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As a young woman, Leymah Gbowee was broken by the Liberian civil war. Years of fighting destroyed her country and shattered Gbowee's girlhood hopes and dreams. As a young mother trapped in a nightmare of domestic abuse, she found the courage to turn her bitterness into action, propelled by her realization that it is women who suffer most during conflicts and that the power of women working together ...

The fonds includes the entire agenda of the Presidium of the Ministerial Council. Several relatively coherent units directly concern Jews, their organizations, religious societies, relevant government regulations (with an overlap after 1939 - legal status in the Protectorate, Jewish property, emigration, Jews in the civil service); reports on the activities of Jewish parties and organizations, the ...

Traces the development and organization of the Nazi concentration camp system through its several phases. From 1942, with the arrival of mass transports of Jews, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Majdanek became mainly extermination camps for Jews, whereas other camps became reservoirs of forced labor mostly for non-Jews. In April 1944, because of the exigencies of war production, Hitler ordered that concentration ...

"Aangeboden t.g.v. de verschijning van L.W. de Bree, "Zeeland 40-45", dl. 1, op 6 nov. 1979 " 22 p. : facs. ; 29 cm.

Universal Newsreel, Vol. 12, No. 941. Release date, 12/29/1940. "Roosevelt Warns of Danger to US if Nazis Win War" FDR speaking to camera, CU & VCU, seated at microphone. "If Great Britain goes down, the Axis powers will control the continents of Europe and Asia and Africa and Australasia, and the high seas. And they will be in a position to bring enormous military and naval resources against this ...

"The late historian Marilyn B. Young, a preeminent voice on the history of U.S. military conflict, spent her career reassessing the nature of American global power, its influence on domestic culture and politics, and the consequences felt by those on the receiving end of U.S. military force. At the center of her inquiries was a seeming paradox: How can the United States stay continually at war, yet ...

A Castle Films showcase of news events for the year 1937 with English titles: "Europe's powder keg! Endless Spanish Rebellion is source of constant concern to all nations." "Worst London cloudburst in 27 years! Streets of British capital are flooded when rain descends in torrents!" "In the U.S., storms and floods render thousands homeless." "George VI reviews grand fleet. Newly crowned Monarch sees ...

"By adopting a unique biographical approach, this book examines the aims and intentions of twelve important and influential individuals who worked for the British Military Government in occupied Germany during the first three years after the end of the Second World War. British policy was distinctive, and the British zone was the largest and economically most important of all four zones. Although the ...

Collection of the Ministerie van Algemene Zaken (Ministry for General Affairs), regarding the treatment of the Jews in the Netherlands by the Dutch government, 1938-1942
 
 The Ministerie van Algemene Zaken (Ministry for General Affairs) in The Hague dealt during 1938-1942 with the governing of the Netherlands during the German occupation, economic [general?] matters related to war, Nazi ...

Reel 7 This feature film dramatizes the evils of the "bolschewistische Weltvernichtung"[Bolshevik destruction of the world] using the tools of the Soviet secret police GPU and the Comintern to spread anarchy and chaos. Peter Assmuss, a Baltic German student in Riga in the summer of 1939, is innocently drawn into the net of a high-ranking GPU agent Nikolai Bockscha and forced to participate in killing ...