they used a variety of narrative tools at hand-- rites ...

Geïnterviewde 04 is kind van een Nederlandse militair en een Indonesische moeder, verwekt tijdens de koloniale oorlog 1946-1949 in Indonesië. De geïnterviewde is geboren in Surabaya, Java. De geïnterviewde was het vierde kind in het gezin. Zijn (Indische) moeder was met 3 kleine kinderen achtergebleven toen haar (Armeense) man werd vermoord door de Japanners. Na de Bersiap periode werkte zij in de ...

Selected files from the UK National Archives relating to the British investigation and prosecution of war crimes immediately after World War II (WO 309: War Office: Judge Advocate General's Office, British Army of the Rhine War Crimes Group (North West Europe) and predecessors: Registered Files (BAOR and other series) & WO 311: Judge Advocate General's Office, Military Deputy's Department, and War ...

"No war has caused greater human suffering than the Second World War on Germany's Eastern Front. Victory in the war cost the Red Army over 29 million casualties, whose collective fate is only now being properly documented. Among the many millions of soldiers who made up that gruesome toll were an unprecedented number of Red Army general officers. Many of these perished on the battlefield or in prison ...

The portraits and testimonies featured in 'Intended Consequences' offer intensely personal accounts of survivors' experiences of the genocide in Rwanda, as well as their conflicted feelings about raising a child who is a reminder of horrors endured. 1st ed. 143 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm + 1 DVD (4 3/4 in.)

Historical research can be enhanced by methods and resources from various disciplines, ranging from psychology to computer linguistics. With a creative and innovative perspective on ›things we think we know‹, Milan van Lange presents a computer-assisted historical investigation into the role of emotions in dealing with consequences of World War II in the Netherlands. By ›emotion mining‹ digitised sources, ...

The main objective of the book is to allocate the grass roots initiatives of remembering the Holocaust victims in a particular region of Russia which has a very diverse ethnic structure and little presence of Jews at the same time. It aims to find out how such individual initiatives correspond to the official Russian hero-orientated concept of remembering the Second World war with almost no attention ...

Rwanda and Bosnia both experienced mass violence in the early 1990s. Less than ten years later, Rwandans surprisingly elected the world's highest level of women to parliament. In Bosnia, women launched thousands of community organizations that became spaces for informal political participation. The political mobilization of women in both countries complicates the popular image of women as merely the ...

Historical research can be enhanced by methods and resources from various disciplines, ranging from psychology to computer linguistics. With a creative and innovative perspective on "things we think we know", Milan van Lange presents a computer-assisted historical investigation into the role of emotions in dealing with consequences of World War II in the Netherlands. By "emotion mining" digitised sources, ...

Bibliogr.: p. 219-224.-Met index. 232 p., [16] p. foto's. : krt. ; 24 cm

Verscheen 4x, m.i.v. Jrg. 19 (2002) 2x per jaar v. ; 24 cm.

Consists of articles and clippings (some copies and some originals) from French and English periodicals relating to Klaus Barbie and his trial in Lyon, France. Among the topics discusses are the allegations against Barbie, the testimony of Barbie's victims, the children of Izieu, France, and the lawyers and judges involved in the case. Also included are materials relating to the courtroom art created ...

Records related to the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939. After the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) formed the so-called Commission d'Espagne (Commission of Spain) on August 26, 1936 which directed and coordinated all of the ICRC's humanitarian activities and operations within both the Republican and Nationalist territories. The collection covers the ...

Geïnterviewde 05 is kind van een Nederlandse militair en een Indische moeder, verwekt tijdens de koloniale oorlog 1946-1949 in Indonesië. De geinterviewde en zijn tweelingbroer V. zijn geboren in Surabaya, Java. Het Oral History interview met hun biologische vader, Vader_NL_08, is te vinden bij Project Oorlogsliefdekind: de soldatenvaders. Als de tweeling, de geïnterviewde en V., wordt geboren, is ...

A comparative analysis of the Holocaust and the Allied strategic bombing campaign against Germany and Japan during the Second World War. Far from equating the latter campaign with the Nazi murder of the Jews, and conscious of the unique features of the Holocaust, draws attention to striking parallels in the psychological, organizational, and scientific-technological factors that contributed to the ...

Consists of 12 photographs taken after the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp. Includes photographs of the railcars which held victims as well as carts used to transport the bodies of victims for reburial. The photographs are from the collection of Grant Balch, a liberator of Dachau.

"A look at how our monuments to World War II shape the way we think about the war by an award-winning historian. Keith Lowe, an award-winning author of books on WWII, saw monuments around the world taken down in political protest and began to wonder what monuments built to commemorate WWII say about us today. Focusing on these monuments, Prisoners of History looks at World War II and the way it still ...