scholarly journals Askari at Hitler’s Frontier:Racial-Cultural Chauvinism and Colonial Systems in Germany and the Territories of the Eastern Front, 1941-1945

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Drew Eisenberg-Holmes
Keyword(s):  
German Text ◽  
English Translation ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Eastern Front ◽  
English Translations ◽  
The University ◽  
Second World ◽  
Cultural Chauvinism

This is a paper written for the University of Toronto and adheres to it's standards. It was written and formatted in Chicago 17th style and uses written and digital scholarly and published sources. One source is the author's own translation of a German text. Otherwise, widely accepted English translations are used (i.e. original English translation of "Mein Kampf"). This paper covers the interrelationship between German colonial thought and German / non-German relationships on the Eastern Front during the Second World War, particularly relations with collaborationist states and Slavic volunteers to the Waffen SS.

scholarly journals Askari at Hitler’s Frontier:Racial-Cultural Chauvinism and Colonial Systems in Germany and the Territories of the Eastern Front, 1941-1945

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Drew Eisenberg-Holmes
Keyword(s):  
German Text ◽  
English Translation ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Eastern Front ◽  
English Translations ◽  
The University ◽  
Second World ◽  
Cultural Chauvinism

This is a paper written for the University of Toronto and adheres to it's standards. It was written and formatted in Chicago 17th style and uses written and digital scholarly and published sources. One source is the author's own translation of a German text. Otherwise, widely accepted English translations are used (i.e. original English translation of "Mein Kampf"). This paper covers the interrelationship between German colonial thought and German / non-German relationships on the Eastern Front during the Second World War, particularly relations with collaborationist states and Slavic volunteers to the Waffen SS.

scholarly journals “There is a definite limitation imposed” (Robin Ross to Claude Bissell, December 4, 1959). The Jewish Quota in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto: Generational Memory Sustained by Documentation

2003 ◽  
pp. 131-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Levi
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
University Campus ◽  
World War ◽  
Quota System ◽  
Ongoing Debate ◽  
Admission Process ◽  
Critical Questions ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
The University ◽  
Second World

The paper considers a letter written by Robin Ross to Claude Bissell on December 4, 1959, in which Ross objects to discrimination against Jews in the admission process to the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto from 1957 to 1959. The Ross letter is explored in the context of the ongoing debate about the possible existence of a quota system at the faculty; the issue of discrimination on the university campus in the 1950s; and the structure of Canadian Jewish scholarship since the Second World War. It bolsters the anecdotal opinion of previous scholars but still leaves several critical questions unanswered about the institution and administration of any quota system.

scholarly journals Born in War: Canada's Postwar Engineers and Toronto's Ajax Division

2009 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 3-27
Author(s):  
Jean-Louis Trudel
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
Special Treatment ◽  
World War ◽  
Science And Engineering ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Canadian Universities ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Male Veterans ◽  
The University ◽  
Second World

ABSTRACT With the start of the Second World War, the University of Toronto's Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering embarked on an unprecedented expansion that would eventually lead it to a wartime boomtown forty kilometers to the east of its downtown campus. For three and a half years after the war, returned men and women studied engineering in the converted barracks and buildings of the Ajax shell-filling plant. The stage for the postwar engineering boom, common to many Canadian universities, and especially Toronto's, was set during this time, and some of engineering's more enduring traditions at the University of Toronto may have been reinforced by the forced seclusion of the Ajax engineers as well as by the special treatment accorded to the overwhelmingly male veterans by the faculty and staff. In many ways, the story of Ajax Division is pivotal to understanding the training of engineers at the University of Toronto since the Second World War.

Hendrik Draye, tegenstander van de uitvoering van de doodstraf

2006 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 134-152
Author(s):  
Luc Vandeweyer
Keyword(s):  
Death Penalty ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Penal Policy ◽  
Catholic University ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University ◽  
Second World ◽  
Young Professor

Hendrik Draye, opponent of the carrying out of the death penaltyIn this annotated and extensively contextualised source edition, Luc Vandeweyer deals with the period of repression after the Second World War. In June 1948, after the execution of two hundred collaboration-suspects in Belgium, the relatively young linguistics professor at the Catholic University of Leuven, Hendrik Draye, proposed, on humanitarian grounds, a Manifesto against the carrying out of the death penalty. Some colleagues, as well as some influential personalities outside the university, reacted positively; some colleagues were rather hesitant; most of them rejected the text. In the end, the initiative foundered because of the emphatic dissuasion by the head of university, who wanted to protect his university and, arguably, the young professor Draeye. The general public’s demand for revenge had not yet abated by then; moreover, the unstable government at that time planned a reorientation of the penal policy, which made a polarization undesirable. Nevertheless, Luc Vandeweyer concludes, "the opportunity for an important debate on the subject had been missed".

Big Business and the ‘Blitzkriegswirtschaft’: Daimler–Benz AG and the Mobilisation of the German War Economy 1939–42

1997 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-208
Author(s):  
Neil Gregor
Keyword(s):  
German Economy ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
War Economy ◽  
War Of Attrition ◽  
Eastern Front ◽  
Military Campaigns ◽  
Aircraft Production ◽  
Second World ◽  
Male Labour

Since the end of the war itself, research on the German economy during the Second World War has focused – explicitly or implicitly – on the search for an explanation of the disparities in armaments and output between the first and second halves of the war. In the first half of the war, up until the winter of 1941–2, the development of armaments production was characterised by more or less stable levels of output against the background of the series of swift and successful military campaigns in Poland and in the West. This stands in stark contrast to the second half, which witnessed a radical increase in aggregate armaments output which lasted well into the summer of 1944, and which saw tank production reach 589 per cent of the level at which it had stood in January 1942, weapons production reach 382 per cent of its January 1942 level, and aircraft production 367 per cent of its January 1942 level over the same period, to name some of the most obvious successes. These increases were all the more astonishing for the fact that they were achieved against the background of a massive war of attrition on the Eastern Front which placed demands on German resources and drew male labour from German factories into the Wehrmacht on a scale out of all proportion to that experienced in the first half of the war.

scholarly journals ‘De ridder is gestorven’

2021 ◽  
Vol 44 (94) ◽  
pp. 25-50
Author(s):  
Dirk van Keulen
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Heart Attack ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Karl Barth ◽  
Dutch Reformed ◽  
World War ◽  
Daily Newspapers ◽  
Reformed Church ◽  
The University ◽  
Second World

Abstract Arnold Albert van Ruler (1908-1970) was one of the leading theologians in the Dutch Reformed Church in the second half of the twentieth century. After having worked as a minister in Kubaard (1933-1940) and Hilversum (1940-1947) he was professor at the University of Utrecht (1947-1970). Van Ruler had a special place in the Dutch theological landscape. The development of his views took the opposite direction of the mainstream of Dutch protestant theology, which can be illustrated with his reception of the theology of Karl Barth. Before the Second World War Van Ruler was a Barthian theologian; after the War he distanced himself from Barth. As a result of this, some of Van Ruler’s theological views were controversial. Van Ruler himself felt somewhat lonely and complained that he was neglected by his colleagues. On the morning of December 15, 1970, Van Ruler had his third heart attack and dead sitting at his writing desk. In this contribution the reactions on Van Ruler’s death are documented. In many daily newspapers his death is mentioned and in several the significance of his work is described. During the months after his death in many ecclesiastical weekly’s and in theological journals in Memoriams were published. We find personal memories and praise for his style of theologising, which was experienced as sparkling and bright. Van Ruler’s colleagues recognised his originality. His views on theocracy, however, remained as controversial as they were during his lifetime.

scholarly journals The forgotten Eastern Front: dealing with the social and archaeological legacies of the Battle of the Rawka and Bzura Rivers (1914–1915), central Poland

Antiquity ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Anna I. Zalewska ◽  
Grzegorz Kiarszys
Keyword(s):  
Historical Consciousness ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Central Poland ◽  
Eastern Front ◽  
The Social ◽  
Trench Warfare ◽  
Heritage Policy ◽  
Second World ◽  
First World

While the Western Front of the Great (or First World) War is deeply engrained in the European historical consciousness, memories of the Eastern Front are less prominent. Here, events have been repressed, obscured by the subsequent experience of the Second World War and by heritage policy in the region. The authors present the results of archaeological investigations of a battlefield in central Poland, where static trench warfare was fought between December 1914 and July 1915. A unique landscape palimpsest was formed, the present neglected state of which is a material expression of contemporary attitudes to the legacy of the forgotten Eastern Front. The study illustrates the wider intersection of warfare, identity and memory.

scholarly journals Punkty, czyli złuda modernizacji

2018 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 265-271
Author(s):  
Marcin Kula
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Historical Sociology ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Class Origin ◽  
Post War ◽  
The University ◽  
Second World

The author’s remarks on Agata Zysiak’s book Punkty za pochodzenie. Powojenna modernizacja i uniwersytet w robotniczym mieście [Points for Class Origin: Post-War Modernization and the University in a Working-Class City] (2016) primarily concern the question of social advance through education and Zysiak’s outline of this process in Poland after the Second World War. As a participant of that process — first as a student, and later as a teacher — the author suggests that it should be viewed from the perspective of historical sociology.

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