Muovendo da un'analisi sullo stato degli studi, le curatrici presentano la struttura e le chiavi interpretative a partire dalle quali è stato costruito il dossier 2015 sulle zone libere partigiane in ...Emilia Romagna.
Das "Kriegsende im Osten" ist auch heute noch bei Deutschen und Russen von traumatischen Erinnerungen belastet. Es gehört, zusammen mit der deutschen Kriegs- und Besatzungspolitik in der Sowjetunion ...ab 1941, zu den dunkelsten und schmerzvollsten Kapiteln der gemeinsamen Vergangenheit beider Länder. Auf der Grundlage sowjetischer und deutscher Quellen untersucht der Autor Planung und Ablauf der militärischen Operationen der Roten Armee gegen das Reichsgebiet - von Ostpreußen bis Schlesien - im letzten Kriegshalbjahr. Einen Schwerpunkt bildet die Darstellung der politisch-psychologischen Schulung der Roten Armee und das Verhalten der Truppe beim Eindringen in Deutschland. Der Autor: Manfred Zeidler ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Hannah-Arendt-Institut für Totalitarismusforschung an der TU Dresden.
Traditional histories of the hard-fought Battle of the Bulge routinely include detailed lists of the casualties suffered by American, British, and German troops. Conspicuously lacking in most ...accounts, however, are references to the civilians in Belgium and Luxembourg who lost their lives in the same battle. Yet the most reliable current estimates calculate at approximately three thousand. the number of civilians who perished during the six weeks of fighting. Telling the stories of ordinary people caught up in the maelstrom of war, The Unknown Dead surveys this crucial battle and its consequences from an entirely new perspective. Renowned historian Peter Schrijvers, a native Belgian, describes in vivid detail the horrific war crimes committed by German military units on the front lines and by Nazi security services behind the battle lines, as well as the devastating effects of Allied responses to the enemy threat, including massive bombings of small towns. During the offensive, inhabitants of the villages of this region of Belgium lived in a state of chaos. Countless men, women, and children were killed in cold blood for aiding American soldiers, and the GIs themselves were often highly suspicious of German-speaking Belgians. Local services ground to a halt, and citizens formed volunteer groups to obtain water and meet other basic needs. Even after the violence had ended and the postwar reconstruction had begun, the small communities remained in turmoil. The countryside was dotted with abandoned land mines and explosives, and the emotional tension between civilians and battle hardened veterans often took years to dissipate. Based on recently discovered sources including numerous personal testimonies, municipal and parish records, and findings of the Belgian War Crimes Commission, The Unknown Dead vividly recounts the experiences of innocents in the violence of one of World War II's seminal battles.
...he protested forty-six times, not only against the slave trade and capital punishment for theft, but also . . . against “consigning to distant exile and imprisonment of a foreign and captive ...Chief.” No library or repository can grow as quickly as the amount of available information. ...certain documents—“old periodicals, atlases, minute books”—must be put into the shredder rather than onto the shelves or into the filing cabinets.26 By actually transforming unwanted texts into objects of violence, the British salvage effort not only heightened the archive’s inherent drive towards destruction, but turned it outward. According to myth, upon her ascendance to the throne she was not only made male, but transformed into Amon-Ra, King of the Gods.) In the same way that, according to Egyptian mythology, gods are endlessly reborn as men, who become gods, who die as men only to be resurrected as gods, writing, in H.D.’s poem, transforms into a weapon and then back into writing. ...that the archaeological term “cartouche” was coined after the resemblance between hieroglyphic scrolls and early-nineteenth-century French cartridge boxes, and that the word itself etymologically stems from the Italian cartoccio—literally, “coffin of paper”—means that any boundary between text and weapon has been effaced.28 Both are conveyors of death. According to a preface that Bowen wrote for a collection of ghost stories, twentieth-century phantoms, unlike their Victorian predecessors, haunt “for haunting’s sake— much as we relive, brood and smoulder over our pasts”: Tradition connects them with scenes of violence—are we now to take it that any and every place is, and has been or may be a scene of violence?
During the Battle of the Bulge, Waffen SS soldiers shot 84 American prisoners near Malmedy, Belgium—the deadliest mass execution of U.S. soldiers during World War II. Drawing on newly declassified ...documents, Steven Remy revisits the massacre and the most infamously controversial war crimes trial in American history, to set the record straight.
Like so many soldiers of his generation, William V. Spanos was not much more than a boy when he went off to fight in World War II. In the chaos of his first battle, what would later become legendary ...as the Battle of the Bulge, he was separated from his antitank gun crew and taken prisoner in the Ardennes forest. Along with a procession of other prisoners of war, he was marched and conveyed by freight train to Dresden. Surviving the brutal conditions of the labor camps and the Allies’ devastating firebombing of the city, he escaped as the losing German army retreated. For Spanos, this was never a “war story.” It was the singular, irreducible, unnameable, dreadful experience of war. In the face of the American myth of the greatest generation, this renowned literary scholar looks back at that time and crafts a dissident, dissonant remembrance of the “just war.” Retrieving the singularity of the experience of war from the grip of official American cultural memory, Spanos recaptures something of the boy’s life that he lost. His book is an attempt to rescue some semblance of his awakened being—and that of the multitude of young men who fought—from the oblivion to which they have been relegated under the banalizing memorialization of the “sacrifices of our greatest generation.”
Das "Kriegsende im Osten" ist auch heute noch bei Deutschen und Russen von traumatischen Erinnerungen belastet. Es gehört, zusammen mit der deutschen Kriegs- und Besatzungspolitik in der Sowjetunion ...ab 1941, zu den dunkelsten und schmerzvollsten Kapiteln der gemeinsamen Vergangenheit beider Länder. Auf der Grundlage sowjetischer und deutscher Quellen untersucht der Autor Planung und Ablauf der militärischen Operationen der Roten Armee gegen das Reichsgebiet - von Ostpreußen bis Schlesien - im letzten Kriegshalbjahr. Einen Schwerpunkt bildet die Darstellung der politisch-psychologischen Schulung der Roten Armee und das Verhalten der Truppe beim Eindringen in Deutschland. Der Autor: Manfred Zeidler ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Hannah-Arendt-Institut für Totalitarismusforschung an der TU Dresden.
Una drammatica testimonianza di un sopravvissuto alla deportazione nel campo di concentramento di Auschwitz-Birkenau, che solo per un caso non trovò la morte, dopo essere stato rinchiuso in una ...camera a gas per un giorno. Ledizioni ripubblica questa testimonianza, per non dimenticare. Con una prefazione di Marcello Flores.
British soldiers who served in Greece after the country’s liberation in 1944 perceived the political crisis that led to the military confrontation of the Dekemvriana (December 1944-January 1945) in ...various ways, although their attitude was largely dictated by the official policy of their government. Their personal testimonies (personal and public letters, diaries, and reminiscences) reveal their own role and their experiences in the Battle of Athens. Furthermore, they provide us with interesting information concerning: the soldiers’ views of the two opposing camps (left-wing EAM and the provisional government’s anticommunist forces) and of the Greek people in general; their response to the British policy in Greece and to the reactions on the Home Front; and their own personal concerns about the dangers that they faced, the emotional or moral pressures that they felt, their impressions of foreign places and people, as well as their weariness with their wartime service.
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