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Kurt Lowenstein was born in 1885 in Bleckede, Germany, as the son of Jewish parents who owned a clothing shop. Kurt studied theology and philosophy in Halberstadt, and later on continued his studies in Berlin. In 1911, Kurt Lowenstein married Mara Kerwel. During the First World War, as a pacifist, he joined the Red Cross and nursed wounded soldiers. At the same time, he began to identify himself as ...

Offices of the Voelkischer Beobachter. Franz Pfeffer von Salomon works in his office as Philipp Bouhler and Franz Xaver Schwarz, Nazi Party treasurer, join him. Seated at a table, they review and edit papers, presumably copy for the newspaper. Exterior of the office of the Voelkischer Beobachter, people carry stacks of newspapers into the building. People reading a copy of the newspaper posted on the ...

"Today's antisemitism is difficult to recognize because it does not come dressed in a Nazi uniform and it does not openly proclaim its hatred or fear of Jews. This book looks at the kind of antisemitism which is tolerated or which goes unacknowledged in apparently democratic spaces: trade unions, churches, left-wing and liberal politics, social gatherings of the chattering classes and the seminars ...

"In this work, Carol V.A. Quinn (re)constructs the survivors' arguments in the debate concerning the ethics of using Nazi medical data, showing what it would mean to take their claims seriously. She begins with a historical case and presents arguments that help make sense of the following claims: 1) Using the data harms the survivors by violating their dignity; 2) The survivors are the "living data," ...

"This breezy but well-researched history takes a not-so-critical look at a man described by Nelson Mandela as "one of the greatest revolutionary legends of our times" and by President Ronald Reagan as "the mad dog of the Middle East." The leader of Libya since 1969, Gaddafi's life story is revealed through the interviews and research of Jouve, an expert in Third-World Africa who first met Gaddafi in ...

"The Routledge International Handbook of Perpetrator Studies provides the first comprehensive overview of this emerging interdisciplinary field in the humanities and social sciences. Featuring contributions by scholars from a wide variety of fields and disciplines, the Handbook charts the growth and development, foundations, key debates, core concerns, and frontiers of Perpetrator Studies. Focusing ...

The following information about the organisation "Socialist Vanguard", was taken from the description to the records of this organisation, held atWarwick University, Modern Records Centre.<br><br><div>The Socialist Vanguard Group (SVG) was established in the United Kingdom in 1929 as the British Section of the Militant Socialist International (ISK) in Germany. The ISK had evolved in 1926 from the Internationaler ...

This interdisciplinary volume aims to understand the linkages between the origins and aftermaths of genocide. Exploring social dynamics and human behaviour, this collection considers the interplay of various psychological, political, anthropological and historical factors at work in genocidal processes. This collection adopts an interdisciplinary approach in order to understand the various factors ...

<div><div>The German Jewish psychologist, Paul Plaut was born 19 February 1894 in Berlin to Hermann Plaut (1849-1909 Berlin) and Ernestine née Loewenthal (1864-1942 murdered in Theresienstadt). He had a brother who emigrated before the outbreak of the Second World War and two sisters murdered by the Nazis in 1943. He married Thekla Delphine Kneip (1899-1980) in 1923. They had one daughter, Claire Allen.</div><div><br ...

When it comes to historical violence and contemporary inequality, none of us are completely innocent. We may not be direct agents of harm, but we may still contribute to, inhabit, or benefit from regimes of domination that we neither set up nor control. Arguing that the familiar categories of victim, perpetrator, and bystander do not adequately account for our connection to injustices past and present, ...