World War II yielded many photographs of bombed-out cities. In this paper we telescope between two sets and scales of images that represent the principal frames through which the American and Japanese publics have memorialized the incendiary bombings …
Existing accounts of the politics of fighting freeways during the age of the Interstate largely describes the victories of white affluent urban neighborhoods that successfully mustered local opposition to urban highway construction. Popular understand…
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In the latter part of the nineteenth and early part of the twentieth centuries, the dominance of the cotton economy was reflected in the growth of textile mills throughout the U.S. South. In Georgia, the number of cotton mills doubled between 1860 and…
Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Ahead of Print.
Heiraten nach Übersee [Moving over seas to marry]
Quelle: http://www.eurozine.com/journals/akadeemia/issue/2014-07-28.html
Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Ahead of Print.
<span class=“paragraphSection“>In February 1950, just before the German Democratic Republic’s (GDR) first official commemoration of the Allied fire-bombing of Dresden, the <span style=“font-style:italic;“>Volkspolizei Sachsen</span> (Saxon State Police) rounded up “an international smuggling ring”.2<sup>2</sup> In the initial sweep, some seventeen people were arrested for smuggling contraband into East Germany. More importantly, they were accused of engaging in “economic speculation”, or profiting from economic transactions without creating real value, and thereby “damaging the German Democratic Republic in an unscrupulous manner”.3<sup>3</sup> After weeks of interrogations, most likely conducted with the aid of torture, East German detectives from Department K of the Saxon State Police—the kernel of what would later become the Dresden branch of the <span style=“font-style:italic;“>Ministerium für Staatssicherheit</span> (Ministry for State Security – Stasi)—netted another seven people in a new wave of arrests.4<sup>4</sup> In an internal report justifying its accusations against the ring, agents from Department K claimed that they had rendered a service to the socialist state by “remov[ing] a portion of the existing obstacles to the German Democratic Republic’s construction”.5<sup>5</sup>According to the police, the ring not only “represented a serious danger to the [GDR’s] finances and planned economy”, but also a moral hazard since “the working populace is being sucked dry by economic speculation”.6<sup>6</sup></span>
Journal Name: Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum / Journal of Ancient Christianity
Volume: 18
Issue: 1
Pages: 134-165
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