In this compelling account of life and death in a Russian province under Nazi occupation, Johannes Due Enstad challenges received wisdom about Russian patriotism during World War II. With the benefit ...of hindsight, we know how hopelessly destructive Germany's war against the Soviet Union was. Yet ordinary Russians witnessing the advancing German forces saw things differently. For many of them, having lived through collectivization and Stalinist terror in the 1930s, the invasion created hopes of a better life without the Bolsheviks. German policies on land and church helped sustain those hopes for parts of the population. Drawing on Soviet and German archival sources as well as eyewitness accounts, memoirs, and diaries, Enstad demonstrates the impact of Nazi rule on the mostly peasant population of northwest Russia and offers a reconsideration of the relationship between the Soviet regime and its core Russian population at this crucial moment in their history.
The Geheime Feldpolizei (Secret Field Police) was the political police of the German Army during World War Two. Its members were drawn from both the regular German police, including detectives, as ...well as personnel from various Nazi security organizations. The mission of the GFP was numerous: protecting important political and military leaders, investigating black market activities, as well as acts of sabotage and espionage; tracking down deserters, examining anti-German activists, and hunting down partisans and partisan suspects. An additional role of the GFP was to act as liaison between the German Army and the Nazi SS. While performing some of these duties, members of the GFP eventually involved themselves directly in criminal activities. The GFP committed numerous crimes to both the Jewish community and the general population of Greece. Its leadership cadre was composed of dedicated Nazis and in one instance, included a former concentration camp commander! As the war progressed, their crimes in Greece increased in intensity and volume. The behavior of the GFP in Greece was a combination of the manner in which they operated in the West and East.
This book considers the evolving strategic interests and foreign policy intent of the Third Reich toward the Arabic-speaking world, from Hitler's assumption of power in January 1933 to 1944, a year ...following the final Axis defeat in and expulsion from North Africa in May 1943. It does so within the context of two central, interconnected issues in the larger history of National Socialism and the Third Reich, namely Nazi geopolitical interests and ambitions and the regime's racial ideology and policy. This book defines the relatively limited geopolitical interests of Nazi Germany in the Middle East and North Africa within the context of its relationships with the other European great powers and its policies with regard to the Arabs and Jews who lived in those areas.
Helmut Mejcher fasst die Geschichte des Zweiten Weltkriegs im Nahen Osten fundiert zusammen. Die anglo-amerikanische Zwangsbewirtschaftung der arabischen Länder und deren weitreichende Folgen stehen ...im Zentrum. Zudem analysiert der Autor die militärischen Ereignisse in Nordafrika, im Irak und in Syrien sowie die Gründung der Arabischen Liga und die alliierten Planungen für die Region in der Nachkriegszeit. Nach der Schließung des Mittelmeers für die zivile Schifffahrt wurde der Nahe Osten unvorbereitet vom Welthandel ausgeschlossen. Unter anglo-amerikanischer Regie, oft mit drakonischen Methoden und gepaart mit eigennützigen entwicklungspolitischen Strategien, wurde die Region Rationierungsmaßnahmen unterworfen und auf wirtschaftliche Selbstversorgung ausgerichtet. Die Wirksamkeit der Eingriffe war den kolonialistischen Techniken und den imperialen Privilegien der Briten zu verdanken. Die materielle Absicherung wurde von den USA geleistet. Auf der Grundlage umfassenden Quellenmaterials zeigt Helmut Mejcher, wie dieses Vorgehen in Nahost ganz unterschiedlich aufgenommen wurde. Die gesamte Region ist jedoch bis heute geprägt von den damaligen anglo-amerikanischen Eingriffen.
Drawing from engrossing survivors' accounts, many never before published, The Minsk Ghetto 1941-1943 recounts a heroic yet little-known chapter in Holocaust history. In vivid and moving detail, ...Barbara Epstein chronicles the history of a Communist-led resistance movement inside the Minsk ghetto, which, through its links to its Belarussian counterpart outside the ghetto and with help from others, enabled thousands of ghetto Jews to flee to the surrounding forests where they joined partisan units fighting the Germans. Telling a story that stands in stark contrast to what transpired across much of Eastern Europe, where Jews found few reliable allies in the face of the Nazi threat, this book captures the texture of life inside and outside the Minsk ghetto, evoking the harsh conditions, the life-threatening situations, and the friendships that helped many escape almost certain death. Epstein also explores how and why this resistance movement, unlike better known movements at places like Warsaw, Vilna, and Kovno, was able to rely on collaboration with those outside ghetto walls. She finds that an internationalist ethos fostered by two decades of Soviet rule, in addition to other factors, made this extraordinary story possible.
Berichte Staatliches Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau / Staatliches Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau
2011
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Die hier zusammengeführten 46 Bände der sogenannten "Sterbebücher" gehören zu den wenigen erhalten gebliebenen Originaldokumenten aus Auschwitz. Zwischen 27. Juli 1941 und 31. Dezember 1943 sind in ...ihnen Todesdaten von Auschwitz- Häftlingen verzeichnet. Die fast 69.000 Sterbeeinträge betreffen allerdings nur den kleineren Teil der im Lagerkomplex Auschwitz gestorbenen Häftlinge. Die Dokumentation erscheint in drei Bänden. Im ersten Band, "Berichte", werden die Erfahrungen namhafter Auschwitz-Überlebender veröffentlicht. Ihre Darstellungen der verschiedenen Aspekte des Lagerlebens vermitteln eine tiefe Einsicht in die Mechanismen des SS-Verwaltungsapparats und sind unverzichtbar für die Interpretation der Quelleninhalte. Der erste Band erscheint in deutscher, englischer und polnischer Sprache und ist auch separat zu beziehen. Die Bände 2 und 3 enthalten das Namensverzeichnis der Sterbeeinträge. Aufgeführt sind Name, Geburtsdatum und -ort, Sterbedatum und Nummer des Sterbeeintrags mit Sterbejahr. Ein ergänzendes Register im Band 3 basiert auf zusätzlichen Quellen, u. a. den Zugangslisten der Juden. Diese wurden mit den Daten in den "Sterbebüchern" verglichen und belegen so die Zuverlässigkeit der hier enthaltenen Informationen. Die Mehrzahl dieser durch die SS-Verwaltung dokumentierten Namen von Häftlingen, die in Auschwitz umgekommen sind, ist bisher noch nicht veröffentlicht worden. Die Dokumentation der Sterbebücher von Auschwitz ist somit eine Quelle von einzigartiger Bedeutung.
When she was very young, Irene Kacandes knew things about her father that had no plot, no narrator, and no audience. To her childhood self these things resembled beings who resided with her family, ...like the ancestresses who'd thrown themselves off cliffs rather than be taken by the Turks, or the forefathers who'd fought the Trojans. For decades she thought of these cohabitants as Daddy's War Experiences and tried to stay away from them. When tragedy touched the adult life she had constructed for herself, however, she realized she had to confront her family's wartime past.
Kacandes begins with what shedidknow: that her immigrant grandmother returned to Greece with four young children-and without her husband-only to get trapped there by the Nazi occupation. Though still a child himself, her father, John, helped feed his younger siblings by taking up any task possible, including smuggling arms to the Resistance. Kacandes painstakingly uncovers a complex truth her father chose not to tell, a truth inextricably entwined with the Holocaust, discovering, too, a common but little-told story about how the telling of such memories is negotiated between survivors and their children.Daddy's Warbrings new understanding to how trauma, like the revenge of Greek gods, can visit each generation and offers a model for breaking the cycle.
Swastika over the Acropolis is a major reinterpretation of the conduct and significance of the Greek campaign of 1941, and its place in the history of World War II.
Allied Fighting Effectiveness is a collection of scholarly papers focusing on a variety of different aspects of the major campaigns of North Africa, Sicily and Italy, ranging from operation TORCH to ...the end of the war in Europe.
