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Western and Northern Europe June 1942–1945
Executive editors: Katja Happe, Barbara Lambauer, and Clemens Maier-Wolthausen, with Maja Peers; English-language edition prepared by: Elizabeth Harvey, Johannes Gamm, Georg Felix Harsch, Dorothy Mas, and Caroline Pearce In summer 1942 the Germans escalated the systematic deportations of Jews from Western and Northern Europe to the extermination camps. In most of the countries under German control, the occupying forces initially focused on arresting foreign and stateless Jews, thereby securing the cooperation of local authorities. However, before long the entire Jewish population was targeted for deportation. This volume documents the parallels and differences in the persecution of Jews in o...
Refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe in British Overseas Territories
Refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe in British Overseas Territories focusses on exiles and forced migrants in British colonies and dominions in Africa or Asia and in Commonwealth countries. The contributions deal with aspects such as legal status and internment, rescue and relief, identity and belonging, the Central European encounter with the colonial and post-colonial world, memories and generations or knowledge transfers and cultural representations in writing, painting, architecture, music and filmmaking. The volume covers refugee destinations and the situation on arrival, reorientation–and very often further migration after the Second World War–in Australia, Canada, India, Kenya, Palestine, Shanghai, Singapore, South Africa and New Zealand. Contributors are: Rony Alfandary, Gerrit-Jan Berendse, Albrecht Dümling, Patrick Farges, Brigitte Mayr, Michael Omasta, Jyoti Sabharwal, Sarah Schwab, Ursula Seeber, Andrea Strutz, Monica Tempian, Jutta Vinzent, Paul Weindling, and Veronika Zwerger.
A Hero for the Atomic Age
Nomination for Best Foreign Film at the 2013 Academy Awards In English and many other languages the name 'Kon-Tiki' has become a byword for adventure and the exotic. The journey of the Kon-Tiki from Peru to Polynesia in 1947 became one of the founding myths of the postwar world. In the voyage of six Scandinavians and a parrot on a balsa raft across the Pacific Ocean the classic journey of discovery was re-invented for generations to come. Kon-Tiki spoke of heroism, masculinity, free-spirited rebellion against scientific dogmatism, and the promise of an attainable exotic world, while it updated these mythological staples to fit the times. After years of relentless media exploitation of the 10...
Reaching a State of Hope
Shedding new light on the issues concerning refugees and immigration in 20th-century Sweden, this analysis examines the implications of its immigration policies. On what grounds were refugees admitted? Where did they come from? How did the Swedish state aid its new citizens? What differences were there between refugees and the imported labor that was essential to Swedish industry? A group of established Swedish and international historians answer these questions against the background of the eras passed: the Second World War, the Cold War, and the labor movement that shaped the national characteristic of Sweden so deeply. Reaching a State of Hope contributes to the wider field of research on political and administrative practices around refugees historically and places the Swedish refugee and immigration experience in a European perspective.
Jewish Studies in the Digital Age
As in all fields and disciplines of the humanities, Jewish Studies scholars find themselves confronted with the rapidly increasing availability of digital resources (data), new technologies to interrogate and analyze them (tools), and the question of how to critically engage with these developments. This volume discusses how the digital turn has affected the field of Jewish Studies. It explores the current state of the art and probes how digital developments can be harnessed to address the specific questions, challenges and problems that Jewish Studies scholars confront. In a field characterised by dispersed sources, and heterogeneous scripts and languages that speak to a multitude of cultur...
The Zookeepers' War
The unbelievable true story of the Cold War’s strangest proxy war, fought between the zoos on either side of the Berlin Wall. “The liveliness of Mohnhaupt’s storytelling and the wonderful eccentricity of his subject matter make this book well worth a read.” —Star Tribune (Minneapolis) Living in West Berlin in the 1960s often felt like living in a zoo, everyone packed together behind a wall, with the world always watching. On the other side of the Iron Curtain, East Berlin and its zoo were spacious and lush, socialist utopias where everything was perfectly planned... and then rarely completed. Berlin’s two zoos in East and West quickly became symbols of the divided city’s two ha...
After the Berlin Wall
A revelatory history of the commemoration of the Berlin Wall and its significance in defining contemporary German national identity.
Vom Alltagskonflikt zur Massengewalt
In zwölf Einzelstudien und einem Problemaufriss stellt der Sammelband die sozialen, psychologischen und politischen Zusammenhänge von alltäglichen privaten Konflikten und eskalierender Gewalt dar. Anlass war eine interdisziplinäre Konferenz des Sir Peter Ustinov-Instituts in Wien, bei der Historiker, Politik- und Sozialwissenschaftler sowie Psychologen die Wurzeln und Wirkungen von Vorurteilen und Feindbildern als Triebkräfte in Gesellschaft und Politik analysierten. Die Genese von Ressentiments, die Rolle von Minderheiten, Verlust- und Bedrohungsängste in der Mehrheit, die Eskalation von Feindbildern in öffentlicher Gewalt werden ebenso thematisiert wie Abwehrstrategien gegen „Fremde" oder „Andere". Gemeinsames Ziel der Beiträge ist es, Ursachen aktueller Konflikte zu erkennen und Lösungen zu finden.
Koloniale Tiere?
Löwen, Elefanten, Okapis, Giraffen und Strauße – Tiere aus Kolonialgebieten bevölkerten die Bildwelten der europäischen Moderne um 1900. Sie waren Ausdruck eines sich im Zuge der Industrialisierung, Nationalstaatenbildung und imperialen Expansion wandelnden Verhältnisses europäischer Gesellschaften zu menschlichen und nicht-menschlichen Lebewesen sowie zur Natur. Während einige Wissenschaftler*innen, Großwildjäger*innen und Künstler*innen in europäische Kolonien reisten, um Tiere zu studieren, zu malen und auf Film zu bannen, oder als Jagdtrophäen, Präparate und Exponate heimzuholen, bekam ein Großteil der Bevölkerung diese vor allem in Zoologischen Gärten, Zirkussen und Mu...
Investigation
THE INVESTIGATION provides an insight into the way in which Hitler's first months in power affect a German-Jewish civil servant's family in Hamburg.The narrative is based on authentic local government documents as well as private letters and diaries.
