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.
Should French railwaymen during the Second World War be viewed as great resisters or collaborators in genocide? Ludivine Broch revisits histories of resistance, collaboration and deportation in Vichy ...France through the prism of the French railwaymen – the cheminots. De-sanctifying the idea of railwaymen as heroic saboteurs, Broch reveals the daily life of these workers who accommodated with the Vichy regime, cohabitated with the Germans and stole from their employer. Moreover, by intertwining the history of the working classes with Holocaust history, she highlights unexpected histories under Vichy and sensitive memories of the post-war period. Ultimately, this book bursts the myths of cheminot resistance and collaboration in the Holocaust, and reveals that there is more to their story than this. The cheminots fed both the French nation and the German military apparatus, exemplifying the complexities of personal, professional and political life under occupation.
To walk with the devil Kranjc, Gregor J
To walk with the devil,
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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.
Holocaust artworks intuitively must fulfill at least two criteria: artistic (lest they be merely historical documents) and historical (lest they distort the Holocaust or become merely artworks). The ...Sense of Semblance locates this problematic within philosophical aesthetics, as a version of the conflict between aesthetic autonomy and heteronomy, and argues that Adorno's dialectic of aesthetic semblance describes the normative demand that artworks maintain a dynamic tension between the two. The Sense of Semblance aims to move beyond familiar debates surrounding postmodernism by demonstrating the usefulness of contemporary theories of meaning and understanding, including those from the analytic tradition. Pickford shows how the causal theory of names, the philosophy of tacit knowledge, the analytic philosophy of quotation, Sartre's theory of the imaginary, the epistemology of testimony, and Walter Benjamin's dialectical image can help explicate how individual artworks fulfill artistic and historical desiderata. In close readings of Celan's poetry, Holocaust memorials in Berlin, the quotational artist Heimrad Backer, Claude Lanzmann's film Shoah, and Art Spiegelman's graphic novel Maus, Pickford offers interpretations that, in their precision, specificity, and clarity, inaugurate a dialogue between contemporary analytic philosophy and contemporary art. The Sense of Semblance is the first book to incorporate contemporary analytic philosophy in interpretations of art and architecture, literature, and film about the Holocaust.
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.
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)
The monument, made of stone by Albești, is made up of a pyramidal column, of a square section, erected on a stone socket, on which is excised a Latin cross framed by laurel leaves. A cross is attached above the capital, with a faded cap, inscribed: “IS, HS, NI, KA.” Two metal lanterns falling laterally to the monument are attached to the post. Text incised on the capitel and on a marble plate affixed, in metal bolts, on the column. Height (h) monument = 2.80m.
Mentions about the monument: Preservation state quite good. The socket is cracked.
Monument inscriptions: On the capitel: “CINSTIRE AND VEASE POMENIES OF THE BASVOC COMMUNITY CUSTOMS IN CAMPAIN 1941-1945 FOR THE DESROBIATION OF THE COUNTRY” On the column: NAME OF EROIES (46)
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)
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.