Archiv für Dezember 2016

Atatürk in the Nazi Imagination

Quelle: http://hgs.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/30/3/560?rss=1

The Political Diary of Alfred Rosenberg and the Onset of the Holocaust

Quelle: http://hgs.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/30/3/532?rss=1

The Pope’s Dilemma: Pius XII Faces Atrocities and Genocide in the Second World War

Quelle: http://hgs.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/30/3/556?rss=1

Naming the Criminal: Lithuanian Jews Remember Perpetrators

Psychoanalyst Dori Laub asserts that for camp inmates the Holocaust extinguished the possibility of „I-thou“ interaction. Address and response, the basis of human subjectivity, became impossible for the prisoner to imagine. The author of this article …

Distance from the Belsen Heap: Allied Forces and the Liberation of a Nazi Concentration Camp

Quelle: http://hgs.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/30/3/551?rss=1

Lemkin’s Greek Friends: Abusing History, Constructing Genocide–and Vice Versa

In his autobiography, Raphael Lemkin recounts how the crime of „withdrawing children from an ethnic group“ came to be included in the Genocide Convention. In his advocacy of this point, Lemkin had been influenced by unnamed friends who spoke on behalf…

Beyond Violence: Jewish Survivors in Poland and Slovakia, 1944-1948

Quelle: http://hgs.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/30/3/545?rss=1

The Politics of Remembering: Representation of the Armenian Genocide in Kurdish Novels

Kurds were among the main perpetrators of violence against Christian minorities in the late Ottoman and early Turkish Republican periods, most notably during the Armenian Genocide. Themselves denied basic national and cultural rights since the foundat…

The Polish Underground and the Jews, 1939-1945

Quelle: http://hgs.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/30/3/540?rss=1

William L. Shirer and International Awareness of the Nazi „Euthanasia“ Program

In the United States as well as in many other countries, early reports of industrialized mass murder perpetrated by the Germans during the Second World War were connected not with the Holocaust but—beginning in early 1941—with crimes commi…