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…
My work concerns the issue of whether the survivors of the Nazi medical experiments (and, by extension, survivors of all unethical experiments) should be given control of the obtained data. First, I explore the argument that using the data harms the survivors, because using it v…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The goal of the thesis was to research the legal concerns that arise from state censorship of media and see how that censorship can affect homeland security. The regimes of Nazi Germany and present day Iran were compared and utilized as templates, along with general introduction…