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A Terrible Revenge
''A Terrible Revenge: The Ethnic Cleansing of the East European Germans, 1944–1950'' is a 1994 non-fiction book written by Cuban-born American lawyer Alfred-Maurice de Zayas, former research fellow at MPG in Heidelberg, Germany. The work is based on a collection of testimonials from German civilians and ''Wehrmacht'' military personnel; and devoted to the expulsion of Germans after World War II from states previously occupied by Nazi Germany. It includes as well selected interviews with British and American politicians who participated at the Potsdam Conference, including Robert Murphy, Geoffrey Harrison (drafter of article XIII of the Potsdam Protocol), and Denis Allen (drafter of article IX on the provisional post-war borders). The book attempts to describe the crimes committed against the German nation by the Soviet Union, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Yugoslavia at the end of World War II – as perceived by the expellees themselves and settlers brought in '' Heim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred-Maurice De Zayas
Alfred-Maurice de Zayas (born 31 May 1947) is a Cuban-born American lawyer and writer, active in the field of human rights and international law. From 1 May 2012 to 30 April 2018, he served as the first UN Independent Expert on the Promotion of a Democratic and Equitable International Order, appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council. Early life De Zayas was born in Havana, Cuba and grew up in Chicago, Illinois (US). He earned his ''juris doctor'' degree from Harvard Law School, then a doctorate of philosophy in modern history from the University of Göttingen (Germany). He holds both US and Swiss citizenships. He was a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Tübingen in Germany and research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, Germany. He worked with the United Nations from 1981 to 2003 as a senior lawyer with the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Chief of Petitions. Since 199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthias Stickler
Matthias Stickler (born 31 May 1967) is a German historian. Career Born in Aschaffenburg, Stickler attended the in Aschaffenburg and acquired there in 1986 the general university entrance qualification. From 1988 to 1993 he studied history, German studies and citizenship education for a chair at the University of Würzburg. In 1993 he became a member of the in the Cartellverband. After the first Staatsexamen, he received his doctorate in 1997 with a dissertation with .Dissertation: ''Erzherzog Albrecht von Österreich – Selbstverständnis und Politik eines konservativen Habsburgers im Zeitalter Kaiser Franz Josephs.'' Matthiesen Verlag, Husum 1997 (''Historische Studien'', vol. 450), . Afterwards, he was scientific assistant at the chair for Modern and Contemporary History II at the University of Würzburg with Harm-Hinrich Brandt and, from 2000, with Wolfgang Altgeld. He habilitated in 2003 and received the ''Venia legendi'' for more recent history.Matthias Stickler: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nemmersdorf Massacre
The Nemmersdorf massacre was a civilian massacre perpetrated by Red Army soldiers in the late stages of World War II. Nemmersdorf (present-day Mayakovskoye, Kaliningrad Oblast) was one of the first prewar ethnic German settlements to fall to the advancing Red Army during the war. On 21 October 1944, Soviet soldiers killed many German civilians as well as French and Belgian POWs. Incident The 2nd Battalion, 25th Guards Tank Brigade, belonging to the 2nd Guards Tank Corps of the 11th Guards Army, crossed the Angerapp bridge and established a bridgehead on the western bank of the Rominte river on 21 October 1944. The German forces tried to retake the bridge, but several attacks were repelled by the Soviet tanks and the supporting infantry. During an air attack, a number of Soviet soldiers took shelter in an improvised bunker that was already occupied by 14 local men and women. According to the testimony of a seriously injured woman, Gerda Meczulat, when a Soviet officer arrived an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Journey Back To Youth
''Journey Back to Youth'' (russian: Путешествие в юность, Puteshestvie v yunost) is a 2001 documentary film by Russian film makers Alexander Gutman and Sergei Litviakov. The film is an interview of four German women who tell the story of four young German girls from East Prussia placed into a Soviet labor camp at the end of World War II according to Stalin's decisions about mobilization of Germans for reconstruction works in the USSR. The film won the Platinum Award at the 34th International Independent Film Festival ( Worldfest) in Houston, Texas, in 2001 and the "Gold Camera Award" at the US International Film and Video Festival in 2001. Film history The film maker, Gutman, said that he got the idea for the film when he learned that the Heinrich Böll Foundation funded a monument in Petrozavodsk, Karelia at the graveyard of German women who died in the local GULAG The Gulag, an acronym for , , "chief administration of the camps". The original name g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forced Labor Of Germans In The Soviet Union
Forced labor of Germans in the Soviet Union was considered by the Soviet Union to be part of German war reparations for the damage inflicted by Nazi Germany on the Soviet Union during the Axis-Soviet campaigns (1941-1945) of World War II. Soviet authorities deported German civilians from Germany and Eastern Europe to the USSR after World War II as forced laborers, while ethnic Germans living in the USSR were deported during World War II and conscripted for forced labor. German prisoners of war were also used as a source of forced labor during and after the war by the Soviet Union and by the Western Allies. Nazi Germany had used forced labour of people in the occupied territories since the beginning of World War II. In 1940 it initiated a massive project of enslaving the populations of Eastern European countries to use as forced labour in German factories and agricultural facilities. The Soviet government proposed the use of German labor as reparations in 1943, and raised the iss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pavel Polyan
Pavel Markovich Polian, pseudonym: Pavel Nerler (russian: Павел Маркович Полян; born 31 August 1952) is a Russian geographer and historian, and Doctor of Geographical Sciences with the Institute of Geography (1998) of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He authored over 300 publications and is most known for his research on the history and geography of forced migrations.Polian's profile from the book ''Against Their Will'' on the site of '''' Polian is director of the Mandelshtam Center at the |
Against Their Will (Polyan's Book)
''Against Their Will... The History and Geography of Forced Migrations in the USSR'' is a historical research book by Pavel Polyan (2001), published by the Memorial society. It is the first comprehensive study of all massive-scale forced migrations within the Soviet Union. The book is based on published materials and archival data made public. It contains a large number of summary tables. References * * External links The book online on the site of '' Memorial'' ''Against Their Will: The History and Geography of Forced Migrations in the USSR''Partial preview of the book at Google Book Search Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search, Google Print, and by its code-name Project Ocean) is a service from Google Inc. that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical ... 2001 non-fiction books History books about the Soviet Union Books about Soviet repression Forced migration in the Soviet Union 21st-cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Kushner
Anthony Robert Kushner (born July 16, 1956) is an American author, playwright, and screenwriter. Lauded for his work on stage he's most known for his seminal work ''Angels in America'' which earned a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award. At the turn of the 21st Century he became known for his numerous film collaborations with Steven Spielberg. He received the National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama in 2013. Kushner made his Broadway debut in 1993 with both '' Angels in America: Millennium Approaches'' and '' Angels in America: Perestroika''. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play. He then adapted it into a 2003 miniseries directed by Mike Nichols for which Kushner received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series or Movie. In 2003 he wrote the lyrics and book to the musical ''Caroline, or Change'' which earned Kushner Tony Award nominations for Best Book of a Musical and Best Original Score. He has collabor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Bloxham
Donald Bloxham FRHistS is a Professor of Modern History, specialising in genocide, war crimes and other mass atrocities studies. He is the editor of the ''Journal of Holocaust Education''. He completed his undergraduate studies at Keele and postgraduate studies at Southampton, where he received PhD in history. He worked as Research Director of the London-based Holocaust Educational Trust. He is Richard Pares Professor of European History at the University of Edinburgh, having previously been lecturer of Twentieth Century History at the university. From 2007 to 2008, he was J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Senior Scholar-in-Residence at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Awards *2006 Philip Leverhulme Prize *2007 Edinburgh University Chancellor's Award *2007 Raphael Lemkin Award by the International Association of Genocide Scholars Books *''Genocide on Trial: War Crimes Trials and the Formation of Holocaust History and Memory'' (Oxford University Press, 2001) *'' The Grea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
H-Net
__NOTOC__ H-Net ("Humanities & Social Sciences Online") is an interdisciplinary forum for scholars in the humanities and social sciences. It is best known for hosting electronic mailing lists organized by academic disciplines; according to the organization's website, H-Net lists reach over 200,000 subscribers in more than 90 countries. The H-Net Network has grown until it is now endorsed by many academic professional organizations. Its over 180 topic- or discipline-specific lists are often the primary internet forum for scholars. Individual lists are edited by a team of scholars and each has a board of editors. H-Net is hosted by the Department of History at Michigan State University. Online services In addition to its email lists, H-Net provides three related online services: *H-Net Reviews: 46,000+ reviews of books and other publications, commissioned and published on its website and through its listservs *H-Net Job Guide: academic position announcements, available on its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eagle Glassheim
Eagle is the common name for many large birds of prey of the family Accipitridae. Eagles belong to several groups of genera, some of which are closely related. Most of the 68 species of eagle are from Eurasia and Africa. Outside this area, just 14 species can be found—2 in North America, 9 in Central and South America, and 3 in Australia. Eagles are not a natural group but denote essentially any kind of bird of prey large enough to hunt sizeable (about 50 cm long or more overall) vertebrates. Description Eagles are large, powerfully-built birds of prey, with heavy heads and beaks. Even the smallest eagles, such as the booted eagle (''Aquila pennata''), which is comparable in size to a common buzzard (''Buteo buteo'') or red-tailed hawk (''B. jamaicensis''), have relatively longer and more evenly broad wings, and more direct, faster flight – despite the reduced size of aerodynamic feathers. Most eagles are larger than any other raptors apart from some vultures. The smal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Detlef Brandes
Detlef Brandes (born 1941) is a German historian who is known for his writings on the history of the Czech lands. He teaches modern history at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf and heads the Institute for the History and Culture of Germans in Eastern Europe there. References Further reading * Dietmar Neutatz and Volker Zimmermann (eds.): ''Die Deutschen und das östliche Europa. Aspekte einer vielfältigen Beziehungsgeschichte. Festschrift zum 65. Geburtstag von Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Detlef Brandes.'' Klartext Verlag, Essen 2006, . {{DEFAULTSORT:Brandes, Detlef 20th-century German historians Historians of the Czech Republic Living people 1941 births 21st-century German male writers 20th-century German male writers 21st-century German historians Academic staff of Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
