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Theatres Of Violence - Massacre, Mass Killing And Atrocity Throughout History

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 Massacres and mass killings have always marked if not shaped the history of the world and as such are subjects of increasing interest among historians, resulting in a growing body of scholarship in recent years. The premise underlying this collection is that massacres were an integral, if not accepted part (until quite recently) of warfare...
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Reassessing The Nuremberg Military Tribunals - Transitional Justice, Trial Narratives, And Historiography

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 For decades the history of the US Military Tribunals at Nuremberg (NMT) has been eclipsed by the first Nuremberg trial - the International Military Tribunal or IMT. The first comprehensive examination of the NMT, this volume brings together diverse perspectives from several fields to explore the impact and legacy of the NMT.
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Nazi Genocide Of The Roma - Reassessment And Commemoration

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 Using the framework of genocide, this volume analyzes the patterns of persecution of the Roma in Nazi-dominated Europe. Detailed case studies of France, Austria, Romania, Croatia, Ukraine, and Russia generate a critical mass of evidence that indicates criminal intent on the part of the Nazi regime to destroy the Roma as a distinct group.
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Networks Of Nazi Persecution - Bureaucracy, Business And The Organization Of The Holocaust

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 Feldman (history, U. of California, Berkeley), Seibel (political science, U. of Konstanz, Germany) and contributors look at how the Holocaust was organized, from a standpoint of the business and bureaucracy utilized for the persecution and mass-murder of Jews. The book is divided into sections that address rivalry and competition; cooperation and c
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Spirit Of The Laws - The Plunder Of Wealth In The Armenian Genocide

by Taner Akcam e Umit Kurt

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 This book examines the confiscation of Armenian properties during the genocide and subsequent attempts to retain seized Armenian wealth. Through the close analysis of laws and treaties, it reveals that decrees issued during the genocide constitute central pillars of the Turkish system of property rights.
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Making Of The Greek Genocide - Contested Memories Of The Ottoman Greek Catastrophe

by Erik Sjoberg

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 After World War I, over one million Ottoman Greeks were expelled from Turkey, resulting in hundreds of thousands of deaths. This study analyzes the fight for international recognition of the Greek genocide narrative, showing how its memory developed as a cultural trauma with both nationalist and cosmopolitan dimensions.
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Microhistories Of The Holocaust

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 This volume brings together scholars to reflect on the ongoing microhistorical turn in Holocaust studies, assessing its historiographical pitfalls as well as the distinctive opportunities it affords researchers.
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Let Them Not Return - Sayfo - The Genocide Against The Assyrian, Syriac, And Chaldean Christians In The Ottoman Empire

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 The fist edited volume about the Assyrian genocide Focusing specifically on by far under-studied and denied genocide Authors from different disciplines
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Probing The Limits Of Categorization - The Bystander In Holocaust History

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 Combining historiographical, conceptual and empirical contributions, Probing the Limits of Categorization explores the roles and experiences of individuals caught up in the dynamics of state-sponsored genocidal violence.
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Voices On War And Genocide - Three Accounts Of The World Wars In A Galician Town

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 Taking as its point of departure Omer Bartovâ€™s acclaimed recent monograph Anatomy of a Genocide, this volume brings together three extensive and previously unknown accounts of residents from the Ukrainian town of Buczacz, covering events during and between both world wars.
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Holocaust In Bohemia And Moravia - Czech Initiatives, German Policies, Jewish Responses

by Wolf Gruner

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 After the establishment of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, Czech and German authorities adopted radicalized anti-Jewish policies, including depriving Jews of their property, hauling them into forced labor, and deporting them to concentration camps.
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Genocide And Settler Society - Frontier Violence And Stolen Indigenous Children In Australian History

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 Beginning with the arrival of the British in 1788 and extending to the 1960s, this volume reconstructs instances of Australian genocide, and places them in a global context. It identifies the moments of radicalization, and the escalation of British violence and ethnic engineering aimed at the indigenous populations.
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Exploitation, Resettlement, Mass Murder - Political And Economic Planning For German Occupation Policy In The Soviet Union, 1940-1941

by Alex J. Kay

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 Convinced before the onset of Operation "Barbarossa" in June 1941 of both the ease, with which the Red Army would be defeated and the likelihood that the Soviet Union would collapse, the Nazi regime envisaged an occupation policy which would result in the political, reorganization of the occupied USSR. This study traces these developments.
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Empire, Colony, Genocide - Conquest, Occupation, And Subaltern Resistance In World History

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 In 1944, Raphael Lemkin coined the term genocideA" to describe a foreign occupation that destroyed or permanently crippled a subject population. In this tradition, Empire, Colony, Genocide embeds genocide in the epochal geopolitical transformations of the past 500 years: the European colonization of the globe...
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Dark Side Of Nation-States - Ethnic Cleansing In Modern Europe

by Philipp Ther

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 Why was there such a far-reaching consensus concerning the utopian goal of national homogeneity in the first half of the twentieth century? Ethnic cleansing is analyzed here as a result of the formation of democratic nation-states, the international order based on them, and European modernity in general.
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Daily Life In The Abyss - Genocide Diaries, 1915-1918

by Vahe Tachjian

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 Research into the Armenian Genocide has grown tremendously in recent years, surprisingly little is known about the actual experiences of the genocide's victims. Daily Life in the Abyss illuminates this aspect through the intertwined stories of two Armenian families who endured forced relocation and deprivation in and around modern-day Syria.
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The Afterlives Of Tamil Tigers - Fighters' Memories Of War And Survival

by Giacomo Mantovan

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 Through the testimonies of war, defeat, and survival from veterans of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) now exiled in France, Giacomo Mantovan sheds light on the production of self and subjectivity within a revolutionary and authoritarian organisation, and contributes to debates on compliance, resistance, and political agency under authoritarian regimes.
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Sad Fiasco - Colonial Concentration Camps In Southern Africa, 1900-1908

by Jonas Kreienbaum

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 Only in recent years has the history of European colonial concentration camps in Africa in which thousands of prisoners died in appalling conditions become widely known beyond a handful of specialists. Although they preceded the Third Reich by many decades, the camps newfound notoriety has led many to ask to what extent they anticipated the horrors of the Holocaust. Were they designed for mass killing, a misbegotten attempt at modernization, or something else entirely? A Sad Fiasco confronts this difficult question head-on, reconstructing the actions of colonial officials in both British South Africa and German South-West Africa as well as the experiences of internees to explore both the similarities and the divergences between the African camps and their Nazi-era successors.
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Defeating Impunity - Attempts At International Justice In Europe Since 1914

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 Over the course of the long and violent twentieth century, only a minority of international crime perpetrators ever stood trial, and a central challenge of this era was the effort to ensure that not all these crimes remained unpunished. This required not only establishing a legal record but also courage, determination, and inventiveness in realizing justice. Defeating Impunity moves from the little-known trials of the 1920s to the Yugoslavia tribunal in the 2000s, from Belgium in 1914 to Ukraine in 1943, and to Stuttgart and Dusseldorf in 1975. It illustrates the extent to which the language of law drew an international horizon of justice.
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Outside Looking In - The World Universalizes The Holocaust

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 Outside Looking In provides a fresh look at the problem of Holocaust universalization by examining how the historical experience of the Holocaust has been mediated by politicians, artists, journalists, legal theorists, essayists, filmmakers, and novelists amongst colonized societies or other marginalized groups.
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Outside Looking In - The World Universalizes The Holocaust

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 The question of how to conceive of the Holocaust within a wider, historical framework remains contentious. For some, it is a universal catastrophe that provides a blueprint for understanding comparable instances of targeted violence, while for others its particularity precludes any comparison with other genocides. Outside Looking In provides a fresh reassessment of the problem of Holocaust universalization, highlighting how the legacy of the Holocaust is transmitted across a variety of global cultural contexts. Ranging from the representation of the Holocaust in literature and film, to how its implications inform the work of politicians and legal theorists, this volume spotlights how foundational the Holocaust is to our global social and imaginative outlook.
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A Sad Fiasco - Colonial Concentration Camps In Southern Africa, 1900â€“1908

by Jonas Kreienbaum

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 Comparative studies on concentration camps have tended to neglect the African colonial experience at the turn of the twentieth century. A Sad Fiasco delves deeper into the daily lives led in the colonial concentration camps in southern Africa and the motives behind the mass extinction of thousands of internees.
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Defeating Impunity - Attempts At International Justice In Europe Since 1914

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 Over the course of the long and violent twentieth century, only a minority of the perpetrators of international crimes ever stood trial. In analyzing and documenting the challenge addressing that status of international justice and its realization, this collection uses an international perspective to take the reader through both little known and prominent trials.
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Operation Barbarossa And Its Aftermath - New Approaches To A Complex Campaign

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 An illuminating re-examination of the 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union, Operation Barbarossa and its Aftermath refocuses attention on the multiethnic nature of this military campaign, by considering the role played by troops from Slovakia, Romania, Italy, Spain, and others in Hitlerâ€™s plans for the Eastern Front and the Holocaust.
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