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From Clinic to Concentration Camp
Representing a new wave of research and analysis on Nazi human experiments and coerced research, the chapters in this volume deliberately break from a top-down history limited to concentration camp experiments under the control of Himmler and the SS. Instead the collection positions extreme experiments (where research subjects were taken to the point of death) within a far wider spectrum of abusive coerced research. The book considers the experiments not in isolation but as integrated within wider aspects of medical provision as it became caught up in the Nazi war economy, revealing that researchers were opportunistic and retained considerable autonomy. The sacrifice of so many prisoners, pa...
A Global History of Execution and the Criminal Corpse
Through studies of beheaded Irish traitors, smugglers hung in chains on the English coast, suicides subjected to the surgeon's knife in Dresden and the burial of executed Nazi war criminals, this volume provides a fresh perspective on the history of capital punishment. The chapters 'Introduction: A Global History of Execution and the Criminal Corpse' and 'The Gibbet in the Landscape: Locating the Criminal Corpse in Mid-Eighteenth-Century England' are open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.
Between God and Hitler
During the Second World War, approximately 1000 Christian chaplains accompanied Wehrmacht forces wherever they went, from Poland to France, Greece, North Africa, and the Soviet Union. Chaplains were witnesses to atrocity and by their presence helped normalize extreme violence and legitimate its perpetrators. Military chaplains played a key role in propagating a narrative of righteousness that erased Germany's victims and transformed the aggressors into noble figures who suffered but triumphed over their foes. Between God and Hitler is the first book to examine Protestant and Catholic military chaplains in Germany from Hitler's rise to power, to defeat, collapse, and Allied occupation. Drawing on a wide array of sources – chaplains' letters and memoirs, military reports, Jewish testimonies, photographs, and popular culture – this book offers insight into how Christian clergy served the cause of genocide, sometimes eagerly, sometimes reluctantly, even unknowingly, but always loyally.
Exhibiting Madness in Museums
This innovative collection of essays offers a comparative history of independent and institutional collections of psychiatric objects in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United Kingdom. Leading scholars in the field investigate collectors, collections, their display, and the reactions to exhibitions of the history of insanity.
Friendship without Borders
Across half a century, from the division of Germany through the end of the Cold War, a cohort of thirty women from the small German town of Schönebeck in what used to be the GDR circulated among themselves a remarkable collective archive of their lives: a Rundbrief, or bulletin, containing hundreds of letters and photographs. This book draws on that unprecedented resource, complemented by a set of interviews, to paint a rich portrait of “ordinary” life in postwar Germany. It shows how these women—whether reflecting on their experiences as Nazi-era schoolchildren or witnessing reunification—were united by their complex interactions with official power and their commitment to sustaining a shared German identity as they made the most of their everyday lives in both the GDR and the Federal Republic.
Victims of Nazi Persecution in the Channel Islands
Victims of Nazi Persecution from the Channel Islands explores the fight and claims for recognition and legitimacy of those from the only part of the British Isles to be occupied during the Second World War. The struggle to have resistance recognised by the local governments of the islands as a legitimate course of action during the occupation is something that still continues today. Drawing on 100 compensation testimonies written in the 1960s and newly discovered archival material, Gilly Carr sheds light on the experiences of British civilians from the Channel Islands in Nazi prisons and concentration camps. She analyses the Foreign Office's treatment of claims from Islanders and explores wh...
The Anatomy of Murder
Of the many medical specializations to transform themselves during the rise of National Socialism, anatomy has received relatively little attention from historians. While politics and racial laws drove many anatomists from the profession, most who remained joined the Nazi party, and some helped to develop the scientific basis for its racialist dogma. As historian and anatomist Sabine Hildebrandt reveals, however, their complicity with the Nazi state went beyond the merely ideological. They progressed through gradual stages of ethical transgression, turning increasingly to victims of the regime for body procurement, as the traditional model of working with bodies of the deceased gave way, in some cases, to a new paradigm of experimentation with the “future dead.”
Wittry, Witry, Vitry
Peter Witry was born in about 1575 in Budange, France. His descendants lived in France, Luxembourg and Germany. Many of his descendants immigrated to the United States. One of his descendants, Jacob Witry is the ancestor of most of the Wittry's in the United States. He was born 8 October 1824 in Beidweiler, Luxembourg. He married Magdalena Schons (1827-1888). They emigrated in 1854 and settled in Aurora, Illinois. Their descendants and relatives, and descendants of other unrelated Wittrys, lived mainly in Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana and Kentucky.
Jehovas Zeugen in Europa - Geschichte und Gegenwart
Ein Vierteljahrhundert nach dem Ende des Kalten Krieges stehen wir erneut vor einer geteilten Welt, in der der freiheitlich-liberale Westen in zähem Ringen Schritt für Schritt vor autoritären Staaten zurückweicht. Diese stellen sich ohne unabhängige Rechtsprechung wieder als historisch-politische Alternative zu den beispielhaften Errungenschaften der demokratischen Verfassungsstaaten dar. Dabei treten sie die einst mühsam errungenen Freiheitsrechte mit Füßen – am stärksten wohl die erste aller Freiheiten: die Religionsfreiheit. Die faktische Ohnmacht des Europäischen Gerichtshofs für Menschenrechte lässt alle Aussichten auf einen abermaligen Umschwung als Illusion erscheinen. Die Geschichte von Jehovas Zeugen in Europa zeigt exemplarisch bis in die Gegenwart, wie eine Religionsgemeinschaft ohne Rückhalt bei der Staatsmacht seit ihrem Bestehen dafür kämpfen muss, ihren Glauben öffentlich leben zu dürfen.
Vorsorgen in der Moderne
Vorsorge ist überall. Als Gesundheits-, Kriegs- oder Krisenprävention, als Versicherung, Verhütung kriminellen Verhaltens oder Vorbeugung sozialer Probleme – Vorsorgen ist längst zum Alltag geworden. Die Autoren des Bandes erkunden dieses moderne Gesellschaftsphänomen und fragen nach seinen Voraussetzungen und Folgen. Sie widmen sich den Anbietern und Empfängern, Anhängern und Gegnern, den Profiteuren und Leidtragenden. Die Studie bietet damit erstmals eine ebenso facettenreiche wie fundierte Gesellschaftsgeschichte der Vorsorge und eröffnet neue Einblicke in den Wandel moderner Gesellschaften.
