Savremena Italija u krizi sveta

Author(s): Bogdan Radica / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 10/1934

Medjunarodna i liberalna atmosfera Ženeve učlnila je od Guljelma Ferera intelektualca koji živi i diše u srcu sveta. Naročito u dane kad u blizini Fererove kuće - koja se nalazi u sredini stare kalvinističtke Ženeve - zasedaju predstavnici sveta, čuiu se u salonima njegova izgnaničkog doma nezavisna; različna i oprečna, mišljenja svih državnika. i intelektualaca sveta, koji osećaju potrebu da konsultuju, da čuju, ti da se - često- posavetuju s ovim poslednjim velikim svedokom Evrope Devetnaestoga Stoleća.

NAZI “DIVIDE ET IMPERA”: COMPARING SOVIET AND YUGOSLAVIAN CASES IN 1941

Author(s): Kiril Feferman / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2016

The article scrutinizes Nazi Germany’s occupation policy in Yugoslavia and in the Soviet Union in 1941. Particular attention is given to the German application of “divide et impera” principle on the territories of formerly multinational states, whose ethnic groups fought to win occupier’s favours with varying success, meeting at the same time Germany’s demands, chiefly wide participation in destruction of the Jews as a condition to partake in Nazi geopolitical rearrangement of Europe.

Siedemdziesiąta rocznica Obławy Augustowskiej. W poszukiwaniu genezy ostatniej zbrodni sowieckiej na obywatelach polskich w lipcu 1945 roku

Author(s): Krzysztof Jasiewicz / Language(s): Polish Issue: 39/2015

In June 1945, Joseph Stalin ordered the Red Army General Staff to develop a plan to comb the Augustów Primeval Forest in order to trap and dispose of Polish partisan groups. This operation was conducted in July 1945 by the Red Army units of the 3rd Belorussian Front numbering about 45,000 soldiers, who were supported by the 62nd Division of the NKVD Internal Troops (USSR), a group of Polish Army soldiers and secret political police officers (UB). The main operation was carried out on 12-19 July 1945 and involved scouring the forests of the then districts of Augustów, Suwałki, Sejny and Sokółka in the Białystok province. As a result, 7,049 people were arrested, 5,115 of whom were released after revision. About 2,000 of detainees were probably killed. The reasons for this genocidal decision can also be seen in the myths and legends of the Eastern Borderlands which were popular in that generation. One of them was the legend of Mohort, a real person who died in 1792 at the Battle of Boruszkowce, thus becoming a hero and a symbol of indomitable persistence and lifelong fidelity to one’s ideals – very important and resulting from deep faith and attachment to national tradition and the idea of independence of the Polish state.

Around the Bloc: Pig Farm to Remain on Site of Wartime Czech Romani Camp

Author(s): TOL TOL / Language(s): English Issue: 05/24/2016

Farm site is regrettable, but we can’t afford to close it, Czech government says.

Around the Bloc: Cameo Roles for Guns and Jewish Stars in Slovak Parliament

Author(s): TOL TOL / Language(s): English Issue: 03/29/2016

Many parliamentarians concerned over election of ‘fascists’ and rising level of intolerance in the country.

Around the Bloc: Romania’s Ailing Former King Retires From Public Life

Author(s): TOL TOL / Language(s): English Issue: 03/15/2016

King Michael led Romania during the darkest days of its modern history, overcoming a controversial past to become a revered elder statesman.

War and Art – Part IV (3)

Author(s): Árpád Kadarkay / Language(s): English Issue: 06/2015

It is instructive to compare Hitler and Churchill as boys in school. Churchill at St George’s School, Ascot (1884). Headmaster’s remarks. General conduct: “very – bad – is a constant trouble to everybody and is always in some scrape. He cannot be trusted to behave himself anywhere. He has very great abilities.”

Der Fall Wlassow (2. Teil)

Author(s): George Fischer / Language(s): German Issue: 034/1951

The essay of George Fischer is an attempt to present the equally fascinating and revealing attempt of a detailed analysis of the phenomenon of the Soviet "collaboration" during the Second World War. It is focused, above all, on the anti-Stalinist movement launched by the former Soviet general lieutenant Andrey A. Vlasov. The author follows the deeper reasons for the many Western observers, who seem so incomprehensible to read countless Soviet citizens, to receive and support the German invaders of their homeland as liberators. George Fischer's diagnosis diverges from all the interpretations made so far, insofar as he ascribes to his motives, at least as far as the time at the beginning of the war, an apolitical character, and essentially ascribes them to the political apathy and adaptability of the "Soviet man." His explanation becomes more and more probable as soon as they are viewed against the backdrop of German "Ostpolitik", which treated all the inhabitants of the Soviet Union as "sub-human beings", ignoring their willingness to participate actively in the struggle against the Stalinist tyranny.

Der Fall Wlassow (Schluss)

Author(s): George Fischer / Language(s): German Issue: 035/1951

The essay of George Fischer is an attempt to present the equally fascinating and revealing attempt of a detailed analysis of the phenomenon of the Soviet "collaboration" during the Second World War. It is focused, above all, on the anti-Stalinist movement launched by the former Soviet general lieutenant Andrey A. Vlasov. The author follows the deeper reasons for the many Western observers, who seem so incomprehensible to read countless Soviet citizens, to receive and support the German invaders of their homeland as liberators. George Fischer's diagnosis diverges from all the interpretations made so far, insofar as he ascribes to his motives, at least as far as the time at the beginning of the war, an apolitical character, and essentially ascribes them to the political apathy and adaptability of the "Soviet man." His explanation becomes more and more probable as soon as they are viewed against the backdrop of German "Ostpolitik", which treated all the inhabitants of the Soviet Union as "sub-human beings", ignoring their willingness to participate actively in the struggle against the Stalinist tyranny.

Churchill und Stalin. Ein Streifzug durch Winston Churchills Kriegserinnerungen

Author(s): Melvin J. Lasky / Language(s): German Issue: 038/1951

This historical reconstruction is essentially based on Winston Churchill's memoirs. Of the four volumes published so far, of 3154 pages, three have already appeared in German. The publisher of the German-language edition is Alfred Scherz, Bern; for Germany the Parnass Verlag Scherz & Goverts, Stuttgart. All citations of this essay are from Churchill's recollections, unless expressly stated otherwise. On the sub-ject, we also refer to George Fischer's essay "Roosevelt and Stalin" from "Der Monat", issue 21.

Geheimnis und Gewalt (Teil II)

Author(s): Georg Glaser / Language(s): German Issue: 038/1951

Geheimnis und Gewalt (Teil IV)

Author(s): Georg Glaser / Language(s): German Issue: 040/1952

Die Toten von Katyn. Zu den neuesten polnischen Quellenschriften

Author(s): Geoffrey F. Hudson / Language(s): German Issue: 040/1952

Sühne und Ehre

Author(s): Rudolf Hagelstange / Language(s): German Issue: 042/1952

an example of German "Facing the Past"

DIPLOMATIE AUF SCHIEFER BAHN: 2. Der Fall Tschechoslowakei

Author(s): Joachim G. Leithäuser / Language(s): German Issue: 050/1952

The attack on Prague in the spring of 1939 triggered a decisive turn in the diplomatic prehistory of the Second World War. After the annexation of Austria (see issue 48), the Sudeten crisis, and the Munich agreement (see issue 49), this should be the last non-bloody conquest of the national-socialist regime. With the "fall of Poland", which led directly to the outbreak of war, this account, which is essentially based on the official file publications and the memoirs of the parties, will be concluded in the following issue.

Aktivizmus bármilyen irányba

Author(s): Daniel Miklós / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 1/2024

A well-known public figure of the first Czechoslovak state, Ignác Schultz, who had emigrated from Hungary, was a representative of self-sacrificing activism. The political changes in the autumn of 1938 had an impact on his activities and living conditions as well. The present paper aims to provide some insights into Schultz's activities during the Second World War, which can still be best described in terms of activism. The paper also seeks to draw attention to the fact that Schultz tried to remain an activist after the Second World War, but that, in an ideological reversal, he committed himself to Zionism, in the face of unfavourable political events in Czechoslovakia, and remained committed to the idea until his death in 1954.

Phylogenetic analysis of mysterious burials revealed in the former penal labor camp Treblinka I

Author(s): Dogmara Lisman,Joanna Drath,Grażyna Zielińska,Thierry van de Wetering,Krzysztof Bukowski,Andrzej Ossowski / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2023

The purpose of this paper is to formulate recommendations for the disclosure of biological traces in the laboratory and the handling of forensic evidence submitted for identification tests, recommended by the Polish Speaking Working Group of the International Society for Forensic Genetics. The paper organizes the knowledge of the most relevant stages of preliminary analysis of biological traces based on both literature sources and those resulting from years of research practice. Recommendations formulated in the course of multi-stage expert consultations contained in this study should be used in the development of laboratory procedures applied during the execution.

FORCED LABOUR OF POLISH AND SOVIET CHILDREN UNDER NAZI OCCUPATION DISCUSSION BY PROF. JOHANNES-DIETER STEINERT AND PROF. BEATA HALICKA, 1 DECEMBER 2022

Author(s): Beata Halicka,Johannes-Dieter Steinert / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2023

the following conversation is an abridged transcript of a discussion that Prof. Dr. beata halicka (uam) held with Prof. Dr. Johannes-Dieter Steinert of the university of Wolverhampton in the uk. it took place on December 1, 2022 and was the opening event of a conference entitled Little Workers: Child Labor in socio-cultural and economic per- spectives throughout history. the conference was organized by the Department of economic history, the Department of eastern european history and the research unit of cultural history and was held at the faculty of history of adam mickiewicz university in Poznań. Johannes-Dieter Steinert is a prominent specialist in the field of child forced labourers in national Socialist Germany and German occupied eastern europe. his books on the sub- ject have been published in english, German and Polish.

Milan Vyhlídal: Vojenští zpravodajci proti nacistické okupaci. Odbojová skupina Tři konšelé

Author(s): Petr Žižka / Language(s): Czech Issue: 2/2023

Review of: Milan Vyhlídal: Vojenští zpravodajci proti nacistické okupaci. Odbojová skupina Tři konšelé. Praha: Academia, 2022, 332 pp. ISBN 978-80-200-3274-4.

Grossraum Carla Schmitta a imperialna koncepcja narodowych socjalistów w Niemczech

Author(s): Sebastian Kwiatkowski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2024

The theory of Carl Schmitt’s Grossraum emerged during the rule of the NS-DAP in Germany. For this reason, it is often classified as a theory justifying GermanNazi imperial policy, and its author earned the epithet “the Crown Jurist of the ThirdReich.” This article aims to discuss the Grossraum theory by analyzing Carl Schmitt’swork. Achieving this goal, will help to answer the main question of this thesis, whichreads as follows: to what extent does Schmitt’s Grossraum theory differ from the Naziimperial concept? Comparing Carl Schmitt’s work with Adolf Hitler’s vision outlinedin Mein Kampf as well as the international and occupational policies of the ThirdReich, and referring to the opinions of the Nazis on the theory of the Greater Space,a clear contradiction between the Grossraum theory and Nazi Lebensraum is notice-able. The hypothesis in this thesis is as follows: Carl Schmitt’s Grossraum is parallelto Nazi Lebensraum. During the study, it was pointed out that the similarity betweenthe concepts lies in their goal of establishing German dominance, as their authorswere undoubtedly German nationalists. However, the differences lie in essential char-acteristics regarding the organization of space and the coexistence of nations withinit, the Jewish question, and the foundations upon which this space was established.In the case of Grossraum, it was anti-liberal political ideas, while in the case of Leb-ensraum, it was the Nazi myth of blood.