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Met lit. opg. en reg. 246 p. ; 20 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-179) and index. xii, 185 pages ; 24 cm

Introduction: Entangled Histories in the Age of Extremes / Michael David-Fox. - "A Belgium of Our Own" : The Sack of Russian Kalisz, August 1914 / Laura Engelstein. - United by Barbed Wire : Russian POWs in Germany, National Stereotypes, and International Relations, 1914-1922 / Oksana Nagornaya. - Iron Revolutionaries and Salon Socialists : Bolsheviks and German Communists in the 1920s and 1930s / ...

In February 1937, following an abortive attack by a handful of insurgents on Mussolini's High Command in Italian-occupied Ethiopia, 'repression squads' of armed Blackshirts and Fascist civilians were unleashed on the defenceless residents of Addis Ababa. In three terror-filled days and nights of arson, murder and looting, thousands of innocent and unsuspecting men, women and children were roasted alive, ...

Holocaust survivor Bernard Aldebert's memoirs and sketches of his experiences on the concentration camp "circuit." At the beginning of the narrative, in January 1944, the author is already an inmate in the Compiègne internment camp, having been arrested in 1943 for a caricature of Hitler. The majority of the work depicts the Mauthausen-Gusen camp complex, known for extermination through labor of the ...

The Ecole Nationale des Cadres was set up at the Chateau d'Uriage, in the Alps above Grenoble, to train an elite drawn from the young intelligentsia as part of a larger effort to transform the nation. In The Knight-Monks of Vichy France John Hellman describes the founding, operation, transformation, and demise of the school, details the institution's ideological and political struggles with other segments ...