Includes bibliographical references. 154 pages ; 23 cm.

Detailed biography of Nancy Cunard (1896-1965): She was born in London as the only child of an English baronet and an American beauty. She moved to Paris in 1920 and became involved in society and the art world and later in journalism. She reported about and passionately championed anti fascism and anti racism. She had love affairs and relationships with many artists and was an inspiration for their ...

Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-287) and index. xvii, 295 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

1. Aufl., 1.-20. Tsd. 235 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

The various County Commissions on Establishing the Crimes of the Occupying Forces and Their Local Helpers during the war were established throughout Croatia, as well as the region of Dalmatia, following the end of the war. Direct perpetrators (1945/1946) were usually tried in ad hoc trials and executed. The controversy of trials in the immediate after-war period unfortunately sometimes overshadowed ...

<p>The following details of the <em>Freier Deutscher Kulturbund</em> have been taken from <em>Theatre and Film in Exile: German Artists in Great Britain, 1933-1945</em>, edited by Günther Berghaus, Berg Publishers, Oxford, pp 48-51.<br /></p><p>The <em>Freier Deutscher Kulturbund</em> was set up in December1938 to provide a framework and a forum for the energy and creativity of the German and Austrian ...

This appeal by Bela Lugosi, president of the Hungarian- American Council for Democracy, New York, is accompanied by a leaflet exorting kinfolk to oppose the Hungarian regime which is sympathetic to the Nazis.

Fragmentary personal fonds of prof. Jelínek contains numerous copies of his correspondence from the years 1988 – 1998. Letters are mainly dedicated to the professor´s main field of study – Slovak State (1939 – 1945) and Jewish persecution, especially on information about relevant sources and literature, as well as on the contemporary phenomenon of anti-Semitism with specific focus on the territory ...

<p>This collection contains the personal papers of Leon Greenman, a British survivor of Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps, documenting his experiences in the camps and post-war educational and political activities relating to the Holocaust.</p>

Writings, letters, clippings, biographies, and booklists, relating to Italian politics, fascism, church and state relations, antisemitism and racism, and Benito Mussolini. Box 2 contains an envelope entitled “Anti-Semitism and Racism” consisting of excerpts in Italian for the period 1933-1938, as well as a set of clippings from Italian newspapers for 1937-1938 on the subject. Box l2 contains a 64 page ...

The leaflet confronts images of Hitler and quotations made by Hitler from 1939 to 1943 with pictures of the destroyed cities of Rotterdam and Hamburg as well as images of the Wehrmacht in Poland and the Soviet Union. A handwritten comment on the third page indicates that the leaflet was dropped by the R.A.F in 1943 or 1944.

1. ed. xxii, 292 pages ; 20 cm

Democracy in action : the Hollywood anti-Nazi films of the 1940s. - Resistance to the resistance : denazification and democratization in 1950s West German cinema. - Melancholy antifascism : the East German antifascist films of the 1960s and 1970s. - Between art and exploitation : fascism and the politics of sexuality in 1970s Italian cinema. - Postpolitical affects and intertextual effects : on Moloch ...

Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee was organized on August 24, 1941. The goal of JAC was the unifying the jews all over the world in order to fight against fascism, helping the Soviet Union and the Red Army. Presidium of JAC was elected in April 1944. Among the 70 members were famous scholars, artists, military commanders, party workers. The Committee fundraised abroad to fight against Germany, for example ...

Pages 163-242, "Die Juden in Tempelhof und ihre Verfolgung, " chronicles Nazi anti-Jewish measures, particularly in the Berlin quarter of Tempelhof. Includes brief biographies of many Tempelhof Jews who perished in the Holocaust. 1. Auflage 335 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Studies the attitudes of the French resistance toward antisemitic persecution in France and the fate of the Jews deported to the East, as expressed in broadcasts from London and the illegal press. The resistance sometimes led battles on the "Jewish front" and sometimes avoided them in the propaganda war against Vichy. Argues that the relative silence of the illegal press on the persecutions before ...

Charles (Jeff) Scherz (1923-2012) was born August 31, 1923 in Rome, New York and grew up in West Leyden. He joined the US Army in December 1942. He landed on the Normandy beaches on D-Day and participated in the liberation of Paris, the Battle of the Bulge, and the liberation of Buchenwald.

The earliest model of a right-wing movement in Luxembourg is provided by Catholic fundamentalists, who strove to reintroduce the Ancien Régime and the hegemony of the Church, and to re-Christianize society by rejecting the nation state. The theoretician of this model was Jean-Baptiste Esch, the editor of the Catholic newspaper "Das Luxemburger Wort" (1888-1940) which was inspired by "austro-fascism" ...

The collection consists of research material collected by Randolph L. Braham, the world renowned expert on the Holocaust in Hungary. Includes materials relevant to the Holocaust and its aftermath in Eastern Europe in general, and in Hungary and Romania in particular, trials against suspected war criminals, the revival of extreme right ideologies, and biographical information pertaining to the donor. ...

"Interwar Vienna was considered a bastion of radical socialist thought, and its reputation as Red Vienna has loomed large in both the popular imagination and the historiography of Central Europe. However, as Janek Wasserman shows in this book, a Black Vienna existed as well; its members voiced critiques of the postwar democratic order, Jewish inclusion, and Enlightenment values, providing a theoretical ...

1. Aufl. 307 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Returning to civilian life, at the close of the Second World War, a group of Jewish veterans discovered that, for all their effort and sacrifice, their fight was not yet done. Creeping back onto the streets were Britain’s homegrown fascists, directed from the shadows by Sir Oswald Mosley. Horrified that the authorities refused to act, forty-three Jewish ex-servicemen and women resolved to take matters ...

Americans who remember World War II reminisce about how it brought the country together. The less popular truth behind this warm nostalgia: until the attack on Pearl Harbor, the nation was deeply, dangerously divided. In Hitler's American Friends, Bradley W. Hart uncovers the homegrown groups who sought to protect and promote Hitler, leave Europeans (and especially European Jews) to fend for themselves, ...