Following the formation of the German National Socialist Party in the 1920s, various forms of sound (popular music, voice, noise and silence) and media technology (radio and loudspeaker systems) were configured as useful to the party's political programme. Focusing on the urban …
Following the formation of the German National Socialist Party in the 1920s, various forms of sound (popular music, voice, noise and silence) and media technology (radio and loudspeaker systems) were configured as useful to the party's political programme. Focusing on the urban …
Many images of Nazi propaganda are universally recognizable, and symbolize the ways that the National Socialist party manipulated German citizens. What might an examination of the party's various uses of sound reveal? In Nazi Soundscapes, Carolyn Birdsall offers an in-depth anal…
This book offers intimate readings of a diverse range of global autobiographical literature with an emphasis on the (re)presentation of the physical body. The twelve texts presented here include philosophical autobiography (Nietzsche), autobiographies of self-experimentation (Ga…
A Group Analytic Approach to Understanding Mass Violence makes an analytic examination of the enactment of genocide by Nazi Germany during World WarII to explore how mass and state-sponsored violence can arise within societies and how the false beliefs that are used to justify s…
Michael Jason Shaw infiltrates the German military in order to stop the top-secret Nazi scheme called the Omega Deception.
"The Nazis burned books and banned much modern art. However, few people know the fascinating story of German modern dance, which was the great exception. Modern expressive dance found favor with the regime and especially with the infamous Joseph Goebbels, the Minister of Propaga…
"The Nazis burned books and banned much modern art. However, few people know the fascinating story of German modern dance, which was the great exception. Modern expressive dance found favor with the regime and especially with the infamous Joseph Goebbels, the Minister of Propaga…
French haute couture is an industry that has withstood the test of time. From its inception in 1858 at Charles Worth’s innovative and groundbreaking shop, haute couture has become the most highly respected and revered segment of the fashion industry for its intimate understandin…
The composer, conductor, and writer Peter Jona Korn is not familiar to many musicians today. His works are rarely performed, but they include several works for the oboe that are valuable additions to the repertoire. Korn’s life bore similarities to many other German-Jewish compo…
Despite memory of the Nazi past and immigration politics being two of the most studied aspects of postwar Germany, very little attention has been paid to their intersection. The literature on the German process of coming to terms with the past, or Vergangenheitsbewältigung , has…
Since the end of World War II, approximately 10,000 Nazi war criminals have entered the United States, mostly through the Displaced Persons Acts of 1948 and 1950 and the Refugee Relief Act of 1953. The Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) and the Office of Special Invest…
This thesis traces the life and career of Jean Luchaire, known for his role during the period of Nazi occupation of France as the "Fuhrer of the French press." The profligate and cynical Luchaire has often been held to be the archetype of a collaborationist driven more by self i…
This work traces the origins, development and operation of the Ha'avarah Agreement (Transfer Agreement) signed between German and Palestinian Jews and the Nazi Administration in 1933 to facilitate the orderly and legal transfer of sequestered German-Jewish wealth to Palestine. N…
Between the autumn of 1939 and the spring of 1941, the Nazi regime conducted a mammoth exercise in population policy devised to “Germanize” those regions of western Poland formally annexed to the Reich following the Polish campaign. Based on the conviction that any lasting conqu…
