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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.

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.

Zehn Jahre nach Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges begannen beide deutsche Staaten, neue Armeen aufzubauen. Während die politischen und militärischen Rahmenbedingungen dieses Prozesses weitgehend erforscht sind, wissen wir immer noch wenig darüber, welche Auswirkungen diese Entscheidungen beider deutscher Regierungen für die Menschen in jenen Orten hatten, die nun wieder zu "Standorten" wurden.

The idea that WWI has been a global conflict is commonly accepted by the scholarly community and it constitutes a real leitmotif of the most recent literature on this topic. As a consequence of this development, a number of scholars has started investigating the impact of WWI on Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and even Latin America.

The Ancient Greeks are reported to have believed that war is the "father of all things", yet among its many byproducts and impacts it entails above all destruction in almost every possible way. War is responsible for countless number of deaths throughout human history, but it is also responsible for traumatic experiences that to some may be considered worse than death itself.

Der Erste Weltkrieg stellt eine weitreichende Zäsur innerhalb der jüdischen Geschichte Zentraleuropas dar. Die verheerenden Kriegsereignisse zerstörten nicht nur die traditionellen Lebenswelten und Gesellschaftsstrukturen des osteuropäischen Judentums, sondern durch die Folgen des Krieges, die geopolitischen Veränderungen sowie durch eine Radikalisierung des Antisemitismus wurden eingeübte Identitätsnarrative der jüdischen Bevölkerung Zentraleuropas fundamental in Frage gestellt.

Angesichts der Dramatik der aktuellen Fluchtbewegungen nach und in Europa erhält die historische Auseinandersetzung mit Migrationen der vergangenen zwei Jahrhunderte eine neue Brisanz. Der gewaltsame Bruch von biographischen Entwürfen und der meist unfreiwillige Beginn neuer Lebensplanungen durch Flucht treten zunehmend als prägendes Element moderner Gesellschaften hervor.

Military Intelligence, its knowledge, its sources and subsequent actions play a unique role in conflict and war situations as well as in the development of military strategies, tactics and analyses both in time of peace and war. Military Intelligence Services collect and analyse information, they produce highly relevant intelligence to support the decision process of military commanders and political leaders alike.

While there have recently been a number of conferences and publications looking at land-based histories of the First World War, there has been relatively little consideration of the war at sea, its significance and its broader contexts. In the centenary year of the Battle of Jutland, "The First World War at Sea", jointly organized by The National Maritime Museum, The British Commission for Military History, and The British Commission for Maritime History, seeks to address this lacuna through papers that will address the breadth and complexity of the maritime sphere between 1914–19.

The Vietnam Center and Archive at Texas Tech University, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, and the Army Medical Department Center of History and Heritage will be co-sponsoring a conference on the medical history of the Vietnam War.