Admiral s Korduna. Bitke i sudbine

Author(s): Branko Mamula / Language(s): Croatian

Nakon što sam pročitao zapise admirala Branka Mamule, nametnula su mi se dva ključna dojma. Prvi se dojam ticao činjenice da je u jednoj ratnoj partizanskoj biografiji bilo moguće učešće u epopeji Petrove gore u proljeće 1942. i, ne mnogo vremena zatim, učešće u pomorskoj partiji šaha u zadarskom arhipelagu i na Kvarneru, posljednjih godinu dana Drugog svjetskog rata. Kordunaški momak, koji nikad nije vidio more i koji nije znao plivati, dvadeset ratnih mjeseci bio je učesnik danas prilično zaboravljene savezničke borbe na sjevernom Jadranu, koja se pretvorila u pobjedničku stratešku igru. Drugi dojam ticao se činjenice da je taj kordunaški momak, svjedok dvaju stoljeća – naš suvremenik. [...]

Adolescent Political Turmoil: A Review of Anti-Semitism in Interwar Romanian High Schools

Author(s): Anca Filipovici / Language(s): English / Issue: 3 (19)/2018

Agency and the Holocaust: Essays in Honor of Debórah Dwork

Thomas Kühne, Mary Jane Rein (eds.) Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2020, 246 pp.

Author(s): Loredana-Andrada Iordache / Language(s): English / Issue: 13/2020

AJALOO JA PROPAGANDA VAHEL: EESTI JA LÄTI KUJUTAMINE VENEMAA AJALOONARRATIIVIDES

Author(s): Vladimir Sazonov,Sergii Pahhomenko,Igor Kopõtin / Language(s): Estonian / Issue: 17/2021

This article analyses the main historical narratives and events of Latvia and Estonia concerning the Second World War, fascism, and the Soviet period more generally, and their representation in the pro-Kremlin ideological discourse. Moscow is using several narratives and messages to try to influence different target audiences in Russia, but also in Estonia and Latvia (especially the Russophone audience) with its own interpretation of the historical events and narratives concerning Estonia, Latvia, the Soviet Union, and the Second World War. Several different channels are used to promote the pro-Kremlin ideological agenda: not only profound historical studies (monographs, collective volumes, and articles), popular-scientific overviews, conferences, workshops and seminars, but also TV series, social media platforms, documentaries, and so on. Even more materials are available to the narrow audience that has a strong interest in contemporary history, especially the Soviet period and the Second World War. The main topics of these narratives are the Second World War and the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact (1939), the occupation of Estonia and Latvia by the USSR, both in 1940 and in 1944, and the consequential post-war Soviet era. The main actors that design the pro-Kremlin understandings of Estonian and Latvian history are undoubtedly state officials, i.e. the president and his entourage. Major subjects such as the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact (1939), the annexation of Latvia and Estonia in 1940, and the activities of the Latvian Legion and Estonians in the Second World War in 1941–1944 are presented in a manner that is characteristic to the Soviet propaganda and historical science. According to the pro-Kremlin discourse, the Soviet–German pact on non-aggression and the delimitation of the spheres of influence were forced into existence by the inactiveness of the Western allies and the unwillingness of the USSR to enter into the war. Moreover, according to the official Kremlin narrative, Latvians and Estonians should think of the USSR (and its legal successor the Russian Federation) as the force that saved them from being in the same position as the countries that were defeated in the war that had collaborated with the Nazis.

Ajhman u Jerusalimu

Author(s): Hannah Arendt / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 57.3/2000

Moja knjiga je još pre objavljivanja postala centar polemike i predmet jedne organizovane kampanje. Sasvim je prirodno što je ta kampanja, vođena svim dobro poznatim sredstvima stvaranja lažne predstave i manipulisanja javnošću, privukla mnogo više pažnje od same polemike, tako da je površna buka kampanje na neki način potisnula i ugušila polemiku. To je postalo sasvim jasno kada je čudnovata mešavina jedne i druge, iskazana skoro identičnim rečima — kao da su tekstovi u kojima se napada knjiga (a još češće njen autor) izlazili "iz mašine za kopiranje" (Meri MekKarti) — preneta iz Amerike u Englesku, a zatim u Evropu, gde knjiga još nije bila ni objavljena. […]

AK do Riazania

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 6/1991

Następnego dnia po osadzeniu w obozie pod Riazanicm, cale nasze bractwo wyległo na zewnątrz baraków. Teren otoczony był wysokim płotem z desek, bez najmniejszej szpary lub otworu. W pewnym momencie gdzieś z daleka, lecz dosyć wyraźnie, usłyszeliśmy: „O mój rozmarynie, rozwijaj się...”. Znieruchomieliśmy. Jeszcze jedna zwrotka. Potem młodzieńczym głosem zabrzmiał rozkaz: „ W tyraliery!” i za płotem zaległa cisza.

Akteur im Stillen. Enno Meyer und die Aussöhnung mit Polen und Juden. Hrsg. von Burkhard Olschowsky. (Schriften des Bundesinstituts für Kultur und Geschichte der Deutschen im östlichen Europa, Bd. 73.)

Author(s): Christoph Schutte / Language(s): German / Issue: 2/2021

Review: Akteur im Stillen. Enno Meyer und die Aussöhnung mit Polen und Juden. Hrsg. von Burkhard Olschowsky. (Schriften des Bundesinstituts für Kultur und Geschichte der Deutschen im östlichen Europa, Bd. 73.) De Gruyter Oldenbourg. München 2019. 206 S., Ill. ISBN 978-3-11-059718-9. (€ 49,95.) (Christoph Schutte)

Al Capone als ‚Aisik Schacher‘? - Gangs of New York in der NS-Propaganda

Author(s): Timm Ebner / Language(s): German / Issue: 1/2017

When the United States entered the Second World War, Nazi media focused on the new opponent. While a lot of the patterns which writers used on the US were long established – particularly antisemitic concepts that had since 1939 been used in anti-British propaganda – organised crime for several reasons seem to be a promising topic. Somewhat exceptional is Heinz Halters book Der Polyp von New York. Die Geschichte Tammany Halls. Korruption und Verbrechen im demokratischen Amerika (1942). As source for his book, Halter mainly used Herbert Asbury’s Gangs of New York. An Informal History of the Underworld (1928), which also served as original book for Martin Scorseses movie of 2002 with the same title.

Albanien-Forschung im Schatten des Nationalsozialismus

Author(s): Michael Schmidt-Neke / Language(s): German / Issue: 72/2013

For several decades, the personal continuity between the researchers on East and South East Europe during the Nazi regime and those who after 1945 managed to rebuild research institutions, had remained a taboo topic, at least in West Germany. Only in 2002, a conference organized by the Südost-Institut discussed several aspects of this continuity. This article summarizes the research on Albania in Germany between 1933 and 1945, not only on language and history, but also on all fields of science relevant for the country and its people, including the notorious „racial research“, and gives details on several careers of the scientists involved. It discusses the main structures, especially the two competing institutions for research on South East Europe in Munich, led by Fritz Valjavec, and in Leipzig, headed by Georg Stadtmüller, who both would become leading figures in West German studies on that region after 1945. A main aspect of careers and institutions as well are their manifold links with political structures of the Third Reich (like the SS), a system of tutelage and protection, which has been described as “polycracy”. The author discusses several reasons why Albanology was only a very peripheric field of research in Nazi Germany.

Albrecht Hagemann: Hermann Rauschning. Ein deutsches Leben zwischen NS-Ruhm und Exil

Author(s): Alexander Hesse / Language(s): German / Issue: 4/2019

Review of: Alexander Hesse - Albrecht Hagemann: Hermann Rauschning. Ein deutsches Leben zwischen NS-Ruhm und Exil. Böhlau Verlag. Köln – Weimar 2018. 645 S., Ill. ISBN 978-3-412-51104-3. (€ 40,–.)

Alceo Valcini: un testimone della storia polacca negli anni a cavallo del secondo conflitto mondiale (1933-1946)

Author(s): Luca Bernardini / Language(s): Italian / Issue: 10/2019

Alceo Valcini was the Warsaw-based correspondent for the Italian daily “Corriere della Sera” during the years 1933-1946. Valcini encountered great difficulties with the editor-in-chief of the newspaper, Aldo Borelli, who was not interested in following the political life of Poland except for Poland’s clashes with the Soviet Union. Valcini managed to publish his articles as long as they stressed the influence of Mussolini’s fascism on Polish political life or if they dealt with Soviet political interference in Central Europe. Valcini was to be replaced by another journalist as correspondent from Warsaw because of his own pro-Polish views and scarce enthusiasm for the aggressive stances of Nazi Germany towards Czechoslovakia and Poland, but he nevertheless managed to witness Hitler’s aggression against Poland. His stories were the first accounts of German persecution of the Polish Jews and Warsaw’s civil population, although they had no chance of publication on the pages of the increasingly pro-Nazi “Corriere della Sera”. Valcini took notice of everything that happened in Poland between the outbreak of the war and the end of July 1944. In 1945, Valcini collected his memoirs in a publication entitled The Calvary of Warsaw, in which he gave a graphic account of life in the city under German occupation. Valcini witnessed to the uprising in the Jewish Ghetto and to the activities of the Polish Secret State. His book was translated into Polish in 1970, after having undergone heavy editing, possibly as a result of intervention by the Communist censors. In any event, Valcini turned out to be one of the very few Italian journalists who – in writing about World War II and the Nazi occupation of Poland – did not fall prey to Goebbel’s Propagandaministerium, unlike the much more celebrated reporter Indro Montanelli.

Aleksander Pawelec, Wspomnienia z lat młodości i II wojny światowej (1934–1945), Lututów-GdyniaPruszcz Gdański-Wieluń 2006, ss. 280.

Author(s): Albin Głowacki / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 6/2006

Prezentację tej niezwykłej książki wypada rozpocząć od przedstawienia jej Autora. Urodził się na ziemi wieluńskiej 13 grudnia 1915 r. w Żmudzie k. Lututowa w wielodzietnej rodzinie chłopskiej. W Lututowie, który na zawsze stał się dla Niego Małą Ojczyzną, przeżył okres wczesnego dzieciństwa. Tu pobierał naukę w szkole powszechnej, tu związał się z Kościołem, tu – choć po kilkunastoletniej przerwie – spędził trudne cztery lata okupacji hitlerowskiej. Wcześniej jednak, bo w 1926 r., przeniósł się z rodzicami do Dąbrowy Rusieckiej w powiecie łaskim, gdzie nabyli oni gospodarstwo rolne.

ALEKSANDER TRZASKA-CHRZĄSZCZEWSKI AND POLISH POLITICS

Author(s): Maciej Zakrzewski / Language(s): English / Issue: 72/2021

The article describes life and political ideas of Aleksander Trzaska Chrząszczewski, one of the most distinctive political scientists and conservative thinkers of the interwar period in Poland. The essay contains many – earlier unknown – biographical details and Chrząszczewski’s political, international and historiosophic conceptions. In his essays Chrząszczewski criticised political system based on the democratic constitution from 1921 and political practise of authoritarian regime ruled after 1926 r. He precisely pointed out inconsistency of Pilsudski’s camp, which declared strengthening of the State as an aim of political activity and on the other hand very often ruled by informal instruments. In the international relations’ area Chrząszczewski was a follower of pro-French orientation. He observed evolution of German political system during Nazi regime and warned against rising of political and military power of Third Reich. “Przypływy i odpływy demokracji” (The Tides of Democracy), written in 1939, is still the most recognizable Chrząszczewski’s work. The Author proposed original vision of political changes stimulated by increasing or decreasing activity of masses. Chrząszczewski’s theory is one of the most interesting attempts to analyze social and political events of 1930s, that could be compared with the ones made by Jose Ortega y Gasset or Florian Znaniecki.

Aleš Marđetko, Trdnjava na jugu tretjega rajha. Celje med okupacijo 1941–1945.

Author(s): Klemen Kocjančić / Language(s): Slovenian / Issue: 2/2021

Book-Review: Aleš Marđetko, Trdnjava na jugu tretjega rajha. Celje med okupacijo 1941–1945. Celje: Muzej novejše zgodovine, 2021, 391 strani. Reviewed by: Klemen Kocjančič.

Alexander Sacher-Masoch - Maslinici u plamenu

Author(s): Nadira Puškar / Language(s): Bosnian / Issue: 7/2010

Austrijski pisac Alexander Sacher- Masoch rođen je 18. studenoga 1901. godine u Wittkowitzu, Moravska. U Moravskoj se rodio igrom slučaja. Njegov otac, Arthur Wolfgang Ritter von Sacher- Masoch, po profesiji časnik, često je mijenjao odredišta službovanja. Alexanderova ljubav prema književnosti i pisanju nije slučajna. Njegov otac se također okušao u spisateljskim vodama i bio poprilično uspješan. Pisao je pod pseudonimom Michael Zorn i objavio nekoliko romana i niz kratkih priča. Po njegovom romanu Izmedu rijeke i stepe (1936), 1938. godine je snimljen film sa Attilom Hörbiger u glavnoj ulozi.

Alexandra Klei und Katrin Stoll (Hrsg.): Leerstelle(n)? Der deutsche Vernichtungskrieg 1941–1944 und die Vergegenwärtigung des Geschehens nach 1989

Author(s): Daniel Logemann / Language(s): German / Issue: 4/2020

Review of: Daniel Logemann - Leerstelle(n)? Der deutsche Vernichtungskrieg 1941–1944 und die Vergegenwärtigung des Geschehens nach 1989. Hrsg. von Alexandra Klei und Katrin Stoll. Neofelis Verlag. Berlin 2019. 266 S., Ill. ISBN 978-3-95808-227-4. (€ 25,–.)

Alfons Adam, „Die Arbeiterfrage soll mit Hilfe von KZ-Häftlingen gelöst werden“. Zwangsarbeit in KZ-Außenlagern auf dem Gebiet der heutigen Tschechischen Republik

Author(s): Dieter Bacher / Language(s): German / Issue: 1/2015

Review of: Alfons Adam: „Die Arbeiterfrage soll mit Hilfe von KZ-Häftlingen gelöst werden“. Zwangsarbeit in KZ-Außenlagern auf dem Gebiet der heutigen Tschechischen Republik. Metropol. Berlin 2013. 432 S. ISBN 978-3-86331-083-7. (€ 29,90.). Reviewed by Dieter Bacher.

Alice Masaryková a Československý Červený kříž v zahraničí

Stručný nástin dějin a aktivit této organizace v době druhé světové války

Author(s): Radovan Lovčí / Language(s): Czech / Issue: 1/2020

This study is focused on the organisational precursors, form, structure and areas of operation of the Czechoslovak Red Cross abroad, the multifaceted role of Dr. Alice Masaryková and certain other prominent figures in its ranks, and a comparison of the wartime and pre-war conditions of the Czechoslovak Red Cross.

Alwin Meyer, Vergiss deinen Namen nicht. Die Kinder von Auschwitz

Author(s): Klaus-Peter Friedrich / Language(s): German / Issue: 3/2017

Review of: Alwin Meyer, Vergiss deinen Namen nicht. Die Kinder von Auschwitz. Steidl. Göttingen 2015. 757 S., Ill. (€ 38,80.). Reviewed by Klaus-Peter Friedrich.

Amikor antiszemita eszmék és zsidó törvények találkoznak. Magyarország esete

Author(s): Jehuda Hartman / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 1/2018