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This novel recounts, in a compact narrative set in five intense days, the passions and prejudices that boil inside an African-American company of soldiers commanded by a racist white captain and visited by an Italian-American lieutentant who falls in love with one of the soldiers. This book explores themes of homophobia and racism as well as their relationship to each other and to the culture of the ...

Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Schwedischer Gesandtschaftspfarrer in Berlin Lebenslauf 27. September 1893 Geboren in Söderhamn in Schweden Handelsschule Karlstad 1913 Lehrer an der Handelschule Karlstad 1915 Abitur als Externer in Stockholm 1916 Immatrikulation an der theologischen Fakultät in Uppsala 1919- 1920 Studium in Tübingen und Marburg 1920 Zweites theologisches Examen in Schweden, Sekretär ...

Looks at the Japanese suicide bombers and the devastation they caused during World War II. Investigates the factors that led young Japanese pilots to go on suicidal missions. Examines the role that fear of the kamikaze played in the United States' decision to avoid an invasion of the Japanese mainland. Includes footage of actual kamikaze attacks from U.S. and Japanese newsreels. Engels gesproken, Nederlands ...

"Laughter After: Humor and the Holocaust argues that humor performs political, cultural, and social functions in the wake of horror. Co-editors David Slucki, Gabriel N. Finder, and Avinoam Patt have assembled an impressive list of contributors who examine what is at stake in deploying humor in representing the Holocaust. Namely, what are the boundaries? Clearly, there have been comedy and laughter ...

The papers consist of correspondence, draft play scripts, newspaper articles, scrapbooks, news cuttings, photographs and ephemera, which together document the lives of an Austrian Jewish actor who died at Buchenwald before the war and his wife who became a prominent journalist and socialite.