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It is well known that First World War represented also a great laboratory, for psychology and psychiatry in particular. The topic of "war neurosis", the psychological trauma suffered by soldiers deployed at front-line, has already attracted considerable attention and has been explored in historiography. Still, in the occasion of the centenary of the conflict (2014-2018), it seems important to pay further attention to this subject, which offers many important areas which have not been yet fully discussed.
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Die Schlacht von Verdun gilt mit einer "Verlustrate" von mehr als 700.000 Soldaten als eine der fürchterlichsten des Ersten Weltkriegs. Wie kam es 1916 zu dieser Schlacht? War wirklich von deutscher Seite geplant, hier den Franzosen das "Blut abzuzapfen"? Wo liegen Besonderheiten gegenüber den anderen Großschlachten des Weltkriegs? Wie ist die Schlacht in der Erinnerung beider Nationen verortet ?
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The politics of ethnic violence attained new dimensions during the First World War. Not only were crimes committed by foreign armies against the "enemy" population, but violence by organs of the state against sections of their own inhabitants also reached unprecedented dimensions and bequeathed to the post-war period the ideal of a purportedly homogenous nationalistic people. During the Balkan wars of 1912-13 it had already come to unilaterally forced as well as negotiated population shifts.
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Veteranengeschichte als Gesellschaftsgeschichte – mit dieser Formel ließe sich das ambitionierte Forschungsprogramm umreißen, das Klaas Voß (Hamburg) im einleitenden Beitrag des Themenhefts „Schwerter zu Pflugscharen – Veteranenpolitik und Wohlfahrtsstaatlichkeit“ der Zeitschrift Mittelweg 36 in programmatischer Absicht und mit Blick auf die zukünftige, thematisch einschlägige Forschung ausformuliert.
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Auch 20 Jahre nach der Diskussion um die Ausstellung "Vernichtungskrieg - Verbrechen der Wehrmacht 1941 bis 1944" und trotz zahlreicher wissenschaftlicher Veröffentlichungen und Tagungen bilden unkritische, populärwissenschaftliche Publikationen weiterhin ein bedeutendes Segment des Büchermarktes zur Wehrmacht, zur Waffen-SS und zum Zweiten Weltkrieg.
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The Cambridge New Habsburg Studies Network announces the programme for its annual workshop, this year themed around "New Approaches". The invited speakers will be presenting on diverse topics from the medieval period to the twentieth century and from backgrounds of archaeology, history and literature.
Attendance is free | Please send an email to Janine Maegraith (cjm80@cam.ac.uk) if you would like to attend.
Conference Venue: Gonville and Caius College (Senior Parlour), Trinity Street, Cambridge CB2 1TA, UK
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Militärische Objekte wie Helme und Harnische, Schwerter und Schilde aus der Antike, dem Mittelalter und der Frühen Neuzeit bilden heute einen beträchtlichen Teil des europäischen Kunsthandwerks. Zudem sind sie, ebenfalls bereits seit dem Altertum, ein äußerst beliebter Gegenstand von Literatur und bildender Kunst.
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Accidents are challenges to the structures of modern societies in the twentieth century. They expose structural weaknesses and often give rise to new developments and legal and social innovations that aim at preventing accidents or diminishing their impact. The consequences of accidents are enormous: They often lead to a huge death toll and vast economic costs and they disturb economic and social processes.
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One of the most enduring and damning stories about Britain’s Military Police during the First World War is that they were stationed routinely in the rearward-most trenches on the Western Front in order to threaten, or to actually shoot, any soldier who refused to go "over the top" when so ordered; the notorious "Battle Police".
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The First World War is a turning point in the history of photography as it was the first war to be documented meticulously in photographs. Official military and newspaper photographers, but also ordinary soldiers and civilians, created millions of images recording event, and life, at and behind all the fronts and in the occupied territories. Given the sheer volume of photographic sources, it is surprising how little systematic attention these have received from historians of the war.
