Second World War

L’evoluzione giuridica del potere dell’occupante un territorio nemico nel diritto internazionale bellico nel corso della Seconda Guerra Mondiale

by Flavio Carbone

published in AA. VV., Acta del XXIV Congresso della Commission Internationale d’Histoire Militaire, Trieste 31 agosto – 5 settembre 2008, Roma, Commissione Italiana di Storia Militare, 2009, tomo 1, pp. 374-381.

The juridical evolution of the occupying forces in an enemy territory in International Law during the Secondo World War. The juridical evolution of the occupying forces in an enemy territory in International Law during the Secondo World War.

Invasione e occupazione. Aspetti pratici. Il potere delle forze armate occupanti un territorio nemico secondo il diritto internazionale a cavallo della Seconda Guerra Mondiale

by Flavio Carbone

published in “I quaderni della Rivista Aeronautica”, n. 3/2008 anno III, pp. 98-115.

Invasion and occupation. Practical problems. The armed forces power as occupation force in an enemy land according to... more Invasion and occupation. Practical problems. The armed forces power as occupation force in an enemy land according to the international law in Second World War. The article is focused on international law before, during and after the 2nd World War with specific attention to the power of occupying forces and enemy territory.

L’attività operativa della Brigata “Maiella” nel periodo giugno-settembre 1944

by Flavio Carbone

published in AA. VV., Studi Storico – Militari anno 2005, Roma, Stato Maggiore dell’Esercito Ufficio Storico, 2007, pp. 547-566

Maiella Brigade Operations activity in June-September 1944. Maiella Brigade was a very strange partisan unit in the... more Maiella Brigade Operations activity in June-September 1944. Maiella Brigade was a very strange partisan unit in the Italy Campaign of 1944-1945 because recruited mostly in Abruzzo region the partisan unit dressed military uniform and used an Italian flag patch to fight together with Polish and Anglo-American units along the Italian front from Abruzzo till the end of operations in april-may 1945. The essay is based on a document presented by the Polish contingent to the Italian Army to represent what the Brigade did fighting together with Anders personnel.

New Media Texts of WWII: Kenneth Burke’s Intersection with Computer Culture

by Jason C. Thompson

Refugiados extranjeros en España: el campo de concentración de Miranda de Ebro

by Matilde Eiroa San Francisco

published in "Ayer", nº 57, 2005.

Incorporating Corporations: Anglo-US Oil Diplomacy and Conflict over Venezuela, 1941–1943

by Mark Seddon

Journal of Transatlantic Studies, Volume 10, Issue 2, May 2012. Special Issue: Anglo-American Relations in War, Cold War and the Post-Cold War Era.

Between 1941 and 1943 British and US policy-makers intervened in the Venezuelan Government's attempts to increase... more Between 1941 and 1943 British and US policy-makers intervened in the Venezuelan Government's attempts to increase taxation of Venezuela's oil industry. British and US officials utilised their links with multinational oil companies in an attempt to steer negotiations and safeguard their, wartime and post-war, access to Venezuelan oil. Events in Venezuela saw the inception of a US foreign oil policy that reflected New Deal ideals and took inspiration from British oil diplomacy. However, the issue created conflict within the Anglo-US wartime alliance as events became imbued with wider tensions concerning Latin America and the international oil industry.

Рецензия: Ростислав Алиев. Брестская крепость. Воспоминания и документы. Москва 2010. (Спекуляции вместо серьезного исследования)

by Christian Ganzer

После того, как многие высказали желание прочитать рецензию на более доступном языке, чем белорусский, я решил поставить онлайн и русскую версию.

Rezension: Rostislav Aliev: Brestskaja krepost'. Vospominanija i dokumenty. [Brester Festung. Erinnerungen und Dokumente] Moskau 2010.

by Christian Ganzer

After many people asked for a more readable version of this text thаn the Belarusian translation that was published in ARCHE journal in 11/2011 I decided to upload the German original. A Russian translation will follow soon.

Der "Bromberger Blutsonntag" 1939. Kontroversen und Forschungsergebnisse

by Markus Krzoska

Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 60 (2012), H. 2, S. 237-247

To this day, the so-called “Bloody Sunday at Bromberg” (3./4.9.1939) and its consequences are among the most... more To this day, the so-called “Bloody Sunday at Bromberg” (3./4.9.1939) and its consequences are among the most contentious subjects in the history of the Second World War. Despite extensive efforts by German and Polish researchers it has not been possible to clear up the events at the time. In view of the lack of central sources on the German side this is probably no longer possible. In contrast the investigation of the number and names of the Polish victims has advanced noticeably during the last few years. The present article adds to existing Polish material published in 2008/2009 on the basis of unpublished German sources of the Historisch-Landeskundliche Kommission für die Deutschen in Polen [Historical Commission on the Germans in Poland], among them the papers of the former teacher August Müller, kept at the Herder Institute in Marburg. The comparative analysis of the names of the dead exhibits surprising differences, while the estimate of the overall number of casualties (over 400) is astonishingly similar both on the German and Polish side. In any case, final clarification seems impossible on the basis of the sources known to date.


Read More: http://www.oldenbourg-link.com/doi/abs/10.1524/vfzg.2012.0012

Marina Decó - Mafalda e Maria Francesca

by Marina Decó

‘„Řekla jsem si, že se prostě musím nějak přizpůsobit:” Mladé české ženy v ghettu Terezín,’ [“I Said to Myself I Simply Have to Adapt One Way Or Another:” Young Czech Women in Terezín Ghetto]

by Anna Hajkova

Soudobé Dějiny 4, 18 (2011): 603-628

Women’s memories tell different stories about Terezín ghetto than men: but which, and what are the mechanisms behind... more Women’s memories tell different stories about Terezín ghetto than men: but which, and what are the mechanisms behind it?
In the center of my research stands the adaptation and coping mechanisms of women in Terezín: How did their everyday life look like? Which roles did they take in? I analyze the gender specific aspects of Czech Jewish women’s lives in Terezín; moreover, I focus on how does it influence their narratives as we know them today. The core of my researched is based on a sample of thirty biographic interviews from the 1990s, combined with various contemporaneous sources. Having experienced the deportation chiefly in their twenties, they represent middle-class, assimilated, emancipated, mostly Czech speaking women.
The young Czech women inmates usually abandoned their pre-deportation individual course of life as a modern, independent woman and shifted towards a strongly gendered, supportive role, focusing on the family and collective. I examine the relationship between the shift in the social role of women, formation of networks and groups and their survival chances. Thus analyzing the position of women in particular and gender in general helps us recognize the power relationships within the enforced community.

MI (R), G (R) and British covert operations, 1939–42

by Simon Anglim

La guerra de las bestias. Una lectura de la Segunda Guerra Mundial a través de los cómics de animales

by Jose Joaquin Rodriguez Moreno

Publicado en el libro "Los animales en la Historia y la Cultura" (editado por Arturo Morgado García y José Joaquín Rodríguez Moreno), Universidad de Cádiz, 2011.

ESPAÑOL: El presente texto trata sobre la representación de los animales y el mensaje de los mismos en los comic books... more ESPAÑOL: El presente texto trata sobre la representación de los animales y el mensaje de los mismos en los comic books estadounidenses durante el periodo de la Segunda Guerra Mundial: Superhéroes, animales antropomórficos y biblias de Tijuana.

ENGLISH: This text deals with animal representations and messages in American comic books during World War II: Superheroes, Funny Animal and Tijuana Bibles.

The Decline of Pan-Indian Identity and the Development of Tamil Cultural Separatism in Singapore, 1856-1965

by John Solomon

Published in South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 35:2, 257-281

This paper explores the rise and fall of pan-Indianism as the dominant identity narrative amongst the Indian diaspora... more This paper explores the rise and fall of pan-Indianism as the dominant identity narrative amongst the Indian diaspora in Singapore in the mid twentieth century, and its replacement with a normative Indian identity based primarily on Tamil culture. It will analyse some of the reasons why a Tamil cultural separatism came to dominate negotiations of ethnic identity in early post-war Singapore. This will include an examination of colonial ethnographic representations, the effects of demographic trends in Indian migration to Malaya during the colonial period, transnational political linkages between Singapore and India, and the effects of the Japanese occupation on Indian identity during World War II. The paper will also focus on the growth of the Tamil reform movement and the ways in which it came to shape the framing of Tamil ethnic identity in Singapore.

Thomas Kühne & Benjamin Ziemann,.„La renovacion de la Histora Militar. Conynuturas, interpretaciones, conceptos,“ in Semata. Ciencias Sociais e Humanidades 19 (2008): 304-347, Spanish translation of „Militärgeschichte in der Erweiterung. Konjunkturen, Interpretationen, Konzepte,“ in idem, eds., Was ist Militärgeschichte? (Paderborn: Schöningh, 2000): 9-46.

by Thomas Kühne

La mémoire européenne à l'heure du "paradigme victimaire" (European Memory in the Age of "Victimization Paradigm"), in Stella Ghervas & F. Rosset (eds), "Lieux d'Europe. Mythes et limites", Paris, Editions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme, 2008, p. 215-243.

by Stella Ghervas

Co-authored with R. Sigist. Published in Stella Ghervas & F. Rosset (eds), "Lieux d'Europe. Mythes et limites", Paris, Editions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme, 2008, p. 215-243.

Continent riche en histoire et en culture, l’Europe se conçoit pourtant moins comme héritage que comme projet... more Continent riche en histoire et en culture, l’Europe se conçoit pourtant moins comme héritage que comme projet politique et social. En se dotant de symboles étatiques comme le drapeau, la monnaie ou l’hymne, l’Union européenne a bien marqué sa volonté de concrétiser ce projet. Mais en exprimer l’essence d’une manière claire et reconnaissable, de manière à susciter l’adhésion des citoyens potentiels, est une tout autre tâche, que ces symboles abstraits ne suffisent pas à exécuter. Seul l’euro, avec sa symbolique de l’ouverture (carte sans frontières, ponts, fenêtres), est capable d’exprimer une faible partie des valeurs dont se réclame la nouvelle fédération européenne. Pour le reste, on pourrait se demander en quoi consiste le vécu commun des Européens d’aujourd’hui, si ce n’est précisément en l’utilisation d’une monnaie commune, ou l’organisation de manifestations sportives comme les coupes européennes de football.

Historiquement, c’est bien la volonté de dépasser les identités nationales classiques, et les conflits qu’elles ont engendrés notamment au xxe siècle, qui fut à l’origine de la construction européenne.

Crises de la mémoire

by Yan Hamel

Comte-rendu critique de Susan Rubin Suleiman, Crises of Memory and the Second World War, Cambridge/London, Harvard University Press, 2006, 286 p.

Спекуляцыі замест сур'ёзнага даследавання.

by Christian Ganzer

Review: Rostislav Aliev: Brestskaya krepost'. Dokumenty i vospominaniya. Moskva 2010.
Published in: "ARCHE pachatak" 11-2011, pp. 162-172.

Рецензия: Ростсислав Алиев: Брестская крепость. Документы и воспоминания. Москва 2010.
Опубликованна в "ARCHE пачатак" 11-2011, стр. 162-172.

The Haganah and SOE: Allies and Enemies - Irregular Warfare & Politics in Mandatory Palestine - Given at SMH 2012

by Jacob Stoil

On Erich Fromm: why he left the Frankfurt school

by Caroline Kamau

Kamau, C. (2012).

Chapter synopsis: 'On Erich Fromm: Why he left the Frankfurt School':

-Biography: Erich Fromm
-Erich... more Chapter synopsis: 'On Erich Fromm: Why he left the Frankfurt School':

-Biography: Erich Fromm
-Erich Fromm was very critical of Freudian psychoanalysis. The Frankfurt School disapproved of that.
-Tension arose between Fromm and Horkheimer/Adorno/Marcuse and other pro-Freudian contemporaries
-Erich Fromm had reservations about the Frankfurt School's desire to merge psychoanalysis with Marxist theory
-Controversy arose over the Frankfurt School's decision not to publish a manuscript that Fromm wrote, with Weiss. This was a report of their landmark authoritarian personality study of 1931. The topic and methodology shaped the Frankfurt School's later research into authoritarianism (e.g. Adorno et al.'s famous studies).

This chapter also discusses Erich Fromm's work post-Frankfurt School:
--Fromm on social neurosis
--Fromm on thoughts as a form of self-presentation or impression management
--Fromm's theoretical focus on self identity, rather than instincts
--Fromm's theory about personality traits
--Fromm on empiricism and psychology versus psychoanalysis