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"For six months, Côte d'Ivoire residents endured horrific human rights abuses following the refusal of incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo to relinquish power when the country's electoral commission and international observers declared his opponent, Alassane Ouattara, the winner of the November 28, 2010, run-off election. Months after the April 11 arrest of Gbagbo by Ouattara's armed forces, the prospect ...

The Ukrainian battalion Nachtigall was formed by Stepan Bandera (1909-1959), a very controversial figure in Ukrainian history. He was a Ukrainian nationalist who in June 1941 proclaimed independence for Ukraine. During 1941-44, he was presumably imprisoned at Sachsenhausen concentration camp for this declaration of independence, since it wasn't approved by the German command. Released in 1944 he continued ...

Castle Films was started in 1924 by Eugene W. Castle, the former Pacific Coast film editor at Fox Movietone News. Castle became a successful producer of industrial and advertising short subjects. Castle began compiling shorts, travelogues and newsreels for use in schools. The lure of the home movie market proved lucrative for Castle. In 1936, they became one of the first home movie companies to actually ...

Emilie (née Geromin) Bordin (1887-1940), a German victim of the Nazi euthanasia program, was killed at the Sonnenstein über Pirna facility. Emilie was the daughter of Wilhelm Friedrich and Marianne (Schütz) Geromin. She was raised on an estate in Przasnysz, East Prussia (Poland), where her father managed the forests of a Russian duke. Emilie was the oldest of five children. In 1909, she married Emil ...

Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Das im Bundesarchiv-Militärarchiv befindliche Schriftgut der verschiedenen Heeresgruppen stammt im wesentlichen aus Rückgaben aus den USA nach 1962. Bestandsbeschreibung Die insgesamt sehr dünne Überlieferung besteht hauptsächlich aus Anlagebänden des Kriegstagebuchs. Hinzu kommen einzelne Bände zu bestimmten Stellungen und zwei umfangreiche Bände zu Verleihungen von ...

Kazerne Dossin Research Centre

Documents on the underground and partisan struggle that took place in the territory of the Odessa region during World War II began to be put into storage in 1944 at the former Party Archive of the Odessa Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine, where they were stored in fond P-11, op. 45 (Odessa Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine). These documents were made into a separate ...

One document, consisting of a typescript text of General Hans von Boineburg-Lengsfeld, a German officer in the Wehrmacht during World War II, describing his involvement in the conspiracy related to the assassination attempt on Hitler on 20 July 1944, and the reaction of German military commanders in occupied France (Paris), where Boineburg was stationed at the time. Includes two typescript pages, as ...

Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Die Masse des von den Amerikanern erbeuteten Schriftgutes aus dem Geschäftsbereich des Chefs OKW mit nachgeordneten Dienststellen war von den amerikanischen National Archives mit OKW-Signaturen versehen worden. Der Bestand RW 44 bildete sich als solcher erst heraus, als nach Rückführung des Schriftgutes im Rahmen von Ordnungsarbeiten in der damaligen Dokumentenzentrale ...

Kharkov municipal administration documentation, 1941-1944
 
 In the collection there are 13 microfilm reels selected from the Kharkov Region State Archive and handed over to Yad Vashem by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington.
 
 Most of the documentation consists of statistical reports and lists of the residents of Kharkov registered in the census conducted ...