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White upright storage cabinet used to store goods at Dzierzazna prison camp for Polish children in a district of Łódź, (Litzmannstadt), Poland, circa March 1943 - July 1944. The prefabricated wardrobe was manufactured in Germany and put together using assembly instructions. Dzierzazna opened on January 12, 1943, as a subcamp of the Polish Juveniles Camp of the Security Police. The SS had a Lebensborn ...

This work seeks to take a fresh look at the contentious question of the longevity and popularity of Mussolini's regime in Italy. In particular, it draws upon new research to challenge what has been the most influential paradigm over the last couple of decades, namely, the interpretation of Italian fascism as a consensual dictatorship. It has been a commonplace in Italian scholarship that Fascism enjoyed ...

In Remembering Stalin's Victims, Kathleen E. Smith examines how government reformers' repudiation of Stalin's repressions both in the 1950s and in the 1980s created new political crises. Drawing on interviews, she tells the stories of citizens and officials in conflict over the past. She also addresses the underlying question how societies emerging from repressive regimes reconcile themselves to their ...

Subject: INHALT: Anna Wolff-Poweska / Polen, Deutsche und Juden. Gemeinsame Geschichte, geteilte Erinnerung. - Zygmunt Bauman / Categorial murder or: How to remember the Holocaust. - Jerzy Jedlicki / Das Problem von Schuld und Verantwortung. - Joanna Tokarska-Bakir / Jedwabne: History as a Fetish. - Michal Glowinski / Die Besonderheiten des antisemitischen Diskurses. - Józef Tych / Umfang und Quellen ...

"This book analyzes the intellectual side of the American war effort against Nazi Germany. It shows how conflicting interpretations of "the German problem" shaped American warfare and postwar planning. The story of how Americans understood National Socialism in the 1930s and 1940s provides a counter-example to the usual tale of enemy images. The level of German popular support for the Nazi regime, ...

Archief van J.H. Fockens. De heer J.H. Fockens, werkzaam voor de NSB. Gehuwd met J.V. Fockens-Borger. Het gezin Fockens woonde aan de Ieplaan 27 in Den Haag. Het gezin was fervente NSB-aanhanger, gezinshoofd J.H. Fockens was hoofd van de administratie van deze partij. Het gezin behoorde tot de maatschappelijke elite. Ze waren cultuurliefhebbers; bezochten veel theater- en filmvoorstellingen, gingen ...

Explains the war crimes organized and perpetrated by the RSHA as made possible by a combination of the generational identity of its top personnel, its loose and flexible structure, and the removal of all limits due to the war. Most of its leaders grew up during World War I and the period of runaway inflation, when security broke down and existing institutions were discredited. They saw themselves as ...

The survived records of the Centre of State Security mostly contain investigative files, including the cases of corruption, bribery, embezzlement, fraud, falsification of documents, black marketeering, trafficking and other violations of economic laws. A significant part of the suspects of these cases were Jews trying to circumvent the regulations of the anti-Jewish laws, or were trying to escape internment, ...

Paramilitary or irregular units have been involved in practically every case of identity-based mass violence in the modern world, but detailed analysis of these dynamics is rare. Exploring the case of former Yugoslavia, the genocides in Rwanda and Darfur, and the ongoing violence in Syria, Kate Ferguson exposes the relationships between paramilitaries, state commands, local communities, and organised ...