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Consists of reports and newspaper clippings, 1945-1995, pertaining to the rescue of Mauthausen concentration camp inmates. Includes photographs, correspondence, and personal artifacts such as identification papers and certificates. Original archival signature at source archive: NL Louis Haefliger. The other half of the Louis Haefliger papers are held by the Austrian State Archives in Vienna, Austr ...

The Berghausen family originally came from Hanover. Hertz Berghausen, a tailor, and his wife Betti (née Hammerschlag) had two children: Henny (born in 1867) and Max (born in 1870). Max Berghausen was a bookkeeper working at various banks in Hanover. He emigrated to London at the turn of the 20th century where he settled down. He got married to Betty Elsässer from Frankfurt am Main in 1904 with whom ...

This article analyzes the role of the United States during Argentina's 1976-1983 military dictatorship and their genocidal counterinsurgency war. We argue that Washington's policy evolved from the initially loose support of the Ford administration to what we call "the Carter exception" in 1977-79, when the violations of human rights were denounced and concrete measures taken to put pressure on the ...

Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Das Institut für Besatzungsfragen entwickelte sich aus dem von Carlo Schmid am 1.10.1947 eingerichteten Referat für Verfassungs- und Besatzungsfragen in der Staatskanzlei des Landes Württemberg-Hohenzollern und einem hieran lose angebundenen wissenschaftlichen Arbeitskreis. Der Leiter des Referates in der Staatskanzlei, Dr. Gustav Schmoller, gründete das Institut zum ...

Cross of Honor of the German Mother (Ehrenkreuz der Deutschen Mutter), 3rd class order, Bronze medal issued by the Nazi Party between May 1939, and the end of World War II in May 1945. More commonly known as the Mother’s Cross (Mutterkreuz), the medal served as a propaganda measure to promote National Socialist population policy of glorifying family life and increasing population levels. It was a civilian ...

"In Terezín, a Nazi camp where 35,000 people died, a remarkable community of musicians and artists answered despair with creativity. Here is their astonishing world, captured firsthand in lively concert critiques by composer, scholar, and prisoner Viktor Ullmann. We meet Terezín's choirs and solo artists, luminaries of European cabaret and opera, and a generation of accomplished composers silenced ...

"In the courtroom and the classroom, in popular media, public policy, and scholarly pursuits, the Holocaust-its origins, its nature, and its implications-remains very much a matter of interest, debate, and controversy. Arriving at a time when a new generation must come to terms with the legacy of the Holocaust or forever lose the benefit of its historical, social, and moral lessons, this volume offers ...

A Castle Films showcase of news events for the year 1937 with English titles: "Europe's powder keg! Endless Spanish Rebellion is source of constant concern to all nations." "Worst London cloudburst in 27 years! Streets of British capital are flooded when rain descends in torrents!" "In the U.S., storms and floods render thousands homeless." "George VI reviews grand fleet. Newly crowned Monarch sees ...

The capital city of Budapest has played a major role in the life of Hungarian Jewry in modern times. By the 1930s and 1940s, the Jews of Budapest constituted by far the largest community in the country and second largest urban Jewish community on the continent (right behind Warsaw). After the Trianon Treaty of 1920 but before the rounds of border revisions between 1938 and 1941, around half of the ...

Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Biographische Angaben: 2. Nov. 1907 in Berlin als uneheliches Kind der Buchhalterin Marie Lierse geboren; bei den Großeltern aufgewachsen; später vom Stiefvater Hans Spangenberg adoptiert 1924 Abschluss der Oberrealschule; Hilfsarbeiter bei der Dr. Paul Meyer AG in Berlin; Mitglied des Deutschen Metallarbeiterverbands (DMV), der Roten Hilfe (RH) und des Kommunistischen ...