Matthias Strohn, The German Army and the Defence of the Reich: Military Doctrine and the Conduct of the Defensive Battle 1918-1939
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Archiv für Juli 2013
A Political Park: The Working People’s Cultural Palace in Beijing
The Working People’s Cultural Palace (WPCP), formerly the Imperial Ancestral Temple, is a celebrated public park near Tiananmen Square in the center of Beijing. A closer look at the park, which was created by the government in 1950 to provide re…
Timothy Henderson, Beyond Borders: A History of Mexican Migration to the United States
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Film and Soldier: Japanese War Movies in the 1950s
In 1950s Japan, films about the Second World War, especially the conflict in the Pacific, were very popular. Though some of them concentrated on misery and suffering, others were surprisingly positive in their portrayal of Japanese soldiers. The 1950s…
Stuart J. Hilwig, Italy and 1968: Youthful Unrest and Democratic Culture
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Selling Democracy During the Second British Occupation of Iraq, 1941-5
Britain initiated an extensive pro-democracy propaganda campaign during its wartime occupation of Iraq from 1941–5. Organizations such as the Brotherhood of Freedom aimed to instil civic pride in disaffected Iraqi youth, and the propaganda messa…
Olivia Munoz-Rojas, Ashes and Granite: Destruction and Reconstruction in the Spanish Civil War and its Aftermath; Dacia Viejo-Rose, Reconstructing Spain: Cultural Heritage and Memory after Civil War,
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‚European Literature‘ in the Nazi New Order: The Cultural Politics of the European Writers‘ Union, 1941-3
This article examines the European Writers’ Union, founded by Nazi Germany with representatives of 15 nations in October 1941, in the context of the history of the idea of European literature. It argues that this institution was a serious effort…
Reassessing The Holy Reich: Leading Nazis‘ Views on Confession, Community and ‚Jewish‘ Materialism
Returning to the Journal of Contemporary History debate on The Holy Reich, this article argues that the notion of ‘positive Christianity’ as a Nazi ‘religious system’ has been largely invented. It offers a close analysis of sig…
The Impact of Political Violence During the Spanish General Election of 1936
Political violence was a significant force in Europe between the two world wars, and the Spanish Second Republic (1931–6) was no exception to this general trend. The purpose of this article is to analyse its role in the campaign leading up to th…