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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"German military"”.
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A Catalyst for the Development of Human Rights: German Internment Practices in the First World War,1914-1929
This thesis is a transnational study of the military actions and responses related to prisoners of war in World War I. Building on the works human rights scholars, I explore the how the collective rights afforded to prisoners of war under the 1906 Geneva Convention and 1907 Hague Convention served …
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Sharp edges of the horizon: a fissure between “openness” and “emptiness” on the Tempelhofer Feld in Berlin
… and runways of the Tempelhof Airport in Berlin, Germany, have layered histories. The nearly two-square-mile area served as a late nineteenth-century agricultural field, fair ground, twentieth-century German military base, concentration camp, US military base, and airport, before being opened as a …
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From “Total Destruction” to “Total Dictatorship”: The Influence of Ernst Jünger’s Visionary Fascism
… elements to create his influential vision of German fascism? What were Jünger’s interactions and exchanges with other European fascists, as well as influential Nazis including Carl Schmitt, Joseph Goebbels, and Adolph Hitler himself? How did Jünger’s new Fascist politics and aesthetics affect …
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Intimate Encounters and the Politics of German Occupation in Belgium, 1940-44/45
Throughout the German military occupation of Belgium in the Second World War, German troops and Belgian civilians lived alongside one another and interacted in everyday life, in spite of repeated efforts of the German High Command and Nazi party to incite German men in uniform to avoid contact with …
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Autonomy in the Great War: the experience of the German soldier on the Eastern Front
From 1914 to 1919, the German military established an occupation zone in the territory of present day Poland, Lithuania, and Latvia. Cultural historians have generally focused on the role of German soldiers as psychological and physical victims trapped in total war that was out of their control. …
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Fiction, ideology and history : a critical examination of Hans Grimm's novel 'Kaffernland'
… Kaffernland, eine deutsche Sage (Kaffraria, a German Legend) within the context of the historical discourse of the nineteenth-century as it has been challenged by presentday critical historiography. Central to Grimm's text is the problematic relationship between fiction and historical reality. …
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The Failure of the Proposed European Defense Community and Its Implications on the European Union's Pursuit of Strategic Autonomy
… was a failed attempt at European integration in military and defense. This thesis intends to examine how and why the EDC failed and what it means for today. This thesis aims to understand what are the implications for the EDC's failure in the EU's efforts to gain strategic autonomy. This issue is …
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Synthesizing the chemical subject: Poison gas, gas masks, and collective armoring in Germany, 1915-1938
During World War I, German scientists and engineers were the first to develop the modern gas mask as well as many of the weaponized gases that are still stockpiled in the Middle East today. In the wake of their first use on the Ypres battlefields in 1915, German soldiers quickly realized the …
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La costruzione dell’altro. Corrispondenti fra Italia e Germania dal Deutsches Reich alla Prima guerra mondiale (1871-1915)
… published by Italian correspondents in Germany and German journalists in Italy between 1871 and 1915 in order to investigate the transformation of the image of the Other through stereotypes and clichés in a period that was central to bilateral relations. The aim of the study is …
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The German Army at a Crossroads of Modernization
<p>This thesis examines the German civil-military relationship and the challenges the country is facing amidst modernizing reforms to the German armed forces. Over the last quarter of a century, new international security threats have manifested and continue to transform requiring Germany to adapt …