Jörg Echternkamp
Publisher
De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
During World War II, over half a million men and women under Nazi occupation, who lacked German citizenship, were forcibly conscripted into the German Reichsarbeitsdienst and the Wehrmacht. The Nazis sought to legitimize this conscription by labeling these individuals as "deutsche Volkszugehörige" or "Deutschstämmige," despite it being a clear violation of international law.This collection explores the lives of these non-German conscripts, focusing...
Publisher
De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
The authors analyze feature films from Germany, Italy, Japan, France, Great Britain, and the United States that are characteristic for their cinematic engagement with the past as well as contemporary political and social problems. The volume makes a contribution to the comparative history of post-war societies and at the same time advocates the value of feature films as sources for contemporary history.
Zwischen gestern und morgen: Der Titel eines...
Publisher
De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Dictatorship and war unite but also divide historical commemoration in Russia and Germany. Twenty-nine German and Russian authors examine key issues in Russian and German cultures of remembrance and their traumatic dimensions. The book includes "classical" memorial sites such as Stalingrad, memorials for particular groups, problematic historical sites, and the cinematic engagement with contemporary history.
Diktatur und Krieg verbinden die historische...
Publisher
De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Schwerpunktthemen: "Der Zweite Weltkrieg in der Geschichtswissenschaft und Erinnerungskultur in Deutschland und Russland" "Russische Emigration in Deutschland, deutsche Emigration in Russland im 20. Jahrhundert" Der vierte Band der Mitteilungen der Deutsch-Russischen Historikerkommission dokumentiert die Colloquia "Der Zweite Weltkrieg in der Geschichtswissenschaft und Erinnerungskultur in Deutschland und Russland" (Saratov 2005) und "Russische Emigration...