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Auschwitz, Belsen, Dachau. Three generations later, these names still evoke the horrors of Nazi Germany around the world. This book takes one of these sites, Dachau, and traces its history from the beginning of the twentieth century, through its twelve years as Nazi Germany's premier concentration camp, to the camp's postwar uses as prison, residential neighborhood, and, finally, museum and memorial ...

"Wat zijn passende nationale symbolen voor een multicultureel land? Hoe gaan we om met de goede én slechte kanten van de eigen geschiedenis? Deze vragen staan in heel Europa op de voorgrond, maar in Duitsland liggen ze door het oorlogsverleden extra gevoelig. Voor een beeldend verhaal over deze zoektocht naar identiteit neemt journalist en historicus Merlijn Schoonenboom één omstreden locatie in Berlijn ...

This article analyzes the public diplomacy of the Economic Cooperation Administration (ECA) in the Netherlands during the Marshall Plan era. It shows that the impact of the ECA's public diplomacy was shaped by its negotiations with local partners. The argument focuses on the operational level of US information campaigns, which sought to mobilize specific Dutch social groups behind a model of increased ...

Op 21 december 1948 werd Masdoelhak Nasoetion door een sergeantmajoor van het Nederlandse Korps Speciale Troepen op de flank van de Merapivulkaan op Midden-Java met een nekschot gedood. Zijn dood veroorzaakte een schok die gevoeld werd van de Tweede Kamer tot aan de VN. De misdaad bleef onbestraft, terwijl alles aan deze cold case uitzonderlijk is. Masdoelhak was in Utrecht gepromoveerd in het Indisch ...

Reel 6: 1933 boycott of Jewish shops in Berlin, storefronts defaced, chanting crowd and SA men (scenes may be longer than usual with an additional chant). Nazi speaking. "Jude" painted on window. 05:48:03 Goering reading document to crowd, Nazi elite in FG (speech translated to English). 05:48:25 Round-ups, confusion, women and men pushed through Nazi crowd. Soft focus amateur footage of Lvov attack ...

In 1942, the U.S. Army unleashed one of its greatest secret weapons in the battle to defeat Adolf Hitler: training nearly 2,000 German-born Jews in special interrogation techniques and making use of their mastery of the German language, history, and customs. Known as the Ritchie Boys (named after Fort Ritchie in Maryland, the camp where they were trained), they were sent in small, elite teams to join ...

"In 2017, Myanmar's military launched a campaign of violence against the Rohingya minority that UN experts later said amounted to a genocide. More than seven hundred thousand civilians fled to Bangladesh in what became the most concentrated flight of refugees since the Rwanda genocide of 1994. The warning signs of impending catastrophe that had built over years were downplayed by Western backers of ...

"Highlighting the "mass" nature of interwar European fascism has long become commonplace. Throughout the years, numerous critics have construed fascism as a phenomenon of mass society, perhaps the ultimate expression of mass politics. This study deconstructs this long-standing perception. It argues that the entwining of fascism with the masses is a remarkable transubstantiation of a movement which ...

In the Collection there is a card catalog of German emigrants whose citizenship was revoked due to their emigration from Germany; these former citizens are regarded as enemies of the regime. Included in the card catalog are the names of many Jews as well as leftists, including artists, authors and journalists.