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After the Second World War, Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini were singled out as evil geniuses who misled the masses and plunged them into an “unwanted war.”
In relation to their armed forces, this narrative argued that the generals under their command had been demoted to powerless tools in the hands of the dictators, having to follow orders and with no sway over decision-making.
It was further asserted that Germany and Italy had not been able to secure a victory due to the dictators’ meddling. Yet, as this chapter shows, there are important differences between the German and Italian cases.
The chapter compares both the command structures in which the dictators operated as well as their grand strategies and how they cooperated during the war.
Their personal relationship will be also analyzed, as it is impossible to look at the Axis without understanding the complex personal relationship at the very top.
The strategies of both Hitler and Mussolini will be looked at and how each leader behaved in terms of working with their closest ally, together with some examples of cooperation on the lower military rungs.
Never again?
(2023)
The Holocaust was the most terrible atrocity of the 20th century. In many ways, it was also unprecedented in the history of atrocities: for its comprehensiveness and systematic nature; for the fanaticism with which its perpetrators scoured an entire continent in their pursuit of Jews; for the awful potency of the Nazis’ insinuation that the victims represented a pernicious and existential threat. Collectively, we have spent decades—and published millions of words—trying to understand what happened and why.
La Wehrmacht tenía muy claro a qué escala podía esperar capturar a las tropas soviéticas, pero aun así descuidó los preparativos necesarios para alimentar y alojar a unos hombres que los planificadores económicos y los jefes militares consideraron que serían competidores directos de las fuerzas armadas en lo que a víveres se refiere. Las obvias limitaciones a su libertad de movimiento y la relativa facilidad con la que grandes cantidades de ellos pudieron ser segregados y sus raciones controladas fueron factores cruciales a la hora de explicar la muerte de más de tres millones de prisioneros de guerra soviéticos, la inmensa mayoría de ellos como consecuencia directa o indirecta del hambre y la desnutrición. El proceso se inició con un claro desinterés por encargarse debidamente de aquella gente, pero con la llegada del otoño derivó en la decisión clara y meditada de matar de hambre a todos los que no pudieran aportar su trabajo a la economía de guerra o a los ejércitos alemanes.
L’impero della distruzione
(2022)
La prima storia complessiva degli efferati crimini nazisti, che dimostra come diffuse e generalizzate politiche di sterminio fossero cruciali per la strategia del regime al fine di vincere la guerra e impossessarsi del mondo. La Germania nazista uccise circa tredici milioni di civili e altri non combattenti con deliberate politiche di omicidi di massa, soprattutto durante gli anni della guerra. Quasi la metà delle vittime furono ebree, sistematicamente annientate dall'Olocausto, fulcro del programma paneuropeo di purificazione razziale messo in atto dai nazisti. Alex Kay sostiene che è anche possibile esaminare il genocidio degli ebrei europei inserendolo nel contesto piú ampio delle uccisioni di massa naziste. Per la prima volta, L'impero della distruzione considera gli ebrei europei insieme a tutti gli altri principali gruppi di vittime: prigionieri dell'Armata Rossa, popolazione urbana sovietica, civili inermi vittime di terrore preventivo e rappresaglie, disabili psichici e fisici, rom europei e intellighenzia polacca. Ciascuno di questi gruppi era considerato dal regime nazista come una potenziale minaccia alla capacità della Germania di condurre con successo una guerra per l'egemonia in Europa. Un'opera fondamentale e innovativa che associa i numeri complessivi dello sterminio con la ricostruzione di singoli casi di orrore quotidiano.
The holocaust in the USSR
(2021)
This paper sketches the current status of international scholarship on the subject of the Holocaust in the USSR and its place in the wider military conflict of the Second World War. Research on this topic over the last 20 to 30 years has been truly international and the findings of this research cannot be sketched here without pointing to the contributions made by German, American, Russian, Israeli, British and Australian historians. Historians from these countries have made important contributions to our understanding of key questions relating to this subject. These questions address, among other things, pre-invasion orders issued to German units; the radicalisation of German policy, culminating in the root-and-branch extermination of Soviet Jewry; the network of ghettos set up on Soviet territory; the nature of the killing and the methods used to murder these victims; the total death toll of the Holocaust in the USSR; and the relationship between war and extermination, in which genocide can be regarded as an actual strategy of warfare pursued by the German Reich.
Dieser Band der Schriftenreihe der Badischen Heimat will im Rahmen der Vielzahl von Publikationen, die in diesem Jahr an den Beginn des Ersten Weltkrieges erinnern, einen besonderen Beitrag leisten. Gleichsam als „Geschichte von unten“ wirkend, gibt die vorliegende Sammlung der Feldpostbriefe einen gefilterten Eindruck in das Seelenleben der Kriegsgeneration wieder. Sie ist als Kollektion badischer Soldatenbriefe in dieser Form bisher einmalig und erweitert das Wahrnehmungsspektrum der scheinbar in weiter Ferne und dennoch so nah liegenden „Urkatastrophe“ um eine weitere wichtige Nuance.