This book, by a leading Japanese-American scholar, offers a concise history of modern Japan's relations with the wider world in the century-&-a-half since she ended her self-imposed isolation & resumed her place in the international community. Includes bibliographical references (pages 190-199) and index. viii, 213 pages ; 23 cm

Collection of the Department for Relief to Refugees from Germany in The Hague, the Netherlands, 1938-1942
 
 Collection of the Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken: Zorg voor de Vluchtelingen uit Duitsland (Department for Relief to Refugees from Germany of the Ministry of the Interior of the Netherlands), 1938-1942; thousands of refugees from Germany began to arrive to the Netherlands starting ...

Surveys the history of Jews in Rhineland and Westphalia. Pp. 54-87 deal with the Nazi period. Discusses Jewish reactions, e.g. the establishment or increase of Jewish social and welfare institutions, educational and cultural associations, youth movements and sports groups, and courses for professional training. Describes the "Kristallnacht" pogrom, after which the number of Jewish residents in the ...

"This source edition on the persecution and murder of the European Jews by Nazi Germany presents in 16 volumes a thematically comprehensive selection of documents on the Holocaust. Volume 1 addresses the persecution of the German Jews between 1933 and 1937, revealing how the disenfranchisement and social isolation of the Jews was driven forward, and which role terror, state calculations, and the indifference ...

This article considers the involvement of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany at the 1939 New York World's Fair. It considers the form, function, and content of the Italian Pavilion designed for this fair and asserts that the prefabricated monumental structure would be best interpreted, not in isolation, but as an element of the larger architectural conversation which continued to unfold across contemporary ...

"This source edition on the persecution and murder of the European Jews by Nazi Germany presents in 16 volumes a thematically comprehensive selection of documents on the Holocaust. Volume 1 addresses the persecution of the German Jews between 1933 and 1937, revealing how the disenfranchisement and social isolation of the Jews was driven forward, and which role terror, state calculations, and the indifference ...

Zwischen 1940 und 1945 kamen drei Viertel der niederländischen Juden im Holocaust um - ein höherer Anteil als in allen anderen Ländern Nord- und Westeuropas. Der vorliegende Band ist die erste Darstellung der Judenverfolgung in den Niederlanden auf Deutsch. Dabei richtet die Autorin ein besonderes Augenmerk auf die ausländischen Hilfsbemühungen zur Rettung der Juden in den Niederlanden. Denn die ...

Streicher (1885-1946), a radical rightist leader of the early 1920s, later a Nazi and the Gauleiter of Franconia, was a rabid antisemite and a relentless antisemitic propagandist. Presents a brief political biography, followed by an examination of his anti-Jewish views and propaganda methods. Streicher's views, as divulged in his newspaper "Der Stürmer", included extreme racism and belief in racial ...

With National Socialism's arrival in Germany in 1933, Jews dominated music more than virtually any other sector, making it the most important cultural front in the Nazi fight for German identity. This groundbreaking book looks at the Jewish composers and musicians banned by the Third Reich and the consequences for music throughout the rest of the twentieth century. Because Jewish musicians and composers ...

This is the story of Aleksandr "Sasha" Pechersky who, on October 14, 1943, led a mass escape of inmates from Sobibor, a Nazi death camp in Poland. It shows the tremendous difference in the memorial cultures between Western and Eastern societies and also how Jews were not passive in the face of German violence. Pechersky, along with other Russian and Jewish inmates who had been prisoners of the Nazis, ...

In this thesis the membership experience of the members of the Nationale Jeugdstorm (NJS) during the years of the German occupation of the Netherlands (1940-1945) is analyzed. From 1934 until the end of the Second World War the Nationale Jeugdstorm, which can be regarded a sister organization of the Nationaal Socialistische Beweging, aimed to unite and educate the Dutch youth by the fascistic model, ...

Nazi-Looted Jewish Archives in Moscow. A guide to Jewish Historical and Cultural Collections in the Russian State Military Archive, ed. by D. E. Fishman, M. Kupovetsky, V. Kuzelenkov, Scranton - London 2010.

Examines the involvement of German fiscal authorities in the plundering of Jewish property during the Holocaust. Argues that the annihilation of European Jewry should not be conceived only as the work of perpetrators in concentration camps, but should be understood in the context of the entire history of the persecution of Jews. Exclusion from the "Aryan" community, restriction of living space, discrimination, ...

Testimony regarding the experiences of children on the Aryan side during the war and in children's homes in Poland after the liberation
 
 Wanderings and suffering of children on the Aryan side; atrocities committed by the Nazis; help from nuns and Polish, Ukrainian and especially Czech farmers.
 
 Jewish children's homes in Poland (Krakow, Bielski, Lodz and Czestochowa) after the ...

Kazerne Dossin Research Centre

When and why do states launch campaigns of genocide against minorities? In 2017, in a violent campaign increasingly described as genocide, the Myanmar military drove almost 700,000 Rohingya from Rakhine State into Bangladesh killing an estimated 6,700 in the first month and an unknown number overall. This assault is particularly puzzling given the international goodwill and economic benefits the regime ...

Lord Lytton, the author of the League of Nations report on the Manchurian Crisis of 1931-1933, wrote: 'if only it was with the professors of the University of Tokyo and men like that I could make peace in a week'. It was widely recognized that there were liberal internationalists in Japan who were opposed to expansion in China and were trying to prevent it - ineffectively as it turned out. As the military ...

"British propaganda brought America to the brink of war, and left it to the Japanese and Hitler to finish the job." So concludes Nicholas Cull in this absorbing study of how the United States was transformed from isolation to belligerence in the years before the attack on Pearl Harbor. From the moment it realized that all was lost without American aid, the British Government employed a host of persuasive ...

In September 1941, two-and-a-half months after the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union, the German Wehrmacht encircled Leningrad. Cut off from the rest of Russia, the city remained blockaded for 872 days, at a cost of almost a million civilian lives, making it one of the longest and deadliest sieges in modern history. The War Within chronicles the Leningrad blockade from the perspective of those who endured ...

Contains the research papers and original sources used by Cyril Pearl in writing his book on the Dunera ship ("The Dunera Scandal: Deported by Mistake") and the records on the internment camps in Australia. In 1940 German refugees seeking asylum in England were sent to Australia as an enemy alien aboard the Dunera ship and interned in Australia at the Hay internment camp for a year and a half. In 1942, ...

Nazi-Looted Jewish Archives in Moscow. A guide to Jewish Historical and Cultural Collections in the Russian State Military Archive, ed. by D. E. Fishman, M. Kupovetsky, V. Kuzelenkov, Scranton - London 2010.

For many in the West, the emergence of Japan as an economic superpower has been as surprising as it has been sudden. After its defeat in World War II, Japan hardly appeared a candidate to lead industrialized nations in productivity and technological innovation, and the "Japanese miracle" is often explained as the result of U.S. aid and protection in the postwar years. In The Origins of Japanese Trade ...