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"Winner, French Voices Award for Excellence in Publication and Translation When we speak of mass killers, we may speak of radicalized ideologues, mediocrities who only obey orders, or bloodthirsty monsters. Who are these men who kill on a mass scale? What is their consciousness? Do they not feel horror or compassion? Richard Rechtman's Living in Death offers new answers to a question that has haunted ...

Olaf Glockner und Roy Knocke / Einleitung. - AGHET UND SCHOAH. - Christin Pschichholz / Historiografische Entwicklung unter besonderen Umstanden. Die Erforschung des Volkermordes an den Armeniern zwischen Westeurozentrismus und türkischem Nationalmythos. - Dan Stone / Der Holocaust und seine Historiografie. - Christoph Beeh / Ein europaischer Volkermord? Anerkennung und Leugnung von Schoah und Aghet ...

"In the early 1800s, a century before there was any concept of the gene, physicians in insane asylums began to record causes of madness in their admission books. Almost from the beginning, they pointed to heredity as the most important of these causes. As doctors and state officials steadily lost faith in the capacity of asylum care to stem the terrible increase of insanity, they began emphasizing ...

"Why has Africa been the subject of so many accusations related to genocide? Indeed, the number of such allegations related to Africa has increased dramatically over the past 15 years. Popular racist mythology might suggest that Africans belong to "tribes" that are inherently antagonistic toward each other and therefore engaging in "tribal warfare" which cannot be rationally explained. This is concept ...

In Making and Unmaking Nations, Scott Straus seeks to explain why and how genocide takes place--and, perhaps more important, how it has been avoided in places where it may have seemed likely or even inevitable. To solve that puzzle, he examines postcolonial Africa, analyzing countries in which genocide occurred and where it could have but did not. Why have there not been other Rwandas-- Straus finds ...

Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Bestandsgeschichte Die im Bestand NS 47 zusammengefasste Überlieferung war ursprünglich Teil des Sammelbestands NS 17 ("Allgemeine SS - SS-Oberabschnitte und unterstellte Einheiten"), der aus einer amerikanischen Aktenrückgabe vom Dezember 1960 entstanden war. Im November 1961 wurden sämtliche Akten von Waffen-SS-Dienststellen zuständigkeitshalber der Abteilung Militärarchiv ...

Ring of hate tells the story of one of the greatest sports events of the twentieth century, the heavy-weight championship bout between Germany's Max Schmeling and America's "Brown Bomber", Joe Louis - at a time when both men carried their nation's hopes on their shoulders. More than the world heavyweight championship was at stake when Joe Louis fought Max Schmeling on June 22, 1938. In a world on the ...

"Der Widerstand gegen das ,Dritte Reich' wendete sich nicht nur gegen den nationalsozialistischen Staat, sondern lehnte ihn mit all seinen Prinzipien, seiner Ideologie und seinen Moralvorstellungen grundlegend ab. Denn seit 1933 hatte sich in Deutschland ein Wandel auf allen Ebenen vollzogen, der bei der Regierungsform begann, über eine Umgestaltung des sozialen Lebens führte und ganz gewiss nicht ...