In Prevail until the Bitter End, Alexandra Lohse explores the gossip and innuendo, the dissonant reactions and perceptions of Germans to the violent dissolution of the Third Reich. Mobilized for ...total war, soldiers and citizens alike experienced an unprecedented convergence of military, economic, social, and political crises. But even in retreat, the militarized national community unleashed ferocious energies, staving off defeat for over two years and continuing a systematic murder campaign against European Jews and others. Was its faith in the Führer never shaken by the prospect of ultimate defeat? Lohse uncovers how Germans experienced life and death, investigates how mounting emergency conditions affected their understanding of the nature and purpose of the conflagration, and shows how these factors influenced the people's relationship with the Nazi regime. She draws on Nazi morale and censorship reports, features citizens' private letters and diaries, and incorporates a large body of Allied intelligence, including several thousand transcripts of surreptitiously recorded conversations among German prisoners of war in Western Allied captivity. Lohse's historical reconstruction helps us understand how ordinary Germans interpreted their experiences as both the victims and perpetrators of extreme violence. We are immersively drawn into their desolate landscape: walking through bombed-out streets, scrounging for food, burning furniture, listening furtively to Allied broadcasts, unsure where the truth lies. Prevail until the Bitter End is about the stories that Germans told themselves to make sense of this world in crisis.
Abstract What the present paper advances is the creation of a living context through which the protagonist-creator, Axente Creangă, from Luntrea lui Caron / Caron’s Boat by Lucian Blaga, accumulates ...the depths of private life during the World War II, as well as during the early days of communism. The action takes place exclusively in the Transylvanian space, which we analyzed through a quantitative study aimed at the level of emotions in these two important historical periods and the placement of the work in an interdependent relationship with all the events that took place.
Scholars generally argue that during the Second World War the Middle East, and the Kurdish areas in particular, was a peripheral theatre of an otherwise global war. While this is largely true, it ...seems necessary to introduce some nuances into this analysis. A view from the borderlands, combined with a socio-historical approach to how the war was experienced on a daily basis behind the front line, reveals that military tensions, large-scale arms smuggling, inflation, food shortages and economic migration were common features in the Kurdish borderlands between 1941 and 1945. Furthermore, looking at the uneventful can help us to better understand the context in which the Kurdish nationalist movement developed during the war and in the immediate post-war years.
Grandparents’ World War Two (WWII) stories are emotionally powerful, intimate accounts of firsthand experience that can shape grandchildren's ideas of state history, nation, and identity. This ...effect, I argue, manifests most intensively in critical times when national history and identity are threatened. Such was the case when former Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev relayed a controversial version of Macedonian national history and identity in a TV interview. In reaction, many Macedonian citizens shared fragments of their grandparents’ WWII stories. This study analyzes several more detailed versions of these grandparents’ narratives in order to ascertain the formative power of family WWII stories over one's personal sense of national identity. To do so, it will examine the positioning practices of the present‐day narrators, the grandchildren of WWII participants, focusing on the manners in which they interactively reproduce their own sense of national identity vis‐a‐vis‐these stories.
Table of Contents Stefanie Kremmel
Chronotopos : a journal of translation history,
12/2020, Letnik:
2, Številka:
1&2
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Odprti dostop
The Cover presents a foto of the Memorial "Passages" created by Israeli artist Dani Karavan in Portbou in Catalonia. It honoros Walter Benjamin (1892-1940), who ended his life here.
Srbi na području Požeške kotline Filip Škiljan
Historijska misao = Historical thought,
04/2024, Letnik:
VIII, Številka:
8
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Odprti dostop
In the text, the author provides an overview of the history of the Serbs in the Požega valley using archival material, literature and interviews with the remaining members of the Serbian national ...minority. The author first brings information about the circumstances of Serb immigration to the area of the Požega valley, and then deals with the customs and way of life of the Serbs. He devoted a special chapter to the Second World War. The socialist period was covered in the following chapter, which also covered the culture of remembrance of the Second World War and the neglect of religion. The last chapter deals with the Homeland War in the Požega valley and the suffering of Serbs in that area.
NIOD, Network War Collections (Netwerk Oorlogsbronnen) and EHRI all work on connecting and making war and Holocaust collections findable and (re-)usable. And both use new technology and Linked Open ...Data for these goals. This paper gives an overview of the latest developments of the work done in the Netherlands. It is organized around the axis of What, Where, Who & When.
In Prevail until the Bitter
End , Alexandra Lohse explores the gossip and
innuendo, the dissonant reactions and perceptions of Germans to the
violent dissolution of the Third Reich. Mobilized for
...total war, soldiers and citizens alike experienced an unprecedented
convergence of military, economic, social, and political crises.
But even in retreat, the militarized national community unleashed
ferocious energies, staving off defeat for over two years and
continuing a systematic murder campaign against European Jews and
others. Was its faith in the Führer never shaken by the prospect of
ultimate defeat?
Lohse uncovers how Germans experienced life and death,
investigates how mounting emergency conditions affected their
understanding of the nature and purpose of the conflagration, and
shows how these factors influenced the people's relationship with
the Nazi regime. She draws on Nazi morale and censorship reports,
features citizens' private letters and diaries, and incorporates a
large body of Allied intelligence, including several thousand
transcripts of surreptitiously recorded conversations among German
prisoners of war in Western Allied captivity.
Lohse's historical reconstruction helps us understand how
ordinary Germans interpreted their experiences as both the victims
and perpetrators of extreme violence. We are immersively drawn into
their desolate landscape: walking through bombed-out streets,
scrounging for food, burning furniture, listening furtively to
Allied broadcasts, unsure where the truth lies. Prevail until
the Bitter End is about the stories that Germans told
themselves to make sense of this world in crisis.
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