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“This is an international observance of student community, held annually on November 17. Taking the day differently than its original meaning commemorating German storming of Czech universities in 1939 and killing and sending of its students to concentration camps, a number of universities mark it, sometimes on a day other than November 17, for a nonpolitical celebration of the multiculturalism of their international students.”
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Archive for National Socialism
Anniversary of Viennese anti-Semitism
Posted in Uncategorized with tags 1938, anti-Semitism, Austria, commemoration, Germany, National Socialism, November Pogrom, Vienna on 9 November 2013 by delclem
A commemoration for the co-called “Night of Broken Glass”, the Nazi Pogroms
on 9 November 1938. >text & photos (c) wieninternational.at 2013
Iconoclasm in Vienna
Posted in Uncategorized with tags art, Austria, cultural memory, Joef Weinheber, Literature, monuments, National Socialism, poetry, Vienna on 25 October 2013 by delclem
This work deals with a memorial to Austrian poet and Nazi Josef Weinheber (1892-1945) which stands at the Schillerpark in Vienna’s city centre. A temporary intervention aimed at exposing its conflicted history and leading to a permanent artistic reconfiguration and contextualization of the monument.
>more (c) Eduard Freudmann, 2013
German – Greek Paybacks
Posted in Uncategorized with tags austerity, compensation payments, Germany, Greece, National Socialism, occupation, partisans, payback, Second World War, war crimes on 16 October 2013 by delclem
“As Germans push austerity, Greeks press Nazi-era claims.”>article (c) NYT, 2013
‘Banality of Evil’ Revisited
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Adolf Eichmann, Banality of Evil, Germany, Hannah Arendt, Holocaust, National Socialism, philosophy, USA on 20 August 2013 by delclem
“Hannah Arendt employed this memorable phrase in both the subtitle and closing words of Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, her book on the trial of Nazi lieutenant-colonel Adolf Eichmann. To Arendt’s mind, Eichmann willingly did his part to organize the Holocaust — and an instrumental part it was — out of neither anti-semitism nor pure malice, but out of a non-ideological, entirely more prosaic combination of careerism and obedience. Readers have argued ever since its publication about this characterization, and those with a special interest in how Arendt arrived there can find in the New Yorker‘s online archives the original series of “Eichmann in Jerusalem” articles out of which the book grew.”>full text
(c) OPEN CULTURE, 2013
Thomas Bernhard in Delhi
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Delhi, India, Indira Gandhi, memory politics, National Socialism, Sikh, Thomas Bernhard on 30 July 2013 by delclem
Thomas Bernhard, “the great Austrian author, created several curious characters in his short play The German Lunch Table. (…) When I first read the play, I wondered if it could be adapted for Indian stage, especially in the context of the Sikh pogrom in November 1984 in the days following the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards.” A contribution to the cultural memory debate re: political violence from a cross-cultural perspective. >full text & photo/s
(c) India Ink / NYT, 2013
Mauthausen: Life in the Details
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, concentration camp, exhibition, Holocaust, Mauthausen, National Socialism, review on 21 July 2013 by delclem
“A bicycle from Poland. Pieces of a Messerschmitt fighter plane from U.S. Air Force archives in Alabama. Camp log books from Caen. An embroidered handkerchief, tossed out a prison window by a woman on her way to execution for helping Allied paratroopers. A rusty watchtower searchlight, unearthed just last year. Wedding rings, watches & photos confiscated upon arrival here 1938-45.
On 5 May, two new permanent exhibitions were opened at Austria’s concentration camp memorial at Mauthausen along with a Room of Names – all part of an ongoing redesign scheduled for completion in 2018.”>full text (c) THE VIENNA REVIEW, 2013
How Ordinary Germans Did “It”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags compliance, complicity, Germany, Harald Welzer, Holocaust, National Socialism, ordinary people, soldiers, Third Reich on 20 June 2013 by delclem
“Growing consciousness of the Holocaust in both academic scholarship and society in general became evident in the late 1970s and intensified in the 1980s. Initially, important research focused on the different roles of Hitler, Nazi ideology, and the structure of the dictatorship in shaping the decision-making process that led to the Holocaust. Research also concentrated on the complicity of various professions and institutions in the Third Reich, and particularly on the SS. Still lacking was careful empirical study of how Nazi racial policy was also carried out by “ordinary” Germans.” >text (c) NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS, 2013
“Kicking the Germans Out of the East”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Central Europe, ethnic Germans, expulsion, National Socialism, Soviet Union, World War II on 8 June 2013 by delclem
A recent book by Colgate historian R.M. Douglas “has opened, or rather reopened, yet another tortured and largely ignored chapter of World War II, (…) whose specter is still dragging and clanking its chains” across Central and Eastern Europe.
>review (c) NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOK, 2013
“A slow-acting, addictive, dangerous drug”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags anniversary, anti-Semitism, Germany, Music, National Socialism, Richard Wagner on 22 May 2013 by delclem
The Heavy Metal Music of the 19th century: today was the 200th birthday of Germany’s most controversial composer: RICHARD WAGNER (1813-83).
>text (c) THE IRISH TIMES, 2013
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