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"Genocide not only annihilates people but also destroys and reorganizes social relations, using terror as a method. In Genocide as Social Practice, social scientist Daniel Feierstein looks at the policies of state-sponsored repression pursued by the Argentine military dictatorship against political opponents between 1976 and 1983 and those pursued by the Third Reich between 1933 and 1945. He finds ...

Does Conquest Pay? demonstrates that expansion can, in fact, provide rewards to aggressor nations. Peter Liberman argues that invaders can exploit industrial societies for short periods of time and can maintain control and economic performance over the long term. This is because modern societies are uniquely vulnerable to coercion and repression. Hence, by wielding a gun in one hand and offering food ...

In 2011, hundreds of thousands of Syrians marched peacefully to demand democratic reforms. Within months, repression forced them to take arms and set up their own institutions. Two years later, the inclusive nature of the opposition had collapsed, and the PKK and radical jihadist groups rose to prominence. In just a few years, Syria turned into a full-scale civil war involving major regional and world ...

This book compares female administrators who specifically chose to serve the Nazi cause in voluntary roles with those who took on such work as a progression of established careers. Under the Nazi regime, secretaries, SS-Helferinnen (female auxiliaries for the SS) and Nachrichtenhelferinnen des Heeres (female auxiliaries for the army) held similar jobs: taking dictation, answering telephones, sending ...

Ungefähr eine Million Frauen kämpften von 1941 bis 1945 Seite an Seite mit über 30 Millionen Männern in der Roten Armee gegen die deutschen Truppen. In der Etappe wie auch in Frontpositionen leisteten sie als Sowjetbürgerinnen ihren Dienst an der Waffe und waren ebenso wie die Männer den Repressionen durch die eigene Führung und den Strapazen des Frontalltags unterworfen. Aber mehr noch: Sie ...

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Working at an intersection of curriculum theory, post-Freudian psychoanalysis, and object relations theory, examines ways in which the Holocaust is represented in texts written by historians and by novelists. Argues that memory is the larger category under which history is subsumed, and that works by historians and novelists share many common features. Although the historian and the novelist are constrained ...

In den letzten Jahren haben sich auf Länderebene unterschiedliche Geschichts-projekte zur Erforschung (von Teilen) der eigenen LSBTTIQ-Geschichte ergeben. Ihnen voraus gingen Bekentnisse der jeweiligen Landesregierungen zu einer vielfältigen sexuellen Lebensweise, die auch Selbstverpflichtungen zur Bereitstellung entsprechender Forschungsgelder enthielten. Neben Projekten in anderen Bundersländern ...

Selected records of the of extrajudicial criminal cases, tried by so-called " troika" without public and fair trials during the time of the Stalinist repressions. All defendants were rehabilitated by the Soviet legal system in 1950s-1990s. This collection includes records of criminal investigations (arrest warrants, interrogations, cross-interrogations, indictments, etc) and trials of the Soviet Jews, ...

Der Bezirksverwaltung für Staatssicherheit Neubrandenburg oblag die Sicherung und Überwachung sämtlicher Bereiche des staatlichen, wirtschaftlichen und gesellschaftlichen Lebens im Bezirk Neubrandenburg. Sie verfügte mit der Abteilung IX über ein „Untersuchungsorgan“, das die Aufgaben einer Ermittlungsbehörde gemäß § 98 Strafprozessordnung der DDR wahrnahm. Im Bestand sind außerdem Unterlagen der Kriminaldienststelle ...

Historian Bernard Wasserstein offers the first serious, full-length history of a century of convulsive change. It is a history of cruelty and tenderness, of technological achievement and environmental blight, of imperial expansion and withdrawal, of authoritarian repression and of individual rebirth. Wasserstein provides both a narrative of the main contours of the political, diplomatic, and military ...

"Since the 1980s, an array of legal and non-legal practices--labeled Transitional Justice--has been developed to support post-repressive, post-authoritarian, and post-conflict societies in dealing with their traumatic past. In Understanding the Age of Transitional Justice, the contributors analyze the processes, products, and efficacy of a number of transitional justice mechanisms and look at how genocide, ...

This collection contains: a group photo of the members of Jewish sports club Maccabi Antwerp, posing in uniform at the occasion of the second anniversary of the club’s foundation, 1922 ; a studio portrait of the Stellman-Rubin family, ca. 1922 ; three telegrams exchanged via the British Red Cross between Herbert Stellman in London, United Kingdom, and his parents Heinrich alias Henri and Lea Stellman-Rubin ...

This fonds is part of a collection of documents of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic KGB archive which has been transferred to the National Archive of Estonia, Estonian State Archive.

Between the early 1930s and his death in 1953, Joseph Stalin had more than a million of his own citizens executed. Millions more fell victim to forced labor, deportation, famine, bloody massacres, and detention and interrogation by Stalin's henchmen. This book is the chilling story of these crimes. It puts forward the important argument that brutal mass killings under Stalin in the 1930s were indeed ...

This archival fonds includes mostly cases of political repressions of the Soviet regime (1940-1941 and after 1944). A smaller part contains the interrogation materials of former guards and officials of the Concentration Camps, police and military personnel among Estonian residents who participated in or were accused of participating in Nazi crimes during the Second World War. The basic languages of ...

This paper is based a PhD project concerned with homosexuality and the occupation of the Netherlands by Germany. The project is interested in determining the influence of the nationalsocialist regime change, in 1940 when Germany occupied the Netherlands, on the societal position of homosexuals. Literature has been focussed on 'hard data' to analyse the repression and prosecution of homosexuality. Here, ...

"Going beyond the issue of the persecution of homosexuals and the central role played by Nazi Germany between 1939 and 1945, this book is the first to examine the daily lives of homosexual men and women in wartime. By bringing together European specialists on the subject, it relates a different history, one which was indeed marked by repression but also by enlistment in armies at war and resistance ...

In February 1937, following an abortive attack by a handful of insurgents on Mussolini's High Command in Italian-occupied Ethiopia, 'repression squads' of armed Blackshirts and Fascist civilians were unleashed on the defenceless residents of Addis Ababa. In three terror-filled days and nights of arson, murder and looting, thousands of innocent and unsuspecting men, women and children were roasted alive, ...

In Remembering Stalin's Victims, Kathleen E. Smith examines how government reformers' repudiation of Stalin's repressions both in the 1950s and in the 1980s created new political crises. Drawing on interviews, she tells the stories of citizens and officials in conflict over the past. She also addresses the underlying question how societies emerging from repressive regimes reconcile themselves to their ...

"Historians have only recently established the scale of the violence carried out by the supporters of General Franco during and after the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939. An estimated 88,000 unidentified victims of Francoist violence remain to be exhumed from mass graves and given a dignified burial, and for decades, the history of these victims has also been buried. This volume brings together a range ...

Christof Dipper: Ferne Nachbarn. Aspekte der Moderne in Deutschland und Italien / Marco Meriggi: Regionalismus: Relikt der Vormoderne oder Vorbote der Postmoderne? / Gustavo Corni: Der Umgang mit Landschaft und Umwelt / Pierangelo Schiera: Das Gemeinwohl in Italien und Deutschland von der konstitutionellen Ära bis zum Totalitarismus. Schlagwort, politische Praxis oder Lehre? / Franz J. Bauer: Wie ...