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The People's War lifts the Stalinist veil of secrecy to probe an almost untold side of World War II: the experiences of the Soviet people themselves. Going beyond dry and faceless military accounts of the eastern front of the "Great Patriotic War" and the Soviet state's one-dimensional "heroic People," this volume explores how ordinary citizens responded to the war, Stalinist leadership, and Nazi invasion. ...

The Gestapo office in Stettin was under the command of the Berlin Gestapo office. The Stettin office conducted surveillance on all organizations active in the region, and on individual persons suspected of political unreliability; it also engaged in counterintelligence. The structure of the Gestapo office as of 31 December 1939 included three sections, which in turn were organized into departments. ...

Contains reports, minutes, remarks to reports, inspection reports, kitchen inventory, kitchen menu, financial statements, correspondence, and a variety of documents relating to the work of the CENTOS kitchens and boarding houses between 1941-1942, in the ghetto in Warsaw, Poland. Records document virtually all aspects of CENTOS kitchens activities, including organizational structure, kitchen expenses, ...

The deposition of Rudolf Hess, taken 30 August 1947, relating to the activities of war cimes. The interview was conducted by Robert Donihi.

Contains records of the Central Office of Romanianization (OCR) under the Ministry of Labor, Health, and Social Welfare, concerning the “Romanianization” of personnel of various private enterprises and “doubling” the practice of retaining fired workers to teach new workers. Included also are a proposal to accelerate Romanianization, explanatory memoranda, the structure and budgetary expenses of the ...

This short instructional film depicts German soldiers, in uniform, in an unidentified mountainous region surveying a snowy hillside to determine a fitting location to build an igloo. EXT, VS, a group of approximately 8 soldiers at work with shovels and saws in the snow, cutting and moving uniform 'bricks' of snow to construct their shelter. They load the blocks of snow onto a sled to transport them ...

The collection contains selected investigative files of the Staatsanwaltschaft bei dem Sondergericht Warschau (State Prosecutor of the Special Court Warsaw) relating to breaking the law during German occupation in Poland by Poles and Jews. Includes files concerning crimes such as illegal political activities, participation in resistance movements, administrative and official violations of the law, ...

The papers in this volume were selected and revised from among those presented at the conference: Gender and Social Transformation: Global, Transnational, and Local Realities and Perspectives, Beijing, China in 2009. Through case studies and interview data from across the globe we see how intersectionality and inequality are contextualized shaping womens agencies, gender relations, identity, the politics ...

The complete structure of the Ustasha Surveillance Service, the most powerful police establishment of the Independent Croatian state (during World War II), can be found in the collection and these materials have been used as basic source material for numerous scientific papers, doctorates, and publications of local and foreign researchers. Contains records of activities of the Ustasha Surveillance ...

A BBC Production, aired March, 1991. Includes segments of interview with Benjamin Ferencz, among others. Program asks whether or not Sadam Hussein should be brought to justice. Ferencz speaks about enforcing the principles founded at the Nuremberg trials, including laws that define 1) planning and waging a war of aggression; 2) war crimes; and 3) crimes against humanity. In Sadam Hussein's case, these ...

"In this volume a number of friends and colleagues pay tribute to Nicholas Tarling, a distinguished scholar who has spent a career illuminating the impact and legacy of European power on Southeast Asia. The contributions range widely, from the early modern societies of Borneo, to the rise and decline of European imperialism, to twentieth century expressions of nationhood and nationalism. In his own ...

While military history abounds in the dramatic fare of battles and campaigns, definitive analysis of the evolution of the organization and administration of the departmental headquarters in the capitals has been a relatively neglected field. Yet upon the efficiency and effectiveness of the administrative apparatus needed to build, train, equip, and supply armed forces depends much of the success in ...