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Hitler's Europe Ablaze : Occupation, Resistance, and Rebellion during World War II
No full textThis authoritative and accessible survey, written by a group of the leading experts in the field, provides a reliable, in-depth, up-to-date account of the resistance in each region and country along with an assessment of its effectiveness and of the Axis reaction to it. An extensive introduction by the editors Philip Cooke and Ben H. Shepherd draws the threads of the varied movements and groups together, highlighting the many differences and similarities between them
Introduction: Illuminating a Twilight World
No full textEastern Europe suffered under Nazi rule much more than the rest of the occupied continent during World War II. Like western and southern Europe, its peoples found themselves subjected to harsh, punitive and sometimes ferociously savage measures inflicted in response to popular resistance. And like western and southern Europe, its foodstuffs, labour and economic resources were exploited increasingly ruthlessly as the war dragged on. However, it differed in its experience of occupation because it was populated by peoples who in Nazi thinking were racially inferior, even subhuman. This alone went a long way towards legitimising the singularly brutal, exploitative treatment to which Nazi policy subjected eastern Europe. It also often exacerbated that treatment to a horrific degree
SHEPHERD SCHOOL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA GISÈLE BEN-DOR, guest conductor Friday, September 23, 1988 8:30 p.m. in Hamman Hall
No full textPROGRAM: Ma mére l'oye (Five pieces for children) / Maurice Ravel -- Dance suite / Béla Bartók -- Symphony no. 2 in D major, op. 73 / Johannes Brahm
Hitler's Soldiers: The German Army in the Third Reich
No full textFor decades after 1945, it was generally believed that the German army, professional and morally decent, had largely stood apart from the SS, Gestapo, and other corps of the Nazi machine. Ben Shepherd draws on a wealth of primary sources and recent scholarship to convey a much darker, more complex picture. For the first time, the German army is examined throughout the Second World War, across all combat theaters and occupied regions, and from multiple perspectives: its battle performance, social composition, relationship with the Nazi state, and involvement in war crimes and military occupation. This was a true people's army, drawn from across German society and reflecting that society as it existed under the Nazis. Without the army and its conquests abroad, Shepherd explains, the Nazi regime could not have perpetrated its crimes against Jews, prisoners of war, and civilians in occupied countries. The author examines how the army was complicit in these crimes and why some soldiers, units, and higher commands were more complicit than others. Shepherd also reveals the reasons for the army's early battlefield successes and its mounting defeats up to 1945, the latter due not only to Allied superiority and Hitler's mismanagement as commander-in-chief, but also to the failings-moral, political, economic, strategic, and operational-of the army's own leadership
Illuminating a Twilight World
No full textProvides an introduction to the book 'War in a Twilight World: Partisan and Anti-Partisan Warfare in Eastern Europe, 1939-45'.</p
Weisheit von Sirach
No full text"Ben Sira, wisdom of (also called Ecclesiasticus), a work of the Apocrypha, which, though usually known by this name, may have been called by its author, "The Words of Simeon b. Jeshua," the title found on the Hebrew fragments" (Encyc. Judaica, CD-Rom Ed., 1997)Erscheinungsjahr nach Vorlage: 279 [i.e. 1519]Ben Sira folgen noch eine Reihe anderer Abhandlungen cf. Steinschneider p. 203 No. 1363. Die wichtigsten NZ!Siehe auch Karl Heinz Burmeister, Sebastian Münster, in: Basler Beiträge zur Geschichtswissenschaft, Bd. 91, 1963, S. 8
Partisan and anti-partisan warfare in german-occupied europe, 1939-1945: views from above and lessons for the present
No full textThis introductory article begins by sketching the general historical background of partisan and anti-partisan warfare in German-occupied Europe. It then briefly outlines the state of available primary sources, and the often heated, controversial character of the historiographical debates which are taking place within this area. It then considers, at some length, the lessons which the five articles presented, offer for the present-day conduct of counter-insurgency warfare-lessons relating to the effects of higher-level strategic perceptions; to the potential, then as now, for directing a policy of 'disaggregation' against insurgents; to the importance of situating counter-insurgency warfare within the context of wider policies which are receptive to the needs of the occupied population and its social and cultural characteristics; and to the necessity of fielding counter-insurgency forces which not only are well-resourced, but which also, in stark contrast to the anti-partisan formations which the Germans so often deployed, conduct themselves in ways that cultivate the population rather than alienate it
War in a Twilight World: Partisan and Anti-Partisan Warfare in Eastern Europe
No full textCutting-edge case studies examine the partisan and anti-partisan warfare which broke out across German-occupied eastern Europe during World War Two, showing how it was shaped in varied ways by factors including fighting power, political and economic structures, ideological and psychological influences, and the attitude of the wider population
SHEPHERD SCHOOL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA GISÈLE BEN-DOR conductor Friday, November 17, 1989 8:00 p.m. in Hamman Hall
No full textPlaylist: Alborada del gracioso / Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) -- Divertimento in D major, K. 136 / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) -- Symphony no. 3 / Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
SHEPHERD SCHOOL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA GISELE BEN-DOR, conductor Monday, September 25, 1989 8:00 p.m. in Hamman Hall
No full textPlaylist: Overture to Egmont, Op. 84 / Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) -- Suite from Pulcinella / Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) -- Symphony No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 98 / Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
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