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After the Annex
On 27 January 1945 Otto Frank was liberated from Auschwitz by Russian soldiers. At that point not only his journey home started, but also his long quest to find out what had happened to his wife Edith, his daughters Margot and Anne and the four other people with whom he had been in hiding in the Annex at 263 Prinsengracht in Amsterdam: Herman and Auguste van Pels, their son Peter and dentist Fritz Pfeffer. In the months after his liberation Otto Frank would discover that he is the only survivor out of these eight people. After the Annex continues the journey that Otto began. It is the ultimate attempt, based on thorough research in archives and available eye witness accounts, to reconstruct as precisely as possible what happened to the eight people in hiding after their arrest.
After the Annex
On 27 January 1945 Otto Frank was liberated from Auschwitz by Russian soldiers. At that point not only his journey home started, but also his long quest to find out what had happened to his wife Edith, his daughters Margot and Anne and the four other people with whom he had been in hiding in the Annex at 263 Prinsengracht in Amsterdam: Herman and Auguste van Pels, their son Peter and dentist Fritz Pfeffer. In the months after his liberation Otto Frank would discover that he is the only survivor out of these eight people.After the Annex continues the journey that Otto began. It is the ultimate attempt, based on thorough research in archives and available eye witness accounts, to reconstruct as precisely as possible what happened to the eight people in hiding after their arrest.
When Men Fell from the Sky
Between 1940 and 1945, more than 100,000 airmen were shot down over Europe, a few thousand of whom survived and avoided being arrested. When Men Fell from the Sky is a comparative history of the treatment of these airmen by civilians in France, Germany and Britain. By studying the situation on the ground, Claire Andrieu shows how these encounters reshaped societies at a local level. She reveals how the fall of France in 1940 may have concealed an insurrection nipped in the bud, that the 'People's War' in Britain was not merely a myth, and that in Germany, the 'racial community of the people' had in fact become a social reality with Allied airmen increasingly subjected to lynching from 1943 onwards. By considering why the treatment of these airmen contrasted so strongly in these countries, Andrieu sheds new light on how civilians reacted when confronted with the war 'at home'.
A German Catastrophe?
"Academisch proefschrift ter verkrijging de graad van doctor aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam op gezag van de Rector Magnificus prof. dr. D.C. van den Boom ten overstaan van een door het college voor promoties ingestelde commissie, in het openbaar te verdedigen in de Agnietenkapel op woensdag 20 oktober 2010, te 12:00 uur."
German Historians and the Bombing of German Cities
Bas von Benda-Beckmann explores how German historical accounts reflected debates on postwar identity and looks at whether the history of the air war forms a counternarrative against the idea of German collective guilt.
The 12th SS Panzer Division "Hitlerjugend"
This book demythologises one of the top Waffen-SS units during the Second World War, the Hitlerjugend Division. In addition to bringing together new research in European historiography, it also represents an innovative scientific approach using social psychology. It provides insights into inner psychological mechanisms that facilitated moral disengagement and culminated in the division’s unparalleled combat motivation and war crimes. Best known for their alleged fanaticism, Nazi indoctrination and inclination to perpetrate atrocities, Hitlerjugend soldiers are analysed here using perspectives drawn from across sociology, anthropology and psychology.
Operation Donnerschlag
Ein Blick auf deren koloniale Vorgeschichte gibt neue Antworten auf das rätselhafte Motiv britischer Flächenbombardierungen deutscher Städte 1945. In den letzten Monaten des Zweiten Weltkrieges entwarfen die Spitzen der britischen Luftwaffe mit Unterstützung Winston Churchills einen lange rätselhaft gebliebenen Operationsplan. Im Zuge der "Operation Thunderclap" flogen britische Bomberformationen konzentrierte Attacken gegen noch unzerstörte Innenstädte und Wohngebiete. Städte wie Dresden, Pforzheim oder Würzburg fielen in Schutt und Asche, Zehntausende fanden den Tod. Weshalb wurden die Flächenbombardements bis zuletzt dramatisch gesteigert? Lukas Willmy gibt neue, archivalisch ab...
Miniature Monuments
Miniature Monuments: Modeling German History offers a series of essays on small-scale models of bombed out cities. Created between 1946 and the present, these plastic renderings of places provide eerie glimpses of destruction and devastation resulting of the air war. This study thus permits fresh angles on post-war responses to the compounded losses of WW II, and it does so through considering these “miniature monuments” (of, among others, Frankfurt, Munich, Schwetzingen, Heilbronn and Hiroshima) in a deep cultural history that interlaces the sixteenth, eighteenth, and twentieth centuries. Three-dimensional renderings in diminutive size have rarely been subjected to rigorous theoretic...
A Companion to Moral Anthropology
A Companion to Moral Anthropology is the first collective consideration of the anthropological dimensions of morals, morality, and ethics. Original essays by international experts explore the various currents, approaches, and issues in this important new discipline, examining topics such as the ethnography of moralities, the study of moral subjectivities, and the exploration of moral economies. Investigates the central legacies of moral anthropology, the formation of moral facts and values, the context of local moralities, and the frontiers between moralities, politics, humanitarianism Features contributions from pioneers in the field of moral anthropology, as well as international experts in related fields such as moral philosophy, moral psychology, evolutionary biology and neuroethics
Depois do Diário
Como foram os últimos dias dos habitantes do Anexo e qual terá sido o percurso depois da prisão, que Anne Frank não conseguiu contar no seu diário? Milhões de leitores em todo o mundo já leram O Diário de Anne Frank. Mas o que se sabe sobre o que terá acontecido à sua protagonista e aos restantes clandestinos do Anexo? Através de testemunhos de sobreviventes e amigos, documentos oficiais e outros diários, Bas von Benda-Beckmann, historiador e investigador da Casa Anne Frank, reconstrói o que terá sucedido a essas oito pessoas depois de terem sido detidas no dia 4 de agosto de 1944. Em janeiro de 1945, Otto Frank, pai de Anne, foi libertado de Auschwitz pelos soldados russos e, só depois de vários meses, Otto Frank viria a descobrir que era o único sobrevivente desse grupo de oito pessoas. Depois do Diário é história da viagem que Otto empreendeu. Quem estava no Anexo com Anne Frank? Como foram descobertos? Quem era Anne Frank antes de ser capturada e como vivia? Onde e como afinal morreram a mãe e as filhas da família Frank? Quem foram os verdadeiros protagonistas deste episódio macabro?
