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Winter 1915 / 1916 - The Hinge of the War

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Study Day of the University of Wolverhampton's First World War Research Group

To book a place please email Dr Phylomena Badsey (p.badsey@wlv.ac.uk)

Places are allocated on a "first come, first served" basis.

Conference Fee:  £ 20 (including tea and coffee)

Venue:  University of Wolverhampton, MC Building, Room MC001 (Lecture Theatre), Wulfruna St, Wolverhampton WV1 1LY, UK

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Programme:

10.00  Welcome and Introduction

Schmidt, Rainer F., Prof. Dr.

Mitgliederprofil

Österreich-Ungarn; Bismarckreich; Erster Weltkrieg; Zweiter Weltkrieg;

Jordan, Alexander, Dr.

Mitgliederprofil

Spanischer Erbfolgekrieg, Militär und Gesellschaft im 19. Jahrhundert, Erster Weltkrieg, Gebirgstruppen, Militärgeschichte Elsass-Lothringen/ Vogesen (Festungswesen)

Peter Doyle: Fritz and Tommy - Across the Barbed Wire

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We like to think of German and British soldiers downing their weapons on Christmas Day in a magical moment of truce. The image of togetherness this conjures up reminds us that on both sides of the enemy lines, behind the uniforms and orders to fire, were young men with their own minds, values and sense of fun, who had to leave their homes and families to serve their country.

Archives of War - Media, Memory and History

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This conference brings together speakers from History, Art, Media Studies, Sociology, Film Studies, The National Archives and Historical Branch (Army) to reflect on the nature of and challenges for the memory and history of contemporary warfare.

The major battles of 1916

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The commemoration of the battles of 1916 runs the risk of treating the latter as if they are self-evident and thus of reducing them to their purely military aspects, whereas the very use of the term "battle" is anything but self-evident.

Brian McAllister Linn: The American Way of War in History and Politics

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The recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan have provoked intense discussion both inside and outside the United States on the nature of a distinct "American Way of War". This lecture addresses the intellectual antecedents of this term and its role in shaping both scholarly and military ideas about how the USA conducts war.

70 Jahre nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg - Kindersoldaten damals und heute

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Die drohende militärische Niederlage Deutschlands vor Augen, riefen die Nationalsozialisten gegen Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges auch Kinder und Jugendliche zu den Waffen. Für hunderttausende Flakhelfer, Hitlerjungen im Volkssturm, Werwölfe sowie minderjährige Angehörige der Wehrmacht und der Waffen-SS bedeutete dies den sicheren Tod. Die Grausamkeit des Krieges prägte die Überlebenden ihr Leben lang.

The Allied Occupation of Germany Revisited - New Research on the Western Zones of Occupation, 1945-1949

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The Allied occupation of Western Germany after the Second World War has long constituted a classic component in academic histories of post-war Germany. Understood as an "interregnum" period, which initiated a process of democratisation and denazification and thus laid the ground for the "success story" of the Federal Republic in the subsequent decades, it has often been regarded as a crucial transitory period between the collapse of the Nazi state and the foundation of a democratic polity in Western Germany.

Krieg – Eine archäologische Spurensuche

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Die Entdeckung eines Massengrabes im Jahr 2011 aus der Schlacht von Lützen (1632) war ein Meilenstein der seit 2008 durchgeführten archäologischen Erforschung des Schlachtfeldes und Anlass, dem Phänomen "Krieg" aus archäologischer Sicht von seinen Anfängen an nachzugehen. Auf insgesamt 1000 m² Ausstellungsfläche werden etwa 900 Exponate und Exponatgruppen aus über 60 europäischen Museen und Sammlungen gezeigt.

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