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In: Piltz, Eric/Schwerhoff, Gerd (Hrsg.), Gottlosigkeit und Eigensinn. Religiöse Devianz im konfessionellen Zeitalter (ZHF Beiheft 51), Berlin 2015, S. 387-411 (Auszug)
As historians are becoming more aware of the diversity of the Australian prisoner of war experience during the Second World War, increasing numbers of Indigenous Australians' stories are being identified. Through the combined hard work of... more
張一夫先生,本名張更照,山西省東南晉城縣人氏,出生於1930年陰曆6 月9 日。1943 年他逃離家鄉,遠赴晉西南加入國軍,參與抗日與剿共戰鬥。抗戰勝利未幾,國共內戰硝煙又起。1945 年10 月張一夫在上黨戰役中被俘,被編入中共太岳軍區汾東支隊,該部隊即「臨汾旅」的前身。作為司藥員,張一夫隨軍征戰晉南各地,參與了運城、臨汾、晉中和太原等重大戰役。1949 年夏季,他所在的解放軍六十軍一七九師南下西進,攻克西安、扶眉、咸陽、寶雞、秦嶺、廣元各地,最終於1949 年12... more
Traumatic experiences of war often play a dominant role in establishing a group identity, not least in modern nation states (Mosse 1990). As in so many other nations, the Second World War is a central part of the collective memory of... more
Most research concerning the implications of self-disclosure on trauma's aftermath has focused on the salubrious effects disclosure may foster for the primary victim. However, the manner in which recipients of disclosure are... more
The purpose of this Article is to examine the facts associated with the prison abuse at Abu Ghraib and to discuss the applicable legal and policy lessons learned as a result of the scandal. Was the prison abuse a reflection of a systemic... more
Secondary traumatization describes the phenomenon whereby those in proximity to trauma survivors develop psychological symptoms similar to those experienced by the direct survivor. The current study examined secondary trauma (ST) and... more
IZVLEČEK Prispevek obravnava kako so države zaveznice (ZDA, Velika Britanija in Sovjetska zveza) v času druge svetovne vojne prevzgajale vojne ujetnike. Prikazuje načine prevzgo-je ter tudi načrte s prevzgojenimi ujetniki ob povratku v... more
The Changi story is synonymous with suffering, hardship, and the Australian prisoner-of-war experience in the Second World War. It is also one of ingenuity, resourcefulness, and survival. Combining prisoners’ cartoons, paintings,... more
Italian Resistence of Italian P-O-W in the nazist lager during the 2WW:
The story of a witness
The story of a witness
In the context of international debates about ways to reduce the harms related to the use of illicit drugs and their control, this article explores the specific issue of coerced treatment of people who use drugs. It uses established... more
Early modern states faced numerous challenges in subsisting their prisoners of war, not least the problems of remitting them money for their subsistence, which had to pass across hostile borders. Examining how the British state achieved... more
Alors que c’est souvent a la Seconde Guerre mondiale et a ses suites que sont associees les experiences des deplacements forces, des internements massifs de civils et de militaires, cet ouvrage propose de placer la focale sur un long XIXe... more
All too often, media outlets report on young men who entered Western European prisons as petty criminals and, over time, radicalized, eventually conducting terrorist attacks in the name of ISIS. Today, prisons are viewed as one of the... more
During the Second World War, Hungary provided asylum to many refugees from other countries. Most of these refugees were Polish, but we also find about a thousand French citizens who escaped from the prison camps of the Third Reich and... more
Despite the issue of Italian prisoners of war during the Second World War receiving some significant attention, the fate of those prisoners held by the Yugoslav state has not yet been thoroughly examined. This is largely a consequence of... more
Yozgat Days of a Prisoner of Kut-el Amarah War (Major E. W. C. SANDES) (1916-1918) For the Ottoman Empire one of the most important victories is Kut-el-Amarah in the First World War in Mesopotamia Front against Britain. Here the British... more
Soviet soldiers may have allowed themselves to be captured because they had lost hope in the face of an overwhelming German onslaught. At the other end of the spectrum, some Soviet soldiers “voted with their feet” against a repressive... more
A first exploration of the fate of soldiers from the Kingdom of Holland who were taken prisoner of war in Russia in 1812.
Cuerda de presas ou les prisons de femmes sous Franco dans la bande dessinée espagnole
This chapter considers the sinking of Japanese hellships carrying prisoners of war such as the Montevideo Maru and Rakuyo Maru within the wider context of the global war. It discusses international law, efforts by the Red Cross to protect... more
ספר זה הוא ניסיון לתאר את פניה המגוונות של הטראומה ואת האופן שבו היא מפרקת ומעצבת את התרבות: מעקדת יצחק ועד מלחמת וייטנאם, משֹרה אימנו ועד מרגריטה של בולגקוב, מהנס של תומאס מאן ועד דניאל של מישל וולבק, מקפקא ועד מאיר אריאל, מניטשה ועד... more
"Na meer dan zeventig jaar woedt de Tweede Wereldoorlog nog altijd voort als strijd om het duidingsgezag. ‘We wage the war we are’ dichtte W.H. Auden al over ons (on)vermogen eerlijk op onze geschiedenis te reflecteren. Maarten van Voorst... more
Reviews "Reach for the Sky" by Paul Brickhill (Ballantine edition, 1967), a biography of the Royal Air Force ace Douglas Bader. Bader had lost his legs in an aircraft crash in 1927, but he succeeded in returning to flight status. He led... more
with Matthias Egger. The paper presents the manifold cultural activities in which prisoners of war in Russia were involved during WWI. It traces the humble beginnings of these activities as well as the impressively high level of quality... more
Betrayal in High Places, a book written in 1996 by the late James MacKay, has created debate among World War II historians and former prisoners of war (POWs) because it claims to reveal suppressed Allied reports of Japanese war... more
The present essay offers an overview of the sources in German archives on, and also originating from Soviet prisoners of war in German custody during World War II.5 Hereby, the focus is on the German Federal Archives (Bundesarchiv,... more
Dedicating his life to the welfare of children, Dr. J. Calvitt Clarke (1887-1970) was one of the twentieth century’s most successful charitable fundraisers. Graduating from Western Theological Seminary in 1919, Rev. Clarke, that same... more
Despite being known by Minnesotans as a “second civil war,” and as a campaign of ethnic cleansing by Dakota, the 1862 U.S.-Dakota War remains an understudied event in the history of U.S. imperialism. Through readings of Dakota prisoners’... more
This article discusses the cultures of the POW camps in the two World Wars, looking at conceptions of 'world culture' which were inspired by Goethe and Tolstoy. It shows how these cosmopolitan projects became embedded in military practice... more
מבט השוואתי על תהליך קבלת ההחלטות במדינת ישראל במסגרת עסקת ג'יבריל לעומת עסקת שליט, בראי היחסים הבינלאומיים.