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The educational and rehabilitative work that three young women carried out with uprooted child Holocaust survivors in postwar children's homes. These caretakers also had lost most of their families, communities, and prewar social networks. While most survivors were rebuilding their own lives, they dedicated the immediate postwar years to their work in children's homes. The author establishes how they ...

Countless books have been written on the military history of World War II, however astonishingly little information has appeared about the one country that stared the Nazis down and refused to become an accomplice to the horrors of the Third Reich. This book provides an objective, year-by-year account of Switzerland's military role in World War II, including her defensive strategies, details of Nazi ...

Collectie 176 H.J. van Mook > BIJZONDER > Militaire aangelegenheden > Memorandum van N.N. betreffende een gesprek met generaal MacArthur op 20 april 1945 inzake diens standpunt ten aanzien van de te volgen strategie in Zuid-Oost Azië.

Ravensbrück was the only major Nazi concentration camp for women. Drawing upon more than sixty narratives and interviews of survivors in the United States, Israel, and Europe as well as unpublished testimonies, documents, and photographs from private archives, Saidel provides a portrait of Ravensbrück's Jewish women prisoners. Their memoirs provide new perspectives and information about satellite ...

The changing nature of conflict and the increase in intrastate conflict during the 1990's, followed by its slow decline since the turn of the century, have led to changing priorities in the field of conflict resolution. No longer is the international community solely concerned with resolving existing conflicts; it also is managing emerging conflicts to ensure that they do not flare into violent conflict. ...

Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Heeresstruktur 1 (1956 - 1959) Die ersten Planungen für die sogenannte Heeresstruktur 1 waren darauf ausgerichtet, möglichst schnell einen deutschen Beitrag zur NATO zu leisten. Unter Verteidigungsminister Franz-Josef Strauß wurde der Friedensumfang des Feldheeres Ende 1956 auf zunächst 195.000 Soldaten festgelegt. An dem bereits unter seinem Vorgänger Blank vorgesehenen ...

Collectie 259 G.W.M. Huysmans > MINISTER VAN FINANCIEN (maart-juni 1945) > STUKKEN BETREFFENDE DE ALGEMENE OORLOGVOERING > Ingekomen nota, houdende verslagen van besprekingen tussen W. Churchill, J.C. Smuts en P.S. Gerbrandy over de te voeren strategie ten aanzien van de bevrijding van Nederland en de koloniën. Gestencild.

This book is a dramatic account that reshapes the way we think and talk about the greatest crime in history. Unrivaled in reach and scope, Holocaust illuminates the long march of events, from the Middle Ages to the modern era, which led to this great atrocity. It is a story of all Europe, of Nazis and their allies, the experience of wartime occupation, the suffering and strategies of marked victims, ...

Deals with the major strategic issues confronting the US in the post- Cold War era, with an emphasis on the future role of aerospace power, and outlines current political and economic trends as factors in a US grand strategy for the new era. Assesses geopolitical trends in various regions of the world and discusses alternative strategies and their implications for global stability and the preservation ...

This article examines the animal protection policies in fascist Italy, placing them in the more general framework of Mussolini's political and economic strategies and the history of Italian animal advocacy, which began in the second half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on fascist propaganda campaigns on animal welfare, legislation on animal experimentation and slaughter, state reorganization of ...