From Coveralls to Zoot Suits Escobedo, Elizabeth R
From coveralls to zoot suits: the lives of Mexican American women on the World War II home front,
03/2013
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During World War II, unprecedented employment avenues opened up for women and minorities in U.S. defense industries at the same time that massive population shifts and the war challenged Americans to ...rethink notions of race. At this extraordinary historical moment, Mexican American women found new means to exercise control over their lives in the home, workplace, and nation. InFrom Coveralls to Zoot Suits, Elizabeth R. Escobedo explores how, as war workers and volunteers, dance hostesses and zoot suiters, respectable young ladies and rebellious daughters, these young women used wartime conditions to serve the United States in its time of need and to pursue their own desires.But even after the war, as Escobedo shows, Mexican American women had to continue challenging workplace inequities and confronting family and communal resistance to their broadening public presence. Highlighting seldom heard voices of the "Greatest Generation," Escobedo examines these contradictions within Mexican families and their communities, exploring the impact of youth culture, outside employment, and family relations on the lives of women whose home-front experiences and everyday life choices would fundamentally alter the history of a generation.
The first book to present an analysis of Arab response to fascism and Nazism from the perspectives of both individual countries and the Arab world at large, this collection problematizes and ...ultimately deconstructs the established narratives that assume most Arabs supported fascism and Nazism leading up to and during World War II. Using new source materials taken largely from Arab memoirs, archives, and print media, the articles reexamine Egyptian, Syrian, Lebanese, Palestinian, and Iraqi responses in the 1930s and throughout the war.While acknowledging the individuals, forces, and organizations that did support and collaborate with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, Arab Responses to Fascism and Nazism focuses on the many other Arab voices that identified with Britain and France and with the Allied cause during the war. The authors argue that many groups within Arab societies—elites and non-elites, governing forces, and civilians—rejected Nazism and fascism as totalitarian, racist, and, most important, as new, more oppressive forms of European imperialism. The essays in this volume argue that, in contrast to prevailing beliefs that Arabs were de facto supporters of Italy and Germany—since "the enemy of my enemy is my friend"—mainstream Arab forces and currents opposed the Axis powers and supported the Allies during the war. They played a significant role in the battles for control over the Middle East.
Unlikely Allies offers the first comprehensive and
scholarly English-language analysis of German-Ukrainian
collaboration in the General Government, an area of occupied Poland
during World War II. ...Drawing on extensive archival material, the
Ukrainian position is examined chiefly through the perspective of
Ukrainian Central Committee head Volodymyr Kubiiovych, a prewar
academic and ardent nationalist. The contact between Kubiiovych and
Nazi administrators at various levels shows where their
collaboration coincided and where it differed, providing a full
understanding of the Ukrainian Committee's ties with the occupation
authorities and its relationship with other groups, like Poles and
Jews, in occupied Poland.
Ukrainian nationalists' collaboration created an opportunity to
neutralize prewar Polish influences in various strata of social
life. Kubiiovych hoped for the emergence of an autonomous Ukrainian
region within the borders of the General Government or an
ethnographic state closely associated with the Third Reich. This
led to his partnership with the Third Reich to create a new
European order after the war. Through their occupational policy of
divide to conquer, German concessions raised Ukrainians to the
position of a full-fledged ethnic group, giving them the respect
they sought throughout the interwar period. Yet collaboration also
contributed to the eruption of a bloody Polish-Ukrainian ethnic
conflict. Kubiiovych's wartime experiences with Nazi politicians
and administrators-greatly overlooked and only partially referenced
today-not only illustrate the history of German-Ukrainian and
Polish-Ukrainian relations, but also supply a missing piece to the
larger, more controversial puzzle of collaboration during World War
II.
Filming the End of the Holocaust considers how the US Government commissioned the US Signal Corps and other filmmakers to document the horrors of the concentration camps during the April-May 1945 ...liberation. The evidence of the Nazis' genocidal actions amassed in these films, some of them made by Hollywood luminaries such as John Ford and Billy Wilder, would go on to have a major impact at the Nuremberg Trials; they helped to indict Nazi officials as the judges witnessed scenes of torture, human experimentation and extermination of Jews and non-Jews in the gas chambers and crematoria. These films, some produced by the Soviets, were integral to the war crime trials that followed the Holocaust and the Second World War, and this book provides a thorough, close analysis of the footage in these films and their historical significance.
Trauma and Guilt Vees-Gulani, Susanne
2008, 2003, 2003-01-01
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This book analyzes postwar literary works on large area bombings of German cities both in the context of trauma theory and questions of guilt and shame about Germany's Nazi past, embedding the recent ...debate surrounding the air war of World War II and its influence on German culture in a broader historical, societal, and psychological context.
NBC Goes to War Cassidy, James; Sweeney, Michael
03/2022
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The diary of radio correspondent James Cassidy presents
a unique view of World War II as this reporter followed the Allied
armies into Nazi Germany. James Joseph Cassidy was one of
362 American ...journalists accredited to cover the European Theater
of Operations between June 7, 1944, and the war's end. Radio was
relatively new, and World War II was its first war. Among the
difficulties facing historians examining radio reporters during
that period is that many potential primary documents-their live
broadcasts-were not recorded. In NBC Goes to War ,
Cassidy's censored scripts alongside his personal diary capture a
front-line view during some of the nastiest fighting in World War
II as told by a seasoned NBC reporter. James Cassidy was ambitious
and young, and his coverage of World War II for the NBC radio
network notched some notable firsts, including being the first to
broadcast live from German soil and arranging the broadcast of a
live Jewish religious service from inside Nazi Germany while
incoming mortar and artillery shells fell 200 yards away. His diary
describes how he gathered news, how it was censored, and how it was
sent from the battle zone to the United States. As radio had no
pictures, reporters quickly developed a descriptive visual style to
augment dry facts. All of Cassidy's stories, from the panic he felt
while being targeted by German planes to his shock at the deaths of
colleagues, he told with grace and a reporter's lean and engaging
prose. Providing valuable eyewitness material not previously
available to historians, NBC Goes to War tells a
"bottom-up" narrative that provides insight into war as fought and
chronicled by ordinary men and women. Cassidy skillfully placed
listeners alongside him in the ruins of Aachen, on icy back roads
crawling with spies, and in a Belgian bar where a little girl
wailed "Les Américains partent!" when Allied troops retreated to
safety, leaving the town open to German re-occupation. With a
journalistic eye for detail, NBC Goes to War unforgettably
portrays life in the press corps. This newly uncovered perspective
also helps balance the CBS-heavy radio scholarship about the war,
which has always focused heavily on Edward R. Murrow and his
"Murrow's Boys."
"Between 1941 and 1945, some 6,500 Berlin Jews, in fear for their lives, made the choice to flee their impending deportations and live submerged in the shadows of the capital of Nazi Germany. The ...experience was brutally difficult, and most did not survive. Yet the experiences of 1,700 who did demonstrate a remarkable and hitherto unconsidered level of agency among the survivors. This book sheds light on the daily life of those who hid and on the city that was both the source of their persecution and the site of their survival. "
Entangled Memories Marius Henderson, Julia Lange
2017, Letnik:
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In a global age, Holocaust commemoration has undergone a process of cosmopolitanization which manifests itself on many levels such as in the emergence of a supranational Holocaust memory and in a ...transnationally inflected canon of Holocaust art. The objective of the collection is to explore the entangled migrating memories of the Holocaust in North America, Western and Eastern Europe, and Israel by investigating two thematic aspects: First, the specifics of national commemorative cultures and their historical variability and, second, the interplay between national, local and global perspectives in the medial construction of the historical event.'Entangled Memories' opens up a range of perspectives by re-conceptualizing the practices, conditions, and transformations of Holocaust remembrance within the framework of a dynamic global cultural, intellectual, literary and political history.
Hasegawa rewrites the history of the end of World War II in the Pacific by integrating the key actors in the story--the US, the USSR, and Japan. From April 1945, when Stalin broke the Soviet-Japanese ...Neutrality Pact and Truman assumed the presidency, to the final Soviet military actions against Japan, he reveals the real reasons Japan surrendered.
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