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"This fascinating story explores African-American efforts-- at war, at home, and in postwar community politics-- to achieve full citizenship in mid-twentieth-century America. Drawing on oral testimony, unpublished correspondence, archival records, memoirs, and diaries, Robert F. Jefferson explores the curious contradiction of war-effort idealism and entrenched discrimination through the experiences ...

The People's War lifts the Stalinist veil of secrecy to probe an almost untold side of World War II: the experiences of the Soviet people themselves. Going beyond dry and faceless military accounts of the eastern front of the "Great Patriotic War" and the Soviet state's one-dimensional "heroic People," this volume explores how ordinary citizens responded to the war, Stalinist leadership, and Nazi invasion. ...

Title on screen: Duquesne Case: Secret. The word "Secret" has been crossed out. Grainy footage, shot clandestinely, shows a New York City street and the interior of an office. Hoover's narration tells of Harry Sawyer [pseudonym for William Sebold], a naturalized German citizen who became a double-agent after he was approached by the Gestapo (in reality the Abwehr) in 1939. The footage shows Duquesne ...

Opening credits in German from the OMGUS censor's board: "Filmvorfuherungsschein / No.: 49-1012-85 / Es wird hiermit bescheinigt dass "Die Brucke" zur offentlichen Vorfuhrung in den amerikanisch besetzten Gebieten Deutschlands zugelassen ist. Bescheinigung ausgestellt im Auftrag der Amerikanischen Militarregierung / Zeit Im Film" Film title appears over an image of white puffy clouds in the sky: "DIE ...

Il fondo del Comitato di ricerche dei deportati ebrei (CRDE) raccoglie gli atti relativi alla ricerca sugli ebrei italiani e stranieri deportati dall'Italia. Il CRDE fu creato per volontà dell'Unione delle Comunità israelitiche Italiane, nel settembre del 1944, all'indomani della liberazione di Roma, con lo scopo di rintracciare ogni informazione possibile al fine di facilitare la ricerca e il ritrovamento ...

Silent black and white footage from a JDC morale-boosting tour of famous performers to DP camps, convalescent homes, and hachsharot (vocational training collectives for those planning to settle in Israel) in Italy. 01:00:03 EXT path lined with hedges and trees at an Italian rest home for refugees from Romania and Poland (repatriated from Russia after the Holocaust en route to Palestine) - possible ...

Inleiding: 75 jaar NIOD ; De flop van het verzuilde Hoofdwerk: gestuntel van een duur auteursteam / Jaap Cohen ; Ere wie ere toekomt: de moeizame totstandkoming van de Erelijst van Gevallenen 1940-1945 / René van Heijningen ; Een koloniale atmosfeer: de geschiedenis van de Indische Afdeling / Rolf Utermöhlen ; Het proces-Fiebig : een verlate NIOD-bronnenpublicatie / Joggli Meihuizen ; Net een bejaardenhuis: ...

Né en 1915, polytechnicien, ingénieur des Ponts et Chaussées, André Boulloche s'engagea dès 1940 dans la Résistance. Devenu en 1943 délégué militaire de la région de Paris, il fut arrêté en janvier 1944 et déporté le 27 avril, d'abord à Auschwitz puis à Buchenwald et Flossenburg. Le 15 août 1944, c'était au tour de ses parents, Hélène et Jacques Boulloche, et de son frère Robert de partir pour l'Allemagne, ...

This article explores the Canadian military entertainment units during World War II (WWII), specifically those formed by the Navy, Army and Air Force from talent found amongst their own personnel. These entertainment units toured extensively in Canada, the United Kingdom and Europe with the goal of increasing the morale of combat troops while encouraging the enlistment of Canadas domestic populations ...