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This article explores transnational connections between anti-imperialist groups in West Germany and Japan through an examination of the protest around the Japanese Emperor's state visit to Bonn in 1971. Although anti-imperialist movements in Japan and West Germany had many similarities and moments of contact, there are few treatments of these groups in transnational perspective. The event offers a ...

Written by Rufus Reichart. 156 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

244 pages illustrations 19 cm

Vatican policy toward the Jews was governed, from late antiquity up to the end of the Church State in 1870, by the concept of "dual protection": of the faith of Christians from the influence of Judaism, and of the Jews from the violence of Christians. The Church carried out this policy in its own state, and pressed it also on foreign rulers. But as the Reformation and Enlightenment placed the Church ...

"In his six years as the United Nations special rapporteur on torture, Manfred Nowak was tasked with reviewing thousands of complaints of torture and detention, investigating facts and circumstances surrounding the global practice of torture, and drawing up recommendations aimed at combating the practice. Now, in Torture, readers can get a first hand glimpse of how modern-day torture is investigated ...

Chs. 1-5 (pp. 10-89) deal with Germany before World War II: antisemitism in the Weimar Republic and in the NSDAP, the Nuremberg Laws, the expulsion of the Jews from the German economy, and the "Kristallnacht" pogrom. The rest of the book deals with the war period. 17 July 1942 was the date of Himmler's visit to Auschwitz, where he witnessed a selection and gassing and decided that the deportation and ...