Prison Journal 1940 1945
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Author | : Edouard Daladier |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2022-02-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 100030812X |
Even after fifty years, and in spite of the reams of documents now available,it remains difficult-especially in France-to form an objective view of what things were like in the period between the wars and in 1940.The greater, the swifter, the more unexpected the disaster, the less people are willing to deal with it squarely. Once a certain threshold of suffering,shame, and humiliation is reached, actual facts become unimportant,analyses become bothersome. History falls prey to myth and rumor.People refuse to hear any more, but they still need someone to blame. In France, the strangest of bedfellows have come to speak about it in one voice, and the good people have remained mute.
Author | : Edouard Daladier |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 367 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : France |
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Author | : Edouard Daladier |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2019-09-13 |
Genre | : France |
ISBN | : 9780367284268 |
Even after fifty years, and in spite of the reams of documents now available,it remains difficult-especially in France-to form an objective view of what things were like in the period between the wars and in 1940.The greater, the swifter, the more unexpected the disaster, the less people are willing to deal with it squarely. Once a certain threshold of suffering,shame, and humiliation is reached, actual facts become unimportant,analyses become bothersome. History falls prey to myth and rumor.People refuse to hear any more, but they still need someone to blame. In France, the strangest of bedfellows have come to speak about it in one voice, and the good people have remained mute.
Author | : Luise Rinser |
Publisher | : Schocken Books Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
"In 1944, the young writer Luise Rinser - who was neither Jewish nor Communist - was denounced by a 'friend', arrested for high treason, and sent to the women's prison at Traunstein in Bavaria. This book is the diary she kept, secretly, while she awaited an almost certain death sentence. Besides being an eloquent testament to the strength of the human spirit, it is a fascinating document of prison life under the Nazis - a world which, for all its harshness, was vastly different from the forced labor camps and the death camps."--Jacket.
Author | : Luise Rinser |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Authors, German |
ISBN | : 9780140112030 |
Author | : Alfred Hassler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 1944 |
Genre | : Conscientious objectors |
ISBN | : |
The hand written journal of a conscientious objector jailed in the Lewisburg Penitentiary in World War II. The journal covers the period September 7, 1944 through November 17, 1944. The journal addendum extends from November 29, 1944 through January 30, 1945.
Author | : Martin Thomas |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2017-03-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1526121433 |
The French empire at war draws on original research in France and Britain to investigate the history of the divided French empire – the Vichy and the Free French empires – during the Second World War. What emerges is a fascinating story. While it is clear that both the Vichy and Free French colonial authorities were only rarely masters of their own destiny during the war, preservation of limited imperial control served them both in different ways. The Vichy government exploited the empire in an effort to withstand German-Italian pressure for concessions in metropolitan France and it was key to its claim to be more than the mouthpiece of a defeated nation. For Free France too, the empire acquired a political and symbolic importance which far outweighed its material significance to the Gaullist war effort. As the war progressed, the Vichy empire lost ground to that of the Free French, something which has often been attributed to the attraction of the Gaullist mystique and the spirit of resistance in the colonies. In this radical new interpretation, Thomas argues that it was neither of these. The course of the war itself, and the initiatives of the major combatant powers, played the greatest part in the rise of the Gaullist empire and the demise of Vichy colonial control.
Author | : Omer Bartov |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2000-08-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0190281944 |
Mirrors of Destruction examines the relationship between total war, state-organized genocide, and the emergence of modern identity. Here, Omer Bartov demonstrates that in the twentieth century there have been intimate links between military conflict, mass murder of civilian populations, and the definition and categorization of groups and individuals. These connections were most clearly manifested in the Holocaust, as the Nazis attempted to exterminate European Jewry under cover of a brutal war and with the stated goal of creating a racially pure Aryan population and Germanic empire. The Holocaust, however, can only be understood within the context of the century's predilection for applying massive and systematic methods of destruction to resolve conflicts over identity. To provide the context for the "Final Solution," Bartov examines the changing relationships between Jews and non-Jews in France and Germany from the outbreak of World War I to the present. Rather than presenting a comprehensive history, or a narrative from a single perspective, Bartov views the past century through four interrelated prisms. He begins with an analysis of the glorification of war and violence, from its modern birth in the trenches of World War I to its horrifying culmination in the presentation of genocide by the SS as a glorious undertaking. He then examines the pacifist reaction in interwar France to show how it contributed to a climate of collaboration with dictatorship and mass murder. The book goes on to argue that much of the discourse on identity throughout the century has had to do with identifying and eliminating society's "elusive enemies" or "enemies from within." Bartov concludes with an investigation of modern apocalyptic visions, showing how they have both encouraged mass destructions and opened a way for the reconstruction of individual and collective identifies after a catastrophe. Written with verve, Mirrors of Destruction is rich in interpretations and theoretical tools and provides a new framework for understanding a central trait of modern history.
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 654 |
Release | : 1939 |
Genre | : Prisons |
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Author | : Richard S. Geehr |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Letters written to and by Nazi concentration camp prisoners were subject to the scrutiny of extensive regulations: letters had to be written in German and were censored by S.S. personnel; sending money was permitted but packages were not; requests to speak to or visit prisoners were prohibited; and newspapers were permitted but only if ordered through the concentration camp post office. Though inmates could, in theory, send or receive two letters or cards each month, the regulations governing correspondence could be suspended arbitrarily and without notice. Collected here are the correspondences of non-Jewish concentration camp prisoners; in a final blow of 'regulatory' inhumanity, mail privileges were denied to Jews.