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Discusses covert and overt expressions of antisemitism in present-day Germany, giving many recent examples. Traces the history of German antisemitism: religious, racist, political. Evaluates polls, showing that ca. 20% of Germans are antisemitic to a greater or lesser degree, but points to a decrease among younger people. Distinguishes between legitimate criticism of Israel and anti-Zionism as a cover ...

Franz Grassler was assistant to Heinz Auerswald, the Nazi commissioner of the Warsaw ghetto. Lanzmann tries to get him to talk about the ghetto, but he claims that he remembers very little.. Lanzmann asks about Adam Czerniakow and his suicide, typhus, the black market, the ghetto wall, filming in the ghetto, and more. Grassler conveniently remembers things when he thinks they might be documented in ...

<p>This collection contains the personal papers (photocopies) of Friedrich Falk, a Jewish lawyer from Dusseldorf who emigrated on the Kitchener camp scheme to England intending to move to Palestine to escape Nazi persecutions.</p>Personal papers of Friedrich Falk including his qualifications and work references, various police certificates confirming his places of residence as well as correspondence ...

"The world almost conquered famine. Until the 1980s, this scourge killed ten million people every decade, but by early 2000s mass starvation had all-but-disappeared. Today, famines are resurgent, driven by war, blockade, hostility to humanitarian principles, and a volatile global economy. In Mass Starvation, world-renowned expert on humanitarian crisis and response Alex de Waal, provides an authoritative ...

<p>This collection consists of the papers of the Strauss family, German speaking Jews from Prague, most of whom managed to flee Nazi persecution.</p>Personal papers including Julius Strauss' diary (incomplete) in which he describes the emigration of his children and his failed attempt to go to Paris in April 1939 to find accommodation for himself and Elsa; wartime correspondence between the parents, ...

Ceremony commemorating the 15th anniversary of the death of Manfred von Richthofen. Opens on a portrait of von Richthofen, then a shot of his gravestone with a rose laid across it. Large crowds at the cemetery; pastor speaks a brief part of eulogy, people salute as music plays. Civilians and military in crowd. Photographers visible.

"Sixty years have passed since the Nuremberg trials of the major Nazi war criminals, but that event still stands as the foundation of international justice. Nuremberg not only ignited a revolution in international law but affected domestic law as well with its simple but profound priniciple that every individual accused of crime is entitled to a full and fair hearing.This book reveals how the precedents ...

Annette Linzer (née Lederman), 1940-1998) was born on 5 June 1940 in Saint-Gaudens, France to Mordechai (Mordka, 1906-1942) and Reizla (née Zylberszac, 1909-1944) Lederman. Her parents were from Łódź, Poland, but had lived in Belgium and France during the 1930s. In 1941 the family moved back to Brussels, Belgium and Annette’s sister Marguerite (later Marguerite Mishkin, also known as Margo) was born ...