Afro-German Histories at the Time of the Second World War. The Transnational Memooirs by Ruth Kluger and Hans-Jurgen Massaquoi

Tekstualia ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (51) ◽  
pp. 127-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Więckiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Black Germans ◽  
War Experience ◽  
Multidirectional Memory ◽  
Second World ◽  
Point Of Departure

The point of departure in the present article is a discussion of the concept of multidirectional memory, the category proposed by Michael Rothberg in his book ANGIELSKI TYTUŁ. The article then analyzes the memoirs by Jewish-Austrian Ruth Klüger and Afro-German Hans-Jürgen Massaquoia, as examples of transnational narratives. It thus highlights the problem of the war experience of black Germans, concomitantly tracing the process of identity formation resulting from an ethnic person’s dialogue with the representatives of other marginalized and oppressed groups within the Nazi system

Memory and identity: intergenerational narratives of violence among refugees in Serbia

2013 ◽  
Vol 41 (6) ◽  
pp. 1065-1082 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mila Dragojević
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Political Mobilization ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Warning Signs ◽  
Cycle Of Violence ◽  
World War ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
Second World

This article examines the role of the intergenerational memory of the Second World War (WWII) in identity formation and political mobilization. An existing explanation in the ethnic-conflict literature is that strategic political leaders play a crucial role in constructing and mobilizing ethnic identities. However, based on 114 open-ended interviews with individuals born in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Croatia, conducted in Serbia during 2008–2011, nearly a third of the respondents make spontaneous references to WWII in their statements, usually drawing parallels between the cycle of violence in the 1990s and that in the 1940s. The question this article asks, then, is why some respondents make references to WWII spontaneously while others do not. It is argued that intergenerational narratives of past cycles of violence also constitute a process of identity formation, in addition to, or apart from, other processes of identity formation. The respondents mention WWII violence in the context of the 1990s events because they “recognize” elements, such as symbols, discourse or patterns of violence, similar to those in the intergenerational narratives and interpret them as warning signs. Hence, individuals who had previously been exposed to intergenerational narratives may be subsequently more susceptible to political mobilization efforts.

scholarly journals THE DEPRECIATION OF FIXED ASSETS IN THE SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH WORKS OF THE FOUNDERS OF THE ACCOUNTING THOUGHT IN BULGARIA AND OF SCIENTISTS OF MORE RECENT TIMES

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (5) ◽  
pp. 1431-1442
Author(s):  
Hristina Oreshkova
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Economic Problem ◽  
Scientific Field ◽  
World War ◽  
Fixed Assets ◽  
Foundational Research ◽  
Second World

In the present article author’s considerations on a fundamental economic problem are carried out, and results and conclusions, arising out of author’s investigationsр, are discussed. The problem of the depreciation of fixed assets has always been central to the accounting science, the economy and society. The article attaches importance to fundamental scientific research works, emblematic for the Bulgarian accounting science in its classical (pre-Second World War) period, during which the theoretical and methodological bases of the problem of the depreciation of fixed assets were developed. The article highlights, analyzes and summarizes views of distinguished theoreticians of the depreciation problem, that have most substantially influenced the process of developing and systematizing specialized accounting knowledge on depreciation. On the bases of the retrospective comparative analysis, it is argued that the foundational research and conceptual ideas of the classical period and later, have contributed to a considerable expansion and enrichment of the system of knowledge in this scientific field.

The Second World War Experience centre

2002 ◽  
Vol 147 (3) ◽  
pp. 92-94
Author(s):  
George C Kieffer ◽  
Claire Harder
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
War Experience ◽  
Second World

Narrating the Second World War in Denmark since 1945

2005 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 295-315 ◽  
Author(s):  
NILS ARNE SØRENSEN
Keyword(s):  
Political Culture ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Anders Fogh Rasmussen ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
War Experience ◽  
The Right ◽  
Resistance Movement ◽  
Second World

After the liberation in 1945, two conflicting narratives of the war experience were formulated. A consensus narrative presented the Danish nation as being united in resistance while a competing narrative, which also stressed the resistance of most Danes, depicted the collaborating Danish establishment as an enemy alongside the Germans. This latter narrative, formulated by members of the resistance movement, was marginalised after the war and the consensus narrative became dominant. The resistance narrative survived, however, and, from the 1960s, it was successfully retold by the left, both to criticise the Danish alliance with the ‘imperialist’ United States, and as an argument against Danish membership of the EC. From the 1980s, the right also used the framework of the resistance narrative in its criticism of Danish asylum legislation. Finally, liberal Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen started using it as his basic narrative of the war years (partly in order to legitimise his government's decision to join the war against Iraq in 2003). The war years have thus played a central role in Danish political culture since 1945, and in this process the role of historians has been utterly marginal.

scholarly journals Correspondence, Camaraderie, and Community: The Second World War for a Mother and Son

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Gann
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
Home Front ◽  
World War ◽  
Prisoner Of War ◽  
War Experiences ◽  
Initial Attitude ◽  
War Experience ◽  
And Coping ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Second World

Erle Sinclair Miller enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) in 1940. While his initial attitude towards the conflict was one of personal invincibility and an eagerness for action, much of Miller's Second World War experience was spent in five prisoner of war camps, enduring physical as well as psychological hardship. The following thesis engages with the contents of the Miller Collection, a series of 297 letters, two prisoner of war journals, one flying log book and one scrapbook, in order to reveal the details of a young man's experiences of war and the critical relationship he retained with his mother in Canada. The key themes in this analysis, that of identity, community, and coping, are drawn out in each of the following three chapters, and offer an intimate appreciation of the impact that the Second World war had on families, sharper insight into the dynamics of the RCAF and prisoner of war experiences, the intersection of communities of war, and the role of mothers on the home front.

scholarly journals Czesław Miłosz wobec przemocy i wojny

2021 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 239-251
Author(s):  
Marta Kowerko-Urbańczyk
Keyword(s):  
Public Perception ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Jewish Question ◽  
World War ◽  
The Public ◽  
Czeslaw Milosz ◽  
Additional Layer ◽  
War Experience ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Second World

This article reviews Irena Grudzińska-Gross’s book Miłosz i długi cień wojny [Milosz and the Long Shadow of War], which was published by Pogranicze in 2020. The reviewer analyses the definition of violence and its relation to Polish narratives of wartime solidarity seen as heroism. To this end, she examines the work of Czesław Miłosz, written during the Second World War, and later texts thematising the war experience. An additional layer of the publication is the poet’s take on the Jewish question – both in the context of Miłosz’s poetic works and the subsequent discussions they provoked. The author, taking into account Miłosz’s autobiogeographical predispositions, also analyses the changing images of Warsaw in his works as a space where the poet spent most of the war. For this reason, she examines the poet’s attitude to the Warsaw Uprising and the public perception of his decision not to join the cause. 

scholarly journals Fashion and the femmes tondues: Lee Miller, Vogue and representing Liberation France

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 330-344
Author(s):  
Claire Gorrara
Keyword(s):  
First Generation ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Home Front ◽  
World War ◽  
War Photography ◽  
Feminine Beauty ◽  
Multiple Messages ◽  
War Experience ◽  
A Site ◽  
Second World

This article will examine representations of the Liberation of France in the war reports of Lee Miller, an accredited photographer and correspondent for American and British Vogue during the Second World War. Miller’s frontline reports framed Liberation France in idealised images of feminine beauty and elegance, making use of fashion as a primary conduit for understanding the war and occupation for readers on the home front. As this article will argue, examining Miller’s choices and perspective as a female photographer sheds new light on the intersection of fashion, war photography and the female body. In Miller’s work, fashion becomes a site for imagining liberation in ways that foreground the gendering of war experience and the legacies of conflict for women. By charting Miller’s representations of French women at the Liberation, and above all the chastised figure of the femme tondue, this article will analyse how French women function as carriers of multiple messages about war, liberation and reconstruction in Miller’s work. Unlike the sensationalist images of the femmes tondues published in the British picture press and newspapers in the summer of 1944, Miller’s war reports in Vogue construct an empathic relationship with such underprivileged female subjects. Miller’s work opens a space, therefore, for speculation on the role of fashion in shaping how the Second World War was understood by a first generation of female memory producers and consumers.

The Evolution of a National Urban Development Strategy in Hungary

1989 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 333-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
G Zoványi
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Second World War ◽  
City Size ◽  
World War ◽  
Urban Hierarchy ◽  
War Experience ◽  
The City ◽  
Urban Places ◽  
Second World

National urban-development strategies represent government attempts to influence one or more of the following features of urban development in a national context: (1) a country's rate of urbanization; (2) the size of particular urban places within a country; and (3) the city-size distribution of a country's national urban hierarchy. Hungary's post-Second-World-War experience with a national urban development strategy is presented via a description of government efforts to affect each of the aforementioned features of urban development.

scholarly journals Religion, Patriotism and War Experience in Digitized Wartime Letters in Finland, 1939–44

2021 ◽  
pp. 002200942110660
Author(s):  
Ilari Taskinen ◽  
Risto Turunen ◽  
Lauri Uusitalo ◽  
Ville Kivimäki
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Methods ◽  
Emotional Coping ◽  
Close Proximity ◽  
Collective Meaning ◽  
War Experience ◽  
Second World

This article examines religious and patriotic languages in digitized letters written by ordinary Finnish people in the Second World War. We combine qualitative and quantitative methods to analyse how religious and patriotic languages were used throughout the war years. Our findings show that the frequency of religious and patriotic vocabulary fluctuated widely during the war. Religious words were most notably connected to the intensity of the warfare, peaking during the periods of heated combat and dropping in the period of stationary warfare. Patriotic words were likewise common during the early periods of combat, but their use waned in the later war years. The analysis of words occurring in close proximity to the religious and patriotic words suggests that this was due to the different functions of the two languages. Religious parlance was essentially a vehicle of private emotional coping, while patriotic style gave a collective meaning to the sacrifices of the war. Religion and patriotism diverged during the war because the collective meaning of the war vanished but the need for emotional comfort persisted until its end.

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