While the suffering of Allied prisoners of war on the Thai-Burma railway during the Second World War is well documented, much less is known about the Asian labourers employed on the project. Focusing on Thai and Chinese workers in Thailand, this study argues that although Asian labourers often suffered in a way comparable to prisoners of war, they also exercised some agency in their dealings with the ...

"De oorlog in Indonesië en het extreme geweld dat de Nederlandse troepen daarbij gebruikten, zijn lange tijd geen onderwerp geweest waarover in Nederland veel werd gesprokenen geschreven. Na het einde van de oorlog deed de regering veel moeite om discussies daarover uit de weg te gaan of zelfs in de kiem te smoren. Onthullingen van Indië-veteraan Joop Hueting in 1969 leidden aanvankelijk tot grote ...

Op 17 augustus 1945, twee dagen na de Japanse capitulatie, verklaarde Indonesië zich onafhankelijk. Nederland erkende dit niet en trachtte met geweld zelf de regie te voeren over het onvermijdelijke proces van dekolonisatie. Dit leidde tot vier jaren van moeizame onderhandelingen en bittere oorlogvoering. In 2005 verklaarde de Nederlandse regering dat Nederland die oorlog niet had moeten voeren. Over ...

Op 17 augustus 1945, twee dagen na de Japanse capitulatie, verklaarde Indonesie͏̈ zich onafhankelijk. Nederland erkende dit niet en trachtte met geweld zelf de regie te voeren over het onvermijdelijke proces van dekolonisatie. Dit leidde tot vier jaren van moeizame onderhandelingen en bittere oorlogvoering. In 2005 verklaarde de Nederlandse regering dat Nederland die oorlog niet had moeten voeren. ...

"Between 1914 and 1954, the Ukrainian-speaking territories in East Central Europe suffered almost 15 million "excess deaths" as well as numerous large-scale evacuations and forced population transfers. These losses were the devastating consequences of the two world wars, revolutions, famines, genocidal campaigns, and purges that wracked Europe in the first half of the twentieth century and spread new ...

For a long time, the war in Indonesia and the extreme violence used by the Dutch troops were not a subject that was much discussed or written about in the Netherlands. After the end of the war, the government made great efforts to avoid discussions about it or even to nip them in the bud. The revelations by East Indies veteran Joop Hueting in 1969 initially led to great commotion, resulting in the ...

The fourteenth, seventeenth and twentieth centuries in European history were marked by exceptionally intense experiences of power, violence and mass death. Power, Violence and Mass Death in Pre-Modern and Modern Times undertakes the ambitious and entirely new task of analyzing, through comparison, the importance of power, violence and mass death in these centuries. Death and the excesses of power were ...

On 17 August 1945, two days after the Japanese surrender, Indonesia declared its independence. The declaration was not recognized by the Netherlands, which resorted to force in its attempt to take control of the inevitable process of decolonization. This led to four years of difficult negotiations and bitter warfare. In 2005, the Dutch government declared that the Netherlands should never have waged ...

Het belangrijkste bestanddeel van de in deze inventaris opgenomen archieven wordt gevormd door het Geheim- en Kabinetsarchief van de Luitenant-Gouverneur-Generaal H.J. van Mook en van de Hoge Vertegenwoordigers van de Kroon. Het bevat echter ook bestanddelen van onder meer de departementen van Justitie en Binnenlandse Zaken, Volksgezondheid, Verkeer en Waterstaat en Sociale Zaken en van diensten zoals ...

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Samuel Untermyer was born in Lynchburg, Virginia, on March 2, 1858. His parents were Isidore and Therese Untermyer. Samuel was raised and educated in New York City, earning an LL.B. from Columbia Law School in 1878. After admission to the bar Untermyer entered law practice in the prestigious firm of Guggenheimer & Untermyer, later Guggenheimer, Untermyer & Marshall. His legal practice was varied, including ...

Inleiding Het eerste deel van de Generale Prins Willempolder, waarbinnen vrijwel het hele gebied van de tot 1970 zelfstandige gemeente Waterlandkerkje gelegen is, werd in 1650 ingedijkt uit schorgronden die voorheen deel hadden uitgemaakt van enkele polders welke in 1621-1622 terwille van de landsverdediging onder water waren gezet. De eerste jaren na de bedijking zullen de hervormden ongetwijfeld ...

George David Schwab was born on November 25, 1931 in Libau (Liepaja in the Latvian), Latvia. His father, Arkadi Jakob Aron Schwab, b. 1884, was a gastroenterologist and his mother, Klara Jakobson Schwab, b. 1903, was a trained musician. George had an older brother, Bernhard Boris Schwab, who was born in 1921. The family resided on Korn Strasse 27 (Graudu iela in the Latvian) and their phone number ...

File-level inventory (container list) is available in Hungarian for the microfilm collection in the research room of the War History Archives. The inventory is partly available on-line on the website of the institute. http://militaria.hu/adatb/leveltariuj/f/m_kir_honvedelmi_miniszterium_iratai

Geschiedenis Datum: 21 november 1911; plaats: Gebouw voor Kunsten en Wetenschappen; aanwezig: 300 studenten en een dagbladjournalist, die naderhand schreef: "Een onbeschrijflijk enthousiasme dat de vergaderzaal in vlam zette, een gejuich dat als een stormzee opgolfde en langs de wanden rolde als ziedende schuimgolven van geestdrift, die over je heen daverde als een ontzetting, die je in trilling zette, ...

Hy Bloom was born in Ottawa on July 15, 1921, son of Celia Bloom and David Lewis Bloom, a tailor. At the age of eight, he first encountered the fascinating world of sound under the guidance of his father and before Hy had finished elementary school, he was building basic microphones. Frequent visits to the library and regular attendance at various radio shops augmented his Lisgar Collegiate education. ...

In order to deal with numerous complaints, the Belgian Government-in-exile in Poitiers established the Office for the Identification and Liquidation of Belgian Goods through a decree passed by ministers in council on 3 June 1940. The mission of this office was to identify goods and preserve the property rights of Belgian goods in France whose owners were absent as a result of the war; to follow up ...