Search results for "World War II"

Niemcy, Rosja i kwestia polska w publicystyce Jędrzeja Giertycha na łamach "Horyzontów" paryskich (1956-1971)

2017

The liberalization of the communist system in mid-1950s, disillusionment with the policy of the West, fears connected with West German revisionism, and dwindling chances of change in the situation of Central-Eastern Europe contributed to a differentiation of attitudes among the Polish emigrants. Some of them, notably the nationalists, voiced the need to seek compromise with Russia. This led to the emergence of a pro-Russian option alongside the still dominant pro-Western one. The thesis on the need of an alliance with Russia was propagated by Jędrzej Giertych in his jo umalism in the "Horyzonty” monthly published in Paris. This ideologically committed opponent of communism and a staunch Cat…

Rodzinna postpamięć Ślązaków

2017

Family Postmemory of the People of Silesia
 The author suggests a possible use of postmemory to analyse the contemporary family memory of the people of Silesia. Their memoirs about WW2 (such as working for the Wehrmacht, the Red Army invading Silesia, working in labour camps, nationality verification, displacements to Germany, and deportations to Siberia) bear signs of latent memory which is rarely revealed even to the next of kin. Present mainly within the family circle, within the local society, and among friends, these memoirs integrated Silesians and made them a unique community that considers itself a stigmatized minority. This contributed to mythologizing and stereotyping the who…

Babies of the War: Effect of War Exposure Early in Life on Mortality Throughout Life

2015

There is increasing evidence that circumstances very early in our lives, and particularly during pregnancy, can affect our health for the remainder of life. Studies that have looked at this relationship have often used extreme situations, such as famines that occurred during wartime. Here we investigate whether less extreme situations during World War II also affected later-life mortality for cohorts born in Belgium, France, The Netherlands, and Norway. We argue that these occupied countries experienced a considerable deterioration in daily life situations and show that this resulted in strongly increased mortality rates and lower probabilities of survival until age 55 among civilian popula…

Long-term effects on adult attachment in German occupation children born after World War II in comparison with a birth-cohort-matched representative …

2016

Children born of war are a phenomenon of every conflict. At the end of World War II and thereafter, approximately 400,000 children were fathered by foreign soldiers and born to local women in Germany. Quantitative research on psychosocial consequences of growing up as German occupation child (GOC) has been missing so far.This study examines adult attachment and its association with current depression in GOC (N = 146) using self-report instruments: Adult Attachment Scale, Patient Health Questionnaire. Data were compared to a birth-cohort-matched representative sample of the German population (BCMS; N = 786).GOC differ in both attachment dimensions (less comfortable with closeness/intimacy, l…

Croce e la modernità tedesca

2017

The book collects the proceedings of the international symposium held with the support of the DFG in 2016 at Villa Vigoni about the relationship between Benedetto Croce and German culture. In particular, the essays deal with the question of the crisis of modernity in German culture through a spectrum of inquiries ranging from Kant to Th. Mann. Il volume costituisce l'edizione italiana dei materiali del seminario internazionale svoltosi con il sostegno della DFG nel 2016 presso Villa Vigoni, avente per argomento il ruolo di Croce in Germania e della cultura tedesca per Croce. In particolare, i singoli contributi affrontano la questione della crisi della modernità nella cultura tedesca in uno…

Latvijas Vēstures Institūta Žurnāls. 2014, Nr. 2 (91)

2014

Valsts kultūrkapitāla fonds

The Translation Scene in Latvia (Latvian SSR) during the Stalinist Years

2018

[full article, abstract in English; abstract in Lithuanian] In this paper the author continues to explore the translation scene in 20th century Latvia (Veisbergs 2016a). The period under discussion covers 1945–1953, the years of Stalin’s rule after WWII until his death in 1953. The translation situation is described by discussing nationalisation and centralisation of publishers, book liquidation, censorship, ideologisation and politicisation, russification, Latvian émigré translations and other aspects of importance in an attempt to present the translation scene of the period from different angles. At the end of the article an extensive list of references is provided that can serve as an in…

Anthropology of Political, Social and Cultural Memory: Practices in Central and Eastern Europe: Program & Abstracts : International Scientific Confer…

2020

Politica al femminile. Margherita Bontade militante democristiana nella Sicilia dei primi anni della Repubblica

2014

Margherita Bontade è una tra le più singolari figure di donne impegnate in politica nella Sicilia del Secondo Dopoguerra; tra le poche ad aver trovato spazio nella cerchia dei potenti democristiani del tempo, occupati ad opporsi all’avanzata dei partiti del Blocco del Popolo, con la benedizione delle gerarchie della Chiesa Cattolica. Le sue fortune elettorali dipendono, da un lato, al suo stretto legame con la Curia e al rapporto personale con il Cardinale di Palermo Ernesto Ruffini; d’altro lato, all’alleanza politica prima con Bernardo Mattarella e poi con Franco Restivo. La sua fulminante carriera politica che si snoda nell’arco di un ventennio – tra la fine degli anni ’40 e la fine degl…

Pamięci nieukojone. Wokół upamiętniania ofiar w Serbii i Chorwacji (Jasenovac, Bleiburg i belgradzkie Sajmište)

2016

Tekst koncentruje się na przemianach tożsamości narodowych w dwóch krajach postjugosłowiańskich (Serbii i Chorwacji). (Re)konstrukcje przeszłości mające tam miejsce od lat dziewięćdziesiątych XX wieku zakładały przede wszystkim zanegowanie dziedzictwa wspólnego opartego na zmitologizowanej walce partyzanckiej, a następnie wybór z przeszłości tych wydarzeń, o których pamięć należy kultywować. Walka przeciwstawnych pamięci (serbskiej i chorwackiej) oraz polaryzacja społeczeństwa chorwackiego pokazana zostaje na przykładzie praktyk komemoratywnych związanych z miejscami zagłady (Jasenovac i Bleiburg) z okresu drugiej wojny światowej. W tekście przywołano również miejsce kojarzone z Holokaustem…