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Poland: General Government August 1941–1945
This source edition on the persecution and murder of the European Jews by Nazi Germany presents in a total of 16 volumes a thematically comprehensive selection of documents on the Holocaust. The work illustrates the contemporary contexts, the dynamics, and the intermediate stages of the political and social processes that led to this unprecedented mass crime. It can be used by teachers, researchers, students, and all other interested parties. The edition comprises authentic testimony by persecutors, victims, and onlookers. These testimonies are furnished with academic annotations and the vast majority of them are published here for the first time in English. Learn more about the PMJ on https://pmj-documents.org/
Visual Antisemitism in Central Europe
In eleven contributions, Visual Antisemitism in Central Europe, Imagery of Hatred deals with visual manifestations of antisemitism in Central Europe from the Middle Ages to the present day. The publication, which presents heretofore largely unknown materials, seeks responses from diverse perspectives to the question of the role of visuality in the development of antisemitic moods and political agendas that encouraged hatred towards Jews. The scope of visual anti-Judaism and antisemitism always was and still is very wide: from stereotypical depictions that can conceal an underlying message through humorous content, to clearly formulated assaults that aim to escalate animosity towards an imaginary collective enemy. The goal in both these cases is the exclusion of Jews from the majority society imagined as a monolithic whole, and the reification of a dividing line between "us" and "them". With its wide thematic and methodological range, this book offers a comprehensive image of the phenomenon of visual anti-Judaism and antisemitism and provides rich comparative material for the entire Central European region.
Torah from the Years of Wrath
Discovered in the rubble of the Warsaw Ghetto, Rabbi Kalonymus Kalmish Shapira's wartime writings exemplify the faith of Hasidic Jewry under the unimaginable conditions of the Nazi occupation. Published in 1960 under the Hebrew title Aish Kodesh, the notes of Rabbi Shapira's weekly Sabbath sermons and annotations have been studied by pious Hasidim and secular academics alike, seeking his answers to the searing theological questions posed by the war. Why do the righteous suffer? Where was God during the Holocaust? Torah from the Years of Wrath provides a new and essential scholarly contribution by placing Rabbi Shapira's writings in their immediate historical context.
Attitudes to war
The Swiss Sonderbund War, the German colonial wars, the First World War up until denazification and re-education after the Second World War - these and other themes are the topics of the contributions to this volume. They are all concerned with war experiences and attitudes to war as dealt with in literature and film. They thereby focus on authors and directors such as Shakespeare and his contemporaries, Adda Freifrau von Liliencron, Georg Kaiser, Fritz Lang, but also almost forgotten bestseller authors, such as Heinrich Wandt, who take a critical stance on war. The contributions are supplemented by critiques of pertinent new publications and a bibliography of studies from the disciplines of literature, linguistics, history and cinematographical and art studies from the year 2008.
Besatzung
Es stimmt nicht, was rechte Medien in Polen gelegentlich berichten: Dass deutsche Schülerinnen und Schüler nichts über den deutschen Überfall auf Polen lernen, dass sie nichts über die deutschen Verbrechen wissen, insbesondere nichts über die Vernichtung der europäischen Juden. Was aber stimmt: Die schulische Wissensvermittlung in Deutschland konzentriert sich trotz der Anwendung moderner Unterrichtsmethoden auf die Aufarbeitung „eigener”, nationaler Erfahrungen der Vergangenheit – so wie dies auch in den Schulen aller anderen europäischen Länder getan wird. Für die Erfahrungen „anderer” ist hier kein Platz, selbst wenn es sich um so enge Nachbarn wie Polen handelt. Darum...
Auf beiden Seiten der Barrikade
Die zum 70. Jahrestag des Aufstands 2014 entwickelte Wanderausstellung erinnert an die historischen Ereignisse von 1944 und widmet sich der kritischen Auseinandersetzung mit der medialen Berichterstattung über den Warschauer Aufstand in der damaligen deutschen und polnischen Presse unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der zu diesem Zweck erstellten und vertriebenen Fotografien. Erstmals wurden die entsprechenden Fotografien als Teil der Propagandaapparate so tiefgehend analysiert und in Kombination mit anderen Dokumenten zusammengestellt, die verschiedenen Intentionen der deutschen und der polnischen Propaganda so ausführlich untersucht und allgemeine Schlüsse zum Wesen der Propaganda gezog...
Seeing from Above
The view from above, or the 'bird's-eye' view, has become so ingrained in contemporary visual culture that it is now hard to imagine our world without it. It has risen to pre-eminence as a way of seeing, but important questions about its effects and meanings remain unexplored. More powerfully than any other visual modality, this image of 'everywhere' supports our idea of a world-view, yet it is one that continues to be transformed as technologies are invented and refined. This innovative volume, edited by Mark Dorrian and Frederic Pousin, offers an unprecedented range of discussions on the aerial view, covering topics from sixteenth-century Roman maps to the Luftwaffe's aerial survey of Warsaw to Google Earth. Underpinned by a cross-disciplinary approach that draws together diverse and previously isolated material, this volume examines the politics and poetics of the aerial view in relation to architecture, art, film, literature, photography and urbanism and explores its role in areas such as aesthetics and epistemology. Structured through a series of detailed case studies, this book builds into a cultural history of the aerial imagination.
Die Kamera als Waffe
In den vergangenen Jahren sind Quellenwert und Wirkung von Bildern des Nationalsozialismus immer wieder diskutiert worden. Dabei wurde bewusst, wie die Selbstdarstellung der Nationalsozialisten bis heute unsere visuelle Erinnerung an das "Dritte Reich" und den Zweiten Weltkrieg prägt. Während des Krieges waren eigens militärisch geschulte Berichterstatter in "Propagandakompanien" tätig. Ihre Fotos und Filmaufnahmen, die in Wochenschauen und Kompilationsfilmen breite Rezeption erfuhren, galten Reichsfilmintendant Fritz Hippler als wirksamste "geistige Waffe im Krieg". Ein Symposium der Deutschen Kinemathek brachte etablierte und jüngere Wissenschaftler zusammen, um der Forschung zu diese...
