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This book shows how Communist state and party authorities stage-managed the Soviets' memory of World War II, transforming a national trauma into a heroic exploit that glorified the party while systematically concealing the disastrous mistakes and criminal cruelties committed by the Stalinist tyranny. Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-236) and index. x, 242 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of ...

"Traumatic Defeat is a comparative study of wartime and postwar Prisoner of War (POW) and Missing in Action (MIA) activism and politics in Germany after World War II and the US after the Vietnam War. Patrick Gallagher argues that under certain circumstances, a postwar form of national mythology develops, derived from POW/MIA activism and the belief that substantial numbers of MIAs continue to survive ...

This book examines how the British people came to terms with the massive trauma of the First World War. Although the literary memory of the war has often been discussed, little has been written on the public ceremonies on and around 11 November which dominated the public memory of the war in the inter-war years. This book aims to remedy the deficiency by showing the preeminence of Armistice Day, both ...

"Half a century after the Holocaust, on European soil, Bosnian Serbs orchestrated a system of concentration camps where they subjected their Bosniak Muslim and Bosnian Croat neighbors to torture, abuse, and killing. Foreign journalists exposed the horrors of the camps in the summer of 1992, sparking worldwide outrage. This exposure, however, did not stop the mass atrocities. Hikmet Karčić shows that ...

Roughly ten million children were victims of political repression in the Soviet Union during the Stalinist era, the sons and daughters of peasants, workers, scientists, physicians, and political leaders considered by the regime to be dangerous to the political order. Ten grown victims, who as children suffered banishment, starvation, disease, anti-Semitism, and trauma resulting from their parents' ...

With its specific focus on British representations of masculinity in relation to the trauma of the First World War and notions of national identity, class and sexuality, this book provides a much needed addition to the historiography of visual culture during the period. Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-210) and index. xii, 217 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

This volume is a biography of Stella Goldschlag (1922-1994), a Jewish woman born in Germany who collaborated with the Gestapo during World War II, exposing and denouncing Berlin's underground Jews. The author chronicles Stella's agonizing choice, her three murder trials, her reclusive existence, and the trauma inherited by her illegitimate daughter in Israel. She suffered from severe depression due ...

Papers of Kölner Fachtagung Besatzungskinder und Wehrmachtskinder : Auf der Suche nach Identität und Resilienz, held May 7-8, 2015, 311 pages : some illustrations ; 22 cm

Scope and content: Herinneringen van de Nederlandse biochemicus (1930) aan het trauma dat hij als kind tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog opliep en de gevolgen daarvan voor zijn latere leven. 148 p. : illustrations ; 22 cm

Originalausg. 306 pages ; 21 cm.