Folkemord og etnisk udrensning

Das Gebiet der heutigen Ukraine gehörte zu den zentralen Tatorten der deutschen Besatzungsverbrechen und des Holocaust. Im September 1941 richteten die Deutschen dort das Reichskommissariat Ukraine ein, das zum Zeitpunkt seiner größten Ausdehnung aus Teilen des damaligen Ostpolens sowie der Sowjetrepubliken Belarus und Ukraine bestand. Zur Jahreswende 1941/42 ließ das Reichssicherheitshauptamt dort auch stationäre Dienststellen der Kommandeure der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD aufbauen. Sie führten weitgehend die verbrecherische Tätigkeit der sogenannten Einsatzgruppen fort, die weiter nach Osten vorstießen. Doch mit einem Unterschied: Sie waren gekommen, um zu bleiben und die Dystopie eines deutsch-dominierten Osteuropas in die Praxis umzusetzen. In der Folge erschossen die Angehörigen dieser Dienststellen unzählige als Juden und Roma verfolgte Menschen und Kriegsgefangene, errichteten ein eigenes Lagersystem, verfolgten den Widerstand, richteten eine einheimische Kriminalpolizei ein und nahmen aktiv Einfluss auf die Kirchenpolitik. Die Studie untersucht erstmals die Geschichte und das Personal der Dienststellen im Reichskommissariat Ukraine und wirft damit auch neues Licht auf die Praxis der Besatzung und den Holocaust.

Der Band erforscht, wie deutschsprachige Postmemory-Narrative zur Erneuerung des nationalen Erinnerungsdiskurses beitragen. Dazu werden Werke der Nachwendezeit untersucht, die sich im Grenzbereich zwischen Dokument und Fiktion bewegen. In ihrer Mischung aus (auto-)biographischer Spurensuche, archäologischer Ausgrabung und detektivischer Ermittlung sind diese Arbeiten zugleich Medium und Spiegel einer Pluralisierung des Erinnerns.

In 1939, in the Polish town of Tarnogród, 65 miles (105 km) south of Lublin, lived 5000 residents, half Jewish. Jews lived in Tarnogród for hundreds of years. By the end of WWII none remained.The story of this community, it's history, it's people, it's culture and it's demise is told in this book by those who survived. After the War they settled in Israel, the United States and England.In 1966, as a memorial to the Tarnogród they knew, they published Sefer Tarnogrod, The Book of Tarnogrod, in Yiddish and Hebrew.The authors wrote -"We do not pretend to erect a full memorial to the ancient Jewish Settlement in our city. Tarnogród deserves a more perfect monument. Our ambition was to describe and commemorate the Tarnogród that still lives in us, that is in our flesh and bones.May The Book of Tarnogrod be a kind of bridge between the past that has been so cruelly interrupted, and the future whosesun rises before our eyes."The authors hope that this book will serve as a bridge to the future is fulfilled. Jews have returned to Tarnogród to visit where their ancestors lived. In addition to what is written on these pages memorials have been erected in Tarnogród to those who perished in the Holocaust. And now Sefer Tarnogrod has been translated into English.

"In The Peace, Româeo Dallaire shows us the face of war through the prism of his own life in the military. His has been the journey of a man raised as a Cold Warrior, who became a New World Order warrior after the Berlin Wall fell. That man believed in the mandate of the UN to reinforce peace in Rwanda in 1994, only to see his mission collapse and the country descend into the hell of genocide. The battered, tortured person who emerged from that catastrophe grew determined to become a warrior who now fought against the new world disorder--to prevent genocide, to find ways to intervene in conflicts in defence of humanity. Dallaire helped craft doctrines called the "will to intervene" and "the right to protect," and then witnessed those initiatives fail to be deployed because of the same old power politics, national self-interest and general indifference that allowed the Rwandan genocide to unfold. Now in his final act, Dallaire has become a warrior working towards a better future in which those old paradigms are cracked. In The Peace he names all the things that undermine true peace and security because they reinforce the dangerous, self-interested belief that "balance" of power is the best we can do. Too often we settle for a definition of "at peace" that means we are content to stand by when the bombs are falling elsewhere because we ourselves are not under attack. Drawing on his own experience and witness, Dallaire shows us a path to what he calls "the peace," a state where, above all else, humanity values the ties that bind us and the planet together--and acts accordingly. The Peace is the cri de coeur of a warrior who has been to hell and back, and hopes to guide us to a better place."--

Bogen her indeholder 116 kildetekster og statistikker og illustrationer om Holocaust. Kilderne er alle kommenteret for at sætte dem ind i deres historiske sammenhæng.Bogens fagredaktør, Palle Andersen, indleder med en introduktion til begrebet Holocaust, jødeforfølgelserne og de nazistiske beslutningstagere, der stod bag folkemordet. Opbygningen er herefter kronologisk-tematisk for at sætte fokus på den konstante skærpelse af jødeforfølgelsen fra 1933 til 1945: Fra diskrimination og udstødelse over vold og forarmelse – og fra 1942 systematiske drab.Bogen forsøger, så langt kilderne tillader det, at se jødeforfølgelse og Holocaust fra børns og unges perspektiv. En række af kilderne er aldrig tidligere blevet trykt på dansk.HOLOCAUST – EN KOMMENTERET KILDESAMLING er målrettet historieundervisningen i udskolingen, på stx, hf og VUC.PALLE ANDERSEN (født 1955) er historiker. Han har tidligere udgivet en lang række bøger om nazismen og Holocaust, bl.a. Polen og Holocaust – polsk antisemitisme (Ellekær, 2018) og Holocaust – mordet på de europæiske jøder (Ellekær, 2000). Sammen med Mona Jensen har han skrevet Tyske krigsforbrydelser 1939-1945 – og den danske illegale presse (Syddansk Universitetsforlag, 2015).

Das Jahrbuch des Dokumentationsarchivs des österreichischen Widerstandes (DÖW) untersucht seit 1986 alle Aspekte des Nationalsozialismus. Dieses Bemühen um Erforschung und Aufarbeitung bleibt immer fragmentarisch. Zu viele Zeug*innen haben nicht überlebt, Dokumente wurden vernichtet, Erinnerungen lange abgewehrt. Dem trägt das Jahrbuch 2023 mit dem Titel "Bruchstücke" Rechnung. Die präzisen Einblicke der einzelnen Beiträge fügen sich wie Splitter zu verschiedenen Themen in ein Mosaik: die Befragung von ehemaligen SS- und Wehrmachtsangehörigen durch einen Auschwitz-Überlebenden in den 1960er Jahren in Deutschland, private Filmaufnahmen aus dem Kriegsgefangenenlager Stalag XVII A, die Erinnerung an den bewaffneten Widerstand der Kärntner Partisan*innen, die Vertreibung eines Kinderstars der Operette aus Wien, das Schicksal der ersten von Wien ins besetzte Polen deportierten Juden, das tödliche Bombenattentat auf österreichische Roma 1995, Demokratiebildung und rechtsextreme Einstellungen in migrantischen Communities. Das Buch skizziert verschiedene historische und aktuelle Ansätze und Motivationen von Forschenden ebenso wie die digitale Umsetzung von Ergebnissen heute.

The origin of the phrase 'Arbeit Macht Frei' is in the name of a novel from 1873 written by German philologist and novelist Lorenz Diefenbach (1806-1883). The Weimar Republic's government and the Nazi regime adopted this phrase. The Nazis placed it on several camps' gateways as misdirection, with contempt and irony, to instill false hopes in the prisoners' minds and prevent resistance and insurrection.This book focuses on the various representations, meanings, and interpretations of the image 'Arbeit Macht Frei' in artworks. Among the artists are Holocaust survivors, second-generation descendants of Holocaust survivors, and others. They have used the inscription as a motif from a personal or general point of view to convey political statements and messages, or to present values, morals, or universal perceptions.

"Battle Studies: Ancient and Modern Battle" is a seminal military history book written by Charles Ardant du Picq, a colonel in the French Army who was killed in 1870 during the Franco-Prussian War. The book is divided into two main parts. In the first part, Ardant du Picq discusses the psychological and emotional aspects of warfare, such as courage, fear, and morale. The second part of the book examines the tactics and organization of ancient armies, with a focus on the Roman legions. Ardant du Picq draws on his extensive knowledge of ancient history to analyze the strengths and weaknesses of different types of units, such as infantry and cavalry, and to offer insights into the tactics and strategies that were most effective in ancient warfare. The final section of the book focuses on modern warfare and the challenges faced by modern armies. Moreover, "Battle Studies: Ancient and Modern Battle" is a highly influential work that offers valuable insights into the nature of warfare and the factors that contribute to success or failure in battle.

Pioneering study of the role of the Christian churches in the Rwandan genocide of the Tutsi; a key work for historians, memory studies scholars, religion scholars and Africanists.

"This is a Borzoi book published by Alfred A. Knopf"--Title page verso

"As a unique and innovative addition to the scholarship on Nazi Germany, the Holocaust, and modern Polish history, this volume provides fresh analysis on the Nazi occupation of Poland. Through new questions and engaging untapped sources the leading historians who have contributed to this volume provide original scholarship to steer debates and expand the historiography surrounding Nazi racial and occupation policies, Polish and Jewish responses to them, persecution, police terror, resistance, and complicity"--

"H.G. Adler (1910-1988) was one of the founding figures of Holocaust scholarship whose monumental monograph Theresienstadt 1941-1945. The Face of a Coerced Community (1955; 1960) was the first study to present a fully documented account of the Final Solution. This collection gathers together, for the first time in English, some of Adler's most important scholarly essays on the Shoah and connected themes. Ideas raised for the first time in his book on Theresienstadt are here taken up and developed at greater length, new accents are set, and new themes are explored. Spanning his thought across three decades they focus on the fate of the 'coerced' human being and reflect on freedom, enslavement, terror, concentration camps, persecution, the mass society, dread, loneliness, and ideology"--

"This by turns shattering and hope-giving account of prisoners who dug their way out of torture and bondage by the Nazis is both a stunning escape narrative and an object lesson in how we remember and continually forget the particulars of the Holocaust. No Road Leading Back is the remarkable story of a dozen prisoners who escaped from the pits where more than 70,000 Jews were shot in the Lithuanian forest after the Nazi invasion of Eastern Europe in 1941, and where they were forced participants in the equally horrific aftermath: anxious to hide the incriminating evidence of the murders, the S.S. enslaved a group of Jews to exhume every one of the bodies and incinerate them all in a months-long labor-an episode whose specifics are staggering and disturbing, even within the context of the Holocaust. From within that dire circumstance emerges the improbable escape made by some of the men who were part of this "burning brigade." They dug a tunnel with bare hands and spoons while they were trapped and guarded day and night-an act not just of great bravery and desperation but of awesome imagination. Based on first-person accounts of the escapees and on each scrap of evidence that has been documented, repressed, or amplified since, this book resurrects their lives and their acts of witness, as well as providing a complex, urgent analysis of why their story has rarely been told, and never accurately. Heath explores the cultural use and misuse of Holocaust testimony and the need for us to face it-and all uncomfortable historical truths-with honesty and accuracy"--

Fortællingerne i denne bog taler til dig. De bevæger, fordi de insisterer på dig som vidne, en flue på væggen. Det, du lytter til, er menneskeskæbner, grufulde, underfulde, stilfærdige menneskeskæbner og familieskæbner, beretninger om individuelle og kollektive sorger og traumer. Det er stærke fortællinger om polske jøders skæbner, mesterligt fortalt.”Disse små indtrængende prosatekster bevæger og foruroliger på samme tid. Hvis diagnosen, de stiller, er rigtig, har vi et kæmpe problem i Polen” – Olga Tokarczuk, Nobelprismodtager 2018

The Final Solution, first published in 1953, is an authoritative account of the Nazi's systematic plan to exterminate Jews (and other groups) in the 1930s until the end of World War II in 1945. The book traces the beginnings of the Holocaust and the Nazi pogroms against the Jews-the Nuremburg Laws, the Week of Broken Glass, the ghettos and deportations-to the extermination camps and gas chambers of Auschwitz, and Nazi actions throughout Russia, western Europe and the Balkans. Appendices detail Reitlinger's estimates of the final death toll (although some of Reitlinger's figures are considered overly conservative today) and describe the fate of leading participants in "the final solution."Gerald Reitlinger (1900-1978) was an art historian and author of several books on the Nazi period, and served in the British army during the war. Today, The Final Solution remains one of the most objective and best-documented sources on the Holocaust.

In this volume, six experts from Europe and Africa present new insights from the field about various aspects of Germany¿s colonial rule in Africa, raising doubt about the hitherto interpretations of some important events. The outbreak of violence in Rwanda 1904 was neither an anti-colonial Hutu uprising nor the result of a royal court intrigue against German rule, but instead a response to raids, the White Father missionaries had carried out against the local population. German colonialism in Rwanda was much less benevolent than it is today recalled in Rwanda, because its main edge was directed against the population in the North whose collective memory has been marginalized in the royal abanyiginya narrative, under colonial rule and after the genocide. Other chapters deal with the link between colonial boundaries and ethnic conflict and the counter-intuitive consequences of the German/Namibian settlement about colonial atrocities against the Herero and Nama.

Silný zápisník plný surových spomienok na holokaust.Pre¿la si hrôzou a pre¿ila, aby mohla rozprávä príbehy tých, ktorí nemali také ¿¿astie...Po¿sko, 1943. Tragicky osirelá Janina Hescheles kädý ve¿er recitovala poéziu na pozadí horiacich tiel v tábore Janowski. Jej sugestívne slová upútali pozornos¿ podzemného hnutia a tesne pred zni¿ením tábora a masovým vyvrädením ¿idovských zajatcov ju prepäovali na slobodu. Ukrývajúc sa v Krakove, dostala písacie potreby, aby zachytila brutálne obrazy vo svojej hlave. Ako dvanás¿ro¿ná zäala verne zaznamenávä udalosti a mená m¿tvych.Heschelesovej záznamy sa zäínajú v júni 1941 nemilosrdnou nacistickou okupáciou jej milovaného mesta ¿vov. Prostredníctvom ¿ivých spomienok podrobne opisuje násilné uväznenie svojich priate¿ov, rodiny a susedov v gete. Jej jedine¿né svedectvo pripomína bolestnú tú¿bu die¿äa po matke a otcovi, ktorých stratilo v dôsledku sadistickej Tretej rí¿e.V tomto odvá¿nom príbehu o nevinnosti, ktorá bola odobratá v takej mladosti, Hescheles odhäuje krutú kädodennú realitu stränej genocídy ¿idov. Nebála sa zastrelenia, ale pochovania zäiva - osudu vyhradeného pre deti. Tento neoby¿ajný zápisník, napísaný s opisnou bezprostrednos¿ou po¿as najhrozivej¿ej epizódy dejín, je in¿piratívnym príkladom svedectva pre¿iv¿ej holokaustu o spomienkach strateného národa. Doplnené sú¿asným predslovom, Hescheles je príkladom toho, ¿e ¿ivot a nádej mô¿u pokräovä aj po nepredstavite¿nej tragédii.Môj ¿vov: Memoáre dvanás¿ro¿ného diev¿äa o holokauste sú fascinujúce spomienky, ktoré o¿ivujú desivú udalos¿. Ak máte radi autentické záznamy z prvej ruky, pôsobivé postrehy a dojímavé ¿ítanie, potom si Heschelesovej rozprávanie o detstve zamilujete.