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Blue days: A mid‐20th century war memorial swimscape and the persistence of memory
New Zealand Geographer, Volume 78, Issue 3, Page 186-199, December 2022., 2022 Abstract War memorials were intended to console the living, honour the dead and remind future generations of duty and sacrifice. In living memorials, the combination of remembrance with celebrating life introduces a tension between the sacred and the profane, affecting the memory work of the memorial. Here, the persistence of memory in living memorials
Gretel Boswijk
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Operational Art and the German 1918 Offensives [PDF]
, 2009 At the tactical level of war the Germans are widely regarded as having had the most innovative and proficient army of World War I. Likewise, many historians would agree that the Germans suffered from serious, if not fatal, shortcomings at the strategic
Zabecki, D T
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Privileged Injuries: Defining Disability Among Veterans Of The Irish Revolution (1916–1923)
History, Volume 107, Issue 377, Page 707-726, September 2022., 2022 Abstract Following its War of Independence from Britain (1919–21) and subsequent Civil War (1922–3), the Irish Free State government introduced disability pension legislation to compensate revolutionaries and soldiers who had been wounded and the dependants of those who had died in the conflicts.
MARIE COLEMAN
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History, Volume 107, Issue 377, Page 727-746, September 2022., 2022 Abstract This article analyses the ideological, political and medical positioning of mentally ill veterans of the Finnish Civil War of 1918 in inter‐war Finland. Using pension applications, the writings of veteran activists, parliamentary debates, psychiatric examinations and military documents this article shows that war‐related mental disability was ...
VIRVA LISKI
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Krupp in the Occupied Eastern Territories: Frustration, Failures, and the Question of Freedom
Australian Journal of Politics &History, Volume 68, Issue 3, Page 376-393, September 2022., 2022 This article speaks to a broader debate about the agency and freedom of German business during the Third Reich, on a spectrum from control and coercion to freedom of action. It argues that at least in the occupied eastern territories, Krupp and German business were not unwilling and coerced participants but neither entirely free to act as they wished ...
Troy Gillan
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POLEN ALS NEGATIVFOLIE FÜR SELBSTENTWÜRFE IN DER DEUTSCHSPRACHIGEN GEGENWARTSLITERATUR
German Life and Letters, Volume 74, Issue 2, Page 263-284, April 2021., 2021 ABSTRACT This article demonstrates that in some contemporary German‐language novels Polish motifs serve as a foil for the negative projection of cultural self‐images. The image of Poles is stereotypical because it contains a high degree of generalisation and embodies world views – such as nationalism, anti‐Semitism, anti‐Romanyism, fundamentalism ...
Marion Brandt
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Kierunki badań nad historią prasy polskiej 1918–1939 : prasa województw zachodnich [PDF]
, 2012 [Research directions in Polish press history 1918–1939 : The press of the Western voivodships]. This is a brief survey of Polish press published in three Western voivodships (Silesian, Pomeranian, and Poznań) with an account of the issues and research ...
Kolasa, Władysław Marek
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Kierunki badań nad historią prasy polskiej 1918-1939. Cz. 1, Tendencje rozwojowe, typologia [PDF]
, 2011 [History of the Polish Press 1918–1939: Research Directions Part 1. Research directions, typology]. This is a survey of studies published in 1945-2009 on the history of the Polish press in the interwar period.
Kolasa, Władysław Marek
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Środowisko intelektualne Towarzystwa Miłośników Przeszłości Lwowa (1906-1939)
Krakowskie Pismo Kresowe, 2021 THE INTELLECTUAL MILIEU CHARACTERISING THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS OF THE PAST OF LVIV (1906-1939) The paper is an attempt to characterise the Society of Friends of the Past of Lviv in the years 1906-1939 (with a 1914-1926 break); the community of Lviv ...
Lidia Michalska-Bracha
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Czasopismo Prawno-Historyczne, 2018 Prezydium Rady Ministrów w latach 1918-1939. Struktura, zakres kompetencji i działalność projektodawcza. (Zarys problemu)
Jacek Goclon
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