Arts and Humanities History

German History and Society

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This cluster of papers explores the memory, identity, and material culture of East Germany, focusing on topics such as Ostalgie, Stasi, Holocaust remembrance, Cold War politics, and the impact of socialism on postwar German society. It delves into the complexities of individual and collective memory in the context of historical events and political ideologies.

Keywords

East German Memory; Ostalgie; Stasi; Holocaust; Identity; Cold War; Nostalgia; Socialism; GDR; Postwar Germany

Preface Part I. The Prelude to Genocide: 1. Nazi resettlement policy and the search for a solution to the Jewish question, 1939-1941 2. Nazi ghettoization policy in Poland, 1939-41 Part … Preface Part I. The Prelude to Genocide: 1. Nazi resettlement policy and the search for a solution to the Jewish question, 1939-1941 2. Nazi ghettoization policy in Poland, 1939-41 Part II. Conflicting Explanations: 3. German technocrats, Jewish labor, and the Final Solution: a reply to Gotz Aly and Susanne Heim 4. The holocaust as by-product? A critique of Arno Mayer 5. 'Intentionalism' and 'Functionalism': the decision for the Final Solution reconsidered Part III. The Perpetrators: Accommodation, Anticipation, and Conformity: 6. Bureaucracy and mass murder: the German administrator's comprehension of the Final Solution 7. Genocide and public health: German doctors and Polish Jews, 1939-1941 8. One day in Jozefow: initiation to mass murder Index.
Preface. 1. National Identity and German History. 2. Landscapes of Memory. 3. Overcoming the Past in Practice? Trials and Tribulations. 4. Awkward Anniversaries and Contested Commemorations. 5. The Past which … Preface. 1. National Identity and German History. 2. Landscapes of Memory. 3. Overcoming the Past in Practice? Trials and Tribulations. 4. Awkward Anniversaries and Contested Commemorations. 5. The Past which Refuses to Become History. 6. Collective Memory? Patterns of Historical Consciousness. 7. Citizenship and Fatherland. 8. Friends, Foes and Volk. 9. The Nation as Legacy and Destiny. Index.
If Freud turns to literature to describe traumatic experience, it is because literature, like psychoanalysis, is interested in the complex relation between knowing and not knowing, and it is at … If Freud turns to literature to describe traumatic experience, it is because literature, like psychoanalysis, is interested in the complex relation between knowing and not knowing, and it is at this specific point at which knowing and not knowing intersect that the psychoanalytic theory of traumatic experience and the language of literature meet.-from the Introduction In Unclaimed Experience, Cathy Caruth proposes that in the widespread and bewildering experience of in our century-both in its occurrence and in our attempt to understand it-we can recognize the possibility of a history no longer based on simple models of straightforward experience and reference. Through the notion of trauma, she contends, we come to a new understanding that permits history to arise where immediate understanding is impossible. In her wide-ranging discussion, Caruth engages Freud's theory of trauma as outlined in Moses and Monotheism and Beyond the Pleasure Principle; the notion of reference and the figure of the falling body in de Man, Kleist, and Kant; the narratives of personal catastrophe in Hiroshima mon amour; and the traumatic address in Lecompte's reinterpretation of Freud's narrative of the dream of the burning child.
Introduction Saul Friedlander 1. German Memory, Judicial Interrogation, and Historical Reconstruction: Writing Perpetrator History from Postwar Testimony Christopher R. Browing 2. Historical Emplotment and the Problem of Truth Hayden White … Introduction Saul Friedlander 1. German Memory, Judicial Interrogation, and Historical Reconstruction: Writing Perpetrator History from Postwar Testimony Christopher R. Browing 2. Historical Emplotment and the Problem of Truth Hayden White 3. On Emplotment: Two Kinds of Ruin Perry Anderson 4. History, Counterhistory and Narrative Amos Funkenstien 5. Just One Witness Carlo Ginzburg 6. Of Plots, Witness and Judgments Martin Jay 7. Representing the Holocaust: Reflections on the Historians' Debate Dominick LaCapra 8. Historical Understanding and Counterrationally: Judenrat as Epistemological Vantage Dan Diner 9. History beyond the Pleasure Principle: Some Thoughts on the Representation of Trauma Eric L. Santner 10. Habermas, Enlightenment, and Antisemitism Vincent P. Pecora 11. Between Image and Phrase: Progessive History and the Final Solution as Dispossession Sande Cohen 12. Science, Modernity, and the Final Solution Mario Biagioli 13. Holocaust and the End of History: Postmodern Historiography in Cinema Anton Kaes 14. Whose Story Is It, Anyways? Ideology and Psychology in the Representation of the Shoah in Israeli Literature Yael S. Feldman 15. Translating Paul Celan's Todesfuge: Rhythm and Repetition as Metaphor John Felstiner 16. The Grave in the Air: Unbound Metaphors in Post-Holocaust Poetry Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi 17. Dialectics of Unspeakability: Language, Silence, and the Narratives of Desubjectification Peter Haidu 18. Representation of Limits Berel Lang 19. Book of the Destruction Geoffrey H. Hartman Notes Contributors Index
Acknowledgements 1. Worlds of hurt: reading the literature of trauma 2. A form of witness: the Holocaust and North American memory 3. Between the lines: reading the Vietnam war 4. … Acknowledgements 1. Worlds of hurt: reading the literature of trauma 2. A form of witness: the Holocaust and North American memory 3. Between the lines: reading the Vietnam war 4. The farmer of dreams: the writings of W. D. Ehrhart 5. There was no plot, and I discovered it by mistake: trauma, community and the revisionary process 6. We didn't know what would happen: opening the discourse on sexual abuse 7. This is about power on every level: three incest survivor narratives This is not a conclusion Notes Index.
This study compares two instances of public discourse on history: Historikerstreit (historians' debate) in Germany and recent polemic between so-called Old and New Historians in Israel. The well-known public debate … This study compares two instances of public discourse on history: Historikerstreit (historians' debate) in Germany and recent polemic between so-called Old and New Historians in Israel. The well-known public debate in Germany was sparked off in July 1986 by an attack of philosopher and social theorist Jiirgen Habermas on what he called the apologetic tendencies in writing of German contemporary history, which he published in weekly Die Zeit. The current public debate in Israel started in June 1994 with broadside fired by writer Aharon Megged in daily Ha'Aretz against what he called a suicidal
Introduction 1. Canons, Texts, and Contexts 2. Reflections on the Historians' Debate 3. Historicizing the Holocaust 4. Paul de Man as Object of Transference 5. Heidegger's Nazi Tum 6. The … Introduction 1. Canons, Texts, and Contexts 2. Reflections on the Historians' Debate 3. Historicizing the Holocaust 4. Paul de Man as Object of Transference 5. Heidegger's Nazi Tum 6. The Return of the Historically Repressed Conclusion: Acting-Out and Working-Through
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Listening to War Stories 2. Accounting for the Past 3. Driven into Zeitgeschichte: Historians and the Expulsion of the Germans from East-Central Europe 4. Prisoners … List of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Listening to War Stories 2. Accounting for the Past 3. Driven into Zeitgeschichte: Historians and the Expulsion of the Germans from East-Central Europe 4. Prisoners of Public Memory: Homecoming 1955 5. Heimat, Barbed Wire, and Papa's Kino: Expellees and POWs at the Movies Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
Journal Article Forever in the shadow of Hitler? Original documents of the Historikerstreit, the controversy concerning the singularity of the Holocaust Get access Forever in the shadow of Hitler? Original … Journal Article Forever in the shadow of Hitler? Original documents of the Historikerstreit, the controversy concerning the singularity of the Holocaust Get access Forever in the shadow of Hitler? Original documents of the Historikerstreit, the controversy concerning the singularity of the Holocaust. Translated by James Knowlton and Truett Cates. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press. 1993. 282pp. Index. £35.00; ISBN 0 391 03811 7. Pb.: £12.95; ISBN 0 391 03784 6. Conan Fischer Conan Fischer 1University of Strathclyde Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 70, Issue 1, January 1994, Pages 157–158, https://doi.org/10.2307/2620776 Published: 01 January 1994
Multiple restorations and divided memory German communism's master narratives of antifascism - Berlin-Moscow East Berlin, 1928-1945 from periphery to centre - German communists and the Jewish question, Mexico City, 1942-1945 … Multiple restorations and divided memory German communism's master narratives of antifascism - Berlin-Moscow East Berlin, 1928-1945 from periphery to centre - German communists and the Jewish question, Mexico City, 1942-1945 the Nuremberg interregnum - struggles for the recognition in East Berlin, 1945-1949 purging 'cosmopolitanism' - the Jewish question in East Germany, 1949-1956 memory and policy in East Germany from Ulbricht to Honecker the Nuremberg interregnum - divided memory in the western zones, 1945-1963 atonement, restitution, and justice delayed - West Germany, 1949-1963 politics and memory since the 1960s.
Of all the aspects of recovery in postwar Germany perhaps none was as critical or as complicated as the matter of dealing with Nazi criminals, and, more broadly, with the … Of all the aspects of recovery in postwar Germany perhaps none was as critical or as complicated as the matter of dealing with Nazi criminals, and, more broadly, with the Nazi past. While on the international stage German officials spoke with contrition of their nation's burden of guilt, at home questions of responsibility and retribution were not so clear. In this masterful examination of Germany under Adenauer, Norbert Frei shows that, beginning in 1949, the West German government dramatically reversed the denazification policies of the immediate postwar period and initiated a new "Vergangenheitspolitik," or "policy for the past," which has had enormous consequences reaching into the present. Adenauer's Germany and the Nazi Past chronicles how amnesty laws for Nazi officials were passed unanimously and civil servants who had been dismissed in 1945 were reinstated liberally—and how a massive popular outcry led to the release of war criminals who had been condemned by the Allies. These measures and movements represented more than just the rehabilitation of particular individuals. Frei argues that the amnesty process delegitimized the previous political expurgation administered by the Allies and, on a deeper level, served to satisfy the collective psychic needs of a society longing for a clean break with the unparalleled political and moral catastrophe it had undergone in the 1940s. Thus the era of Adenauer devolved into a scandal-ridden period of reintegration at any cost. Frei's work brilliantly and chillingly explores how the collective will of the German people, expressed through mass allegiance to new consensus-oriented democratic parties, cast off responsibility for the horrors of the war and Holocaust, effectively silencing engagement with the enormities of the Nazi past.
1. Introduction - Sebastian Harnisch & Hanns W. Maull 2. How civilian? - Henning Tewes 3. Germany at Maastricht - Ulf Frenkler 4. Civilian power and war - Nina Philippi … 1. Introduction - Sebastian Harnisch & Hanns W. Maull 2. How civilian? - Henning Tewes 3. Germany at Maastricht - Ulf Frenkler 4. Civilian power and war - Nina Philippi 5. Nuclear non-proliferation - Oliver Meier 6. Conclusion - Sebastian Harnisch & Hanns W. Maull
This volume explores West Germany's efforts to prevent international acceptance of East Germany as a legitimate state following World War II, using newly available material from both sides of the … This volume explores West Germany's efforts to prevent international acceptance of East Germany as a legitimate state following World War II, using newly available material from both sides of the Iron Curtain. West German leaders were unwilling to accept the division of their country and regarded the German Democratic Republic (GDR) as an illegitimate upstart - a puppet of the occupying Soviet forces. Together with France, Britain and the United States, West Germany applied political and financial pressure to ensure that the GDR remained unrecognized by all countries outside the communist camp. While the GDR had some success in befriending countries such as Egypt, Ghana and Indonesia, West Germany's intimidation tactics and superior economic resources saw that it never had any decisive breakthrough. This book argues that Bonn's isolation campaign was dropped not due to failure but as a result of changes in West German priorities as the struggle against East Germany came to hamper efforts at reconciliation with Israel, Poland, and Yugoslavia - all countries of special relevance to Germany's recent past. Interest in morally grounded diplomacy, together with a growing conviction that the GDR could no longer be ignored, led to the abandonment of Bonn's effective but outdated efforts to hinder worldwide recognition of the East German regime.
Preface Acknowledgments 1. Introduction to Film, Trauma, and the Holocaust 2. Night and Fog and the Origins of Posttraumatic Cinema 3. Shoah and the Posttraumatic Documentary after Cinema Verite 4. … Preface Acknowledgments 1. Introduction to Film, Trauma, and the Holocaust 2. Night and Fog and the Origins of Posttraumatic Cinema 3. Shoah and the Posttraumatic Documentary after Cinema Verite 4. The Pawnbroker and the Posttraumatic Flashback 5. Istvan Szabo and Posttraumatic Autobiography 6. Postmodernism, the Second Generation, and Cross-Cultural Posttraumatic Cinema Notes Works Cited Index
Abstract In 1960, Erwin Leiser, a German exile living in Sweden, wrote and directed the documentary Mein Kampf, which provided an account of Hitler’s ideas and German ideology during the … Abstract In 1960, Erwin Leiser, a German exile living in Sweden, wrote and directed the documentary Mein Kampf, which provided an account of Hitler’s ideas and German ideology during the Nazi era. Leiser’s film was unique in its identification of the causes and consequences of German antisemitism, in its reliance on Jewish historians’ accounts, and in its integration of Jewish experiences and voices, all of which were unusual for documentaries at the time. This chapter places the film in historical context, exploring its place in West German discussions, particularly as a reaction to the antisemitic incidents in West Germany in the late 1950s, how it interacted with more widely known films such as Night and Fog (1956), and other responses it inspired, including a lawsuit filed by the filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl. Exploring the film’s editorial techniques, specifically its contrapuntal editing strategies, and its reception, offers a richer standpoint on Leiser’s attempt to break new ground and change Germany’s conversation about its own past.
Las lógicas productivas del capitalismo han ocupado cada vez más esferas originariamente ajenas al mundo laboral, disolviendo de forma paulatina las barreras entre el tiempo de trabajo y el tiempo … Las lógicas productivas del capitalismo han ocupado cada vez más esferas originariamente ajenas al mundo laboral, disolviendo de forma paulatina las barreras entre el tiempo de trabajo y el tiempo de ocio o la vida privada. Dos conceptos afines expresan la internalización subjetiva de los procesos de racionalización productiva en el marco del nuevo espíritu del capitalismo: «sociedad del rendimiento» y «autooptimización». Partiendo de un renovado interés en las letras alemanas por el mundo laboral contemporáneo, un número creciente de novelas ha analizado la extensión al ámbito cotidiano y privado de esta lógica optimizadora y de rendimiento, siendo wir schlafen nicht (2004) de Kathrin Röggla y Das Schiff das singend zieht auf seiner Bahn (2013) de Philipp Schönthaler ejemplos paradigmáticos de ello. Esta tendencia, no obstante, no ha recibido aún atención en la germanística hispanohablante.
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Bernhard Schlink versucht in seinem Roman Olga (2018) ein Panorama der deutschen Geschichte zu zeigen. Die Ära Bismarck, die Weimarer Republik, das Dritte Reich, die zwei Weltkriege und das Nachkriegsdeutschland … Bernhard Schlink versucht in seinem Roman Olga (2018) ein Panorama der deutschen Geschichte zu zeigen. Die Ära Bismarck, die Weimarer Republik, das Dritte Reich, die zwei Weltkriege und das Nachkriegsdeutschland werden dargestellt, indem Schlink historische und politische Themen, Motive und Metaphern in Bezug auf die Frauenfigur Olga Rinke behandelt. Das Leben einer charakterstarken Frau wird vom späten 19. Jahrhundert bis in die Siebzigerjahre des 20. Jahrhunderts inszeniert. Es wird gezeigt, wie sie physische und psychische Hindernisse bewältigt. Die gebildete, starke und emanzipierte Frau, von Beruf Lehrerin, wird im Alter von 53 Jahren aufgrund einer Infektionskrankheit taub. Nach dieser Begebenheit muss sie ein neues Leben anfangen und ihre bisherigen Lebensgewohnheiten ändern. In dem Roman werden am Beispiel einer tauben, alleinlebenden Frau die sozio-politischen und kulturellen Zustände in Deutschland vermittelt. In diesem Aufsatz wird gezeigt, wie Bernhard Schlink als ein Autor der zweiten Generation der Nachkriegsliteratur die geschichtliche Perspektive anhand des sog. kollektiven Gedächtnisses (nach der Theorie von Maurice Halbwachs) ans Licht bringt und wie dadurch ein Stück Zeitgeschichte mit den Diskriminierungsprozessen von Menschen mit Behinderung fiktionalisiert wird.
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In this article, I explore Ryka Aoki’s science fiction novel, Light from Uncommon Stars (2021) and its depiction of social and spatial violence against trans* women in a North American … In this article, I explore Ryka Aoki’s science fiction novel, Light from Uncommon Stars (2021) and its depiction of social and spatial violence against trans* women in a North American context. I contend that Aoki presents instances of what Derrida describes as hostipitality, a blending of hospitality and hostility, to denounce, through speculation, the extreme vulnerability of trans* racialized women in the United States, and the way in which patterns of exclusion and abjectification can be (re)produced in queer spaces. Aoki’s depiction of spatiality and failed hospitality thus highlights the unique (and often ignored) forms of violence experienced by trans* racialized women through the inclusion of science fiction elements.
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Although popular novels about the Holocaust are often ambivalently received, this article will claim the ability of works of this kind to represent the subjective experience of complicity. In the … Although popular novels about the Holocaust are often ambivalently received, this article will claim the ability of works of this kind to represent the subjective experience of complicity. In the novels discussed here, the protagonist is a non-Jewish German woman who witnesses at close quarters the atrocities of the Third Reich, requiring reflection upon the possibility of her own implication in those crimes. These examples, Mandy Robotham’s A Woman of War (2018), Louise Fein’s People Like Us (2020) and John Boyne’s All the Broken Places (2022), depict the changes in the protagonist’s self-understanding and judgements on individual responsibility by means of first-person narrative. The novels use the dramatic or fantastic dilemmas befitting genre fiction, including taboo birth, forbidden love and personal vengeance, as a framework to draw connections between Holocaust history and concerns ranging from eugenics to sexual violence. The article concludes that, despite its liabilities, genre fiction’s leeway to depict extreme scenarios and states of mind allows it to reveal, and take part in constructing, modes of contemporary engagement with the Second World War and the Holocaust.
This article examines the distinct features of Soviet closed war crimes trials involving civilians accused of crimes against the Jewish population in Crimea during the Nazi occupation (1941–4). Drawing on … This article examines the distinct features of Soviet closed war crimes trials involving civilians accused of crimes against the Jewish population in Crimea during the Nazi occupation (1941–4). Drawing on trial records from 1944 to 1946, it reveals that although detailed information about the mass extermination of Jews was partially omitted from public discourse both during and after the war, regional tribunals in closed trials often regarded offenses against Soviet Jews as severe crimes against the Soviet state. The article analyzes the factors that influenced the investigation process and trial outcomes. While inheriting certain pre-war practices, Stalinist justice adapted to the wartime context, creating a space where various actors could interact and present their accounts of crimes committed during the occupation. The author argues that Soviet closed postwar trials represented a convergence of defendants’ attempts to justify their actions, witnesses’ efforts to present their perspectives, and the decisive role of regional investigators in evaluating these testimonies.
1926 թ. երկրաշարժը մեծապես ազդեց Լենինական քաղաքի զարգացման ռազմավարական ծրագրերի մշակման ու նրա նոր դիմագծի ձևավորման վրա: Հոդվածում ընդհանուր գծերով ներկայացվում են 1926-1930-ական թթ. լենինականյան կյանքը, վերականգնման ուղղությամբ կատարվող աշխատանքներն … 1926 թ. երկրաշարժը մեծապես ազդեց Լենինական քաղաքի զարգացման ռազմավարական ծրագրերի մշակման ու նրա նոր դիմագծի ձևավորման վրա: Հոդվածում ընդհանուր գծերով ներկայացվում են 1926-1930-ական թթ. լենինականյան կյանքը, վերականգնման ուղղությամբ կատարվող աշխատանքներն ու դրանց ուղեկցող սոցիալական, մշակութային գործընթացները: Մեթոդներ և նյութեր. Ուսումնասիրությունն իրականացվել է պատմազգագրական և էթնոմշակութաբանական հետազոտությունների մեթոդաբանությամբ: Որպես հիմնական մեթոդ օգտագործվել են համեմատական վերլուծության տարբեր ձևերը՝ դրանք կիրառելով համակարգային մոտեցմամբ։ Լայնորեն օգտագործվել է ժամանակի պարբերական մամուլը՝ որպես հավաստի սկզբնաղբյուր տեղի ունեցած պատմամշակութային գործընթացների և վերափոխումների դինամիկան ուսումնասիրելու համար: Վերլուծություն. Հոդվածում ներկայացված են հետ-երկրաշարժյան գործընթացները, քաղաքացիների վերաբերմունքը աղետի նկատմամբ, կենտրոնական և տեղական իշխանությունների գործողությունները ավերածությունների վերացման ուղղությամբ, շինարարական աշխատանքների ծավալն ու դրա ազդեցությունը քաղաքային նոր կենցաղի ձևավորման, տնտեսամշակութային, հասարակական հարաբերություններում կատարվող փոփոխությունների վրա: Արդյունքներ «Բանվոր» թերթի հրապարակումների ու առկա մասնագիտական գրականության համադրմամբ վեր են հանվել 1926 թ. երկրաշարժի հետևանքների վերացման գործընթացները՝ բացահայտելով դրանց ազդեցությունը քաղաքի նոր՝ սոցիալիստական դիմագծի ու լենինականյան մշակույթի ձևավորման վրա: The earthquake in 1926 had a significant impact on the development strategy of Leninakan, shaping the city's new identity. This article provides a general overview of life in Leninakan from 1926 to the 1930s, the reconstruction efforts, and the accompanying social, cultural processes. Methods and Materials: The study was conducted using historical-ethnographic and ethno-cultural research methodologies. Various forms of comparative analysis were applied within a systematic approach. Periodical press from that time was extensively used as a reliable primary source for studying the dynamics of historical and cultural processes and transformations. Analysis: The examination of materials revealed that the earthquake greatly influenced the strategic planning and redevelopment of Leninakan. The article presents the post-earthquake processes, public attitudes toward the disaster, actions taken by central and local authorities to eliminate the destruction, the scale of construction work, and its impact on the formation of a new urban lifestyle, as well as economic, cultural, and social changes. Results: By combining publications from the "Banvor" newspaper with existing scholarly literature, the study highlights the processes of eliminating the consequences of the 1926 earthquake and reveals their role in shaping the city's new socialist identity and Leninakan's cultural development.
Abstract This article shows how Thomas Heise's essay film Heimat ist ein Raum aus Zeit (2019) emphasizes the significance of personal artifacts in portraying German history. Instead of utilizing archival … Abstract This article shows how Thomas Heise's essay film Heimat ist ein Raum aus Zeit (2019) emphasizes the significance of personal artifacts in portraying German history. Instead of utilizing archival footage, Heise explores Germany's past through his family's personal writings created primarily during the Nazi era and in the former GDR. Drawing on Jaimie Baron's concept of the “archive effect,” which frames archival documents as experiences of reception, this analysis illustrates how Heise's approach to presenting history emphasizes the audience's response to personal artifacts. The archive effect occurs when viewers realize the temporal and intentional disparities between the family materials and the film's modern images of landscapes, ruins, and trains. As these disparities are potentially challenging for viewers, Heise bridges possible gaps using a train‐related leitmotif, specific camera movements, and sound. Rather than merely conveying historical significance, these methods enable viewers to experience history through the presence of personal artifacts.
One of the most important events in the World after World War II was the reuniting of Germany, during the late 1980’s and early 1990’s. The goal of the authors … One of the most important events in the World after World War II was the reuniting of Germany, during the late 1980’s and early 1990’s. The goal of the authors in this paper is to discuss the general economic conditions of West Germany before 1989 and Germany after 1989. In attempting to do that, we will in the introductory section present data and analysis for both East and West Germany for the years from World War II up until the time of reunification. The second section will present an evaluation of the economy of Germany since the reunification. In the third section a statistical model will be developed to show the general impact of the union on the German economy. In the fourth section, the authors will try to derive a conclusion as to whether the reunification was successful or not, and finally in the Appendix we are going to run several regression models in order to measure the impact of several indicators before and after 1989.
Summary For the past decade, research on Cuba has increasingly focused on the cultural influences of Soviet-style socialism and its persistence in contemporary Cuba. On the part of Eastern European … Summary For the past decade, research on Cuba has increasingly focused on the cultural influences of Soviet-style socialism and its persistence in contemporary Cuba. On the part of Eastern European studies, the cultural relations between the two regions and the perception of Cuba in Eastern European cultures have been neglected for a long time. With regard to children’s culture such studies are lacking entirely. During socialism, however, children’s culture became a catalyst of imagined community between the countries of Eastern Europe and Cuba. Using examples from Soviet children’s literature the article examines the differing strategies used by authors of children’s literature to portray this relationship. Thereby it becomes apparent that the narratives do not only serve the creation of an imagined community with Cuba, but also the self-perception of Soviet society – either in a reinforcing or self-critical way. To this end the authors make use of the metaphorical and real opposition between children and adults familiar from colonial and imperialist discourses.
Uwe Dietrich Adam: Hochschule und Nationalsozialismus. Die Universität Tübingen im Dritten Reich. Mit einem Anhang von Wilfried Setzler: Die Tübinger Studentenfrequenz im Dritten Reich (Contubernium. Beiträge zur Geschichte der Eberhard-Karls-Universität … Uwe Dietrich Adam: Hochschule und Nationalsozialismus. Die Universität Tübingen im Dritten Reich. Mit einem Anhang von Wilfried Setzler: Die Tübinger Studentenfrequenz im Dritten Reich (Contubernium. Beiträge zur Geschichte der Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen Bd. 23). J. C. B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Tübingen 1977. 240 Seiten. Leinen DM 37,40
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In the article, the author reflects on the problem of the practical lack of research into the Holocaust in the USSR. The Nazi genocide against the Jews was practically hushed … In the article, the author reflects on the problem of the practical lack of research into the Holocaust in the USSR. The Nazi genocide against the Jews was practically hushed up: for almost 45 years after the end of the war, not a single special work on this topic was published. At the same time, in general works of this direction, in particular, those devoted to the analysis of the occupation regime, at best, a few facts of the murder of Jews were cited. At the same time, the special attitude and nature of the Nazis’ actions against them were not recognized. The occupiers and their accomplices allegedly exterminated not Jews, but Soviet citizens. In the author’s opinion, such an attitude to the tragedy of the Jewish people in the USSR was nothing more than a manifestation of anti-Semitism, which was condemned in words, but in fact tacitly encouraged. This was especially noticeable from the late 1960s, when the then Soviet leadership sided with the latter in the military conflict between Israel and the Arab countries. In the late 1980s, during the so-called perestroika, the attitude of the Soviet authorities towards the study of the Holocaust became less strict, but even then the editorial boards of scientific journals continued to treat the topic of the Holocaust with apprehension. The author was the first Soviet historian who managed to publish, albeit abroad, articles on the Holocaust, and also the first Soviet historian who began, despite the de facto ban on this topic, to study the Holocaust. Thus, the study of the Holocaust in Ukraine and the former Soviet Union shows that this is an extremely important topic and how much researchers still need to find out in order to present the picture of Nazi crimes against Jews, against humanity, as broadly as possible.