Met lit. opg. x, 310 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

This book is published to accompany the television series "1914-18 : the great war and the shaping of the 20th century", a co-production of KCET/Los Angeles and the BBC, produced in association with Imperial War Museum, first broadcast in 1996. 432 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.

This is a study of the struggle for power between two totalitarian dictatorships in the north of Europe and the battle for survival of a small nation caught between them.; In the Winter War of 1939-1940, Finland successfully fought off a Soviet invasion. Then, with none to turn to but Germany, it became the only democratic state on the Axis side. Ultimately, it succeeded in extricating itself from ...

Throughout history, from Hannibal's crossing of the Alps to Rommel's desert warfare, military operations have succeeded or failed on the ability of commanders to incorporate environmental conditions into their tactics. In Battling the Elements, geographer Harold A. Winters and former U.S. Army officers Gerald E. Galloway Jr., William J. Reynolds, and David W. Rhyne examine the connections between major ...

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"The two concepts at the centre of this book: Europe, and the Second World War, are constantly changing in public perception. Now that 'Europe' is an even more contested idea than ever, this volume informs the current discourse on European identity by analysing Europe's reaction to the tragedy, heroism and disgrace of the Second World War" Editor's introduction: ideals, identity and war: the idea of ...

Subject: Preface; Introduction: through the fog of war, Pierre Purseigle; Generations and the ruptures of 1918, 1945 and 1989 in Germany / Mary Fulbrook; Times of death: the Great War and Serbia's 20th century / John Paul Newman; Politicising commemoration in 20th-century Latvia / Geoffrey Swain; Pluralism and the problem with collective memory: Japanese peace and war museums in a comparative context ...

Met index, lit. opg. XIII, 545 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Using three novels as case studies : C.J. Sansom, Winter in Madrid ; Victoria Hislop, The return ; D. Boling : Guernica.

Jeep Toluca struggling through muddy road. Shots of vapor trails in the sky. A low contrast scene, seems to be corpses, there is a sign that reads: "Bastogne, Houffalize, N23, N27, information." Bombed out building in BG, Stevens in winter coat and helmet.

Author Hans Moederzoon van Kuilenburg was a 10-year-old girl living in Amsterdam when German soldiers invaded Holland in the spring of 1940. The Dutch had intended to stay neutral at the outbreak of the war, as their military was no match for the Nazi hordes. Within five days, Holland had fallen and the German occupation was underway. The five ensuing years were among the darkest chapters in Dutch ...

List of PK cameramen. Wide shot of the huge crowd in the Berlin Sportpalast gathered to hear Goebbels' Total War speech. In the speech, Goebbels made repeated reference to the Jews and the danger they supposedly pose for Germany and Europe, but none of this language appears in the newsreel version of the speech. The first part of the newsreel has a voiceover that summarizes what Goebbels says, over ...

80 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

DPs in the street at Neu Freimann, automobiles, bus, traffic, soldiers. Sign: "IRO Area Team 1055 / Neu-Freimann / Siedlung" Winter. Groups of men at gate of the camp.

The collection contains interviews with two women about their upbringing and experiences during World War II in Poland and in Auschwitz during the winter of 1941/42, and about life in Sweden after the end of the war. Transcripts of the interviews, photographs, and maps of the places mentioned in the interviews are also included in the collection.

Die Todesmärsche aus den Konzentrationslagern kurz vor dem Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs waren das letzte nationalsozialistische Gesellschaftsverbrechen. Martin Clemens Winter stellt die Rolle der deutschen Bevölkerung bei den Räumungstransporten in den Mittelpunkt seiner Studie, die sich auf zahlreiche neu erschlossene Quellen aus internationalen Archiven stützt. Dabei untersucht er nicht nur den ...

In der Nummernkartei (x.x.x.5) wurden alle Hinweiskarten der Konzentrationslagerbestände nach Häftlingsnummern sortiert, es sind Duplikate der Namenkarten der ZNK Datenbank, die durch Ordnernummer und Seitenzahl den Bezug zum Dokument herstellen. Die Nummernkartei enthält sehr viele Dokumente ohne Namen. Durch die Nummernkartei sind die Dokumente nach Häftlingsnummern der verschiedenen Konzentrationslager ...

Reel 2 opens inside a busy cafe, where Mayor Nettelbeck discusses Napoleon with two other men. Young Claus, the son of Nettlebeck's close friend Werner, hands Nettlebeck a proclamation in which Napoleon claims that he wants only to secure peace and prosperity in Europe. Nettelbeck is the only one of the three who thinks that Prussia should attempt to stand up to Napoleon. Back to the festival, where ...

14:00:00 - 14:15:05 Winter in Russian village. German solderis. Destroyed buildings, rubble. Russian Women. Ice. (M 3041) 14:15:05 b/w: train tracks, German soldiers, totally destroyed train, partisans. 14:15:50 Pan across forested terrain, several destroyed Russian trucks, two soldiers inspect remains. 14:16:24 Winter, wind whirls up snow, two horses pull cars (picture jumps). The extreme cold affects ...

The title appears superimposed over a British flag. Children with rickets (osteomalacia) are superimposed over a map of England. The narrator claims that the English tried to use rickets as a war weapon against the Germans. A doctor examines a child with the disease. The narrator explains the cause of rickets over an animated diagram of a bone. More children and infants with rickets are shown and symptoms ...

Kino Journal, Release 4-170. Shtetl: Medzhibozh. Intertitle: "Let's clear the dust" Old cities, Turkish fortress in winter. Violin and crowd of workers. Closing two synagogues, reading room and library. Signs in Yiddish. Some CUs of faces. Red flag on top of synagogue. This is an anti-religion demonstration in Proskurov ( now Khmel'nytski)

The Knopf family collection consists of documents related to the Holocaust experiences of Oswald, Frieda, and Jeanette Knopf, originally of Vienna, Austria. Includes Oswald and Frieda Knopf's pre-war papers, including the marriage certificate for Frieda's parents, Jeanette Winter and Solomon Wolfer (1901), Oswald's pre-World War I military papers, schooling papers, their ketubah, and a copy of their ...

Eva Cooper (born Eva Brust) is the daughter of Elek Brust (b. 1899) and Livia (Lilly) Schwarcz Brust. Eva was born on March 18, 1934 in Budapest, Hungary where her father owned a wholesale paper box company. The family attended the Dohány Street Synagogue. After voyaging to America to attend the 1939 World’s Fair in New York, Eva’s maternal grandparents remained in New York and reestablished their ...