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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Talk: Violence in Defeat: The Wehrmacht on German Soil 1944-45
DESCRIPTION:As part of our new academic book series\, the Library is delighted to host a talk with Dr Bastiaan Willems on his book\, Violence in Defeat: The Wehrmacht on German Soil\, 1944-45. \n \nIn the final year of the Second World War\, as bitter defensive fighting moved to German soil\, a wave of intra-ethnic violence engulfed the country. Willems offers the first study into the impact and behaviour of the Wehrmacht on its own territory\, focusing on the German units fighting in East Prussia and its capital Königsberg. He shows that the Wehrmacht’s retreat into Germany\, after three years of brutal fighting on the Eastern Front\, contributed significantly to the spike of violence which occurred throughout the country immediately prior to defeat. Soldiers arriving with an ingrained barbarised mindset\, developed on the Eastern Front\, shaped the immediate environment of the area of operations\, and of Nazi Germany as a whole. Willems establishes how the norms of the Wehrmacht as a retreating army impacted behavioural patterns on the home front\, arguing that its presence increased the propensity to carry out violence in Germany. \nAbout the speaker: \nDr Bastiaan Willems is a Leverhulme Abroad Fellow at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. Formerly\, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow of Modern European History at University College London. \nEvent guidelines: \n1. The Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email prior to the event. Please check your junk email folders. \n2. Please try and join 5 minutes before the event start time and we will let you into the room (do try and bear with us if this takes a few minutes). \n3. If you would like to ask a question during the event\, please type your question into the chat function\, and we will endeavour to answer as many questions as possible during the Q&A. Your webcam will not be seen during this event. \n4. The event will be recorded for the Library’s YouTube channel and will be shared at a later date. \n 
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-book-talk-violence-in-defeat-the-wehrmacht-on-german-soil-1944-45/
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,New and Noteworthy Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211005T183000
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SUMMARY:Virtual HGRP Book Talk: Empire of Destruction: A History of Nazi Mass Killing
DESCRIPTION:Nazi Germany killed approximately 13 million civilians and other non-combatants in deliberate policies of mass murder\, mostly during the war years. Almost half the victims were Jewish\, systematically destroyed in the Holocaust\, the core of the Nazis’ pan-European racial purification programme. \n \nAlex Kay argues that the genocide of European Jewry can be examined in the wider context of Nazi mass killing. For the first time\, Empire of Destruction considers Europe’s Jews alongside all the other major victim groups: captive Red Army soldiers\, the Soviet urban population\, unarmed civilian victims of preventive terror and reprisals\, the mentally and physically disabled\, the European Roma and the Polish intelligentsia. Kay shows how each of these groups was regarded by the Nazi regime as a potential threat to Germany’s ability to successfully wage a war for hegemony in Europe. \nCombining the full quantitative scale of the killings with the individual horror\, this is a vital and groundbreaking work. \nAbout the Speakers \nDr Alex Kay is Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Potsdam and lifetime Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. His research and teaching focuses on the history of Germany from 1918 to 1945\, National Socialist policies of extermination\, and comparative research on genocide and violence. He has published five acclaimed books on Nazi Germany\, including The Making of an SS Killer. \nProfessor Dan Stone is Professor of Modern History and Director of the Holocaust Research Institute at the Royal Holloway University of London. He is a historian of ideas who works primarily on twentieth-century European history. His research interests include the history and interpretation of the Holocaust\, comparative genocide\, history of anthropology\, history of fascism\, the cultural history of the British Right and theory of history. \nPlease note: This event will take place on Zoom and the relevant details will be sent on the morning of the event. Please ensure email addresses ending in ‘@wienerholocaustlibrary.org’ are added to your safe senders list.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-hgrp-book-talk-empire-of-destruction-a-history-of-nazi-mass-killing/
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,HGRP,New and Noteworthy Books
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211014T200000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Talk: Dance on the Razor's Edge: Crime and Punishment in the Nazi Ghettos
DESCRIPTION:Svenja Bethke in conversation with Zoë Waxman. \nThe ghettos established by the Nazis in German-occupied Eastern Europe during the Second World War have mainly been seen as lawless spaces marked by brutality\, tyranny\, and the systematic murder of the Jewish population. Drawing on examples from the Warsaw\, Lodz\, and Vilna ghettos\, Dance on the Razor’s Edge explores how under these circumstances highly improvised legal spheres emerged in these coerced and heterogeneous ghetto communities. \nLooking at sources from multiple archives and countries\, this book investigates how the Jewish Councils\, set up on German orders\, formulated new definitions of criminal offenses and established legal institutions on their own initiative as a desperate attempt to ensure the survival of the ghetto communities. Bethke explores how people under these circumstances tried to make sense of everyday lives that had been turned upside down\, taking with them pre-war notions of justice and morality\, and considers the extent to which this rupture led to new judgments on human behaviour. In doing so\, this book aims to understand how people attempted to use their very limited scope for action in order to survive. Set against the background of a Holocaust historiography that often still seeks clear categories of “good” and “bad” behaviour\, Dance on the Razor’s Edge calls for a new understanding of the ghettos as complex communities in an unprecedented emergency situation. \nAbout the speakers \nSvenja Bethke is Lecturer in Modern European History and the Deputy Director of the Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Leicester. She works on themes of the Holocaust\, Modern Jewish History and Fashion History. In 2019-2021\, she held a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem for her new project ‘Clothing\, Fashion and Nation Building in the Land of Israel’. \nZoë Waxman is Departmental Lecturer in Modern Jewish History at the University of Oxford. She previously taught in the history faculty in Oxford and at Royal Holloway\, University of London\, where she was fellow in Holocaust Studies. She is the author of Writing the Holocaust: Identity\, Testimony\, Representation (2006)\, and Anne Frank (2015)\, as well as numerous articles relating to the Holocaust and genocide. A board member of the British Association of Holocaust Studies\, she also sits on the editorial board of Holocaust Studies and the Journal of Modern Jewish Studies. She is a trustee of The Wiener Holocaust Library and a member of the academic advisory board for the Imperial War Museum’s Holocaust galleries. She is currently working on Women of the Holocaust: Gendering the Shoah (forthcoming with Oxford University Press) and a project on rape and sexual abuse in genocide. \nEvent guidelines: \n1. The Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email prior to the event. Please check your junk email folders. \n2. Please try and join 5 minutes before the event start time and we will let you into the room (do try and bear with us if this takes a few minutes). \n3. If you would like to ask a question during the event\, please type your question into the chat function\, and we will endeavour to answer as many questions as possible during the Q&A. Your webcam will not be seen during this event. \n4. The event will be recorded for the Library’s YouTube channel and will be shared at a later date.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-book-talk-dance-on-the-razors-edge-crime-and-punishment-in-the-nazi-ghettos/
CATEGORIES:New and Noteworthy Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211020T183000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Launch: Musicians’ Exile in Shanghai\, 1938–1949
DESCRIPTION:In this virtual lecture\, Sophie Fetthauer will present her recently published monograph Musiker und Musikerinnen im Shanghaier Exil 1938–1949. \n \nMore than 450 musicians were among the approximately 18\,000 mostly Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria who fled Nazi persecution to Shanghai from 1938. For most of them\, the Chinese port city was not a preferred destination. The situation there was marked by Japanese military occupation\, temporary ghettoization\, destructions of war\, and shortages. Against this complex background\, this volume is the first comprehensive examination of the conditions of the professional spheres of activity\, the (sub) cultural developments\, and the adaptation and demarcation of the musicians who fled to Shanghai. Topics covered by the study are the role of aid organizations in preparing the exile\, the popular music scene\, the trade union involvement\, the classical music scene and institutionalization\, the Shanghai Municipal Orchestra\, stage productions\, Jewish cantors in synagogues and concerts\, music educators and Chinese student circles\, activities of composers\, and the migration and rehabilitation after the end of the war. \nAbout the speaker: \nSophie Fetthauer studied Musicology and Literature at the University of Hamburg\, PhD in 2002; various research projects on music and musical life in the “Third Reich” and in exile with a focus on biographies\, company and institutional history\, exile in Shanghai as well as displaced person camps and remigration in the post-war period; co-editor of the “Lexikon verfolgter Musiker und Musikerinnen der NS-Zeit”. \nwww.sophie.fetthauer.de. \nEvent guidelines: \n1. The Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email prior to the event. Please check your junk email folders. \n2. Please try and join 5 minutes before the event start time and we will let you into the room (do try and bear with us if this takes a few minutes). \n3. If you would like to ask a question during the event\, please type your question into the chat function\, and we will endeavour to answer as many questions as possible during the Q&A. Your webcam will not be seen during this event. \n4. The event will be recorded for the Library’s YouTube channel and will be shared at a later date.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-book-launch-musicians-exile-in-shanghai-1938-1949/
CATEGORIES:New and Noteworthy Books
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SUMMARY:Book Talk: The Dressmakers of Auschwitz
DESCRIPTION:The Wiener Holocaust Library is delighted to host historian Lucy Adlington in conversation with Dr Imogen Dalziel to discuss her new book\, The Dressmakers of Auschwitz. \nAt the height of the Holocaust twenty-five young inmates of the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp – mainly Jewish women and girls – were selected to design\, cut\, and sew beautiful fashions for elite Nazi women in a dedicated salon. It was work that they hoped would spare them from the gas chambers. \nThis fashion workshop – called the Upper Tailoring Studio – was established by Hedwig Höss\, the camp commandant’s wife\, and patronized by the wives of SS guards and officers. Here\, the dressmakers produced high-quality garments for SS social functions in Auschwitz\, and for ladies from Nazi Berlin’s upper crust. \nDrawing on diverse sources – including interviews with the last surviving seamstress – The Dressmakers of Auschwitz follows the fates of these brave women. Their bonds of family and friendship not only helped them endure persecution but also to play their part in camp resistance. Weaving the dressmakers’ remarkable experiences within the context of Nazi policies for plunder and exploitation\, Lucy Adlington exposes the greed\, cruelty\, and hypocrisy of the Third Reich and offers a fresh look at a little-known chapter of the Second World War and the Holocaust. \nAbout the speakers: \nLucy Adlington is a British historian and writer with more than twenty years’ specialisation in social history. Her previous non-fiction titles include Stitches in Time: The Story of the Clothes We Wear and Women’s Lives and Clothes in WW2: Ready for Action. Her fiction titles include the award-winning young adult novel The Red Ribbon. She runs the History Wardrobe series of costume presentations\, and has an extensive collection of vintage and antique clothing. \nDr Imogen Dalziel is part-time Programme Co-ordinator for the Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership; part-time Administrator for the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway\, University of London; and a freelance Holocaust researcher and educator. Her research interests include the history of the Auschwitz Museum\, Holocaust tourism and Holocaust memory in the digital age.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/book-talk-the-dressmakers-of-auschwitz/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
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