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Bernhard Lösener (1890-1952), as employee of the German Interior Ministry from 1933 to 1943 took part in drafting 27 anti Jewish decrees. Most important were the Nuremberg Laws of 1935 and the subsequent legal definitions that distinguished among different kinds of partial Jews or Mischlinge, in effect exempting quarter Jews and secularized half Jews from the full brunt of persecution. After the war, ...

The past two years of warfare have left Somalia devastated and on the brink of even greater calamity. The increasingly brutal conflict involves Ethiopian military forces and the Somali Transitional Federal Government against a powerful but fragmented insurgency. Civilians trapped between the warring parties bear the brunt of the fighting, especially in the urban battleground ofMogadishu, the Somali ...

While the suffering of Allied prisoners of war on the Thai-Burma railway during the Second World War is well documented, much less is known about the Asian labourers employed on the project. Focusing on Thai and Chinese workers in Thailand, this study argues that although Asian labourers often suffered in a way comparable to prisoners of war, they also exercised some agency in their dealings with the ...

"Like big black umbrellas, they rain down on the fields across the way, and then disappear behind the black line of the hedges. Silent parachutes dotting the night sky." That is how one woman in Normandy in June of 1944 learned that the D-Day invasion was under way. Though they yearned for liberation, the French in Normandy nonetheless had to steel themselves for war, knowing that their homes and land ...

Levensloop Egbertus Veen Antoniezn: Egbertus Veen Antoniezn. werd geboren te Sneek op 24 januari 1880, als zoon van de handelaar in koloniale waren Antonie Veen en Elske Brunings. In Sneek doorliep hij ook zijn eerste schooljaren. Later werd hij leerling aan de Openbare Handelsschool te Amsterdam. Na de voltooiing van deze opleiding was hij achtereenvolgens in dienst van de Hollandse Stoombootmaatschappij, ...

Under questioning from the judges, the German theologian Dr. Heinrich Grueber testifies about his role in the rescue of Jews. He says that he receives hate mail and threats for his rescue work and for agreeing to come to Jerusalem to testify. He refuses to publicly state the name of a fellow rescuer for this reason. He quotes Leo Baeck as he describes the difference between the reactions of working ...

Bereik en inhoud In 1289 werd Westfriesland definitief onderworpen door graaf Floris V. Hij deelde de regio op in twee baljuwschappen. In de oostelijke helft van het gebied vestigde hij het Oosterbaljuwschap of het baljuwschap van Medemblik. De westelijke helft kwam bij het grote baljuwschap van Kennemerland en Friesland. Ieder baljuwschap omvatte twee ambachten, namelijk respectievelijk de Vier Noorderkoggen ...