Podcasts of Military History seminars | Institute of Historical Research

Podcasts of Military History seminars | Institute of Historical Research

Military History seminar podcast 2010-04-27

The Waffen-SS - what's left? The present state of research: challenges, sources and approaches
Dr Niels Bo Paulson (Centre for Military History, Royal Danish Defence College)


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The Nuremberg Trials and Their Legacy

The Nuremberg Trials and Their Legacy

An online exhibition from The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

In the immediate aftermath of the Holocaust, the world was faced with a challenge—how to seek justice for an almost unimaginable scale of criminal behavior. The International Military Tribunal held at Nuremberg, Germany, attempted to broach this immense challenge on a legal basis

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Conference: Hitler's Scandinavian Legacy

Hitler's Scandinavian Legacy

Date: 8 April 2010 - 10 April 2010
On Thursday 8th, at 5.15pm there will be a Public Lecture by Professor Richard Overy on ‘Scandinavia and the Second World War’.
On Friday 9th, there will be a full-day Conference, open to the public, on ‘Hitler's Scandinavian Legacy'. Leading Scandinavian scholars will deliver papers on the wartime and post-war consequences of the German invasion of 9 April 1940 for Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland.
On Saturday 10th, a half-day open Conference, ‘War, Memory, and Literature: Effects of the Second World War on Nordic Culture, 1939–2009’ will conclude the event.

For further details please see the conference website:http://www.shca.ed.ac.uk/conferences/scandinavian_legacy

Conference organiser(s): John Gilmour, Hon Fellow, Scandinavian Studies (on behalf of Professor Jill Stephenson)
Venue: University of Edinburgh
Location: Old College, University of Edinburgh
Contact details:
Secretary: Pauline Maclean, Centre for the Study of the Two World Wars, +44 131 651 1254
P.Maclean@ed.ac.uk
+44 131 651 1254

John Gilmour, Hon Fellow, Scandinavian Studies
john.gilmour@ed.ack.uk
+44 7711 276090

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Jewish Museum Berlin: What we won’t show you...

Jewish Museum Berlin: Online Showcase

What we won’t show you...

The objects a museum displays are significant. But what museums won’t show you can be equally revealing. In these film clips, staff of the Jewish Museum Berlin talk about what you won’t see, thereby shedding light on German-Jewish life, on collecting, restoring, presenting as well as on ethical questions and political debates.

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View a video introduction to The Jewish Museum Berlin.

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Kristallnacht: The November 1938 Pogroms

Kristallnacht: The November 1938 Pogroms

On November 9, 1938, the Nazis unleashed a wave of pogroms against Germany’s Jews. In the space of a few hours, thousands of synagogues and Jewish businesses and homes were damaged or destroyed. This event came to be called Kristallnacht (“Night of Broken Glass”) for the shattered store windowpanes that carpeted German streets.

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has produced an online exhibition featuring eye witness accounts, documents & images.

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Dietrich Bonhoeffer:

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was one of the few church leaders who stood in courageous opposition to the Fuehrer and his policies. To honor his memory, the Church Relations department of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum asked Victoria Barnett to write an essay about Bonhoeffer spanning the years from the rise of Nazism until his death in the Flossenbürg concentration camp in 1945.

Over the past 50 years, many Christians have been engaged in the process of reexamining the role of the Church in Germany during the Nazi era. What has become evident in this undertaking is the depth of the chasm between the ideals the Church had always set for itself and the way it responded to the brutalization of the German government under Adolf Hitler.


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Interview with Ian Kershaw @ HistoryNet

Interview with Ian Kershaw @ HistoryNet:

A short interview, by Gene Santoro for HistoryNet.com, with the eminent Professor Sir Ian Kershaw. Debunks some of the common myths surrounding Hitler & The Third Reich.


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Oskar Schindler: An Unlikely Hero

Oskar Schindler: An Unlikely Hero

An online exhibition from The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Oskar Schindler’s actions to protect Jews during the Holocaust have earned him a special place among honored rescuers. His transformation from Nazi war profiteer to protector of Jews is the subject of several documentaries, the best-selling novel Schindler’s List (1982) by Thomas Keneally, and an Academy award-winning film.


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The Wiener Library Learning Materials

 
Wiener Library Learning Materials 

 

"The following learning materials have been created to help people explore the riches of the Wiener Library's collections and to offer insights into aspects of how the Nazi regime maintained itself in power and the sufferings that were inflicted on Europe's Jews and other minorities."

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Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg: short biography

Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg

Online biography produced by the German Resistance Memorial Center. Also available are a vast selection of biographies of other members of the 'German resistance'. The physical museum and exhibition space in Berlin is a fantastic place to study and learn about this topic, although when I last visited, two-three years ago, much of the displays were in solely in German. Very much worth a visit, and the site of Stauffenberg's planning of the coup and execution by firing squad.

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Richard J. Evans: Why did Stauffenberg plant the bomb?

Richard J. Evans: Why did Stauffenberg plant the bomb?

Was it because Hitler was losing the war? Was it to put an end to the mass murder of the Jews. Or was it to save Germany's honour? Whatever his motives for killing Hitler, Stauffenberg was no role model for future generations, says British historian Richard Evans, in an article published in Sign & Sight online. The article was originally published in Süddeutsche Zeitung, 23 January 2009.

Richard J. Evans is Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University.

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German History in Documents and Images

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German History in Documents and Images

German history through primary sources, facilitated by The German Historical Institute, Washington DC.

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Nazi Propaganda (1933-1945)

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Nazi Propaganda (1933-1945)

A collection of English translations of National Socialist propaganda for the period 1933-1945, part of a larger site on German propaganda. The goal is to help people understand the great totalitarian systems of the twentieth century. Translations by Prof. Randall Bytwerk & hosted by Calvin College, Grand Rapids.

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Topography of Terror: The Historical Site

Topography of Terror: The Historical Site

Part of an exhibition discussing the Nazi Terror State & its apparatus.

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House of the Wannsee Conference: Memorial and Educational Site

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Museum hosting online documents, interpretation and exhibitions focused upon the Nazi Final Solution.

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Several other languages available on site.

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The Great Escape

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A Podcast from The National Archives

The Great Escape: you've seen the film, now hear the truth

During the night of 24 March 1944, 76 airmen escaped from the Prisoner of War camp Stalag Luft III. Only three made it home and, of the remainder, 50 were murdered on Hitler's orders. This talk will explain what actually happened in the so-called Great Escape, one of the Second World War's most infamous incidents.

Author: Alan Bowgen
Duration: 52:42

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