This book unites scholars from Brazil, the U.S., and Europe who draw on a close re-reading of the literature and hitherto unavailable or unused primary sources to shed new light on the political ...changes and cultural representations of Vargass regimes, thereby exploring why he meant so different things to different people.
Thousands of testimonies were collected in the immediate post-war period from child survivors of the Holocaust. These testimonies tell us much about the children's Holocaust experience and about ...society's attitude to child survivors. This paper presents an in-depth analysis of two such testimonies on the backdrop of historical research of their setting and context. Through our analysis of two children's testimonies given in the Aschau DP Children's Camp, we demonstrate that it is crucial to explore the immediate context in which testimonies were given, because of its strong influence upon their content and structure. In fact, our research shows that the contemporary context enters into the very fabric of the testimonies. No analysis, therefore, is complete without an inquiry into this crucial aspect. The two testimonies were chosen because they make up a distinct subgroup within a larger collection of testimonies that were given concurrently and, therefore, they constitute each other's immediate context. This paper also demonstrates the indispensability of a multidisciplinary analysis that draws upon elements from the fields of historical, literary and linguistic scholarship.
Life in the Aftermath Avinoam Patt
Understanding and Teaching the Holocaust,
07/2020
Book Chapter
Some five months after the liberation in Germany, a group of young Holocaust survivors, barely removed from years of persecution and torture at the hands of the Nazi regime, moved to the estate of ...the virulently antisemitic Nazi propagandist Julius Streicher. As Streicher awaited trial in nearby Nuremberg, this group of young Zionists set about transforming his estate into an agricultural training farm or hakhsharah, in preparation for what they hoped would be their future lives in Palestine. The symbolic nature of the revenge exacted by the young survivors on Streicher’s estate was unmistakable. However, the powerful political value of
Beginning just before the start of World War II and ending during the Cold War, Gerald Horne's masterful examination of British Guiana and the British West Indies details the collapse of British ...colonial structures and the corresponding rise of U.S. regional influence. Horne reveals the realities of race and color in the Caribbean under colonial rule, while the colonizers-Britain, France, Germany, Japan, and the United States-battled each other for hegemony on the world stage.
Horne seamlessly weaves a variety of untapped archival sources-including personal correspondence and newspaper stories from three continents-with a wide range of scholarly publications, journals and memoirs to illustrate an important, yet underexamined, regional history in a global context.
Highlighting the centrality of the "labor question" in relation to colonial rule, Cold War in a Hot Zone is a compelling exposé of the racial dimensions of U.S. foreign policy and anti-communist initiatives during WWII and the Cold War that followed.
1. Kapitel: Frühe Überlegungen und Pläne zur Entschädigung von Verfolgten des Nationalsozialismus (1936-1945) 2. Kapitel: Erste Schritte nach dem Ende der nationalsozialistischen Herrschaft - ...Fürsorge und Rehabilitierung (1945-1947) 3. Kapitel: Normierung der materiellen Wiedergutmachung in der US-Zone (1945-1949) 4. Kapitel: Die Praxis der Wiedergutmachung in der US-Zone (1949-1954) 5. Kapitel:Rahmenbedingungen der Wiedergutmachung in der Frühzeit der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 6. Kapitel: Ausbau der Wiedergutmachung in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland bis 1953.
Die Neuordnung des Pressewesens nach 1945 war eine der erfolgreichsten Maßnahmen der Alliierten zur Demokratisierung Deutschlands. Anstelle der traditionellen Blätter, deren Zahl in die Tausende ...ging, gründeten die Besatzungsmächte insgesamt 156 Lizenzzeitungen. Mit dieser strukturellen Zäsur ging zudem ein personeller Neuanfang einher. Besonders die Amerikaner sahen in den Lizenzzeitungen ein Mittel zur Verankerung der Demokratie und betrieben dementsprechend die Auswahl ihrer Lizenzträger. Aber noch vor Abzug der Militärregierung und vor dem Ende der Lizenzpflicht im Jahr 1949 machten die von den Alliierten - oder bereits von den Nationalsozialisten - ausgebooteten Verleger ihre Forderungen geltend. Es begann eine Periode scharfer Auseinandersetzungen zwischen Alt- und Lizenzverlegern, die in den meisten Fällen jedoch bald in einem Interessenausgleich mündeten; denn die 1945 aus politischen Gründen eingeleitete umfassende Strukturreform entsprach auch einem seit langem erkennbaren Trend der ökonomischen-technischen Modernisierung. Norbert Frei zeichnet diese Entwicklung ebenso systematisch wie detailliert nach. Im Mittelpunkt steht die Geschichte des Bad Reichenhaller Südost-Kuriers, einer amerikanischen Lizenzzeitung, die mit ihrem Eintreten für demokratische Transparenz in einem traditionell konservativen Milieu bald auf heftige Ablehnung stieß. Die Auseinandersetzungen um den Südost-Kurier erhellen zugleich ein farbiges Stück lokaler Nachkriegsgeschichte.
This paper is part of a professionalisation history of Public Relations in New Zealand and is the first in a series of proposed articles on the professionalisation history of the Public Relations ...profession in New Zealand. This section tells a story of the emergence of an occupation, Public Relations, from its beginning in 1945 through to 1954, the end of World War II to the formation of the Public Relations Institute of New Zealand (PRINZ), the first step in professionalisation. This looking back is not just a narrative about people and events, but provides insights for the present practitioner and other related business practitioners into some of the forces that have shaped the current practices that form public relations, its body of knowledge, norms and practices. Written histories of public relations and the resulting typology reflect the dominance and origins of the profession in the United States with little written outside of this socially and culturally dominant perspective (L'Etang 2004). Although this perspective has influenced Public Relations in New Zealand, other models of Public Relations practice are revealed because of the different paths of historical evolution.
The destruction during the Second World War made the city a crisis of looming proportions throughout Europe. In the case of France, over three-quartersof the country was struck by the war. Cities and ...towns were in ruins. Over 2 million buildings, a quarter of the housing stock, was destroyed or damaged (Croize, 1991, pp. 253-257). A million families were left homeless. Millions of others lived in temporary shelters and run-down apartments without access to basic services. This tragic situation made the housing crisis-that is finding a place of live-one of the most serious and explosive post-war domestic issues in France, as it was all over Europe. One way the crisis was addressed was for men and women to build their own homes, or to simply occupy vacant buildings. This paper looks at the role of the organised self-help housing movement within the massive effort of reconstruction and building after the Second World War, from 1945-1954. The movement comprised three phases: the squatter movement; the mouvement Castors or Beavers movement, which became a limited effort at auto-construction; and lastly, the housing campaign launched by the Abbe Pierre.
