Storied Lives Okihiro, Gary Y; Ito, Leslie A
09/2001
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During World War II over 5,500 young Japanese Americans left the concentration camps to which they had been confined with their families in order to attend college. Storied Lives describes often in ...their own words how nisei students found schools to attend outside the West Coast exclusion zone and the efforts of white Americans to help them. The book is concerned with the deeds of white and Japanese Americans in a mutual struggle against racism, and argues that Asian American studies indeed, race relations as a whole will benefit from an understanding not only of racism but also of its opposition, antiracism.
To uncover this little known story, Gary Okihiro surveyed the colleges and universities the nisei attended, collected oral histories from nisei students and student relocation staff members, and examined the records of the National Japanese American Student Relocation Council and other materials.
In this article, the authors ask whether the US economy during World War II can be meaningfully described as having recovered from the Great Depression. Their work builds on the earlier contribution ...to the topic by Robert Higgs. Higgs argues that the traditional macroeconomic measures of economic performance are inappropriate for wartime and that they overstate people's real economic well-being during the war. They review his contribution in more detail as they proceed. Their contribution complements Higgs's by examining a number of archival sources to explore how the wartime economy affected individuals and households. The evidence they present confirms Higgs's argument that wartime prosperity was largely an illusion and, thus, that wartime spending is not the path to genuine recovery from recession or depression. As the country continues to debate the effectiveness of large-scale government expenditure to speed recovery from the Great Recession, people should not be looking at the wartime experience of the 1940s as a guide. Adapted from the source document.
Alltag im Holocaust Löw, Andrea; Hájková, Anna; Bergen, Doris L
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Wie gestaltete sich Alltag im Angesicht von Verfolgung und Tod? Die Holocaustforschung nimmt neuerdings verstärkt das jüdische Leben in den Blick. Dieser Band versammelt aktuelle Studien zu den ...Lebenswelten der Opfer im Großdeutschen Reich, zu ihren Wahrnehmungen, Handlungsspielräumen und Reaktionen, sei es in Berlin, Wien oder Theresienstadt, im Ghetto oder im Versteck. Die verfolgten Juden und Mischlinge erscheinen in dieser Perspektive als Mitglieder von Familien, Organisationen und Gemeinschaften, vor allem aber als handelnde Individuen, die einen Alltag, eine neue Normalität in unnormalen Verhältnissen erstrebten und erfuhren. Diese Menschen versuchten nicht nur zu überleben, sondern zu leben.Eine Veröffentlichung des Instituts für Zeitgeschichte München-Berlin
This book contains three independent essays, available in English for the first time, as well as a post-scriptum written for the English edition. The common theme of the three essays is the uses and ...abuses of the Holocaust as an ideological arm in the anti-Zionist campaigns. The first essay examines the French group of left-wing Holocaust deniers. The second essay deals with a number of Israeli academics and intellectuals, the so-called post-Zionists, and tries to follow their use of the Holocaust in their different attempts to demonize and delegitimize Israel. The third deals with Hannah Arendt and her relations with Zionism and the State of Israel as reflected in her general work and in Eichmann in Jerusalem; the views that she formulates are used systematically and extensively by anti- and post-Zionists. Yakira argues that each of these is a particular expression of an outrage: anti-Zionism and a wholesale delegitimation of Israel.
The Blue-Eyed Enemyis a comprehensive account of the interwoven histories of the three major archipelago-nations of the West Pacific during the years of the Second World War. Theodore Friend examines ...Japanese colonialism in Indonesia and the Philippines as an example of recurring patterns of domination and repression in that region. He depicts Japanese rule in Greater East Asia as expressive of the folly of the general who exhorted his troops "to annihilate the blue-eyed enemy and their black slaves." At the same time he clearly shows where the return of Western power aimed at new links between conqueror and conquered, or lords and bondsmen. Throughout the work one encounters an infectious sympathy for those afflicted by imperialism and racism from whatever source, at whatever time.
The book is based on documentary research in Japan, Indonesia, and the Philippines, as well as in the United States and the Netherlands, and on over one hundred interviews with major actors and key observers of the era. The analysis balances an eclectic use of social science perspectives with a humanistic concreteness, and leads to new understanding of leaders like Sukarno and Hatta, Jose P. Laurel and Benigno Aquino, Sr., and Generals Yamashita and MacArthur. As comparative tropical history, it elucidates the contrasting cultural traditions and political psychologies of Indonesia and the Philippines and explains why 1945 was a year of dramatic contrast: "reoccupation" and revolution for the first country, and "liberation" and restoration for the latter.
Originally published in 1988.
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This article examines the rapid changes to Soviet accounting practice during World War II. The adaptation of the pre-war accounting system was required to meet the extraordinary demands of a conflict ...that saw as much as 40 percent of the national population under German occupation. Many large production facilities were rapidly relocated out of the war zone to the Urals, Central Asia, and the Far East. Soviet wartime accounting was focused only on contributing to victory. Sometimes this meant establishing extremely simplified allocation procedures; sometimes this meant creating new accounts for enterprise assets temporarily under enemy control, and sometimes this meant extensive and thorough procedures to safeguard economic resources and military property. For scholars the war provided an example of how accounting can rapidly evolve to meet changing national priorities.
Miss You Barbara Taylor, Charles Taylor / Judy Litoff, David Smith
10/2013
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During World War II, the millions of letters American servicemen exchanged with their wives and sweethearts were a lifeline, a vital way of sustaining morale on both fronts. Intimate and ...poignant,Miss Youoffers a rich selection from the correspondence of one such couple, revealing their longings, affection, hopes, and fears and affording a privileged look at how ordinary people lived through the upheavals of the last century's greatest conflict.
Wartime kiss Nemerov, Alexander; Nemerov, Alexander
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Wartime Kissis a personal meditation on the haunting power of American photographs and films from World War II and the later 1940s. Starting with a stunning reinterpretation of one of the most famous ...photos of all time, Alfred Eisenstaedt's image of a sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square on V-J Day, Alexander Nemerov goes on to examine an array of mostly forgotten images and movie episodes--from a photo of Jimmy Stewart and Olivia de Havilland lying on a picnic blanket in the Santa Barbara hills to scenes from such films asTwelve O'Clock HighandHold Back the Dawn. Erotically charged and bearing traces of trauma even when they seem far removed from the war, these photos and scenes seem to hold out the promise of a palpable and emotional connection to those years.
Through a series of fascinating stories, Nemerov reveals the surprising background of these bits of film and discovers unexpected connections between the war and Hollywood, from an obsession with aviation to Anne Frank's love of the movies. Beautifully written and illustrated,Wartime Kissvividly evokes a world in which Margaret Bourke-White could follow a heroic assignment photographing a B-17 bombing mission over Tunis with a job in Hollywood documenting the filming of a war movie. Ultimately this is a book about history as a sensuous experience, a work as mysterious, indescribable, and affecting as a novel by W. G. Sebald.
Über die Wehrmacht im Vernichtungskrieg gegen die Sowjetunion ist viel geschrieben und gestritten worden. Jedoch wusste man bisher wenig über jene höchsten Generale, die das deutsche Heer auf Befehl ...Hitlers nach Osten führten, unter ihnen so bekannte Namen wie Bock, Guderian, Kluge, Manstein und Rundstedt. Was dachten und wie handelten die Oberbefehlshaber der Heeresgruppen und Armeen, die über Leben und Tod von vielen Millionen Soldaten und Zivilisten zu entscheiden hatten? Johannes Hürter zeichnet erstmals ein genaues Porträt dieser militärischen Elite und darüber hinaus das Panorama eines beispiellosen Feldzugs, in dem traditionelles "Kriegshandwerk" und nationalsozialistischer Rassenwahn eine unheilvolle Verbindung eingingen. Pressestimmen "Eine Darstellung, die ihresgleichen sucht." Prof. Dr. Klaus Hildebrand "eine richtungweisende Studie" Prof. Dr. Hans-Ulrich Thamer in: FAZ "grundlegend" Dr. Christian Streit in: Die Zeit "großartige wissenschaftliche Leistung" Benjamin Obermüller in: rezensionen.ch "Hürters biographisch-soziologischer Ansatz und nicht zuletzt sein anschaulicher Stil schließt die bisherige Forschungslücke über die Struktur der Ost-Heeresgeneralität überzeugend." Knud von Harbou in: Süddeutsche Zeitung "Johannes Hürter legt nun eine Art Kollektivbiographie von 25 Generälen vor. ... Er liefert solch eine Fülle von Einzelbelegen zur alltäglichen Beteiligung der Generalität an den Mordaktionen, dass die Beteiligung der Wehrmacht an Kriegsverbrechen nunmehr unumstößlich als gesichert gelten darf." Dirk Walter in: Münchner Merkur "Es ist zu wünschen, dass andere Historiker Hürters Beispiel folgen und genauso sauber gearbeitete Grundlagenstudien für die Zeit ab 1942 und die übrigen Kriegsschauplätze, etwa für Italien oder den Balkan, vorlegen. Für die weiteren Studien des IfZ zur Geschichte der Wehrmacht hat Hürter mit der vorliegenden Arbeit den Maßstab vorgegeben. " Alexander Brakel in: H-Soz-u-Kult "... kann Hürters hervorragende Arbeit jedoch nur als 'großer Wurf' gewertet werden, der die bisher gängigen Erklärungsmuster kritisch hinterfragt und die Diskussion um die Gründe für die Beteiligung der deutschen Oberbefehlshaber an der massenmörderischen deutschen Kriegführung gegen die Sowjetunion auf eine neue Ebene bringt." Enrico Syring in: Militärgeschichtliche Zeitschrift
While researching his previous study, Arsenal of Democracy: The American Automobile Industry in World War II (Wayne State University Press, 2013), award-winning automotive historian Charles K. Hyde ...discovered the many remarkable photos that were part of the era’s historical documentation. In Images from the Arsenal of Democracy, Hyde presents a selection of nearly three hundred of these documentary photos in striking black and white, with brief captions. Taken together, the images create a captivating portrait of this crucial moment in American business, military, and cultural history.
Images from the Arsenal of Democracy spans from 1940 until the end of the war, presenting up-close, rarely seen views of newly built plants and repurposed production lines, a staggering variety of war products and components, and the many workers behind Detroit’s wartime production miracles. The human faces that Hyde presents are especially compelling, as photos show the critical role played by previously underused workers—namely women and African Americans. Images from the Arsenal is divided into chapters by theme, including “Preparing for War before Pearl Harbor”; “Planning Defense Production after Pearl Harbor”; “Aircraft Engines and Propellers”; “Aircraft Components and Complete Aircraft”; “Tanks and Other Armored Vehicles”; “Jeeps, Trucks, and Amphibious Vehicles”; “Guns, Shells, Bullets, and Other War Goods”; “The New Workers”; and “Celebrating the Production Achievements.”
The first comprehensive and detailed history drawn solely from the surviving photographic record of wartime Detroit, Images from the Arsenal will be appreciated by automotive historians, World War II scholars, and American history buffs.
