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This article explores how the islands of Bali and Lombok were racialised through the work of Dutch racial scientist J.P. Kleiweg de Zwaan in the 1930s. An examination of both Kleiweg's published works and his local practices draws attention to the fact that racialisation occurred at different moments of anthropological work, producing different outcomes. The article concludes that anthropologists communicated ...

Includes references.

Becoming Japanese analyzes the ways in which the Taiwanese struggled, negotiated, and collaborated with Japanese colonialism during the cultural practices of assimilation and imperialization. It chronicles a historiography of colonial identity formations that delineates the shift from a collective and heterogeneous political horizon into a personal and inner struggle of "becoming Japanese." Representing ...

Includes bibliographical references and index. xiii, 245 p. : ill., krt. ; 24 cm.

The essays collected here offer a sober, informed, and stimulating reassessment of Germany and its past by internationally recognized scholars working from within and outside the new Germany. They all proceed from the recognition that the perspective from which the German past is viewed has changed irrevocably. Unification meant that the German Democratic Republic became history and its history, historiography ...

At the end of World War II, French Jews faced a devastating demographic reality: thousands of orphaned children, large numbers of single-parent households, and families in emotional and financial distress. Daniella Doron suggests that after years of occupation and collaboration, French Jews and non-Jews held contrary opinions about the future of the nation and the institution of the family. At the ...

"Can we learn from history? More specifically, have we learned from the social history of Nazi Germany and its effects on people living today? In seeking answers to these questions the articles in this collection are concerned with unravelling and analysing the social framework of Nazism. Key to understanding that framework is the relationship between identity-formation, political culture and pedagogic ...

Democrat and Republican. Meat Eaters and Vegetarians. Black and White. As human beings we sort ourselves into groups. And once we identify ourselves as a member of a particular groupsay, Red Sox fanswe tend to feel more comfortable with others of our own kind, rather than, say, Yankees fans. Yet we all belong to multiple groups at the same timeone might be a woman, a mother, an American, a violinist. ...

This historiographic study of K'tut Tantri - alias Vannen Walker, the journalist from the Isle of Man; Muriel Pearson, the unhappy wife; Manx, the Balinese bohemian; and Surabaya Sue, the notorious revolutionary - compares her romantic and colourful autobiography, Revolt in Paradise, with other versions of her past, including those of her fellow Bali colonists and her revolutionary comrades, as well ...

This paper argues that New Zealand POWs used their post-captivity accounts to distance themselves from the perceived shame of being forced to work for the enemy. Their willingness to describe acts of sabotage showed a desire to minimize their impotency and reconnect their experience with the wider war effort. Moreover, beyond these acts of resistance, the paper argues that some prisoners recast themselves ...

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Personal forms filled out by Jews in Brest in order to receive identity cards in the Brest Ghetto, arranged in alphabetical order, 11/1941-10/1942
 
 11,226 [12,226 ?] personal forms filled out by Jews in Brest in order to receive identity cards in the Brest Ghetto, arranged in alphabetical order, 11/1941-10/1942; included are the person's date of birth, place of birth, profession, and names ...

Examines official memories of National Socialism in the Federal Republic, the German Democratic Republic, and unified Germany during the 1980s-90s. Investigates the social mechanisms of West German internalization and East German universalization of the Nazi past by examining social frameworks and specific places of memory. Seeks to answer the following questions: How did memories of the Nazi past ...

The Nazi Party stressed the superiority of Germanic culture, and the promotion of Richard Wagner and Carl Orff was central to Hitler's cultural program. In Britain, the War Office under Winston Churchill chose to promote Edward Elgar and Hubert Parry, but also to appropriate and 'de-Nazify' Ludwig van Beethoven - whose Fifth Symphony was used extensively in wartime broadcasts and has since become synonymous ...

April 2015 marked the 100th anniversary of the massacres perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire against its Armenian subjects. Nevertheless, the Empire's most important heir, the Turkish state, still refuses to recognize these acts as genocide. For this occasion, thousands of Armenians from all over the world came to Yerevan to pay homage to the victims of such violence. This paper proposes an analysis ...

Since the end of World War II, historians and psychologists have investigated the factors that motivated Germans to become Nazis before and during the war. While most studies have focused on the high-level figures who were tried at Nuremberg, much less is known about the hundreds of SS members, party functionaries, and intelligence agents who quietly navigated the transition to postwar life and successfully ...

This volume examines the myth of Austrian victimization at the hands of both Nazi Germany and the Allies from the years just before World War II through the mid 1990s. The author explains that the several interconnected themes that make up the myth turned the Austrian experience from 1938 to 1955 into a redemption narrative marking the birth of a democratic, prosperous, neutral, and non-German Austria. ...

Contrary to the view that Holocaust survivors have only recently begun to tell their stories due to a new flourishing culture of witnessing, writing on the Holocaust actually began at the time of the events and continued thereafter. Between 1945-49, 75 memoirs were published. Holocaust testimonies are as varied as the experiences of their authors. Most of the writers were eager to preserve the facts ...

"During two terrifying days and nights in early September 1941, the lives of nearly two thousand men, women, and children were taken savagely by their neighbors in Kulen Vakuf, a small rural community straddling today's border between northwest Bosnia and Croatia. This frenzy--in which victims were butchered with farm tools, drowned in rivers, and thrown into deep vertical caves--was the culmination ...

Consists of one Kennkarte and one Czech repatriation office identity card, both issued to Uri Hanauer, born on February 6, 1940 in Berlin, Germany. Mr. Hanauer was liberated from Theresienstadt (Terezin) with his mother at the age of five.

Documents and photographs illustrating the post-war experiences of Simon Lenczycki, his wife Sara Glatter Lenczycki and their son Henryk [donor] in the displaced persons camps in Feldafing and Fuerth, Germany: included are drivers licenses and identity cards for Fuerth, and an identity card issued to Simon who was interned in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Dachau, Landshut and Muhldorf concentration camps. Documents ...