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Den forste systematiske samling og registrering af mere end 50 ars udgivelser om Danmark under den tyske besaettelse 1940-45. Registreringen er foretaget pa grundlag af en gennemgang af bogfortegnelser, tidsskriftindekser, Dansk Historisk Bibliografi, andre fag- og lokalbibliografier samt over 100 tidsskrifter. Tillige er registreret dokumentar- og spillefilm om besaettelsestiden. I alt 8600 poster, med person- og stedregister."
“German troops entered [Denmark, a] country of four and a half million persons on April 9, 1940, and three years passed before the purge against Danish Jews was begun. On the night of October 1, 1943, the Nazi boot kicked open doors in rooms largely empty. Only a fraction of the Danish Jews — 472 — were caught and sent to Theresienstadt Concentration Camp (where 53 of them died). The remaining 7,500 escaped — thanks to one German and several thousands of their countrymen. How? That was the question that puzzled the American journalist and television-writer, Harold Flender... He returned to Denmark for intensive research among rescuers and rescued and in archives. This book is the res...
In the decade following World War I, nineteenth-century womanhood came under attack not only from feminists but also from innumerable "ordinary" young women determined to create "modern" lives for themselves. These young women cut their hair, wore short skirts, worked for wages, sought entertainment outside the home, and developed new attitudes toward domesticity, sexuality, and their bodies. Historians have generally located the origins of this shift in women's lives in the upheavals of World War I. Birgitte Søland's exquisite social and cultural history suggests, however, that they are to be found not in the war itself, but in much broader social and economic changes. Søland's engrossing...
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