Frankenstein w warszawskim getcie. Historia i legenda

The article deals with one exceptionally violent German perpetrator who was part of the occupation force in Warsaw during the Second World War. Inside the Ghetto he maltreated and killed a large number of women, children and men for his own personal pleasure. He did this to such an extensive degree that the population perceived him as monstrous being that was given the nickname „Frankenstein”. The article is mainly based on statements in juridical investigations, from the victim as well as from the perpetrator perspective, supplemented with some selected additional sources. Firstly the source corpus will be evaluated, to work out how these historical sources can be used to shed light on „Frankenstein”. This will be followed by an analysis of the actual identity of this perpetrator. It will be shown that he was, contrary to common belief, not necessarily the SS-Rottenführer Josef Blösche but more likely a member of the German Police Battalion 61. In the end the question will be also raised of how it was possible – despite all rules and regulations – that ghetto guards like him behaved like a marauding soldiery.

“Product Not Available in Pre-War Quantities – but Quality Remains the Same”: Remarks on Advertisements as Historical Sources

Widok. Teorie i Praktyki Kultury Wizualnej - Siła kobiet ◽

10.36854/widok/2019.25.2060 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Magdalena Saryusz-Wolska

Keyword(s):

Social Norms ◽

Economic History ◽

Second World War ◽

Point Of View ◽

World War ◽

Historical Sources ◽

The Past ◽

German Press ◽

Post War ◽

The article focuses on advertisements as visual and historical sources. The material comes from the German press that appeared immediately after the end of the Second World War. During this time, all kinds of products were scarce. In comparison to this, colorful advertisements of luxury products are more than noteworthy. What do these images tell us about the early post-war years in Germany? The author argues that advertisements are a medium that shapes social norms. Rather than reflecting the historical realities, advertisements construct them. From an aesthetical and cultural point of view, advertisements gave thus a sense of continuity between the pre- and post-war years. The author suggests, therefore, that the advertisements should not be treated as a source for economic history. They are, however, important for studying social developments that occurred in the past.

Alien Internment in John Galsworthy’s ‘The Bright Side’ and ‘The Dog It was that Died’

Literature & History ◽

10.1177/03061973211007349 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 30 (1) ◽

pp. 45-61

Author(s):

Jill Felicity Durey

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Short Stories ◽

Human Nature ◽

Second World War ◽

World War ◽

Historical Sources ◽

Internment Camp ◽

Bright Side ◽

Second World ◽

John Galsworthy

This article illuminates two short stories by John Galsworthy through examining them with the help of his diaries and letters, a handful of unpublished letters by his nephew from an internment camp and secondary historical sources. It argues that the stories, when read in conjunction with these sources, are highly revealing about human nature during Second World War and also about Galsworthy’s prescient fears concerning a second twentieth-century world war, which he did not live to see.

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The American Journal of International Law ◽

10.2307/2202068 ◽

1986 ◽

Vol 80 (4) ◽

pp. 896-901 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Manfred Lachs

Keyword(s):

International Law ◽

The United States ◽

Second World War ◽

World War ◽

International Court Of Justice ◽

International Court ◽

History Of ◽

American Society ◽

Second World ◽

To write of Philip Jessup means to survey the history of the teaching of international law in the United States throughout the last half century; to cover all important events concerning the birth of international organizations on the morrow of the Second World War; to visit the halls of the General Assembly and the Security Council; to attend meetings of the American Society of International Law and the Institute of International Law, where he so frequently took the floor to shed light on their debates; to attend sittings of the International Court of Justice in the years 1960-1969. I could hardly undertake this task; there are others much more qualified to do so. What I wish to do is to recall him as a great jurist I knew and a delightful human being; in short, a judge and a great friend whom I learned to admire.

Nation, Ethnicity, and the Geography of British Fiction, 1880-1940

10.31235/osf.io/psg2z ◽

2018 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Elizabeth F. Evans ◽

Matthew Wilkens

Keyword(s):

Cultural Identity ◽

Second World War ◽

Urban Spaces ◽

World War ◽

Victorian Period ◽

British Fiction ◽

Spatial Imagination ◽

Second World ◽

Recent Attention ◽

Among the most pressing problems in modernist literary studies are those related to Britain's engagement with the wider world under empire and to its own rapidly evolving urban spaces in the years before the Second World War. In both cases, the literary-geographic imagination—or unconscious—of the period between 1880 and 1940 can help to shed light on how texts by British and British-aligned writers of the era understood these issues and how they evolved over time. At the highest level, how can we characterize the international and domestic geographies of British writing? What roles, if any, did cultural identity play in contemporary writers' spatial imagination? What locations were over- or under-represented in their work and how, if at all, does the answer change when we group writers by national origin or by perceived ethnicity? What shifts in geographic attention marked the transition from the late Victorian period to the interwar era of high modernism? These questions, and others like them, have received much recent attention, both popular and academic. In this essay, we explore what we learn when we ask them at scale with computational assistance.

THE SECOND WORLD WAR AND THE UNOPENED AFGHAN FRONT

Scientific Reports of Bukhara State University ◽

10.52297/2181-1466/2020/4/3/14 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 4 (3) ◽

pp. 243-249

Author(s):

Mahmud Zaynievich Orziev ◽

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Ahmadjon Asror ogli Ahmadov

Keyword(s):

World War Ii ◽

Second World War ◽

Primary Sources ◽

World War ◽

Historical Sources ◽

National Organization ◽

This article highlights the activities of foreign spies and Turkestan immigrants in Afghanistan during World War II by analyzing historical sources and literature. Also, the National Organization of Bukhara and Bukhara residents in the territory of Afghanistan and the issues of its activities and fate were analyzed on the basis of primary sources. In addition, the causes and factors of the defeat of the German and Japanese espionage in Afghanistan have been covered

The US battle against brand marketing: circa 1930-1980

Journal of Historical Research in Marketing ◽

10.1108/jhrm-03-2017-0008 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

pp. 60-85 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Ross D. Petty

Keyword(s):

Second World War ◽

World War ◽

Historical Sources ◽

Content Type ◽

Consumer Movement ◽

Brand Marketing ◽

The Us ◽

Us Government ◽

The Usa ◽

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the debate about brand marketing that occurred as part of the 1930s consumer movement and continued after the Second World War in academic and regulatory circles. Design/methodology/approach This paper presents an historical account of the anti-brand marketing movement using a qualitative approach. It examines both primary and secondary historical sources as well as legal statutes, regulatory agency actions, judicial cases and newspaper and trade journal stories. Findings In response to the rise of brand marketing in the latter 1800s and early 1900s, the USA experienced an anti-brand marketing movement that lasted half a century. The first stage was public as part of the consumer movement but was overshadowed by the product safety and truth-in-advertising concerns. The consumer movement stalled when the USA entered the Second World War, but brand marketing continued to raise questions during the war as the US government attempted to regulate the provisions of goods during the war. After the war, the public accepted brand marketing. Continuing anti-brand marketing criticism was largely confined to academic writings and regulatory activities. Ultimately, many of the stage-two challenges to brand marketing went nowhere, but a few led to regulations that continue today. Originality/value This paper is the first to recognize a two-stage anti-brand marketing movement in the USA from 1929 to 1980 that has left a small but significant modern-day regulatory legacy.

Digitale ontsluiting van het Centraal Archief Bijzondere Rechtspleging : Mogelijkheden en onmogelijkheden

Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis ◽

10.5117/tvgesch2020.2.007.tame ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 133 (2) ◽

pp. 303-324

Author(s):

Ismee Tames

Keyword(s):

The Netherlands ◽

Large Scale ◽

Pilot Project ◽

Second World War ◽

World War ◽

Historical Sources ◽

Change Over Time ◽

Multiple Meanings ◽

Second World ◽

Over Time

Abstract Digital Access to the Legal Files of those tried for Nazi collaboration in the Netherlands: Possibilities and ImpossibilitiesThis article reflects on the findings of a pilot project called Triado that digitized a sample of the 4km of legal files created by the Special Jurisdiction for investigating Dutch Nazi collaboration (CABR) in the years after the Second World War. We show that large scale digitization may help to analyze complex historical sources in new ways, thus deepening our understanding of the consequences of war and genocide. However, this can be achieved only if all specialists involved develop ways to deal with ambiguity in the sources: instead of disambiguation we need mixed approaches that allow for data to have multiple meanings and for interpretation of meaning to change over time. This article offers suggestions and gives a brief overview of some of the possibilities for researchers and lay users of digitized historical sources.

Staff appraisal in university libraries

Library and Information Research ◽

10.29173/lirg437 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 18 (60) ◽

pp. 34-38

Author(s):

Andrew Green

Keyword(s):

Second World War ◽

University Libraries ◽

Appraisal System ◽

World War ◽

University Teachers ◽

Staff Appraisal ◽

The University ◽

The Impact ◽

Second World ◽

Staff appraisal was an American invention that emerged at the time of the Second World War. It only came to general notice two years later with the publication of the twenty-third report of 'Committee A' of the University Authorities' Panel (UAP) and the Association of University Teachers (AUT). Only one major study of the functioning of the universities' appraisal system has been published (3), and very little has been written on the experience of libraries(4). The purpose of this study was to shed light on the impact of appraisal on the 'old'university libraries and their staffs,s and to try to assess its benefits and disbenefits.

Imagining Africa in Eastern Europe: Transcultural Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis in Cold War Yugoslavia

Contemporary European History ◽

10.1017/s0960777318000541 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 28 (2) ◽

pp. 234-251

Author(s):

Ana Antić

Keyword(s):

Eastern Europe ◽

Second World War ◽

Transcultural Psychiatry ◽

Eastern European ◽

World War ◽

International Context ◽

History Of ◽

The 1960S ◽

Second World ◽

This article seeks to write Yugoslavia and Eastern Europe into the history of post-Second World War global psychiatry and to explore the significance of Marxist psychiatry in an international context. It traces Yugoslav psychiatrists’ transnational and interdisciplinary engagements as they peaked in the 1960s. Focusing on the distinguished Belgrade psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Vladimir Jakovljevic (1925–68), it looks at Yugoslav psychiatry’s clinical and anthropological research in the global South to shed light on its contributions to Western-dominated transcultural psychiatry. Through this lens the article also explores how Eastern Europe’s intellectuals engaged with decolonisation and the notions of race, ‘primitivism’ and modernity. Jakovljevic’s involvement in transcultural psychiatry demonstrated the inherent contradiction of Eastern European Marxist psychiatry: its dubiously colonial ‘civilising mission’ towards the subalterns in its own populations and its progressive, emancipatory agenda. Jakovljevic’s writings about Africa ultimately turned into an unprecedented opportunity to shed light on some glaring internal inconsistencies from Yugoslavia’s own socio-political context.

BOLSHEVIK MODERNIZATION OF RUSSIA IN THE 20-30s OF THE 20th CENTURY AND ITS MILITARY-TECHNOLOGICAL, PERSONNEL AND POLITICAL CONSEQUENCES FOR THE FIGHT AGAINST NAZISM IN THE FIRST YEARS OF WORLD WAR II (ACCORDING TO V.M. CHERNOV)

IZVESTIYA VUZOV SEVERO-KAVKAZSKII REGION SOCIAL SCIENCE ◽

10.18522/2687-0770-2021-3-67-73 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 67-73

Author(s):

Konstantin G. Malikhin ◽

Oleg V. Schekatunov

Keyword(s):

World War Ii ◽

20Th Century ◽

Second World War ◽

Early Years ◽

World War ◽

Historical Sources ◽

Political Consequences ◽

The Usa ◽

Soviet Russia ◽

The article is devoted to the assessment of the results of the Bolshevik modernization of Russia in the 20-30s of the 20th century in its military-technological, personnel and political aspects on the example of the struggle of Soviet Russia with Nazi Germany in the first years of World War II and the Great Patriotic War. The relevance of the topic is due to the contradictions in the assessments of the Bolshevik transformations of the 20-30s. In historiography and in the public mind, disputes about the role of these transformations for victory in the Second World War and WWII are not abating. This is especially true of the first years of the Second World War, which led the USSR to disaster. This problem was analyzed by an outstanding theoretician, leader of the Socialist-Revolutionaries and a figure of the Russian intellectual emigration V.M. Chernov. As historical sources, the article considers a number of such interesting documents as the letter of V.M. Chernov to I. V. Stalin in 1942 and issues of the emigre magazine “For Freedom!ˮ published in the USA. Using these sources as an example, the position of V.M. Chernov on the successes and failures of the Bolshevik reform of Russia and the related victories and defeats of the Red Army in the early years of the War. It is proved that the failures of the USSR in the first years of the War were the result of a number of political and personnel problems, some of which were caused by the accelerated "assault" nature of the Bolshevik modernization of the 1920s and 1930s.