British historian Marco Attila Hoare explores the ugly sides of World War Two & the Holocaust in the Balkans: the hidden agenda of local nationalism/s. >text (c) KOSOVO-NEWS 2013
The Serbian Chetniks & the Jews
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Balkans, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Chetniks, history, Holocaust, Jews, Marko Attila Hoare, Muslims, Serbia, World War II on 15 May 2013 by delclemGermany obsession with inflation: a myth?
Posted in Uncategorized with tags austerity, cultural history, euro, Europe, Germany, inflation, monetary system on 13 May 2013 by delclem
“Separating historical fact from fiction is a thankless task in Germany but one man is trying to do just that”: Derek Scally. >opinion piece (c) THE IRISH TIMES, 2013
Denigrating or understanding Irish neutrality?
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Alan Shatter, Diarmaid Ferriter, Germany, Great Britain, Holocaust, Ireland, neutrality, World War II on 11 May 2013 by delclem
Photo by Aidan Crawley / IT: “A German Nazi flag from the second World War at the National Maritime Museum in Dún Laoighaire. “Ireland’s geographic position, small size and strategic interests would dictate that it could not be absolutist about its foreign policy” True or false? Continue reading
Performing the impossible
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Biedermeier, female authors, gender, Ida Pfeiffer, travel literature, Vienna, world travel on 9 May 2013 by delclem
Ida Pfeiffer (1797-1858) “was a Viennese women of the Biedermeier era with one dream: she wanted to travel. In the nineteenth century it was impossible for women to fulfil this wish. So she made it her life to perform the impossible.”
>full text (c) wieninternational.at 2013
Below: Ms Pfeiffer in travel gear; lithography by Adolf Dauthage; photo: wikipedia Continue reading
International Exhibition Incident
Posted in Uncategorized with tags art, controversy, De l'Allemagne, exhibition, France, Germany, Louvre, Madame de Stael, Nationalism, Paris, review on 30 April 2013 by delclem
New tensions between EU pillars Germany and France fought in the cultural field? De L’Allemagne, “an exhibition of art in the Louvre has provoked fury in Germany for portraying the country as a dark and dangerous neighbour – has it ignored key movements deliberately, or is it all a matter of taste?”
photo: detail from Max Beckmann’s The Hell of Birds (c) The Louvre
>full text (c) THE IRISH TIMES, 2013
Water Resources Privatized?
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, privatization, resources, Switzerland, water supply on 28 April 2013 by delclemAustrian A-hole of the month? “Do you believe water is a basic human right? According to the Nestlé CEO water is a foodstuff that should be privatized, not a human right: Peter Brabeck says that with the global population rising water is not a public right, but a resource that should be managed by businessmen.”
(c) AMERICAN LIVE WIRE, 2013
“Hungary is no longer a democracy”
Posted in Uncategorized on 26 April 2013 by delclem
“Europe has been slow to act, but it is not too late.”
Analysis (c) THE NEW STATESMAN, 2013
Photo: Getty
Just Identity Issues…?
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Die Identitären, Europe, France, Great Britain, party, politics, right-wing extremism on 25 April 2013 by delclem
“A new (dangerous?) breed of activist right-wing extremism is spreading across Europe: Die Identitären.” >text (c) THE VIENNA REVIEW, 2013
“The Gothic author who died twice”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Cajetan Tschink, Gothic litearture, Moravia, Olomouc on 22 April 2013 by delclem
“Born 150 years ago today, on April 22nd 1763, Austrian author Cajetan Tschink was born in Vienna. At the age of 17 he asked for permission to enter the Barnabite Order but a few months later he was accepted into the Carmelite Order which he left before ordination. Instead he began his studies of philosophy at Jena. Later Tschink became Professor of Philosophy and Metaphysics in Olmütz/Olomouc in Moravia, Czech Republic. In November 1809 appeared an obituary announcing Tschink’s death in Olmütz (November 7th, 1809), and another one in 1813 stating that he died on August, 26th in the same town! Continue reading
UFOs over Austria, 1954
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Cold War, Flying saucer, Styria, UFO, Unidentified flying object on 21 April 2013 by delclem
UFOs as the projection screen of the collective unconscious, where Cold/Post War hysteria materializes? “This photograph, reproduced from the quarterly UFO periodical Flying Saucers International in Los Angeles, shows silvery white flying objects as seen by photographer Erich Kaiser while descending from the Reichenstein mountain in Styria, Austria on Aug. 3, 1954” Photo (c) AP
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