Presents seventy-four Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings exhibited in public for the first time in 1995 since being hidden in the storerooms of Russia's State Hermitage Museum during World War II.
Seventy-four masterpieces of French painting, long believed lost in World War II, by many of the greatest artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Seventy-four masterpieces of French painting, long believed lost in World War II, by many of the greatest artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
"This book describes how the states in post-1945 Austria, Germany, and Japan have tried to deal with the legacy of the Second World War and how their policies have affected their relations with other countries in the region"-- "We live in an age of apology and recrimination. Ov…
"This book describes how the states in post-1945 Austria, Germany, and Japan have tried to deal with the legacy of the Second World War and how their policies have affected their relations with other countries in the region"--Provided by publisher. "We live in an age of apology…
1. Politics and memory in an age of apology. - 2. Germany: the model penitent. - 3. Austria: the prodigal penitent. - 4. Japan: the model impenitent? - 5. The geopolitics of remembering and forgetting in Asia, 1991-2010: towards an expanded model. - 6. Conclusions: the varieties…
"When do states choose to adopt a penitent stance towards the past? When do they choose to offer apologies for historical misdeeds, offer compensation for their victims, and incorporate the darker sides of history into their textbooks, public monuments, and museums? When do they…
When do states choose to adopt a penitent stance towards the past? When do they choose to offer apologies for historical misdeeds, offer compensation for their victims and incorporate the darker sides of history into their textbooks, public monuments and museums? When do they ch…
"This book describes how the states in post-1945 Austria, Germany, and Japan have tried to deal with the legacy of the Second World War and how their policies have affected their relations with other countries in the region"-
"This book describes how the states in post-1945 Austria, Germany, and Japan have tried to deal with the legacy of the Second World War and how their policies have affected their relations with other countries in the region"-- "We live in an age of apology and recrimination. Ov…
"This book describes how the states in post-1945 Austria, Germany, and Japan have tried to deal with the legacy of the Second World War and how their policies have affected their relations with other countries in the region"-- "We live in an age of apology and recrimination. Ov…
"As the Red Army closes in on the Third Reich, a German colonel sends an American intelligence officer an unusual report about a POW camp soon to be overrun by the Soviets. Locked up, the report says, are over a thousand horses, including the entire herd of white Lipizzaners fro…
"Between 1942 and 1944 the Germans sealed and completely emptied at least 38,000 Parisian apartments. The majority of the furnishings and other household items came from 'abandoned' Jewish apartments and were shipped to Germany. After the war, Holocaust survivors returned to Par…
"Between 1942 and 1944 the Germans sealed and completely emptied at least 38,000 Parisian apartments. The majority of the furnishings and other household items came from 'abandoned' Jewish apartments and were shipped to Germany. After the war, Holocaust survivors returned to Par…
A social history focusing on the individual stories of Jewish Holocaust survivors in France as they tried to rebuild their lives after the war: examining the looting of private apartments in Paris as part of the German occupiers' plunder of France, and analysing Jewish attempts …
"Between 1942 and 1944 the Germans sealed and completely emptied at least 38,000 Parisian apartments. The majority of the furnishings and other household items came from 'abandoned' Jewish apartments and were shipped to Germany. After the war, Holocaust survivors returned to Par…
"Stolen Words is an epic story about the largest collection of Jewish books in the world--tens-of millions of books that the Nazis looted from European Jewish families and institutions. Nazi soldiers and civilians emptied Jewish communal libraries, confiscated volumes from gover…