Monatsarchive: Dezember 2019

Right down to the liberation in 1944 the French milice, a paramilitary body of ’some 45,000 toughs and fascist fanatics ready to shoot it out with the maquis‚, was busy in arms against resisters, in the name of ‚public order‘. … Weiterlesen →

In Remembering to Forget: Holocaust Memory through the Camera’s Eye, Barbie Zelizer argues that World War II Holocaust photographs came, over time, to stand for war atrocity as such. Contemporary photographs of Cambodia, Bosnia, and Rwanda consciously invoke familiar concentration camp images. … Weiterlesen →

Nikhil Pal Singh: … the wars in which U.S. soldiers and support personnel have been engaged on three continents for the past two decades retain a hazy, distant, and amorphous character; this perception is also typical now among civilian noncombatants. … Weiterlesen →

In the restored societies emerging from Nazi occupation, memories of defeat and victimization were set aside in favor of intensive, state-sponsored cults of heroism and resistance. In ravaged and humiliated societies burdened with the task of national revival, the mobilizing … Weiterlesen →

Linda Schulte-Sasse writes of Nazi historical films that they „assume a fore­knowledge on the part of the … viewer, and their pleasure generally derives less from teaching new material than in affirming the audience’s foreknowledge, allowing it to savor what … Weiterlesen →

BBC: FaceApp may pose ‚counterintelligence threat‘ says FBI The FBI said FaceApp and other mobile applications developed in Russia pose a „potential counterintelligence threat“. The comments were made in a letter to US Senator Chuck Schumer after he called for an … Weiterlesen →

Spiegel: In direkter Nachbarschaft von Reichstag und Bundeskanzleramt hat das Zentrum für Politische Schönheit (ZPS) am Montagmorgen eine – vorerst – ambulante Gedenkstätte in Form einer „Widerstandssäule“ errichtet. Sowohl der gewählte Ort als auch das Mahnmal selbst haben es in sich, beide … Weiterlesen →

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