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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"concentration camp"”.
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German Architectural Modernism, Spatial Perpetration and the Concentration Camp, 1933–1945
… extent to which the built environment of Nazi concentration camps is itself a historical source and whether the spatial experiences created were deliberate; it is hypothesised that close connections exist between concentration camps as physical manifestations of Nazi ideology and modernist …
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The United States and the Concentration Camp Trials at Dachau, 1945-1947
… and military trials held at the former concentration camp at Dachau. Within the Dachau military tribunal programme, were the concentration camp trials in which personnel from the Dachau, Mauthausen, Buchenwald, Flossenbürg, and Dora-Mittelbau concentration camps were arraigned. These …
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Pathology as a Crime: Analysis of Dissection Protocols from Flossenbürg Concentration Camp, 1944-1945
… protocols that were produced in the Flossenbürg concentration camp between July 1944 and April 1945. After an introductory overview of the history of pathology and an outline of the history of the Flossenbürg camp, the study describes the protocols in regards to formal and qualitative criteria. …
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Film evidence in war crimes trials: Two case studies
… evident in relation to the dramatic use of Nazi Concentration Camp at Nuremberg, which has been subjected to varied debate. To this end, much of this debate is centred on whether the screening of the atrocity film had a “prejudicial impact” or whether it was justified on the basis of “serving the …
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The journey of antisemitism: how hate is translated to perpetrator behavior
… violence in the ordinary person turned concentration camp guard. It follows the stories of 100 men and women who enacted violence against Jews during the years of 1938-1945.
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Holocaust Song Literature: Expressing the Human Experiences and Emotions of the Holocaust through Song Literature, Focusing on Song Literature of Hirsh Glick, Mordechai Gebirtig, and Simon Sargon
… and Simon Sargon, life within the ghetto, the concentration camp, the decisions families had to make, the choices to fight back against incredible odds, the place of faith within this nightmare, and a look at the lives and works of the composers themselves.
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Sharp edges of the horizon: a fissure between “openness” and “emptiness” on the Tempelhofer Feld in Berlin
… ground, twentieth-century German military base, concentration camp, US military base, and airport, before being opened as a park in 2010. This thesis looks at the contestation surrounding twenty-first century proposals for future use and development of the park space, including the role that …
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Terezin variations : codes, messages, and the summer of 1944
… instrumental works were written in the Terezín concentration camp in the summer of 1944, when the Nazi propaganda campaign promoting Terezín as a haven for the Jews of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia was at its height. Somewhat unexpectedly all of these pieces make use of some kind of …
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Tethered
… by my grandmother's experiences as a Mauthausen concentration camp survivor and my own experiences being raised by a survivor.</p> <p>The knowledge of the imminent loss of memory initiates an instinct to repetitively record and remember personal history. Numerous memories have been forcefully …
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The Lives and Afterlives of the Mauthausen Subcamp Communities
Concentration camp scholarship has been impacted by an ‘island syndrome’: most research limits itself to one site, focuses either on its life or afterlife, and overlooks interactions among functionaries, inmates, and local people. Central themes connected to the camps thus remain shrouded in …
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The Cultural Memory Of German Victimhood In Post-1990 Popular German Literature And Television
… its 2009 American film, which exculpate a former concentration camp guard on the dubious grounds that her illiteracy made her morally illiterate. The textual and film analysis are likewise extended to the analysis of the reception. In the last chapter, I analyze the made-for-TV movie …
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The Strangeness of Home: German Loss and Search for Identity in Hanover, 1943--1948
… overcrowded city of natives, refugees, concentration camp survivors, veterans, foreign laborers, and Allied soldiers, Germans focused on everyday ""suffering"" to boldly make claims to sparse goods and resources and bolster protests about ""arbitrary"" and ""inept"" Allied policies as …
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Victims of Hope: Explaining Jewish Behavior in the Treblinka, Sobibór and Birkenau Extermination Camps
… Treblinka, Sobibór, and Birkenau extermination camps in order to illustrate a systematic process of deception and psychological conditioning, which the Nazis employed during World War II to preclude Jewish resistance to the Final Solution. In Chapter I, I present resistance historiography as it …
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From Invisibility to Hypervisibility: Queer Testimonies to the Holocaust Across France and Italy
… ‘pink triangles’ for their insignia in the camps, notably following the publication of Die Männer mit dem rosa Winkel [The Men with the Pink Triangle] (1972), the testimony of Austrian ‘pink triangle’ survivor Josef Kohout, which had an impact on activists, historians and survivors. It …
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Memory, Cinema and Deathscapes: Re-membering the Holocaust in Poland
… historic sites and the nearby Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp. Contemporary memory cultures in Kraków are thence entangled with the film, and local memory entrepreneurs rely upon its established popular framework to engage tourists with the Holocaust in and as (post)memory. …
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Uncanny Homelands: Disability, Race, and the Politics of Memory
This dissertation is an interdisciplinary and comparative study of German and Italian memory culture after 1945. It examines how the interaction between memorials, litera-ture, historiography, and popular culture shapes a society's memory and identity. I focus on two marginalized aspects of the …
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The Collapse of Time, Home, and Relationships: A Critical Approach to the Holocaust Short Story
… to the experiences of the daily life in the concentration camps. The main themes that underlie the various chapters of my work deal with the collapse of human relationships, the collapse of the home and the dying of time in the monotony and angst of surrounding death chambers. All of a …