Camp Perry historic district contributing buildings : character-defining features

The National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (NHPA) established the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), which requires federal agencies to address their cultural resources, defined as any prehistoric or historic district, site, building, structure, or object. NHPA Section 110 requires federal agencies to inventory and evaluate their cultural resources. Section 106 requires them to determine the effect of federal undertakings on properties deemed eligible or potentially eligible for the NRHP. Camp Perry Joint Training Center (Camp Perry) is located near Port Clinton, Ohio, and serves as an Ohio Army National Guard (OHARNG) training site. It served as an induction center during federal draft periods and as a prisoner of war camp during World War II. Previous work established boundaries for a historic district and recommended the district eligible for the NRHP. This project inventoried and analyzed the character-defining features of the seven contributing buildings and one grouping of objects (brick lamp posts) at Camp Perry. The analysis is to aid future Section 106 processes and/or the development of a programmatic agreement in consultation with the Ohio State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO).

Problem jeńców radzieckich w czasie II wojny światowej w pamięci i polityce historycznej ZSRR i Federacji Rosyjskiej

This article deals with the problem of the presence of Soviet prisoners of war during World War II in the memory and politics of memory of the Soviet Union and contemporary Russia. It describes the most important stages of the attitude towards prisoners of war in different historical periods, including in: the Stalinist regime, when they were condemned; the Khrushchev Thaw, when they were rehabilitated; after the collapse of the Soviet Union, when the prisoner-of-war issues appeared in historical debate and culture; and in modern times, when prisoners of war have been pushed to the margins of the politics of memory and memory as an inconvenient problem from the point of view of the current glorification of Stalin and his era.

Heideggers Ungebrauch

This essay is concerned with a topic that has been widely discussed in East Asia for decades – the relationship between Martin Heidegger’s thought and Daoism. At the centre of my reflections is a motif that appears in Heidegger’s 1945 “Evening Conversation: In a Prisoner of War Camp in Russia, between a Younger and an Older Man” – a “doing that is a letting” (ein Tun, das ein Lassen ist). Starting from this, I discuss Heidegger’s approach to the Daoist “thinking of the useless” expressed in his Black Notebooks and other texts. In the development of Heidegger’s thought the “turning” (die Kehre) marks an important juncture. I propose speaking of a second or transcultural turning, which begins around 1943. For this transformation in Heidegger’s thought, what has been of outstanding importance is his preoccupation with Daoist texts, and especially his reading of the classical texts Lǎozǐ and Zhuāngzǐ. This is evident in his numerous explicit or implicit references to the Daoist classics. In 1945, in a situation of extraordinary emergency, Heidegger refers to Zhuāngzǐ’s motif of uselessness and the “necessity of the unnecessary”. This can be seen as a personal escape from responsibility, but also, importantly, as a way out of his deep entanglement with National Socialism. Although the way Heidegger proposes is arguably twisted and disturbing, its value lies in its providing a necessary perspective from which to unfold the critical potential of transcultural philosophy.

Soviet prisoner of war camps in the territory of the Georgian SSR (1945-1954)

This article uses archival materials kept in the Archive of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia. One of its main fonds is composed by former Soviet State Security (KGB) archive of the Georgian SSR. The materials used here describe in details the legislative base, POW-builders (facilities and scale), the exploitation of the POW workforce in agriculture, housing conditions of POWs as well as their physical conditions, and generate general conclusions regarding the conditions and functioning of the POW camps, revealing its role in the USSR economy and the assessment of the Soviet bureaucratic apparatus.

From Colony to Camp, From Camp to Colony: First World War Captivity in Ahmed Ben Mostapha, goumier by Mohammed Bencherif

This article offers an analysis of the representation of captivity in Ahmed Ben Mostapha, goumier. The novel, published by Algerian writer Mohammed Bencherif in 1920, was partly inspired by his own experience as a prisoner of war during the First World War. Relying on historical, sociological and anthropological sources, the article focuses on the protagonist’s experience as a POW in German camps and in Switzerland. It also proposes a metaphorical interpretation of captivity in the colonial context, reading Ben Mostapha as a “conscript of modernity,” conditioned by French republican ideals. Fi- nally, it examines thought-provoking analogies between colony and camp in Bencherif’s novel.

War Imprisonment and British Prison Reform

In 1756, the young John Howard set out for Portugal. His ship was taken by a privateer, and Howard became a prisoner of war in France. Twenty years later, he launched the movement for prison reform in Britain. Renaud Morieux challenges historians to more fully connect war imprisonment and the debates it engendered about prisoners’ rights to the emergence of prison reform in the 1770s and 1780s (p. 92). In this article, I take up that challenge. I suggest, however, that the connections are complex and twisted. Concerns about prisoners of war may have inspired prison reform, but they also made the project more confusing.

The Prisoner of War and the Eighteenth-Century Prison

Britain and France were at war with each other for over half of the long eighteenth century. This period of sustained conflict produced immense changes, in both countries, in the character of the state and the course of economic development. Yet one of the most obvious ways in which contemporaries would have encountered the war was in the presence of large numbers of prisoners of war held by their country. Early in the century there were thousands of such captives, and by its end they numbered in the tens of thousands. Renaud Morieux takes this neglected topic for the focus of his multifaceted study. These prisoners created challenges that were legal and diplomatic, as well as administrative and financial. The citizens of each country found themselves having to learn to live with captives of a nation with which they were at war. In a work that is both theoretically informed and exhaustively researched, Morieux offers fresh insight into the consequences of war for European society.

Speaking with All Boldness

This chapter examines the complex role of prison in the social imagination of the Roman world by outlining four common tropes: the prisoner of war, the fallen aristocrat, the common malefactor, and the unvanquished herald of truth. Whereas most treatments of the ancient prison reproduce the elite perspective of their literary sources, this survey privileges evidence that attests to the experience of the non-elite. This provides a richly textured backdrop against which to read Paul’s suggestive yet curiously undeveloped self-depiction as a prisoner, and, in particular, his insistence that he will continue in all boldness (parrhēsia) despite his chains. With his non-elite addressees inclined in any case to sympathize with his plight, here Paul gestures toward a familiar trope wherein prison signifies the tyrant’s ineffectual attempt to silence a divine messenger.

Language is the most important means of interstate communication (on the example of the studying and using of the German language in the USSR during the Great Patriotic War)

Thematic justification of the study of foreign languages is more obvious in connection with the globalization of the world, the exchange of information and the transformation of international cooperation of states into a real necessity. The novelty of the research is dictated by the insignificant circle of historiography on the problem under consideration and the emergence of new sources such as memoirs, archival materials, and diaries of participants in the events. The subject of this research is the role of foreign languages, which was realized by the leadership of the USSR in the 1930s, the training of military linguists and their role during the Great Patriotic War. In the system of public education conditions were created for the training of personnel and the material base. The research methodology includes historicism and objectivity, which make it possible to show the training of specialists in the formation and development, the contribution of military linguists to propaganda against the enemy during the war, to evaluate the optics of peoples’ perception of each other. The prosopographic method made it possible to highlight specific biographies of military linguists, whom fate brought to the forefront of historical events, whether it was the translation of the testimony of a prisoner of war German officer, on whose recognition depended the fate of a local operation or a large-scale offensive, to participation in the meetings of the Nuremberg Trials of the highest political and military leaders of the Third Reich, which has been studied and evaluated by historians and jurists for 65 years. We have used official documents, memoirs, notes and diaries of military linguists of the war years, archival documents.