A critical first-hand appraisal of the activities, achievements, and importance of the Jewish Brigade by IDF Major-General Shlomo Shamir (Rabinowicz), its Covert Internal Commander on behalf of the Haganah and the Jewish national institutions in Palestine. Some myths surrounding the Brigades activities are also dealt with in this appraisal. The Jewish Brigade, a unit of the British Army during WW2, played a crucial role on behalf of world Jewry in the fight against Nazi Germany. Comprised mainly of Jewish volunteers from Palestine, the Brigade was formed in 1944 after four years of struggle for deployment as a fighting force. The Brigade participated in the Italian campaign, distinguishing itself in the battles along the Senio River and proving that Jewish soldiers could fight as a unified force against a well-trained enemy and prevail. Beyond combat and under Shamirs guidance, the Brigade was the first to search for, meet, and care for survivors of the Holocaust. Despite British disapproval, its members worked at numerous Displaced Persons camps in Germany, particularly at Bergen-Belsen, and facilitated the illegal journeys of many survivors to Palestine. The story of the Brigade therefore, exemplified a dedicated pursuit of both military goals and Jewish national aspirations. With many Brigade members subsequently becoming leading figures in the fledgling Israel Defence Forces (IDF), the book shines a light on how the experience of these Jewish volunteers in the British Army was irreplaceable in shaping both the military and political landscape of the nascent State of Israel.

Uber die NS-Prozesse in Osteuropa in den 1960er Jahren und den Stellenwert des Holocaust darin.Etwa 15 Jahre nach Kriegsende kam es in vielen Staaten des Ostblocks zu einer zweiten Welle von Gerichtsverfahren gegen NS-Verbrecher, die anderen Logiken folgte als die Prozesse unmittelbar nach Kriegsende. Auf dem Hohepunkt des Kalten Krieges in den 1960er Jahren verpflichteten die Prozesse einerseits zu einer Zusammenarbeit zwischen Ost und West, andererseits waren sie bestimmt durch die Abwehrhaltung gegenuber dem jeweiligen Gegner im Systemkonflikt. Innerhalb des Ostblocks sollte durch ein abgestimmtes Vorgehen auf der internationalen Buhne Einigkeit demonstriert werden, gleichzeitig fuhrten nationale Interessen zu je eigenen Wegen in der Strafverfolgung. Die in diesem Band zusammengetragenen Aufsatze widmen sich der Geschichte der Strafprozesse zu nationalsozialistischen Verbrechen in Ungarn, der DDR, Polen, der Tschechoslowakei und der Sowjetunion nach der "Tauwetterphase" und fragen nach den Voraussetzungen und Eigenheiten dieser Verfahren. Welche Regeln galten fur die Prozesse? Welche Ziele verfolgten sie? Und nicht zuletzt: Welchen Stellenwert hatte der Holocaust bei der Aufklarung der Verbrechen?Der Band erscheint vollstandig in englischer Sprache.__________On the Nazi trials in Eastern Europe in the 1960s and the place of the Holocaust in them.About 15 years after the end of the war, a second wave of trials against Nazi criminals occurred in many Eastern Bloc states, which followed a different logic than the ones immediately after the war. At the height of the Cold War in the 1960s, the trials on the one hand obliged cooperation between East and West, on the other hand they were determined by the defensive attitude towards the respective opponent in the system conflict. Within the Eastern bloc, unity was to be demonstrated through a coordinated approach on the international stage, while at the same time national interests led to their own paths in criminal prosecution. The essays collected in this volume are devoted to the history of criminal trials on National Socialist crimes in Hungary, the GDR, Poland, Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union after the "thaw" and ask about the preconditions and peculiarities of these proceedings. What rules applied to the trials? What goals did they pursue? And last but not least: What significance did the Holocaust have in the clarification of the crimes?

Film festivals during the Cold War were fraught with the political and social tensions that dominated the world at the time. While film was becoming an increasingly powerful medium, the European festivals in particular established themselves as showcases for filmmakers and their perceptions of reality. At the same time, their prestigious, international character attracted the interest of states and private players. The history of these festivals thus sheds light not only on the films they made available to various publics, but on the cultural policies and political processes that informed their operations. Presenting new research by an international group of younger scholars, Cultural Transfer and Political Conflicts critically investigates postwar history in the context of film festivals reconstructing not only their social background and international dispensation, but also their centrality for cultural transfers between the East, the West and the South during the Cold War.

The EHS issues are thematic. Each issue features a selection of peer-reviewed research articles, which offer novel perspectives on the main theme.Includes:- Andrea Low and Kim Wunschman: Film and the Reordering of City Space in Nazi Germany: The Demolition of the Munich Main Synagogue- Michal Frankl: Cast out of Civilized Society. Refugees in the No Man`s Land between Slovakia and Hungary in 1938- Beate Meyer: Foreign Jews in Nazi Germany - Protected or Persecuted? Preliminary Results of a New Study- Dominique Schroder: Writing the Camps, Shifting the Limits of Language: Toward a Semantics of the Concentration Camps?- Tal Bruttmann, Stefan Hordler, and Christoph Kreutzmuller: A Paradoxical Panorama: Aspects of Space in Lili Jacobs Album- Irina Rebrova: Jewish Accounts of Soviet Evacuation to the North Caucasus- Malena Chinski: A New Address for Holocaust Research: Michel Borwicz and Joseph Wulf in Paris, 19471951- Anna Engelking: "Our own traitor" as the Focal Point of Belarusian Folk Narrative on Local Perpetrators of the Holocaust- Hannah Wilson: The Memoryscape of Sobibor Death Camp: Commemoration and MaterialityDer Band erscheint vollstandig in englischer Sprache.

A New Forum for International Holocaust Research.European Holocaust Studies (EHS) publishes key international research results on the murder of the European Jews and its wider contexts. This new English-language yearbook primarily aims to bring together and provide higher visibility to research contributions produced across different countries and institutions. It also strives to promote international exchange, especially among scholars from North America, Europe, and Israel.The EHS issues are thematic. Each issue features a selection of peer-reviewed research articles, which offer novel perspectives on the main theme. Further sections include a discussion of key documents and a selection of research project descriptions related to the overall topic, as well as a literature review or essay dealing with historiographical debates on the subject.

Traumas can be passed from one generation to the next - this is well known and hardly any group is so affected by this phenomenon as the descendants of people persecuted by the Nazis. But just how does this transfer take place? What role do family traditions and continued social practices play? Does genetics have an impact? Furthermore, can the cycle be broken?The descendants of those persecuted by the Nazis can draw on unique resources and skills. They make significant contributions to political and social reckonings with the Nazi era and they work for the welfare of the survivors. Many are active in political education and advocate for an appropriate culture of remembrance. In a time of increasing right-wing populism, their views are indispensable.This publication was made possible with support from the German Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth.

The breadth of Werner Weinbergs scholarship was prodigious, yielding monographs on ancient Hebrew epigraphy and biblical exegesis; the syntax of Rabbinic Hebrew; medieval grammars; and numerous studies on various aspects of Modern Hebrew. Both Weinberg and Lisl, his wife, survived internment at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. This collection of essays reprinted here, a little more than three decades after it first appeared, conveys Weinbergs ongoing struggle to put into words something that might offer understanding to post-Holocaust generations. But they are also about a survivors own desire for meaning and sense in a senseless world. Most essays are framed around a series of questions which constitute Weinbergs "prison," and each time he attempts to pass through its portal, he finds himself "held back at the threshold." Self-Portrait of a Holocaust Survivor fuses together Weinbergs most personal reflections alongside careful analysis by an erudite theologian fully-versed in traditional Jewish sources and historiography. He moves between resisting and acquiescing to the implications of Bergen-Belsen, never shying away from the most painful questions about God, morality, virtue, and the individuals potential to do good. While today there is a vast literature penned by holocaust survivors and historians, this collection grapples with the concept of survivorship from a unique perspective.

El pack incluye dos volúmenes: 1. Triunfo de Adolf Hitler, sueños de conquista; 2. Guerra y derrota.Ésta es la historia brutalmente objetiva de cómo Hitler logró el control político de Alemania y llevo a cabo su plan de dominar el mundo en seis años, para finalmente ver a Alemania perecer bajo las llamas. El repentino colapso del Tercer Reich en la primavera de 1945 trajo consigo la entrega de un vasto volumen de sus documentos secretos y otros materiales de valor incalculable: diarios privados, discursos altamente secretos, informes de conferencias e incluso resumenes de conversaciones telefonicas de los jefes nazis. La combinacion de esa cantidad ingente de documentos historicos y los recuerdos personales de William L. Shirer diferencia a este libro de todos los demas y lo convierte en uno de los grandes trabajos historicos de todas las epocas. Esta lectura sera distinta de todas las demas sobre el mismo tema. Sera una experiencia rica y gratificante para todo el que se haya preguntado como fue posible que alguna vez llegara a existir esta amenaza para la civilizacion, y lo que es peor, como duro tanto tiempo.

Cuando el 22 de junio de 1941 el ejército alemán cruzó la frontera de la Unión Soviética dio comienzo uno de los más espeluznantes episodios de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Conocemos las célebres batallas y hemos visto la bandera del Ejercito Rojo levanandose sobre el Reichstag. Menos se ha escrito sobre una realidad atroz. A saber, que la tierra conquistada fue escenario de una practica de exterminio de diversos pueblos, y muy principalmente del pueblo judio, que se cobro la vida de millones de inocentes. Las masacres o los campos de concentracion levantados con la misma prisa con la que se administraba la muerte, no eran una mera consecuencia de la guerra. Bien al contrario, el exterminio era su razon de ser. El ejercito aleman actuaba de acuerdo a un plan sistematico diseñado en Berlin y nacido en la pragmatica racista del Tercer Reich. Vasili Grossman e Ilya Ehrenberg compilaron los testimonios de los supervivientes para que el mundo conociera la insondable magnitud del horror. Cientos de testimonios llegados a sus manos o recogidos por medio de entrevistas a las victimas sirvieron para erigir un monumento hecho de sangre y heroismo, el de quienes padecieron el encierro en los guetos y tomaron el camino de la ejecucion; el de los pocos que se atrevieron a desafiar a los verdugos. Vetada su publicacion por Stalin y convertido en secreto manuscrito, El libro negro ha llegado a nosotros como llegan los milagros, como aflora siempre la verdad. La que nos habla del horror que padecieron los hombres y la dignidad con la que enfrentaron el martirio.

On 29 May 1944 General George S. Patton gave a speech in the south-east of England to the men of his Army in which he spoke of the American desire to win and of how losing was hateful to Americans. As he rose to his crescendo, he said how much he pitied those sons of bitches we are going up against - by God, I do. On that same day General Omar Bradley gave a calmer speech in Somerset to the men of his Army about how much rested on the upcoming invasion of northern France and how vital their role was in achieving victory.Apart from the very different tones of the speeches reflecting the opposite character of the two Army commanders, there was another big difference. Bradley was speaking to men who in a little over a week would be splashing ashore on the beaches of Normandy. Patton was addressing an Army that didnt exist.The Army That Never Was tells the story of the biggest deception operation of the Second World War - the plan to mislead the Germans into thinking that the invasion of Europe would come at the Pas de Calais, by inventing an entirely fake Army group in the south-east of England.Full of fascinating characters from the US, Britain and Germany, this compelling and propulsive narrative explores one of the most remarkable stories of the Second World War.

A lively and readable accountSpectatorA fine book ... well-written and well-researchedWashington TimesIn less than six hours in August 1942, nearly 1,000 British, Canadian and American commandos died in the French port of Dieppe in an operation that for decades seemed to have no real purpose. Was it a dry-run for D-Day, or perhaps a gesture by the Allies to placate Stalins impatience for a second front in the west?Historian David OKeefe uses hitherto classified intelligence archives to prove that this catastrophic and apparently futile raid was in fact a mission, set up by Ian Fleming of British Naval Intelligence as part of a pinch policy designed to capture material relating to the four-rotor Enigma Machine that would permit codebreakers like Alan Turing at Bletchley Park to turn the tide of the Second World War.A fast-paced and convincing book ... that clears up decades of misinformation about the ignoble raidToronto Star

The captivating story of WWII Airman Frank Murphy, who features in new TV miniseries Masters of the Air.THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"In the pursuit of authenticity, of accurate history and undeniable courage, no words matter more than, I was there. Read Luck of the Draw and the life of Frank Murphy and ponder this: how did those boys do such things?"Tom Hanks The epic true story of an American hero who flew during WWII, featured in the Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks TV Series, Masters of the Air.Beginning on August 17, 1942, American heavy bomber crews of the Eighth Air Force took off for combat in the hostile skies over occupied Europe. The final price was staggering. 4,300 B-17s and B-24s failed to return; nearly 28,000 men were taken prisoner or interned in a neutral country, and a further 26,000 made the ultimate sacrifice. Luck of the Draw is more than a war story. Its the incredible, inspiring story of Frank Murphy, one of the few survivors from the 100th Bombardment Group, who cheated death for months in a German POW camp after being shot out of his B-17 Flying Fortress. Now with a new foreword written by his granddaughter Chloe Melas, of NBC, and daughter Elizabeth Murphy.

In the black out visit a bright inn. So read stickers on the windows of Watneys pubs all over London. In Brewing for Victory, Brian Glover shows in lively detail how beer and pub culture aided Britains community spirit during the Second World War. From Guinness for Strength! adverts to women shifting casks and packing coppers with hops, the effect the war had on brewing in England, and the effect brewing had on the war effort, is explored from every angle. Beginning at home in Britain and London, Glover tracks the course of tuns all the way out to the front line in the army, air force and navy. Brewing under the jackboot is also considered, with a chapter on breweries in British territory that had been captured by the Nazis, such as Guernsey. With over 70 illustrations showing war era adverts and bombed out boroughs with their pubs still standing, Brewing for Victory is a remarkable demonstration of the Blitz Spirit in action as the public, pubs and brewers worked together to maintain national social structures in the face of adversity.

In the black out visit a bright inn. So read stickers on the windows of Watneys pubs all over London. In Brewing for Victory, Brian Glover shows in lively detail how beer and pub culture aided Britains community spirit during the Second World War. From Guinness for Strength! adverts to women shifting casks and packing coppers with hops, the effect the war had on brewing in England, and the effect brewing had on the war effort, is explored from every angle. Beginning at home in Britain and London, Glover tracks the course of tuns all the way out to the front line in the army, air force and navy. Brewing under the jackboot is also considered, with a chapter on breweries in British territory that had been captured by the Nazis, such as Guernsey. With over 70 illustrations showing war era adverts and bombed out boroughs with their pubs still standing, Brewing for Victory is a remarkable demonstration of the Blitz Spirit in action as the public, pubs and brewers worked together to maintain national social structures in the face of adversity.

Es probable que la Segunda Guerra Mundial sea el conflicto más estudiado de la historia de la humanidad. Sin embargo, la gran mayoría de las obras ofrecen de ella una interpretación sorprendentemente unidimensional. La presentan como una guerra buena, una cruzada contra el fascismo y una batalla del mundo libre y democratico contra quienes querian acabar con el: una parabola de los males del totalitarismo y el triunfo del orden democratico liderado por los Estados Unidos. Este libro intenta retirar las capas de mitologia que cubren la Segunda Guerra Mundial y poner en cuestion las interpretaciones predominantes de la contienda. Rompe con las explicaciones estandares de la guerra y argumenta que las dimensiones centrales del conflicto fueron la raza y el imperio. Aborda la Segunda Guerra Mundial como un enfrentamiento profundamente enraizado en el contexto mas amplio de la historia mundial. Y de esta forma intenta excavar los cimientos coloniales de la guerra y trazar sus secuelas imperiales. Por ello, geograficamente, el libro se aleja de las playas de Normandia para hacer mayor hincapie en los teatros de operaciones mas sangrientos de Europa del Este y Asia oriental. En definitiva, Tierra quemada sostiene que el legado de la guerra no fue tanto la destruccion del fascismo, el racismo y el imperialismo, sino la creacion de un orden de posguerra en el que Estados neoimperiales muy militarizados se prepararon para la guerra perpetua y la perspectiva de la aniquilacion nuclear. Nuestra amnesia colectiva respecto de los origenes coloniales de la guerra y sus consecuencias imperiales ha despojado al conflicto de su significado y lo ha convertido en un cuento de hadas del siglo xx. Este libro pretende colocar nuestra vision de la Segunda Guerra Mundial en el lugar que le corresponde en el panorama mas amplio de la historia mundial moderna. Con este telon de fondo, la Segunda Guerra Mundial aparece como el punto culminante de siglos de expansion colonial y el catalizador de la reinscripcion del imperialismo bajo la egida de la geopolitica de la Guerra Fria.

Todas as frentes da guerra num só livro. Todas as frentes da guerra num só livro Esta é uma obra notável e inovadora, desde logo pela sua abordagem global. Ao contrário de outros livros sobre a Segunda Guerra Mundial, Olivier Wieviorka no se limita a abordar somente as operaçes militares. O historiador, especialista em Segunda Guerra Mundial, estuda todas as frentes de batalha: a Europa, como e evidente, mas tambem o teatro de operaçes da Asia-Pacifico (tantas vezes descurado, sobretudo no que diz respeito a China) o Norte de Africa e ainda o Medio-Oriente. Interessa-se igualmente pelos diversos atores (canadianos, australianos, indianos), mas cobre nesta obra multidimensional outros dominios fundamentais para compreender estas grandes batalhas como: o estrategico, o ideologico, o economico, o logistico, o diplomatico, o geopolitico. No esquecendo ainda, a historia social e memorial, habitualmente tratada como parente pobre. Fruto de anos de investigaço este livro e um relato rigoroso. Uma narrativa viva, poderosa e empolgante que mostra ate que ponto este terrivel conflito foi realmente mundial e total. Uma obra que se empenha em relatar, compreender e explicar, fazendo sua a exigencia avançada por Albert Camus em O Homem Revoltado : Poderiamos supor que uma epoca que, em cinquenta anos, desenraiza, escraviza e mata setenta milhes de seres humanos deve somente, e antes de mais nada, ser julgada. Mas e preciso primeiro compreender a sua culpabilidade. Premio Livro de Historia Contemporanea de 2024, atribuido pela associaço francesa Lire la Societe Uma sintese magistral da Segunda Guerra Mundial Le Figaro Magazine

You simply couldnt stand by with your arms folded.These were the words of Samuel Beckett who famously returned to France from a holiday in Ireland when World War II broke out. His clandestine work against the Nazi occupation of Europe is well documented, but there were many other ordinary Irish people who joined the underground network.Some took up arms. Others gathered intelligence, sheltered fugitives, committed acts of sabotage or broke codes. This new history tells the stories of those forgotten Irish men and women.Discover Captain John Keany from Cork, who parachuted into occupied Italy to help the local Resistance; Margaret Kelly, the Dublin founder of the world-famous Bluebell Girls cabaret troupe in Paris, who hid her Jewish husband; and Catherine Crean, the Irish governess born on Moore Street, Dublin, who was sent to a concentration camp for helping Allied airmen in Belgium.These, and many more stories, span the course of World War II and remind us of the power of individuals to make a difference.An eye-opening account of how ordinary people caught up in extraordinary situations helped to fight the Nazis David McCullaghA truly important and groundbreaking book Mary Kenny

"I spent a year in the Terezin ghetto, but as bad as it was, it cannot be compared to a single month in Auschwitz or Mauthausen. Rather than taking time to describe Terezin, I will only briefly record the most important events, because I am writing this during a period in my life when time matters and I would rather describe in greater detail my experiences in the concentration camps." Twelve-year-old Michael Kraus began keeping a diary while he was still living at home in the Czech city of Nachod but continued writing while a prisoner at Theresienstadt (Terezin). When he was shipped with other prisoners to the death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau, all of his writings were confiscated and destroyed. After his liberation and while convalescing, he began to draw and make notes again about his experiences in Theresienstadt, in Auschwitz, the first death march out of Mauthausen and its satellite camps in Melk and Gunskirchen. As a teenager confronting the traumas of these experiences, Kraus found that recording his memories in words and pictures helped him overcome his hatred for those who had murdered his parents. The process of writing and drawing also helped him begin the painful transition to a so-called normal life. As a survivor, Kraus also felt the need to recount his experiences for the benefit of future generations, especially on behalf of the many who did not survive. The present edition makes this memoir, originally written in Czech and significant for having been written so close to the authors liberation, widely available to English readers for the first time. It also reproduces pages from the original booklets that show how the teenage Kraus illustrated his memories with pencil drawings that both complement and extend his story, giving readers a sense of its character as an unusual and important historical document.

Tras la rendición de Alemania y luego de Japón en 1945 se abrigaron grandes esperanzas de poder crear un mundo nuevo y mucho mejor a partir de las ruinas morales y físicas de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Sin embargo, la combinacion del enorme poder de Estados Unidos y la URSS, y el hundimiento practicamente total de la mayor parte de sus rivales crearon un nuevo y sombrio entorno: la Guerra Fria. Durante mas de cuarenta años las exigencias de la Guerra Fria conformaron la vida de casi todos nosotros. No habia parte alguna del mundo donde Oriente y Occidente no requirieran una lealtad ciega y absoluta. Paises tan alejados entre si como Corea, Angola y Cuba se definieron por el bando que acabaron escogiendo. Casi todas las guerras civiles se convirtieron en guerras de poder para las superpotencias. Al parecer, Europa se habia dividido en dos indefinidamente. Este libro es el primero en analizar con la suficiente distancia estos acontecimientos y crea un relato convincente y con enorme fuerza de la Guerra Fria. Tiene un alcance autenticamente global y capta los dramas y las agonias de un periodo siempre ensombrecido por el horror de la guerra nuclear y que, para millones de personas, no fue "frio" en absoluto: un periodo de inmensa violencia, oportunidades desperdiciadas y fracaso moral. Lo habitual es contemplar la primera mitad del siglo xx como una pesadilla y la segunda mitad como un respiro, pero Westad muestra que para una gran parte del mundo la segunda mitad fue aun peor en casi todos los sentidos.

Bajo la excusa del terror nazi, los Estados Unidos internaron a más de cuatro mil alemanes, residentes en Latinoamérica, en campos de trabajo del desierto de Texas. Algunos de ellos eran miembros del partido nazi; otros, judios que huian de Europa y fueron hechos prisioneros junto a sus enemigos y deportados de nuevo a Alemania; en su mayoria, alemanes sin una vinculacion politica directa. Este exhaustivo ensayo analiza los primitivos guantanamos y la llamada politica de buena vecindad que los Estados Unidos llevaria a la practica con una red de servicios de espionaje, como el FBI o la CIA, para hacerse con los mercados y sistemas politicos de gran parte de Latinoamerica.