“Germany’s Annexation Of Austria 75 Years Ago Remembered As ‘Darkest Time’.” >full text (c) HUFFINGTON POST, 2013
Archive for history
What the Soldaten did
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Harald Welzer, history, Prisoner of war, World War II on 25 January 2013 by delclem
Soldaten: On Fighting, Killing and Dying –
The Secret Second World War Tapes of German POWs
“A new book (by Sönke Neitzel & Harald Welzer) based on transcripts of secretly recorded conversations between German prisoners of war reveals much about the involvement of ordinary soldiers in the atrocities committed by the Third Reich.” >review & photo (c) IT, 2013
“What’s the big idea?”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Gret Britain, historiography, history on 8 October 2012 by delclem
“So-called big history has been inhospitable to the questions of meaning and intention so central to intellectual history – isn’t it time for a reconciliation?”
Speech by David Armitage
(c) TLS, 2012
Eric Hobsbawm 1917-2012
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Eric Hobsbawm, Germany, Great Britain, historiography, history, Marxism, obituary on 3 October 2012 by delclem
“The British Marxist historian (with Central European roots) reclaimed and popularised the value of popular culture – something so integral to our lives
today it seems bizarre it was ever denigrated.” >Arts Blog entry
>Obituary Hobsbawm
>Panel: the Hobsbwam legacy
(with Niall Ferguson, David Priestland, Catherine Merridale & Roy Foster)
All texts (c) THE GUARDIAN 2012
From Ghandi to Hitler with Love?
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Gandhi, Germany, history, Hitler, India, letters on 23 July 2012 by delclem
This letter was allegedly written by Mahatma Gandhi to Adolf Hitler on 23 July 1939: is it authentic or fabricated? There were letters written indeed, it seems; but this one? >more Btw., a controversial movie on this topic was shot in 2011.
500 Years of Crisis
Posted in Uncategorized with tags crisis, Europe, history, Spain on 6 June 2012 by delclem
“Spain has frittered away its chances for economic development for the second time. The first was after it discovered the Americas in 1492, and the second was after it joined the European Union in 1986. The anti-economic thinking that has dominated Spain is rooted in its history and culture.” >Excerpts from an article published by Süddeutsche Zeitung (c) presseurop.eu, 2012
HHhH
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Czech Republic, Germany, history, Operation Anthropoid, Prague, Reinhard Heydrich, Second World War on 27 May 2012 by delclem
“HHhH is Reinhard Heydrich, the ‘butcher of Prague’, a man who physically and ideologically embodied the Nazi regime. His immediate superior was Heinrich Himmler, and rumours were whispered in the shadows of the Third Reich that ‘Himmler’s brain is called Heydrich’ – in German, Himmlers Hirn heisst Heydrich, or HHhH.
The book traces the planning, execution and aftermath of Operation Anthropoid, the resistance’s successful plot to assassinate Heydrich in Prague, the city he commanded as Reichsprotektor of Bohemia and Moravia. The two heroes of the novel are Jozef Gabcik and Jan Kubis, the almost unbearably brave assassins, but Heydrich, in all his horror, is the central character. “All the characters are real. All the events depicted are true,” asserts the book’s cover. And hence Binet’s dilemma.” Read the full review in THE IRISH TIMES, 2012
PS. Heydrich was assassinated exactly 70 years ago.
>Another review (guardian.co.uk)
Museum boom in Kraków
Posted in Uncategorized with tags art, aviation, history, museum, Poland on 8 February 2012 by delclem
“Three museums have recently opened in Kraków that will be of interest to aviation, history and art enthusiasts. The city is rediscovering many of the things that were suppressed or deliberately ignored under the Communists, including contemporary art.” >Article (c) wieninternational.at, 2012
WW2 Eyewitnesses from the Weinviertel
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, history, National Socialsm, Second World War, Soviet Union, Weinviertel on 4 February 2012 by delclem
“In the new documentary by Simon Wieland Heil Hitler – Die Russen kommen (‘Heil Hitler – The Russians Are Coming’) eyewitnesses recount their individual stories under the swastika and Soviet star. Following a successful road tour through the Weinviertel in Lower Austria, the film will be on general release in Austria from 27 January.” Article (c) wieninternational.at, 2012
Bosnia-Hercegovina under Habsburg rule, 1878-1918
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria-Hungary, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Colonialism, Habsburg, history on 11 January 2012 by delclem
“With the arrival of Habsburg occupiers in 1878, Bosnia-Herzegovina became Austria-Hungary’s first and only colony. It rapidly became the sole outlet for the energies, ideas, and resources of aspiring colonizers in the ‘motherland’.”
Pretty good “Postcolonial” historical survey reblogged from (c) bosniafacts.info, 2012
Photo (c) Heeresgeschichtl. Museum, Vienna
Also see my own posting on the subject matter.
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