The ritualized memory of genocide has been a cornerstone of Roma political mobilization during at least the last three decades. A uniqueness paradigm has been developing for some time, applying a memorial discourse inspired by the Jewish Holocaust model. While paralleling each other in time, the mass murders of Jews and Roma during the Second World War differed on several points. In the General Government ...

"Dagelijks leven met de vijand in Nederland en België, de collaboratie, het opkomende verzet tegen de grimmiger wordende Duitse overheersing en het begin van de jodenvervolging. The Battle of Britain, de strijd in de Pacific, de Japanse inval in Nederlands-Indië, Operatie Barbarossa en de overige strijdtonelen van de volledig ontvlamde wereldoorlog. Met literatuuropgave. 240 pagina's : illustraties ...

"World War II: Infographics tells the story of the great conflict through graphic design. The mass of data available about World War II has never been as large as it is now, yet it has become extraordinarily complicated to interpret it in a meaningful way, and to share that analysis with the public. Infographics allow data to be comprehensible to the general reader while still satisfying demands for ...

"A fascinating and detailed account of every aspect of the Waffen-SS's war on the Eastern Front: its battles, its organization, tactics, and equipment. Read what it was like to take part in Operation 'Barbarossa', the opening assault against Russia in the summer of 1941; the clash of massed armor at Kursk; and other epic encounters of war in the East. Ailsby also provides detailed insight into how ...

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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 / ...

Bestandsbeschreibung Paul Karl Schmidt (Paul Carell) 1911-1997, Pressechef des Auswärtigen Amtes unter Ribbentrop, Journalist, Schriftsteller Biographisches: · Am 2. Nov. 1911 in Kelbra/Thüringen geboren · 12. Jan. 1931: Eintritt in die NSDAP · Studium der Psychologie, Volkswirtschaft, Pädagogik und Philosophie in Kiel · Leiter des „Kampfausschusses wider den undeutschen Geist" der Deutschen Studentenschaft ...

"When Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa with his attack on the Soviet Union in June 1941, the Wehrmacht deployed 600,000 troops to the Eastern Front. Their numbers were later swelled by a range of foreign volunteers so that, at the height of World War II, astonishingly one in three men fighting for the Germans in the East was not a native German. Hitler's declaration of the 'struggle against Bolshevism' ...

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The persecution of Jews in Romania between 1940-44 was the result of collaboration between players in various social contexts, who followed their own logic of violence and generated their own violent practices. Distinguishes between dictatorial, fascist, military, police, and collective violence. Antonescu's dictatorial violence took the form of ethnic cleansing and "redemptive antisemitism". It was ...

"Just three days after the Wehrmacht launched Operation Barbarossa, the Central Committee of the Kazakh Communist Party convened its fifth plenary session in the Central Asian city of Almaty. Declaring a state of emergency in response to this "treacherous attack by German fascism," the plenum called on the local population to support the Soviet war effort. From 1941 to 1945, hundreds of thousands of ...

"Convinced before the onset of Operation "Barbarossa" in June 1941 of both the ease, with which the Red Army would be defeated and the likelihood that the Soviet Union would collapse, the Nazi regime envisaged a radical and far-reaching occupation policy which would result in the political, economic and racial reorganization of the occupied Soviet territories and bring about the deaths of 'x million ...

The 1941 German invasion of the Soviet Union ("Operation Barbarossa") significantly altered the lives of the civilians in occupied Russian territories, yet these individuals' stories are overlooked by most scholarly treatments of the attack and its aftermath. This study, drawing on oral-history interviews and a broad range of archival sources, provides a fascinating and detailed account of the everyday ...

"The Kishinev Ghetto, 1941-1942 sheds new light on the little-known historical events surrounding the creation, administration, and liquidation of the Kishinev (Chisinau) ghetto during the first months following the Axis attack on the Soviet Union (Operation Barbarossa) in late June 1941. Mass killings during the combined Romanian-German drive toward Kishinev in Bessarabia, after a year of Soviet rule ...

By 1944, the overwhelming majority of the German Army had participated in the German war of annihilation in the Soviet Union and historians continue to debate the motivations behind the violence unleashed in the east. Jeff Rutherford offers an important new contribution to this debate through a study of combat and the occupation policies of three frontline infantry divisions. He shows that while Nazi ...

Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Ein Teil der Überlieferung befand sich bereits bis Kriegsende im Heeresarchiv des Deutschen Reiches. Größtenteils wurden die Archivalien seit Gründung der DDR in deren Militärarchiv übernommen (ehemals Bestand W 01). Aufgrund der Übernahme in das Militärarchiv der DDR kann davon ausgegangen werden, dass der alte Lagerungsort bis zum Kriegsende das Heeresarchiv Dresden ...

Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Geboren 12.6.1892 in München als Sohn eines Polizeibeamten, gest. 2.7.1973 ebenda. Nach dem Abitur Dienstzeit als Einjährig-Freiwilliger beim Militär. Danach Studium (Philosophie, Sprachen) in München, Lausanne und Grenoble. 1914 Leutnant der Reserve und Kompaniechef. Einsätze in Frankreich, Tirol, Serbien, Rumänien und Italien. 1917 Pour le Mérite für den Einsatz in ...

The Schutzmannschaft Battalion 202 was a failed collaborationist auxiliary police battalion in the General Government during World War II. It was made up of 360 conscripts with Nazi German leadership. The unit was created in Kraków officially on March 27, 1942 with recruitment beginning in May. Only two Polish men volunteered. As a result, the Germans resorted to conscription from the regular Polish ...

Theo Mann-Bouwmeester actrice Zutphen, 19 april 1850 – Amsterdam, 18 april 1939 “ Haar stem jubelt en smeekt en dwingt en fluistert en is als balsem, en altijd weer ontroert zij en doet ons vragen naar het geheim dier wondere kracht: het leed en de vreugde van de mens zó te spelen dat wij, met haar, mens, een beter mens, worden. Het grote geheim van bouwmeesters is in en om haar, en nooit heeft één ...

On May 1, 1941 Hasso von Manteuffel was appointed the commander of the 1st Battalion of 7th Rifle Regiment of the 7th Panzer Division. It was with this unit that he entered World War II, serving under Hermann Hoth’s Panzer Group 3 of the Army Group Centre in Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union. On August 25, 1941 he took over the 6th Rifle Regiment of the 7th Panzer Division ...

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Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Hauptaufgaben der Sicherungsstreitkräfte waren Minenabwehr, Minenlegen, U- Boot- Jagd, Aufklärungs- und Vorpostendienst sowie Geleitdienst. Bis zum Beginn des 2. Weltkrieges waren sämtliche für den Sicherungs-, Geleit-, Vorposten-, Minensuch- und Räumdienst vorgesehenen Verbände dem Führer der Minensuchboote zugeteilt. Bei Kriegsausbruch wurden die Befehlshaber der Sicherungsstreitkräfte ...

Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Skl = Operationsabteilung des Marinekommandoamtes, Chef der Behörde führte ab 1.4. 1937 Dienstbezeichnung Chef des Stabes der Seekriegsleitung (Skl). In dieser Eigenschaft wurde ihm 1938 die bisherige Abteilung Marinenach- richtendienst des Marinekommandoamtes unterstellt. 1939 gab der Chef des Stabes der Skl die Leitung des Marinekommandoamtes ab. 1939 traten infolge ...

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