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Showing 1 to 20 of 178 for “"The Holocaust"”.
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Dramatic narratives and the holocaust
This thesis analyses dramatic and historical narratives about the Holocaust. Primarily, it focuses on Israeli, German and Austrian writers from the time of the Final solution (1941) to the mid 1990s. In particular, I will highlight how the 'trauma' of the Holocaust has influenced collective …
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Media and the Holocaust: A Comparative Thematic Analysis
… This paper will focus specifically on answering the question: How were themes surrounding the Holocaust presented within German vs. US media from 1938-1948 and how did they differ? This question will be answered through a comparative thematic analysis, comparing the themes presented in media …
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Family Arrest and Separation During the Holocaust in Italy
Despite the fact that families are specifically targeted by genocide perpetrators, genocide and Holocaust researchers have paid relatively little attention to how patterns of victimization of individuals might differ from those of families. This thesis contributes to the literature by examining …
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Understanding the Holocaust: Ernest Becker and the "Heroic Nazi"
This paper examines the power and limitations of historical analysis in regards to explaining the Holocaust and in particular the widespread consent to the Nazi program. One of the primary limitations that emerges is an inability of historians to fully engage other social sciences to offer a more …
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Aftermath: Accounting for the Holocaust in the Czech Republic
Reparations are often theorized in the vein of juridical accountability: victims of historical injustices call states to account for their suffering; states, in a gesture that marks a restoration of the rule of law, acknowledge and repair these wrongs via financial compensation. But as reparations …
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Trauma, Memory and Victimhood: Estonia and the Holocaust, 1998-2012
Memory of the traumatic Soviet past has both dominated the politics of history in Estonia and been a key determining factor in building a national post-Soviet European identity. As a result, the Holocaust in Estonia has played a less substantial role in both scholarship, and public debate, …
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Absent meaning: Fascination, narrative, and trauma in the Holocaust imaginary
<p>Examining post-1970 representations of the Holocaust and Nazism along with critical responses to these representations, the dissertation demonstrates how a use of the term "fascination" has shaped contemporary understandings of how the Holocaust should and should not be represented and …
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Interactions of War: Exhibiting World War II and the Holocaust
<p>This paper discusses the use of interactive elements in museums that deal with difficult subject matter, such as war or genocide. This research involves interviews with museum personnel at the Columbus Museum in Columbus, Georgia, the National Infantry Museum in Columbus, Georgia, the Museum of …
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Memory, Cinema and Deathscapes: Re-membering the Holocaust in Poland
Holocaust memory is at a critical juncture. The intersection of anxieties about survivors and firsthand witnesses growing fewer and frailer, the ever-growing importance and ongoing boom in popular media representations of the Holocaust across the last four decades, and the contemporary threat of …
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The holocaust and apartheid: similarities and differences: a comparative study
… fairly commonplace to make comparisons between the Holocaust and Apartheid. This dissertation explores similarities and differences. It acknowledges that both systems were rooted in ideas of race, but while the tools used by the Nazis in Germany and the apartheid government in South Africa are …
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Third generation narratives of the Holocaust: a narrative auto-ethnographic inquiry
Much of the previous research into the third generation after the holocaust focuses upon measures of wellbeing and pathology, following the well-established trauma-resilience narrative. This study makes a unique contribution to a more nuanced story of the on-going impact of the holocaust upon the …
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The SS: The Phony Elite and Brutal Preparators of the Holocaust
<p>The SS have long been considered Hitler‘s elite forces, the most ideologically committed and advanced version of the New Nazi man. This work demonstrates as the war progressed, the SS came to rely more heavily on those who were not elite but rather of dubious, criminal, and poorly educated …
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Jewish theodicy : reflections on the Holocaust and Zionism in rabbinical thought
Includes bibliographical references.
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Verses on Auschwitz : images of the Holocaust in modern American poetry
This thesis examines how poetic responses to the Holocaust in America, when they emerged, have differed from the novels addressing the same subject; how the Second World War has challenged, in a way the First World War did not, basic humanistic assumptions regarding the image of man, the role of …
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Blank Pages of the Holocaust: Gypsies in Yugoslavia During World War II
After a general overview of the persecution of Gypsies (Roma) during World War II, this thesis focuses on the situation of Gypsies on the territory of Serbia and Croatia. The two republics are chosen because of their unique structures during the years 1941 to 1945. Both republics had puppet regimes …
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The Effects of the Holocaust for Six Polish Catholic Survivors and their Descendants
… and Jehovah’s witnesses were murdered in the Holocaust. It is less understood that due to their ethnic identity that approximately, 1. 9 million Polish Catholic citizens were murdered during the Holocaust and that 1.7 million Polish non-Jews were imprisoned in concentration camps in …
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HBO and the Holocaust: Conspiracy, the historical film, and public history at Wannsee
… Box Office aired Conspiracy, a dramatization of the infamous Wannsee Conference organized by Reinhard Heydrich and Adolf Eichmann. The Conference took place in Berlin on 20 January 1942 and was intended to coordinate the Final Solution by asserting the dominance of Heydrich and the SS over other …
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