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Streicher (1885-1946), a radical rightist leader of the early 1920s, later a Nazi and the Gauleiter of Franconia, was a rabid antisemite and a relentless antisemitic propagandist. Presents a brief political biography, followed by an examination of his anti-Jewish views and propaganda methods. Streicher's views, as divulged in his newspaper "Der Stürmer", included extreme racism and belief in racial ...

With National Socialism's arrival in Germany in 1933, Jews dominated music more than virtually any other sector, making it the most important cultural front in the Nazi fight for German identity. This groundbreaking book looks at the Jewish composers and musicians banned by the Third Reich and the consequences for music throughout the rest of the twentieth century. Because Jewish musicians and composers ...

In this thesis the membership experience of the members of the Nationale Jeugdstorm (NJS) during the years of the German occupation of the Netherlands (1940-1945) is analyzed. From 1934 until the end of the Second World War the Nationale Jeugdstorm, which can be regarded a sister organization of the Nationaal Socialistische Beweging, aimed to unite and educate the Dutch youth by the fascistic model, ...

This is the story of Aleksandr "Sasha" Pechersky who, on October 14, 1943, led a mass escape of inmates from Sobibor, a Nazi death camp in Poland. It shows the tremendous difference in the memorial cultures between Western and Eastern societies and also how Jews were not passive in the face of German violence. Pechersky, along with other Russian and Jewish inmates who had been prisoners of the Nazis, ...

Examines the involvement of German fiscal authorities in the plundering of Jewish property during the Holocaust. Argues that the annihilation of European Jewry should not be conceived only as the work of perpetrators in concentration camps, but should be understood in the context of the entire history of the persecution of Jews. Exclusion from the "Aryan" community, restriction of living space, discrimination, ...

Testimony regarding the experiences of children on the Aryan side during the war and in children's homes in Poland after the liberation
 
 Wanderings and suffering of children on the Aryan side; atrocities committed by the Nazis; help from nuns and Polish, Ukrainian and especially Czech farmers.
 
 Jewish children's homes in Poland (Krakow, Bielski, Lodz and Czestochowa) after the ...

Kazerne Dossin Research Centre

When and why do states launch campaigns of genocide against minorities? In 2017, in a violent campaign increasingly described as genocide, the Myanmar military drove almost 700,000 Rohingya from Rakhine State into Bangladesh killing an estimated 6,700 in the first month and an unknown number overall. This assault is particularly puzzling given the international goodwill and economic benefits the regime ...

Lord Lytton, the author of the League of Nations report on the Manchurian Crisis of 1931-1933, wrote: 'if only it was with the professors of the University of Tokyo and men like that I could make peace in a week'. It was widely recognized that there were liberal internationalists in Japan who were opposed to expansion in China and were trying to prevent it - ineffectively as it turned out. As the military ...

"British propaganda brought America to the brink of war, and left it to the Japanese and Hitler to finish the job." So concludes Nicholas Cull in this absorbing study of how the United States was transformed from isolation to belligerence in the years before the attack on Pearl Harbor. From the moment it realized that all was lost without American aid, the British Government employed a host of persuasive ...

In September 1941, two-and-a-half months after the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union, the German Wehrmacht encircled Leningrad. Cut off from the rest of Russia, the city remained blockaded for 872 days, at a cost of almost a million civilian lives, making it one of the longest and deadliest sieges in modern history. The War Within chronicles the Leningrad blockade from the perspective of those who endured ...

Contains the research papers and original sources used by Cyril Pearl in writing his book on the Dunera ship ("The Dunera Scandal: Deported by Mistake") and the records on the internment camps in Australia. In 1940 German refugees seeking asylum in England were sent to Australia as an enemy alien aboard the Dunera ship and interned in Australia at the Hay internment camp for a year and a half. In 1942, ...