Stereotypical descriptions showcase West Germany as an "economic miracle" or cast it in the narrow terms of Cold War politics. Such depictions neglect how material hardship preceded success and how a ...fascist past and communist sibling complicated the country's image as a bastion of democracy. Even more disappointing, they brush over a rich and variegated cultural history. That history is told here by leading scholars of German history, literature, and film in what is destined to become the volume on postwar West German culture and society. In it, we read about the lives of real people--from German children fathered by black Occupation soldiers to communist activists, from surviving Jews to Turkish "guest" workers, from young hoodlums to middle-class mothers. We learn how they experienced and represented the institutions and social forces that shaped their lives and defined the wider culture. We see how two generations of West Germans came to terms not only with war guilt, division from East Germany, and the Angst of nuclear threat, but also with changing gender relations, the Americanization of popular culture, and the rise of conspicuous consumption. Individually, these essays peer into fascinating, overlooked corners of German life. Together, they tell what it really meant to live in West Germany in the 1950s and 1960s. In addition to the editor, the contributors are Volker R. Berghahn, Frank Biess, Heide Fehrenbach, Michael Geyer, Elizabeth Heineman, Ulrich Herbert, Maria Höhn, Karin Hunn, Kaspar Maase, Richard McCormick, Robert G. Moeller, Lutz Niethammer, Uta G. Poiger, Diethelm Prowe, Frank Stern, Arnold Sywottek, Frank Trommler, Eric D. Weitz, Juliane Wetzel, and Dorothee Wierling.
To walk with the devil Kranjc, Gregor J
To walk with the devil,
2013, 20130311, 2013-02-22, 2013-03-11, 20130101
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Examining archival material and post-war scholarly and popular literature, Kranjc describes the often sharp divide between Communist-era interpretations of collaboration and those of their emigre ...anti-Communist opponents.
The 1941 Axis invasion of Yugoslavia initially left the German occupiers with a pacified Serbian heartland willing to cooperate in return for relatively mild treatment. Soon, however, the outbreak of ...resistance shattered Serbia's seeming tranquility, turning the country into a battlefield and an area of bitter civil war. Deftly merging political and social history, Serbia under the Swastika looks at the interactions between Germany's occupation policies, the various forces of resistance and collaboration, and the civilian population. Alexander Prusin reveals a German occupying force at war with itself. Pragmatists intent on maintaining a sedate Serbia increasingly gave way to Nazified agencies obsessed with implementing the expansionist racial vision of the Third Reich. As Prusin shows, the increasing reliance on terror catalyzed conflict between the nationalist Chetniks, communist Partisans, and the collaborationist government. Prusin unwraps the winding system of expediency that at times led the factions to support one-another against the Germans--even as they fought a ferocious internecine civil war to determine the future of Yugoslavia.
The Sailor is an important interpretive analysis of the Roosevelt administration's foreign policy. By challenging previously held assumptions, Schmitz constructs a new narrative about FDR's overall ...attitude to the US and its role in a postwar world. He shows how FDR successfully transformed US neutrality into US internationalism, forever changing the direction of American foreign policy.
Germany's 1941 seizure of Yugoslavia led to a bloody insurgency, and the Wehrmacht waged a brutal campaign in response--massive reprisal shootings, destruction of entire villages, and huge mobile ...operations against civilians. Terror in the Balkans explores the reasons behind Germany's extreme security measures in southern and eastern Europe.
Provider: - Institution: - Data provided by Europeana Collections- Monumentul, realizat din piatră de Albești, este alcătuit dintr-o coloană piramidală, de secțiune rectangulară, înălțată pe un soclu ...din piatră, pe care este excizată o cruce latină încadrată de frunze de laur. Deasupra capitelului este fixată o cruce, cu soclu evazat, inscripționată: „IS, HS, NI, KA”. Pe postament sunt fixate două felinare metalice care încadrează lateral monumentul. Text incizat pe capitel și pe o placă din marmură fixată, în buloane metalice, pe coloană. Înălțime (h) monument = 2,80m.- Mențiuni despre monument: Stare de conservare destul de bună. Soclul este fisurat.- Inscripții pe monument: Pe capitel: „CINSTIRE ȘI VEȘNICĂ POMENIRE EROILOR COMUNEI BASCOV CĂZUȚI ÎN CAMPANIA 1941-1945 PENTRU DESROBIREA ȚĂRII ” Pe coloană: NUME DE EROI (46)- All metadata published by Europeana are available free of restriction under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. However, Europeana requests that you actively acknowledge and give attribution to all metadata sources including Europeana
Most histories of the Soviet-German War 1941-1945 in English, German, and Russian, adopt a narrative framework based on the sequence of major battles, such as Moscow, Stalingrad, Kursk, and Berlin. ...This approach portrays the war from a specific viewpoint reducing the importance of other fronts or secondary battles. Nevertheless, this study looks at an alternative narrative, the Soviet 'canon of operations', which was produced by the Military-Historical Department of the General Staff of the Red Army. This radically different account changes the viewpoint to a broad front war and alters our understanding of the issues facing the Soviet High Command and its resource management.
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Provider: - Institution: - Data provided by Europeana Collections- Coloana, în formă de trunchi de piramidă, este fixată pe socluri prismatice, suprapuse, și este împrejmuită de un gard realizat din ...stâlpi din ciment și lanțuri. În partea superioară a coloanei este dispusă o cruce latină siglată. Textul de pe cruce este conturat cu vopsea neagră. Dimensiuni: Înălțime (h): 4,50m.- Mențiuni despre monument: Stare bună de conservare. Atelier Școală: Gava Ion - Albești - Muscel.- Inscripții pe monument: Pe fața principală: „ÎN AMINTIREA/ EROILOR DIN SATELE/ CĂRPENIȘ ȘI MORĂȘTI/ CĂZUȚI PE CÂMPUL/ DE LUPTĂ/ PRO PATRIA/ 1916-1918” NUME DE EROI (58) „VEȘNICĂ SĂ LE FIE AMINTIREA/ RIDICAT ÎN 1968 PE OSEMINTELE/ UNUI EROU NECUNOSCUT DIN 1917/ ADUSE DIN TRANȘEELE MĂGURA MORĂȘTI” Pe fața laterală dreaptă: „1941-1945” NUME DE EROI (27) Pe fața laterală stângă: „1941-1945” NUME DE EROI (26)- All metadata published by Europeana are available free of restriction under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. However, Europeana requests that you actively acknowledge and give attribution to all metadata sources including Europeana
This is an in-depth study of the ethnic German minority in the Serbian Banat (Southeast Europe) and its experiences under German occupation in World War II. Mirna Zakić argues that the Banat Germans ...exercised great agency within the constraints imposed on them by Nazi ideology, with its expectations that ethnic Germans would collaborate with the invading Nazis. The book examines the incentives that the Nazis offered to collaboration and social dynamics within the Banat German community - between their Nazified leadership and the rank and file - as well as the various and ever-more damning forms collaboration took. The Banat Germans provided administrative and economic aid to the Nazi war effort, and took part in Nazi military operations in Yugoslav lands, the Holocaust and Aryanization. They ruled the Banat on the Nazis' behalf between 1941 and 1944, yet their wartime choices led ultimately to their disenfranchisement and persecution following the Nazis' defeat.
