“Newly discovered paintings by John Guilroy, the artist behind much of Guinness’s pre-war advertising, reveal that the Dublin brewery had considered promoting the drink in Nazi Germany.” (c) SUNDAY TIMES, 18.01.2014
Archive for January, 2014
Nazi Weapon: Mosquitoes?
Posted in Uncategorized with tags biological warfare, Germany, inventions, mosquitoes, National Socialism, weapons, World War Two on 27 January 2014 by delclem
This is almost surreal: “Mosquitoes as weapons? It was nearly a real-life threat during World War II, new research suggests.” >full text & photo (c) HUFF POST, 2014
“A monument of self-pity and self-justification” for Hungary
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Arrow Cross, Budapest, collaboration, cultural memory, Fidesz, Germany, Hungary, István Deák, memorials, memory politics, National Socialism, occupation, Second World War, World War on 26 January 2014 by delclem
The renowned Hungarian American historian István Deák on the Monument of German Occupation, 1944-45, which is planned in Budapest by the right-wing nationalist FIDEZ government > text (c) Hungarian Spectrum, 2014
photo of monument draft (c) FACEBOOK, 2014
Understanding Ukraine
Posted in Uncategorized with tags history, nationaism, politics, riots, Russia, Soviet Union, Ukraine on 25 January 2014 by delclem
Questions about the country in turmoil you are probably to embarrased to ask >full text (c) WASHINGTON POST, 2014. Another 10 questions (c) Business Insider
“Ukraine: The New Dictatorship”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags dictatorship, Nationalism, politics, Timoty Snyder, Ukraine on 25 January 2014 by delclem
An analysis by the renowned Yale historian Timothy Snyder (c) NYR, 2014
“My romance in a town haunted by its Nazi past”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Jewish identity, love, National Socialism, Nazi past, romance, travel literature, Vienna on 21 January 2014 by delclem
“I was a young Jewish woman dating an older man, but I couldn’t escape Vienna’s dark history, or my fears about his.” The following is adapted from “Everything Is Going to Be Great: An Underfunded and Overexposed European Grand Tour,” Rachel Shukert’s just-published memoir of traveling and living in Europe in her very early 20s. This excerpt takes place in Vienna, in the summer of 2003. >full text & illustration (c) SALON, 2014
PS. Why are these bitter sweet & slightly kitschy stories – a sort of Nazi romance/porn – so highly in demand in the English-speaking world?
“A History Lesson, Airbrushed”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags cinematography, collective guit, film, Germany, National Socialism, representation, review, Second World War, TV-series on 19 January 2014 by delclem
“Generation War, which was broadcast as a mini-series on German television last year, is perhaps more interesting as an artifact of the present than as a representation of the past. As tWW2 slips from living memory, as Germany asserts its dominant role in Europe with increasing confidence, and as long-suppressed information emerges from the archives of former Eastern bloc countries, the war’s cultural significance for Germans has shifted.”>review (c) NYT, 2014
>trailer (c) musicbox films
200th birthday of Georg Büchner
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Darmstadt, Georg Büchner, Germany, Hessen, Literature, revolution on 18 January 2014 by delclem
Georg Büchner: Revolutionary with Pen and Scalpel [Georg Büchner. Revolutionär mit Feder und Skalpell], an exhibition from October 13, 2013 to February 16, 2014 at the Darmstadium Conference Centre, Darmstadt. The catalogue of the same title is published by Hatje Cantz, 612 pages, €65 (US $89). >More about the author
(c) WSWS, 2014
“Nationalist Copyright on WW1?”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags 20th century history, Austria-Hungary, cultural memory, Europe, First World War, Nationalism, Serbia on 17 January 2014 by delclem
“As we are entering the anniversary of the centenary with the outbreak of World War One, controversies over how to commemorate the past are heating up. A few day ago, I published a comment in the Austrian daily Die Presse on debates and controversies over the commemoration of World War One. As unfortunately these debates are mostly published in German (and Serbian) only. Thus, some key points and links here.” Reblogged text by Florian Bieber, professor of SE European Studies, University of Graz
Stalin in Vienna: 1913, 1949, 2012
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Habsburg Monarchy, Joseph Stalin, Russia, Soviet Union, Stalinism, Vienna on 12 January 2014 by delclem
101 years ago, in January 1913, Ioseb B. dze Jugashvili aka. Joseph Stalin stayed in Vienna for a while to investigate the multi-ethnic setup of the Habsburg Monarchy for his publication on Marxism & the National Question.In 1949 the Austrian Communist Party KPÖ put a commorative plaque on the facade of the building in Schönbrunner Schlosstraße (no. 30) on the occasion of Stalin’s 70th birthday. In 2012, an additional plaque was mounted to commemorate Stalin’s/Stalinist crimes as well – a very Austrian solution to the problem, it seems. >more (in German); photo (c)ru, 2014
delirium clemens 