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Es gilt als zentraler Bezugspunkt der deutschen Erinnerungskultur, dass Auschwitz sich nicht wiederholen soll. Diese moralische Schlussfolgerung aus dem schwerwiegenden historischen Erbe der NS-Vergangenheit ist in der offiziellen Erinnerungskultur der Bundesrepublik fest verankert. Die Auseinandersetzung mit der NS-Zeit ist jedoch mit großen Spannungen verbunden, die nicht zuletzt auf die Diskrepanz zwischen privater Überlieferung in der Familie und staatlicher Gedenkkultur zurückzuführen sind. Während im Zentrum der offiziellen Erinnerungskultur der Holocaust und Auschwitz im Vordergrund stehen, stehen in dem des Familiengedächtnisses Kriegserfahrungen, eigenes Leid und Opferschaft. Vor diesem Hintergrund wird die Kritik an der etablierten Erinnerungskultur laut, die Empathie gegenüber den Opfern des NS-Regimes und davon ausgehend eine eindeutige Distanzierung von den Tätern vorschreibt, da Distanzierung die offene, kritische Auseinandersetzung mit der Täterschaft erschwert und dadurch die Nachwirkungen ihrer ideologischen Muster bis in die Gegenwart ausgeblendet lässt. Da der Abschied von den Zeitzeugen der NS-Zeit in seine Schlussphase getreten ist, drängen zugleich auch Fragen nach Modi des Erinnerns und nach dem angemessenen Umgang mit der NS-Vergangenheit in das Bewusstsein. Die zunehmende zeitliche Distanz zum Dritten Reich und die damit einhergehend notwendig gewordene Historisierung des Nationalsozialismus werden jedoch von manchen als Chance begriffen, sich mit der belasteten (Familien-)Geschichte auseinanderzusetzen. Innerhalb dieses diskursiven Feldes kommt nun der autobiografischen Familienliteratur der nachgeborenen Generationen, die seit der Jahrtausendwende auf dem deutschen Büchermarkt einen großen Erfolg erzielt, eine besondere Bedeutung zu. Entscheidend an diesen Texten ist die Einsicht, dass sich die Erfahrungen des Nationalsozialismus und die damit immer noch verbundenen Gefühle der vorangegangenen Generationen und das Schweigen darüber in der Familie auf die Nachkommen selbst auswirken können. Die Motivation des autobiografischen Schreibens der Familiengeschichte ist also die Erkenntnis, dass erst durch eine bewusste Auseinandersetzung mit den belastenden Themen und Gefühlen der vorangegangenen Generation es möglich ist, die Gegenwart und die Zukunft von der Last der Vergangenheit zu befreien. Ziel der vorliegenden Studie ist, die verschiedenen thematischen Aspekte und narrativen Strategien der Auseinandersetzung mit Täterschaft und deren Folgen in der zeitgenössischen autobiografischen Familienliteratur herauszuarbeiten und sie in einen erinnerungsdiskursiven Zusammenhang zu stellen. Zur Untersuchung stehen sechs ausgewählte Werke, die von deutschen Intellektuellen der Nachkriegsgeneration nach der Jahrtausendwende veröffentlicht wurden und in denen jeweils bestimmte Thematiken und Erzählweisen in Bezug auf die Auseinandersetzung mit der NS-Täterschaft dominieren, so dass die unterschiedlichen Bearbeitungen von Familiengeschichten unter ähnlichen Fragestellungen sichtbar werden. Aus der Untersuchung lassen sich folgende Schlussfolgerungen ziehen: Die Stärke der Texte liegt in der Angleichung an den familiären und politisch-kulturellen Diskurs, indem sie durch die Aufarbeitung der eigenen Familiengeschichte Glaubwürdigkeit und Authentizität herstellen. In ihrer sensibel-aufmerksamen Feinfühligkeit der Auseinandersetzung mit der Schwelle zwischen gelebter Vergangenheit der Familie und einem historischen Blick der nachgeborenen Generation auf die nicht selbst erlebte nationale Geschichte widersetzen sich die Autoren der autobiografischen Familienliteratur einer historisierenden Tendenz, die NS-Vergangenheit in einer vom gegenwärtigen sozialen, politischen und lebensweltlichen Erleben und den emotionalen Empfindungen des Einzelnen abgespaltenen Perspektive zu betrachten.

Until the end of the Cold War in 1990, building projects and architectural icons played an important role in the self-portrayal of the competing systems. However, as the current research shows, we also find a large variety of forms of cooperation between the East, the South, and the West, not to forget the manifold cross-border entanglements within the South or the East. This book explores the intersection of two strands of research. On the one hand, interaction in the field of architecture and construction between actors from socialist countries and from countries of the Global South have increasingly won interest amongst historians of architecture and planning. On the other hand, in the context of the strongly emerging Cold War Studies, scholars have explored cooperation and circulation across the Iron Curtain with a focus on economic and research planning. This book connects perspectives of planning, construction and architectural design with those on economic interests and conflicts in projects and networks. Furthermore, it opens the view to the hubs of communication and exchange, and on patterns of longterm transformation and appropriation of architecture.

The SR-71 Blackbird is an iconic aircraft that has come to symbolize America's technological superiority during the Cold War. Using recently declassified information, globally renowned expert Paul Crickmore updates his definitive account of the aircraft.The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird ranks as one of the most elegant, sleek and powerful aeroplanes ever designed. But it was not built to be admired - it was built not to be seen at all. The high-altitude aerial reconnaissance sorties it was to perform were top secret and carefully concealed from public knowledge. However, as the aircraft have become museum pieces and details of their work declassified, the whole story of their design and operation can finally be told.This updated edition of Paul Crickmore's classic Lockheed Blackbird: Beyond the Secret Missions is based on 850 pages of documentation and images declassified by the CIA covering the A-12 Oxcart programme. These highly significant documents range from discussions at the highest levels of the US government concerning the rationale for Oxcart's development and eventual deployment, to extremely detailed intelligence data gleaned from each of the 29 operational missions flown by Oxcart during Operation Black Shield. The Blackbird family of aircraft continue to fascinate a wide age group and, since the aircraft will never fly again, its history has become timeless. This new edition will provide the last word on the SR-71 Blackbird and its operational history.

300人委員会」のロイヤル・ダッチ・シェルが、現在世界で操業している石油会社の中で最も古く、最も大きな会社の一つであることは間違いないだろう。2005年の売上高は3,067億3,000万ドルでした。オランダの故ユリアナ女王、ヴィクター・ロスチャイルド卿、アフリカのナシ王子 アーネスト・オッペンハイマー卿、ロンドンのサミュエル家、ウィンザー家がロイヤル ダッチ シェルの大株主である。ジュリアナの死後、その株はオレンジ家（オランダ）に渡った。石油産業の歴史的な説明は、すべての国、特に帝国主義のイギリスが欲しがるイラクの土地と石油の「外交」（嘘、偽りの約束、脅迫、二重取引、政治的圧力、いじめ、不当な盗み）の紆余曲折を通して、私たちを導いてくれます。先進国で石油を持たないイギリスは、一世紀近くもイラクとイランの内政に干渉し、果たされない約束に基づき、ビロードの手袋に隠された鉄拳の脅威のもとで、次々と誘惑し、おだて、譲歩を引き出してきたのです。イラクとイランで豊富な原油が発見され、米国と両国との対立状態が95年前から続いている。

Journeys of Soviet Things is an oral history of the Cold War, in which Indians and Cubans use Soviet objects such as cars, washing machines, cameras, books and nesting dolls to narrate about Soviet friendship during the Cold War as personal, affective and everyday experience.

Yasuhiro Nakasone, who served as prime minister for more than five years in the 1980s, was one of Japan's leading postwar politicians. This book is a biography of him but, by interweaving in international politics and media appraisals of him, it also serves as an examination of Japan's postwar politics.

"In the decades between the Great Depression and the advent of cable television, when daily newspapers set the conversational agenda for the people of the United States, the best reporter in the business was a rumpled, hard-drinking figure named Homer Bigart. His reporting left marks on history. In 26 years at the New York Herald Tribune and 17 more at the New York Times, Bigart chronicled and brought to life the events that defined the era - wars in Europe, the Pacific, Korea, and Vietnam, the civil rights movement, the creation of Israel, the end of colonialism in Africa, and the Cuban revolution. He was one of the first reporters to visit and describe Hiroshima after the atomic bomb. He was the first correspondent to penetrate the Haganah, the militant Zionist underground in Palestine. He recounted the trial of Adolf Eichmann, the Army-McCarthy hearings, and the court-martial of William Calley. A model of versatility, he also wrote with verve and compassion about strip mining in Kentucky, squalor on the Bowery and the murder of a shopkeeper in Harlem. Despite two Pulitzers and a host of other prizes, Bigart never sought fame; when he retired from the New York Times in 1972, he quickly faded from public view, and few today know the extent to which he was esteemed by his peers and those who came after, including Neil Sheehan and David Halberstam. This is the first comprehensive biography to encompass all of Bigart's reporting, not just his war reporting"--

Internationale Investoren in Ostdeutschland Die rapide Massenprivatisierung der ostdeutschen Wirtschaft nach der "Wende" ging zu keinem Zeitpunkt allein von der alten Bundesrepublik aus. Keith R. Allen schildert in seiner englischsprachigen Studie das Engagement von Akteuren aus dem Ausland - vor allem aus Westeuropa - als Investoren, als Rat- und Kapitalgeber sowie als Mitentscheider über erhebliche Beihilfen von Land und Bund. Es geht nicht darum zu bewerten, was bei der Übernahme der ostdeutschen Wirtschaft durch die Bundesrepublik falsch - oder möglicherweise richtig - gelaufen ist. Vielmehr zeigt diese Studie, dass die Marktentwicklungen im Deutschland der 1990er Jahre eng mit Akteuren, Ereignissen und Interessen in westeuropäischen Ländern und den USA verknüpft waren. Ein englischsprachiger Beitrag zur Geschichte der Treuhandanstalt Dieses Buch steht im Open Access unter der Creative-Commons-Lizenz CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 auf dem Dokumentenserver »Zeitgeschichte Open« des Instituts für Zeitgeschichte München-Berlin bereit: www.ifz-muenchen.de/bibliothek/zeitgeschichte-open. DOI 10.15463/ifz-2023-1Die Veröffentlichung wurde durch den Open-Access-Publikationsfonds für Monografien der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft gefördert.

This is a vivid and powerful story of life on board the Royal Navy's Cold War aircraft carriers.

Oren re-examines Japan's threat perception throughout the entire Cold war, using a wide range of source materials, including many unavailable in English, or only recently declassified.

This book connects the work of US private foundations, the United States government, and Brazilian intellectuals to explore how they worked collaboratively to address racial disparities in Brazil during the Cold War.

Stalinism, that particularly brutal phase of communism, came to an end in most of Eastern Europe with the death of Josef Stalin in 1953 or at least with the Khrushchev reforms that began in the Soviet Union in 1956. However, in one country - Albania - Stalinism survived virtually unscathed until 1990. The regime that the Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha led from the time of the communist takeover in 1944 until his death in 1985, and that continued unabated under his successor Ramiz Alia until 1990, was incomparably severe. Such was the reign of terror that no audible voice of opposition or dissent ever arose in the Balkan state, a European country that became as isolated from the rest of the world as North Korea is today. When the Albanian communist system finally imploded, it left behind a weary population, frightened and confused after decades of purges and political terror. It also left behind a country with a weak and fragile economy, a country where extreme poverty was the norm. In the decades since Hoxha's death, Albania has made substantial progress in political and economic terms, yet the spectre of Hoxha still lingers over the country.Despite this, many people - inside and outside Albania - know little about the man who ruled the country with an iron fist for so many decades. This book provides the first biography of Enver Hoxha available in English, from his birth in GjirokastEr in southern Albania, then still under Ottoman rule, to his death in 1985 at the age of 76. Using archival documents and first-hand interviews, Albanian journalist Blendi Fevziu pieces together the life of this tyrannical ruler, in a biography which will be essential reading for anyone interested in Balkan history and communist studies.

This study about the British artist Roy Ascott, one of the first cybernetic artists, with a career spanning seven decades to date. The book focuses on his early career, exploring the evolution of his early interests in communication in the context of the rich overlaps between art, science and engineering in Britain during the 1950s and 1960s.

Hollywood Remembrance and American War addresses the synergy between Hollywood war films and American forms of war remembrance. Subjecting the notion that war films ought to be considered ¿the war memorials of today' to critical scrutiny, the book develops a theoretical understanding of how Hollywood war films, as rhetorical sites of remembering and memory, reflect, replicate and resist American modes of remembrance.The authors first develop the framework for, and elaborate on, the co-evolution of Hollywood war cinema and American war memorialization in the historical, political and ideological terms of remembrance, and the parallel synergic relationship between the aesthetic and industrial status of Hollywood war cinema and the remembering of American war on film. The chapters then move to analysis of Hollywood war films - covering The Great War, World War II, The Korean War, The Vietnam War, The Cold War, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq - and critically scrutinize the terms upon which a film could be considered a memorial to the war it represents.Bringing together the fields of film studies and memory studies, this book will be of interest to scholars and students in not just these areas but those in the fields of history, media and cultural studies more broadly, too.

This edited volume analyses European socialist countries' strategy of engagement with the West and the European Economic Community in the long 1970s.The book focuses on a time when the socialist regimes of Central and Eastern Europe banked their hopes for prosperity and stability on enhanced relations with the West. Crossing the traditional differences among diverse fields of historiography, it assesses the complex influence of European and global processes of transformation on the socialist elites' reading of the international political and economic environment and their consequent decision-making. The volume also explores the debate in each country among and within the elites involved in policymaking as they elaborated this strategic view and coped with shortcomings and unexpected turns. A comparative analysis of national cases shows a shared logic and common patterns, together with national variations and a plurality of views on the desirability of exchanges with their capitalist neighbours and on the ways to promote them. The multinational coverage of seven countries makes this volume a starting point for anyone interested in each socialist state's foreign policy, intra-bloc relations, economic strategy, transformation and collapse, relations with the European Community and access to the EU.This book will be of much interest to students and researchers of Cold War Studies, European history, and International Relations.The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.routledge.com/European-Socialist-Regimes-Fateful-Engagement-with-the-West-National-Strategies/Romano-Romero/p/book/9780367356170, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

This volume will help students and others understand the long arc of the Helsinki process, its place in European history and its continuing relevance today. Drawing on the first-hand experience of the author and other sources, the book corrects common errors and identifies some of the key people involved.

Bomber Command is a richly illustrated account of the Royal Air Force organisation from its inception prior to the Second World War in 1936 to its final years during the Cold War. The book covers the reasons for Bomber Command and the personnel that guided its formation and the philosophy and politics of the change from strategic bombing to area bombing, and the ensuing controversy. The Bomber Command organisation and how it functioned is traced, from Headquarters down to the various Groups and the many Squadrons. Famous and specialised Squadrons and the honours awarded to them are explored. Gordon Wilson does not neglect the social impact of this huge organisation: a bomber base had a large impact on the local economy and many lasting war-time bonds were established. The operational aircraft that spearheaded the might of Bomber Command and brought the bombs to the enemy's shores included famous machines such as the Avro Lancaster, Handley Page Halifax and the unique fighter-bomber, the de Havilland Mosquito. The author analyses their construction and performance. Major target raids and the aircraft and Squadrons taking part are described. Some raids were ill conceived, others were brilliant in their execution. The transition to the Cold War and nuclear deterrence naturally confronted Bomber Command with an entirely rewritten role and saw the introduction of a new generation of V-Force jet bombers. Complemented with a range of images of memorials, famous personnel, stations, aircraft, aircraft engines, and manufacturer's factories, Bomber Command is a fitting tribute to 'The Many'.