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Black Shame offers a detailed analysis of the recruitment and deployment of and reactions to African soldiers in the WWI European theatre of war. In so doing, the book paints a vivid picture of the wider debates of race and national identity provoked by the use of African troops within the main actors on the WWI scene: France, Britain, Germany and even the US. Drawing on war-time attitudes, Dick van ...

Publisher's description: History has recorded the horrors of ethnic cleansing, but until now, America's own efforts to create a master race have been largely overlooked. In War Against the Weak, investigative journalist and author of the New York Times bestseller IBM and the Holocaust Edwin Black reveals that eugenics-sham science made up to justify ethnic cleansing-had an incredible foothold in America ...

"Following a devastating genocide in 1994, the Rwandan government elected to hold all perpetrators accountable - including children. Thousands of children were held in prisons while awaiting charges; some were later convicted. This book is about these children. Drawing on interviews and extensive archival research in Rwanda, it documents their journey through prisons, formal courts, gacaca proceedings ...

Collection of photographs, correspondence and documents relating to the Weiss and Ross families living in Liptovská Teplá, Slovakia. The photographs depict family life; the wedding of Alexander and Blanka Weiss in June 1937; birth of Peter in 1939; and their life till their escape into hiding. The documents include two Red Cross letters from Blanka Weiss to her father, dated October 1943 and January ...

Examines how the Warsaw ghetto uprising in April 1943, which represents Jewish heroism, has been perceived in historic memory. Postwar reception of the revolt created an epos which has been adopted for particular interests, which may vary and even be opposing. Clarifies the relationship between an epic narrative and its instrumentalization and symbolic significance. Distinguishes between Zionist, Polish, ...

Archief van Neeltje Hillegonda ('Nelly', 'Neel') de Haer (Amsterdam, 8 januari 1932 - 16 augustus 2021). Kinderuitzendingen. Nelly de Haer wordt tijdens de hongerwinter vanuit Amsterdam-Zuid uitgezonden naar Winschoten. Wicher en Catrien Boonstra zijn de pleegouders, die even buiten Winschoten wonen. Het archief omvat enige correpondentie en een foto van de pleegouders voor hun huis.

"Diaries, testimonies and memoirs of the Holocaust often include at least as much on the family as on the individual. Victims of the Nazi regime experienced oppression and made decisions embedded within families. Even after the war, sole survivors often described their losses and rebuilt their lives with a distinct focus on family. Yet this perspective is lacking in academic analyses. In this work, ...

This article unravels the complexities revealed in the act of traveling to and photographing Fascist Italy in order to consider the intricacies of a particularly German-Jewish engagement with contested and highly politicized spaces and scenes. It examines four specific images in the album: namely, one photo from South Tyrol/Alto Adige along with the three images from a Fascist night-time rally in Venice. ...