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<p>This collection consists of the personal papers of Helene Susanne ('Susan') Marcus and her parents Else and Eugen Marcus, Jewish refugees from Kassel, Germany who fled Nazi persecutions in the late 1930s.</p>Personal papers comprising family correspondence including a letter addressed to Susanne from her father at internment camp Douglas, Isle of Man; Susanne's soldier's service and pay book; papers ...

Letter from Louis Hahn, of Milwaukee but originally from Gerolzhofen, Germany. Letter, written in 1946 and addressed to American Military Government in Gerolzhofen, sought to identified leading Nazi figures in that town, as Hahn remembered them, so could be apprehended by authorities and tried.

His hometown Lemberg, in the Ukraine known as Lviv, and in Poland as Lwów, has a history of occupation by shifting powers. This is why the Germans had trouble figuring out Ignace Lilien's real identity; he survived the war with forged documents. He worked as a chemical engineer, but that didn’t stop him from composing a large oeuvre. His life was as varied as his music, with influences ranging from ...

1945. The last outpost of a fading Empire. And the final savagery of a forgotten war. Hostilities have ceased with the ending of the war in South-East Asia. But on one island in the Java Sea, 400 miles south of Singapore, the fragile truce is plunged into the chaos of violence and nationalist uprising. As an Empire crumbles, it is those who remain to keep the peace who must fight the hardest to survive. ...

Miniature teapot, sugar bowl, pitcher, teacup, and tray given to Elzbieta Lusthaus by her maternal grandmother, Sophie Lieberman Schiff, when they were living in Tarnow, Poland, which was occupied by Germany in September 1939. On June 11, 1942, the Germans came to the house searching for Jews to deport to the concentration camps. Four year old Elzbieta hid, but her grandmother was taken by the Germans ...

Max Eugen Hollweg was born on December 7, 1910, in Remscheid, Germany, to Otto and Anna Biesel Hollweg, who were Jehovah’s Witnesses. Max was the sixteenth of nineteen children. Otto was a blacksmith. In 1918, the family moved to Marienfels. In 1921, Otto died unexpectedly and even the youngest children began working. After Max attended elementary school, he worked with a farmer, then as a stonemason. ...

The establishment of the German State Ministry for Bohemia and Moravia as the highest authority of the German occupation administration in the Protectorate was brought about by Adolf Hitler's decree of August 20, 1943, which appointed Karl Hermann Frank, State Secretary to the Reich Protector, as German State Minister for Bohemia and Moravia. The ministry took over not only the powers but also the ...

"This book is a history of transitional justice in occupied Germany. The book offers a new way of looking at the role of law in political transitions. Scholars and activists have long argued that prosecuting past atrocities promotes democracy in the wake of dictatorship. This view is, at best, overly simplistic. The two Germanys started in more or less the same place, politically speaking. Both practiced ...

Examines Romanian interactions with the Germans in the planning, development, and implementation of the Final Solution in Romania under the Antonescu regime between 1940-44. Differentiates three stages: 1. "Kongruenz" 1940-41: deprivation of rights, expropriation, and deportations of Jews from Bukovina and Bessarabia to Transnistria. Antonescu's policies were carried out under the practical advice ...