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"You'll Get Used to It!": the Internment of Jewish Refugees in Canada, 1940–43
"You'll Get Used to It!": The Internment of Jewish Refugees in Canada, 1940–43 by Christine Whitehouse A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History Carleton University Ottawa, Ontario © 2016, Christine Whitehouse Abstract After the fall of France in 1940, when German invasion of the British Isles seemed imminent, some 2000 Jewish refugees from Nazi oppression were detained by the British Home Office as dangerous "enemy aliens" and sent to Canada to be interned for the duration of the war. While the British government admitted its mistake in interning the refugees within months of their arrest, the Canadian government continued to keep them behind barbed wire for up to three years, reflecting its administration's anti-semitic immigration policies more broadly. Instead of using their case as a signpost in Canada's liberalizing immigration history, this dissertation situates their story in a longer narrative of class and ethnic discrimination to show the troubling foundations of modern democracy. As one tool in the nation state's normalizing project, incarceration attempted to mould the Jewish men in the state's eye. How the refugees pushed back in a joint claim of selfhood forms the material basis of this study. Through their relationship with the spaces of internment, work and leisure, sexual desire and gender performance, and by protesting governmental power, the refugees' identities evolved and coalesced, demonstrating the fluidity of modern selfhood despite the limiting power of nationhood. The internees' evolving sense of self played a large role in their experience and the development of their collective postwar narrative which trumpets their own success in Canada; while the state differentiated them from its own citizenry, the Jewish refugees pushed back in order to be seen as valuable contributors to the national body. -
German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C
GERMAN HISTORICAL INSTITUTE, WASHINGTON, D.C. BULLETIN ISSUE 29 FALL 2001 CONTENTS PREFACE OBITUARY: EDMUND SPEVACK (1963–2001) FEATURES Gerd Bucerius Lecture 2001: Democracy Under Pressure: The European Experience Lord Ralf Dahrendorf ............................................ 5 From Harry S to George W.: German–American Relations and American Presidents Robert Gerald Livingston ..................................... 15 Comparative History: Buyer Beware Deborah Cohen .................................. 23 GHI RESEARCH Scientists, Scholars, and the State: Germany and the United States in World War I Christoph Strupp ............................................ 35 CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS Grassroots Democracy? A Comparative History of Communities and State Building in New England and Germany, 1500–1850 Johannes Dillinger .............................................................................................. 53 Archaeology of the Present: Photographs by Gerhard Faller-Walzer Cordula Grewe.................................................................................................... 58 Prussia—Yesterday and Tomorrow Robert Gerald Livingston .................... 63 Europe in Cross-National and Comparative Perspective Vera Lind ............................................................................................................ 65 Postwar German Generations and the Legitimacy of the Republic Vera Lind ................................................................................ 68 Philanthropy, Patronage, and Urban Politics: -
Paper 18 European History Since 1890
University of Cambridge, Historical Tripos, Part I Paper 18 European History since 1890 Convenor: Dr Celia Donert (chd31) “Apartment” in Berlin, 1947 Reading List* 2020-21 *Please see the Paper 18 Moodle page for reading lists containing online- only resources. 1 Course Description _______________________________________________________________ 3 Films ___________________________________________________________________________ 4 Online resources _________________________________________________________________ 4 An Introduction to 20th Century Europe ______________________________________________ 5 Mass Politics and the European State ________________________________________________ 6 Mass Culture ____________________________________________________________________ 7 The political economy of 20th century Europe ________________________________________ 10 War and Violence _________________________________________________________________ 9 Gender, sexuality and society ______________________________________________________ 11 France and Germany Before 1914 ___________________________________________________ 12 The Russian and Habsburg Empires before 1914 ______________________________________ 16 The Origins of the First World War _________________________________________________ 14 The First World War _____________________________________________________________ 19 Revolutionary Europe, 1917-21 _____________________________________________________ 21 Modernist culture _______________________________________________________________ 23 The -
HISTORY of NAZI GERMANY Dr. Viola Alianov-Rautenberg
HISTORY OF NAZI GERMANY Dr. Viola Alianov-Rautenberg COURSE DESCRIPTION This course grapples with crucial questions and novel approaches to one of the most intensely researched topics of the 20th century: the history of Nazi Germany. The course provides a broad overview of the history of the National Socialist movement and regime from political, social, and cultural perspectives. We start with the origins and ideological foundations of National Socialism as a political movement against the background of World War 1 and the Weimar Republic. We then discuss the growth and rise to power of the National Socialist Party and Hitler’s role in this process. Following this, we focus on the Nazi state: topics include the SS and the police apparatus, the forging of the “Volksgemeinschaft” and the “racial state”, persecution of Jews and other minorities, as well as the economic policies of Nazi Germany. We will also consider the nature of everyday life, youth and family, entertainment and leisure in the Third Reich and situate Nazi politics in the context of gender and sexuality. Finally, we are concerned with the question of collaboration and resistance in Nazi Germany and with the eventual collapse and defeat of the Third Reich. Throughout the class, we investigate perspectives from “inside” Nazi Germany, focusing on victims, perpetrators, and onlookers. In doing that, we will consider both top-down and bottom-up perspectives, in other words, we investigate not only how power was exercised by the Nazi regime but also how ordinary Germans reacted to this. The proposed course complements the existing offerings of the Weiss-Livnat Program in Holocaust studies, especially the classes on World War 2, the Final Solution, and German Jewish life in Nazi Germany. -
EURR 4202A-5202F Nazism and Stalinism Fall 2013 Final-1
CARLETON UNIVERSITY Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies EURR 4202A/5202F Special Topics in Russian, Eurasian and Transition Studies: Nazism and Stalinism Fall 2013 Thurs., 11:35 am - 2:25 pm, Southam Hall 315 Prof. Jeff Sahadeo Tel: 613-520-2600, ext. 2996 Office: Rive Building 3305 Office hours: Monday and Friday 3:00-4:00 pm or by appointment. Email: [email protected] Prof. James Casteel Tel.: 613-520-2600, ext. 1934 Office: River Building 3306 Office hours: Mondays 9:45-11:15 am or by appointment. Email: [email protected] Nazism and Stalinism left an indelible mark on the histories of Europe, Russia and Eurasia in the twentieth century, and the memories and legacies of these political regimes are still subjects of controversy in the region today. This course will engage in a comparative study of the politics, society, and cultures of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union under Stalin. Scholars and theorists of totalitarianism have often pointed towards similarities between the two regimes focusing on such factors as the leadership cult, role of the party, emphasis on the mobilization of the masses, and the erosion of boundaries between the private and the public. Yet, there were also substantial differences in the workings of the two systems in terms of the relationship between state and society, dynamics of inclusion and exclusion, and the role of violence in constructing each regime’s respective social utopia. In this course, we will aim to read these two histories in tandem, comparing and contrasting the regimes, pointing to both similarities and differences. -
Lived Experience and the Holocaust: Spaces, Senses and Emotions in Auschwitz
Journal of the British Academy, 9, 27–58 DOI https://doi.org/10.5871/jba/009.027 Posted 15 January 2021 Lived experience and the Holocaust: spaces, senses and emotions in Auschwitz Nikolaus Wachsmann Elie Kedourie Memorial Lecture, read 17 October 2018 Abstract: This article examines lived experience during the Holocaust, focusing on Auschwitz, the most lethal Nazi concentration camp. It draws on spatial history, as well as the history of senses and emotions, to explore subjective being in Auschwitz. The article suggests that a more explicit engagement with individual spaces—prisoner bunks, barracks, latrines, crematoria, construction sites, SS offices—and their emotional and sensory dimension, can reveal elements of lived experience that have remained peripheral on the edges of historical visibility. Such an approach can deepen understanding of Auschwitz, by making the camp more recognisable and by contributing to wider historiographical debates about the nature of Nazi terror. Keywords: Auschwitz, Holocaust, concentration camps, lived experience, spatial history, history of the senses, history of emotions. Note on the author: Nikolaus Wachsmann is Professor for Modern European History at Birkbeck College (University of London), and has written extensively about repression and terror in the Third Reich. His most recent book is KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps (2015, Farrar, Straus and Giroux), which won the Wolfson History Prize, the Mark Lynton History Prize and the Jewish-Quarterly Wingate Literary Prize. © The author(s) 2021. This is an open access article licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 Unported License 28 Nikolaus Wachsmann ‘Dear reader, I write these words in the moments of my greatest despair.’ So begins a text by Zalmen Gradowski, composed in Auschwitz-Birkenau in spring 1944 and dis- covered after liberation, in a tin near the destroyed crematoria. -
Nazism and Stalinism Fall 2011 Fri., 11:35 Am - 2:25 Pm, University Centre, Room 376
CARLETON UNIVERSITY Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies EURR 4202A/5202W Special Topics in Russian, Eurasian and Transition Studies: Nazism and Stalinism Fall 2011 Fri., 11:35 am - 2:25 pm, University Centre, Room 376 Prof. Jeff Sahadeo Tel: 613-520-2600, ext. 2996 Office: 1303 Dunton Tower Office hours: Monday 1:00-2:00 pm and Friday 3:00-4:00 pm or by appointment. Email: [email protected] Prof. James Casteel Tel.: 613-520-2600, ext. 1934 Office: Paterson Hall 2A60 Office hours: Fridays 9:30-11 am or by appointment. Email: [email protected] Nazism and Stalinism left an indelible mark on the histories of Europe, Russia and Eurasia in the twentieth century, and the memories and legacies of these political regimes are still subjects of controversy in the region today. This course will engage in a comparative study of the politics, society, and cultures of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union under Stalin. Scholars and theorists of totalitarianism have often pointed towards similarities between the two regimes focusing on such factors as the leadership cult, role of the party, emphasis on the mobilization of the masses, and the erosion of boundaries between the private and the public. Yet, there were also substantial differences in the workings of the two systems in terms of the relationship between state and society, dynamics of inclusion and exclusion, and the role of violence in constructing each regime’s respective social utopia. In this course, we will aim to read these two histories in tandem, comparing and contrasting the regimes, pointing to both similarities and differences. -
1 EUH 3269 Readings in Modern Europe Tuesday Hours 8-10
1 EUH 3269 Readings in Modern Europe Tuesday Hours 8-10 Norman J.W. Goda [email protected] Walker Hall 201 Aim: This is a graduate seminar designed to familiarize you with the major trends in European thought and politics since the French and Industrial Revolutions as well as historiographical debate on these issues. The expectation is that you will gain familiarity with this material and that it will aid you in future graduate courses while helping to prepare you for Ph.D. comprehensive examinations should you go that route. We obviously cannot cover everything. But we will try to address the most important trends of European thinking (positivism, Freudianism, postmodernism) while also addressing major political movements (communism, Nazism, decolonization). I hope that by the end, you have a firm enough grasp of these issues so as to allow future, more in-depth reading. Expectations: This is a demanding seminar. All readings will be in English. But there will be intensive reading and discussion for each of our weekly meetings. Much of your grade will be depend on your level of preparation for our work, as you are expected to read the required material closely and be prepared to discuss it. Everyone will have a chance to discuss, as this is a small class. There is no place to hide. I also have no problem calling on students to address questions. I am not demanding the correct answer, because oftentimes there is none. But I expect you to be prepared to the point where you can engage intelligently with weekly materials. -
Refuse to Go Quietly: Jewish Survival Tactics During the Holocaust John D
East Tennessee State University Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University Electronic Theses and Dissertations Student Works 5-2016 Refuse to go Quietly: Jewish Survival Tactics During the Holocaust John D. Caraveo East Tennessee State Universtiy Follow this and additional works at: https://dc.etsu.edu/etd Part of the European History Commons, and the Military History Commons Recommended Citation Caraveo, John D., "Refuse to go Quietly: Jewish Survival Tactics During the Holocaust" (2016). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Paper 3039. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3039 This Thesis - Open Access is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Works at Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Electronic Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Refuse to go Quietly: Jewish Survival Tactics During the Holocaust A thesis presented to the faculty of the Department of History East Tennessee State University In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Master of Arts in History by John David Caraveo, May 2016 Dr. Stephen G. Fritz, Chair Dr. Henry J. Antkiewicz Dr. W. Doug Burgess Keywords: World War II, Warsaw Ghetto, Jewish Councils, Partisans, Treblinka, Sobibór, Auschwitz ABSTRACT Refuse to go Quietly: Jewish Survival Tactics During the Holocaust by John David Caraveo During World War Two, the European Jewish population was faced with this during Shoah (the Holocaust). From Kristallnacht in November 1938 to the collapse of the Nazi Regime in May 1945, they relied heavily on each other and their instincts to discover ways to survive while in the ghettos, labor camps, and partisan units, if they managed to escape and head for the forests. -
Select List of New Material
Select List of New Material - added in January 2013 CALL NUMBER TITLE PUBLISHER DATE Enemy within : 2,000 years of witch-hunting in the Western world / John BF1566 .D46 2008 Viking, 2008. Demos. Houghton Mifflin BF408 .L455 2012 Imagine : how creativity works / Jonah Lehrer. 2012. Harcourt, Science and religion : a historical introduction / edited by Gary B. Johns Hopkins University BL245 .S37 2002 2002. Ferngren. Press, Power of myth / Joseph Campbell, with Bill Moyers ; Betty Sue Flowers, BL304 .C36 1988 Doubleday, c1988. editor. Sacred causes : the clash of religion and politics, from the Great War to BL695 .B87 2007 HarperCollins, c2007. the War on Terror / Michael Burleigh. Popes against the Jews : the Vatican's role in the rise of modern anti- BM535 .K43 2001 Alfred A. Knopf, 2001. semitism / David I. Kertzer. BP173.J8 G65 2010 In Ishmael's house : a history of Jews in Muslim lands / Martin Gilbert. Yale University Press, 2010. Stanford University BP50 .S56 2003 Islam in a globalizing world / Thomas W. Simons, Jr. 2003. Press, BR145.2 .M69 2002 Faith : a history of Christianity / Brian Moynahan. Doubleday, 2002. Earthly powers : the clash of religion and politics in Europe from the BR475 .B87 2005 HarperCollins Publishers, c2005. French Revolution to the Great War / Michael Burleigh. Alfred A. Knopf : Moral reckoning : the role of the Catholic Church in the Holocaust and its BX1378 .G57 2002 c.2 Distributed by Random 2002. unfulfilled duty of repair / Daniel Jonah Goldhagen. House, BX1536 .W6413 2010 Pope and Devil : the Vatican's archives and the Third Reich / Hubert Wolf ; Belknap Press of Harvard 2010. -
A Watergate Lawyer-Hero's World War II Nazi Camps-Response
A WATERGATE LAWYER-HERO’S WORLD WAR II NAZI CAMPS-RESPONSE: A CHESTERFIELD H. SMITH- CENTENARY REAPPRECIATION GEORGE S. SWAN I. INTRODUCTION ................................................................................... 139 A. Chesterfield Harvey Smith, Senior: Watergate Lawyer- Hero ..................................................................................... 139 B. Chesterfield Harvey Smith, Senior: Second World War Hero ..................................................................................... 141 II. THE SATURDAY NIGHT MASSACRE, AND ITS AFTERMATH .............. 143 A. The Fever in America: October 1973 ................................. 143 B. The Climate in America: 1995-2003 .................................. 146 III. FIVE LIBERATED NAZI CAMP WARSTORIES .................................... 148 A. The Smith Papers Version: 2009 ......................................... 148 B. The Florida Bar Version: 2003, Regarding 1995 ............... 148 i. 1995 ............................................................................... 148 ii. 1993–1995 ..................................................................... 149 C. The Museum of Florida History Version: 1997 .................. 151 D. The Oral History Version: 2000 .......................................... 152 E. The Dr. Jim Wendell Version: 1999 .................................... 152 i. Dr. Wendell as Reliable ReporTer .................................. 153 ii. Wendell-SmiTh as Suspect Source ................................. 155 a. The Wendell-Smith -
Rewriting German History Also by Jan Rüger
Rewriting German History Also by Jan Rüger THE GREAT NAVAL GAME: Britain and Germany in the Age of Empire Also byNikolaus Wachsmann HITLER’S PRISONS: Legal Terror in Nazi Germany KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps Rewriting German History New Perspectives on Modern Germany Editedby Jan Rüger Birkbeck, University of London, UK Nikolaus Wachsmann Birkbeck, University of London, UK Selection and editorial matter © Jan Rüger and Nikolaus Wachsmann 2015 Individual chapters © Respective authors 2015 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issuedbythe Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6–10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The authors have asserted their rights to be identified as the authors of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2015 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of St Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Palgrave Macmillan is theglobal academic imprint of theabove companies andhas companies and representatives throughout the world.