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Hero’s Many Faces
Raoul Wallenberg in Contemporary Monuments
Av T. Schult
Inbunden, 2009
1130 kr
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Raoul Wallenberg is remembered for his humanitarian activity on behalf of the Hungarian Jews at the end of World War II, and as the Swedish diplomat who disappeared into the Soviet Gulag in 1945. This book examines how thirty-one Wallenberg monuments, in twelve countries on five continents …
Reporting the Holocaust in the British, Swedish and Finnish Press, 1945-50
Av A. Holmila
Inbunden, 2011
569 kr
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Examining how the press in Britain, Sweden and Finland responded to the Holocaust immediately after the Second World War, Holmila offers new insights into the challenge posed by the Holocaust for liberal democracies by looking at the reporting of the liberation of the camps, the Nuremberg trial and …
Hitler - Films from Germany
History, Cinema and Politics since 1945
Av K. Machtans, M. Ruehl
Inbunden, 2012
569 kr
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The first book-length study to critically examine the recent wave of Hitler biopics in German cinema and television. A group of international experts discuss films like Downfall in the context of earlier portrayals of Hitler and draw out their implications for the changing place of the Third Reich …
Hero’s Many Faces
Raoul Wallenberg in Contemporary Monuments
Av T. Schult
Häftad, 2009
1243 kr
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Raoul Wallenberg is remembered for his humanitarian activity on behalf of the Hungarian Jews at the end of World War II, and as the Swedish diplomat who disappeared into the Soviet Gulag in 1945. This book examines how thirty-one Wallenberg monuments, in twelve countries on five continents …
Heimat, Region, and Empire
Spatial Identities under National Socialism
Av Claus-Christian W. Szejnmann, Maiken Umbach m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
569 kr
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This collection brings together international scholars pursuing cutting-edge research on spatial identities under National Socialism. They demonstrate that the spatial identities of the Third Reich can be approached as a history of interrelated dimensions; Heimat, region and Empire were constantly …
Ordinary People as Mass Murderers
Perpetrators in Comparative Perspectives
Inbunden, 2008
569 kr
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Since the 1990s scholars have focused heavily on the perpetrators of the Holocaust, and have presented a complex and diverse picture of perpetrators. This book provides a unique overview of the current state of research on perpetrators. The overall focus is on the key question that it still …
Representing Auschwitz
At the Margins of Testimony
Av N. Chare, D. Williams
Inbunden, 2013
569 kr
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This collection of essays by leading international scholars takes the Scrolls of Auschwitz as its starting point. These powerful hand-written testimonies, produced within Birkenau, seek to bear witness to mass murder from at its core. The highly literary accounts pose a fundamental challenge to the …
Finland's Holocaust
Silences of History
Av S. Muir, H. Worthen
Inbunden, 2013
1130 kr
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Finland's Holocaust considers antisemitism and the figure of the Holocaust in today's Finland. Taking up a range of issues - from cultural history, folklore, and sports, to the interpretation of military and national history - this collection examines how the writing of history has engaged and …
Ordinary People as Mass Murderers
Perpetrators in Comparative Perspectives
Häftad, 2008
625 kr
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Since the 1990s scholars have focused heavily on the perpetrators of the Holocaust, and have presented a complex and diverse picture of perpetrators. This book provides a unique overview of the current state of research on perpetrators. The overall focus is on the key question that it still …
Britain and the Holocaust
Remembering and Representing War and Genocide
Av Caroline Sharples, Olaf Jensen m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
569 kr
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How has Britain understood the Holocaust? This interdisciplinary volume explores popular narratives of the Second World War and cultural representations of the Holocaust from the Nuremberg trials of 1945-6, to the establishment of a national memorial day by the start of the twenty-first century.
Comics, the Holocaust and Hiroshima
Av Jane L. Chapman, Adam Sherif
Inbunden, 2015
569 kr
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Comics, the Holocaust and Hiroshima breaks new ground for history by exploring the relationship between comics as a cultural record, historiography, memory and trauma studies. Comics have a dual role as sources: for gauging awareness of the Holocaust and through close analysis, as testimonies and …
Holocaust Memorial Museum
Sacred Secular Space
Av Avril Alba
Inbunden, 2015
1130 kr
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The Holocaust Memorial Museum reveals and traces the transformation of ancient Jewish symbols, rituals, archetypes and narratives deployed in these sites. Demonstrating how cloaking the 'secular' history of the Holocaust in sacred garb, memorial museums generate redemptive yet conflicting visions …
Fegelein's Horsemen and Genocidal Warfare
The SS Cavalry Brigade in the Soviet Union
Av H. Pieper
Inbunden, 2014
1355 kr
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The SS Cavalry Brigade was a unit of the Waffen-SS that differed from other German military formations as it developed a 'dual role': SS cavalrymen both helped to initiate the Holocaust in the Soviet Union and experienced combat at the front.
Holocaust and French Historical Culture, 1945–65
Inbunden, 2015
569 kr
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Paris was home to one of the key European initiatives to document and commemorate the Holocaust, the Centre de documentation juive contemporaine . By analysing the earliest Holocaust narratives and their reception in France, this study provides a new understanding of the institutional development …
Revisiting Holocaust Representation in the Post-Witness Era
Av Tanja Schult, Tanja Schult m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
1467 kr
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This volume explores post-2000s artistic engagements with Holocaust memory arguing that imagination plays an increasingly important role in keeping the memory of the Holocaust vivid for contemporary and future audiences.
Nazi-Organized Recreation and Entertainment in the Third Reich
Av Julia Timpe
Inbunden, 2017
1130 kr
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This book explores the activities of the Nazi regime's vast leisure programme. Shortly after coming to power in Germany, it began a large-scale undertaking to bring happiness and a good life to so-called 'Aryan' Germans, carried out by the Nazi leisure organization Kraft durch Freude. Julia Timpe …
Memorial Ethics of Libeskind's Berlin Jewish Museum
Inbunden, 2017
1580 kr
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This book is a detailed critical study of Libeskind’s Berlin Jewish Museum in its historical, architectural and philosophical context. Emphasizing how the Holocaust changed our perception of history, memory, witnessing and representation, it develops the notion of ‘memorial ethics’ to explore the …
Holocaust and European Societies
Social Processes and Social Dynamics
Inbunden, 2016
1207 kr
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This book explores the Holocaust as a social process. Although the mass murder of European Jews was essentially the result of political-ideological decisions made by the Nazi state leadership, the events of the Holocaust were also part of a social dynamic. All European societies experienced …
Reporting the Holocaust in the British, Swedish and Finnish Press, 1945-50
Av A. Holmila
Häftad, 2011
569 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Examining how the press in Britain, Sweden and Finland responded to the Holocaust immediately after the Second World War, Holmila offers new insights into the challenge posed by the Holocaust for liberal democracies by looking at the reporting of the liberation of the camps, the Nuremberg trial and …
Hitler - Films from Germany
History, Cinema and Politics since 1945
Av K. Machtans, M. Ruehl
Häftad, 2012
569 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The first book-length study to critically examine the recent wave of Hitler biopics in German cinema and television. A group of international experts discuss films like Downfall in the context of earlier portrayals of Hitler and draw out their implications for the changing place of the Third Reich …
Heimat, Region, and Empire
Spatial Identities under National Socialism
Av Claus-Christian W. Szejnmann, Maiken Umbach
Häftad, 2012
569 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This collection brings together international scholars pursuing cutting-edge research on spatial identities under National Socialism. They demonstrate that the spatial identities of the Third Reich can be approached as a history of interrelated dimensions; Heimat, region and Empire were constantly …
Ordinary People as Mass Murderers
Perpetrators in Comparative Perspectives
Häftad, 2008
689 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Since the 1990s scholars have focused heavily on the perpetrators of the Holocaust, and have presented a complex and diverse picture of perpetrators. This book provides a unique overview of the current state of research on perpetrators. The overall focus is on the key question that it still …
Representing Auschwitz
At the Margins of Testimony
Av N. Chare, D. Williams
Häftad, 2013
552 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This collection of essays by leading international scholars takes the Scrolls of Auschwitz as its starting point. These powerful hand-written testimonies, produced within Birkenau, seek to bear witness to mass murder from at its core. The highly literary accounts pose a fundamental challenge to the …
Finland's Holocaust
Silences of History
Av S. Muir, H. Worthen
Häftad, 2013
569 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Finland's Holocaust considers antisemitism and the figure of the Holocaust in today's Finland. Taking up a range of issues - from cultural history, folklore, and sports, to the interpretation of military and national history - this collection examines how the writing of history has engaged and …
Britain and the Holocaust
Remembering and Representing War and Genocide
Av Caroline Sharples, Olaf Jensen
Häftad, 2013
569 kr
Lägg i varukorg
How has Britain understood the Holocaust? This interdisciplinary volume explores popular narratives of the Second World War and cultural representations of the Holocaust from the Nuremberg trials of 1945-6, to the establishment of a national memorial day by the start of the twenty-first century.
Fegelein's Horsemen and Genocidal Warfare
The SS Cavalry Brigade in the Soviet Union
Av H. Pieper
Häftad, 2015
1355 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The SS Cavalry Brigade was a unit of the Waffen-SS that differed from other German military formations as it developed a 'dual role': SS cavalrymen both helped to initiate the Holocaust in the Soviet Union and experienced combat at the front.
Holocaust and European Societies
Social Processes and Social Dynamics
Häftad, 2020
1243 kr
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This book explores the Holocaust as a social process. Although the mass murder of European Jews was essentially the result of political-ideological decisions made by the Nazi state leadership, the events of the Holocaust were also part of a social dynamic. All European societies experienced …
Exhibiting the Nazi Past
Museum Objects Between the Material and the Immaterial
Av Chloe Paver
Häftad, 2019
1018 kr
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This book is the first full-length study of the museum object as a memory medium in history exhibitions about the Nazi era, the Second World War, and the Holocaust. Over recent decades, German and Austrian exhibition-makers have engaged in significant programmes of object collection, often in …
Ego-histories of France and the Second World War
Writing Vichy
Av Manuel Bragança, Fransiska Louwagie
Häftad, 2019
1018 kr
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This volume presents the intellectual autobiographies of fourteen leading scholars in the fields of history, literature, film and cultural studies who have dedicated a considerable part of their career to researching the history and memories of France during the Second World War. Basedin five …
Holocaust Education in Primary Schools in the Twenty-First Century
Current Practices, Potentials and Ways Forward
Av Claus-Christian W. Szejnmann, Paula Cowan m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
962 kr
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This collection is the first of its kind, bringing together Holocaust educational researchers as well as school and museum educators from across the globe, to discuss the potentials of Holocaust education in relation to primary school children. Its contributors are from countries that have a unique …
