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Historian Bernard Wasserstein offers the first serious, full-length history of a century of convulsive change. It is a history of cruelty and tenderness, of technological achievement and environmental blight, of imperial expansion and withdrawal, of authoritarian repression and of individual rebirth. Wasserstein provides both a narrative of the main contours of the political, diplomatic, and military ...

Pp. 11-38 (a lecture delivered in Berlin in October 1987) discuss Nazi identification of Bolshevism with Jews, and examine Nazi demographic policy for the USSR and its acceptance by SS and military commanders who were responsible for mass shootings. Pp. 39-241 contain documents, most of them not published previously, including speeches of Nazi leaders on "Jewish Bolshevism, " extracts on the subject ...

"The German invasion of the Soviet Union during the Second World War was central to Nazi plans for territorial expansion and genocidal demographic revolution. To create "living space," Nazi Germany pursued two policies. The first was the systematic murder of millions of Jews, Slavs, Roma, and other groups that the Nazis found undesirable on racial, religious, ethnic, ideological, hereditary, or behavioral ...

Using memos and correspondence of lower-level officials, analyzes the processes in 1939-41 that led to the Final Solution in the context of Nazi demographic policy. The Warthegau (and eventually all of Poland and large sections of the USSR) was to be settled by Volksdeutsche. To make room for these, hundreds of thousands of Slavs and all the Jews were to be deported. When deportations could not keep ...

The author, Bruno Weil, was a scholar, lawyer and politician, who in 1926, was elected Vice-President of the <em>Central Verein deutscher Staatsbürger jüdischen Glaubens</em>. In 1935 he was sent by the CV to the USA to develop links with American Jewish organisations. From there he made a trip to South America, the result of which was this series of articles which were later to be published in the ...

Analyzes attitudes of the German feminist movement to social and cultural developments considered threatening to women in their role as nurturers of life; all of these, in one way or another, were perceived as involving Jews. It was claimed that urbanization fosters neuroticism, to which Jews, an urban population, are especially prone; that the prostitution that flourishes in cities is in large part ...

The main part of the collection consists of pre-war records (1919-1939) of various Polish state institutions related to the socio-economic and political history of the Jewish communities of the Ternopil region. This includes government permits to open Jewish businesses and Jewish social organizations, payment of taxes by Jewish shop and business owners, school records, court records, and police reports ...

"In this pioneering study, Ingrid de Zwarte examines the causes and demographic impact of the Dutch 'Hunger Winter' that occurred in the Netherlands during the final months of German occupation in the Second World War. She offers a comprehensive and multifaceted view of the sociopolitical context in which the famine emerged and considers how the famine was confronted at different societal levels, including ...

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 ...

The collection includes miscellaneous materials of the Hungarian Representation of the World Jewish Congress. It contains activity and financial reports for the years 1946 to 1949, materials from the Statistical Department as well as the correspondence of the Hungarian Representation of the World Jewish Congress. The materials of the Statistical Department provide data on the demographic situation, ...