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11	Varianten der Exilerfahrungen in Bertolt Brechts Flüchtlingsgesprächen / The Exile Experience in Bertolt Brecht's "Flüchtlingsgespräche" JAVORSKÁ, Pavla January 2011 (has links) The main topic of this diploma thesis is the Exile Experience in Bertolt Brecht?s Flüchtlingsgespräche. On the background of political and social change this thesis deals with the question of exile identity as well as with the relationship to home, in this case Germany. Further on, there is an analysis of the boundary and virtue motif. Finally, this diploma thesis deals with the change in the use of language and analyses images of exile life in the time of World War Two.
12	Dessiner le territoire de la Résistance : Essai sur la dissidence en Isère (1934-1944) / Drawing the territory of the Resistance : Essay of the transgression in Isère (1934-1944) Guillon, Julien 04 November 2011 (has links) Dans l'historiographie de la Résistance, le territoire n'a pas été un véritable objet d'étude. Les aspects politiques ayant les faveurs des historiens, cet essai, qui a pour cadre le département de l'Isère, tente de combler ce vide en introduisant des problématiques liées à la géographie. Des territoires d'usage ont été déterminés, portés par des relations sociales nées avant-guerre. Les valeurs politiques, sportives, voire les antécédents familiaux, portent les germes de réactions à l'encontre de Vichy et/ou des Occupations. Après le temps long des valeurs, des ruptures ont été identifiées : la défaite et les privations humiliantes concourent à engager un processus de transgression diffus. Ainsi, cette étude a distingué deux groupes pour clarifier ce phénomène. Le groupe d'appartenance, qui a pour marqueur premier l'adhésion, se caractérise également par les dissensions variables entretenues avec le groupe de référence, qui pour des raisons particulières laissa les actes de transgression les plus tangibles entre les mains du premier groupe. Le groupe d'appartenance dispose d'un espace construit par des Mouvements qui proposent leurs alternatives. Un territoire de la transgression est donc créé, avec empirisme. Les caractéristiques topographiques du département de l'Isère oscillent distinctement entre plaines et haute montagne. Ainsi, ce territoire, qui accueille une centaine de hameaux et des villes importantes, dans l'ombre de Lyon, contribua à créer une Résistance spécifique qui se lova sur ce terrain. Des G.F. urbains aux camps de réfractaires peu armés, une vaste nébuleuse de transgressions a été ici inventoriée afin de clarifier le phénomène Résistant en Isère. / In the histography of the Resistance, territory was not a subject that was really studied. As the political aspects were the favourite topics of historians, this essay, set within the framework of the department of Isère, attempts to fill this void by introducing issues linked to geography. The space in which the Resistance tried to impose its own standards brings a new approach. The territories involved were determined, bom of complex social pre-war relationships. Politics, and even family antecedents, carried the seeds of the reaction against Vichy and/or the Occupations. After a long period where these values predominated, cracks were appearing : defeat, the humiliating deprivations, all combined to trigger a diffused transgression process. This analysis thus distinguishes between two groups to clarify a complex phenomenon. A membership group, whose main distinguishing feature is affiliation, is also characterised by variable differences of opinion with respect to the reference group, which for their own reasons left the most tangible acts of transgression in the bands of the first group. The membership group was built via Movements where organisations offered their alternatives. A transgression territory was therefore created, with empiricism. The topographical characteristics of the Department of Isère vary distinctly between plains and mountains. This territory, home to some 100 hamlets and towns, in the shadow of Lyon, contributed to creating a specific Resistance. From urban G.F. to lightly armed mobile squads, a vast sphere of transgressions is inventoried here to clarify the Resistance phenomenon. Seconde guerre mondiale Résistance Territoire Guerilla World War II WW2 Resistance Guerilla Territory
13	The American Way: The Influence of Race on the Treatment of Prisoners of War During World War Two Rock, Adam 01 January 2014 (has links) When examining the Second World War, it is impossible to overlook the influence race had in both creating the conflict and determining the intensity with which it was fought. While this factor existed in the European theater, it pales in comparison to how race influenced the fighting in the Pacific. John Dower produced a comprehensive study that examined the racial aspects of the Pacific theater in his book War Without Mercy. Dower concluded that Americans viewed themselves as racially superior to the Asian "other" and this influenced the ferocity of the Pacific war. While Dower's work focused on this relationship overseas, I examine the interaction domestically. My study examines the influence of race on the treatment of Japanese Prisoners of War (POWs) held in the United States during the Second World War. Specifically, my thesis will assess the extent to which race and racism affected several aspects of the treatment of Japanese prisoners in American camps. While in theory the American policy toward POWs made no distinctions in the treatment of racially different populations, in reality discrepancies in the treatment of racially different populations of POWs (German, and Japanese) become clear in its application. My work addresses this question by investigating the differences in treatment between Japanese and European POWs held in the United States during and after the war. Utilizing personal letters from both American policymakers and camp administrators, U.S. War Department POW camp inspection reports, documents outlining American policy, as well as newspaper and magazine articles, I attempt to demonstrate how treatment substantially differed depending on the race of the prisoner. The government's treatment of the Japanese POWs should illuminate the United States Government's racial views during and after the war. Ww2 world war two pows race in the united states japanese internment History
14	In Dubious Battle: Mussolini's Mentalite and Italian Foreign Policy, 1936-1939 Strang, Bruce G. January 2000 (has links) <p>This thesis uses newly available archival material from the Arehivio Storieo del Ministero degli Affari Esteri, especially Ciano's Gabinetto, the Foreign Ministry office under which Mussolini and Ciano successively centralized and tightened Fascist control of foreign policy, as well as the Serie Affari PolWei, copies of telegrams from embassies abroad plus the diplomatic traffic sent from the Gabinetto to various embassies. This research represents the most comprehensive archival study to date. It also adds a substantially new interpretive cast to the historical debate. It considers but rejects the writings of recent revisionist Italian historians, especially the late Renzo De Felice and several of his students. Their work inaccurately presents a picture of Italy balanced between England and Germany, hoping to play the role of the 'decisive weight' in European affairs.</p> <p>This study argues instead that Benito Mussolini was the primary animator of Italian foreign policy during the 1930s. He was a programmatic thinker, whose ultranationalist mentalite included contempt for democracies, Bolshevism in Western Europe, and for the international Masonic order. More seriously, he held profoundly racist, militarist and social Darwinist beliefs, and routinely acted on these impulses. This complex of irrational beliefs led Mussolini to align Italy with Germany to expand the Italian Empire in East and North Africa at the expense ofBritain and France.</p> <p>From June 1936 to early February 1939, Mussolini clearly tightened Italian ties with Germany. These links allowed the Duce to challenge the Western democracies on a broad number of issues. Although Mussolini hoped to achieve many concessions through a process of alternate intimidation and conciliation, he ultimately knew that he could realize his main territorial goals only through war with France and Britain. Only an alliance with Hitler's Germany offered Mussolini the chance to achieve his grandiose imperial plans, though at the profound risk ofdomination by Germany and military defeat against Britain.</p> / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) history WW2 italy foreign policy battle Cultural History European History History Political History Cultural History
15	Britain Can Take It: Civil Defense and Chemical Warfare in Great Britain, 1915-1945 Malfoy, Jordan I 07 March 2018 (has links) This dissertation argues that the origins of civil defense are to be found in pre-World War II Britain and that a driving force of this early civil defense scheme was fear of poison gas. Later iterations of civil defense, such as the Cold War system in America, built on already existing regimes that had proven their worth during WWII. This dissertation demonstrates not only that WWII civil defense served as a blueprint for later civil defense schemes, but also that poison gas anxiety served as a particular tool for the implementation and success of civil defense. The dissertation is organized thematically, exploring the role of civilians and volunteers in the civil defense scheme, as well as demonstrating the vital importance of physical manifestations of civil defense, such as gas masks and air raid shelters, in ensuring the success of the scheme. By the start of World War II, many civilians had already been training in civil defense procedures for several years, learning how to put out fires, recognize bombs, warn against gas, decontaminate buildings, rescue survivors, and perform first aid. The British government had come to the conclusion, long before the threat became realized, that the civilian population was a likely target for air attacks and that measures were required to protect them. World War I (WWI) saw the first aerial attacks targeted specifically at civilians, suggesting a future where such attacks would occur more frequently and deliberately. Poison gas, used in WWI, seemed a particularly horrifying threat that presented significant problems. Civil defense was born out of this need to protect the civil population from attack by bombs or poison gas. For the next five years of war civil defense worked to maintain British morale and to protect civilian lives. This was the first real scheme of civil defense, instituted by the British government specifically for the protection of its civilian population. civil defense chemical warfare Great Britain WW2 WW1 military history poison gas European History Military History Political History Social History
16	Multiplying an Army: Prussian and German Military Planning and the Concept of Force Multiplication in Three Conflicts Locke, Samuel A., III 18 May 2020 (has links) No description available. Armed Forces History Military History Military Studies Modern History World History Second World War WW2 German Wars of Unification Frederick the Great force multipliers military strategy tactic Helmuth von Moltke Carl von Clausewitz Heinz Guderian military history German history
17	Fredens ö i krigets hav : En pressundersökning av Växjö tidningars ledare om andra världskrigets konflikter i Norden / The Island of Peace in the Sea of War : A newspaper study of Växjö city’s newspaper editorials regarding the conflicts of the Second World War in the Nordic countries Gustafsson, Joel, Söderqvist, Niclas January 2015 (has links) ABSTRACT Gustafsson, J. & Söderqvist, N., “’The Island of Peace in the Sea of War’ A newspaper study of Växjö city’s newspaper editorials regarding the conflicts of the Second World War in the Nordic countries”, Linnaeus University. A qualitative textual analysis delving into three local newspapers from Växjö city is in many ways the essence of this study. The main purpose of this study is to examine three key conflicts, the Winter War, Operation Weserübung and the Continuation War. Each conflict has been assessed in relation to the opinions advocated in the editorials of the three politically diverse newspapers. The theoretical basis for this study is founded on similar analysis made by Nybom, Johansson and Åmark who all have contributed to the content of this particular essay. Most of all, Nyboms categorization of the so-called realism and idealism have helped us in understanding the motives and plans of action concerning the nations involved in the selected conflicts. There are several interesting conclusions in this study, in particular the newspapers’ view on main antagonists such as the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, as well as the Allies. Newspaper studies Smålandsposten Kronobergaren Nya Växjöbladet World War 2 WW2 Second World War Nazi Germany Soviet Union Sweden Finland Norway Denmark Winter War Operation Weserübung Operation Barbarossa Continuation War Neutrality the Allies Pressundersökning Presstudie Smålandsposten Kronobergaren Nya Växjöbladet Andra världskriget Nazityskland Sovjetunionen Sverige Finland Norge Danmark Finska vinterkriget Ockupationen av Danmark och Norge Operation Barbarossa Fortsättningskriget Neutralitet de allierade stormaktskriget
18	"Åtgärder som befrämja rikets försvar och överensstämma med flaggans värdighet" : En undersökning av Sveriges marinstrategi våren 1941 Strömgren Lasell, Victor January 2021 (has links) Denna uppsats undersöker Sveriges marinstrategi i händelse av krig med Tyskland respektive Sovjeteunionen våren 1941 utifrån Chefen för Marinens instruktioner för krigsfall I respektive II. / This paper explores Swedish naval strategy during the Second World War (1939-1945), an area that has not seen significant research. This paper focuses on how Swedish maritime forces were to be used in case of war with Germany (War Plan I; Krigsfall I), and with the Soviet Union (War plan II; Krigsfall II). This paper focuses on Swedish planning during the spring of 1941. The period after the fall of France (June 1940) and before the German invasion of the Soviet Union (June 1941) was a period where both Germany and the Soviet Union possessed what could be described as strategic freedom of action. This means large parts of their armed forces could have been used for operations against Sweden. The basis for each potential conflict was different: Germany occupied Norway and Denmark and could launch a ground invasion of Sweden directly; meanwhile Sweden and the Soviet Union were still separated by Finland and the Baltic Sea. Maritime forces would therefore play very different roles in the two War Plans. No official plans in case of war with the western Allies existed at the time, and hence this has not been explored here. The conclusion of this paper is that Swedish naval strategy at the time was somewhat offensive and focused on gaining sea control, at least in the Baltic Sea and Gulf of Bothnia, to maintain freedom of action to be able to conduct troop movements along the Swedish coast, to the island of Gotland, and to Finland. Sweden 1941 World War two Second world war WW2 naval strategy strategy see power naval power war planning defence planning Nazi Germany Soviet Union Finland Ruotsi 1941 Toinen maailmansota Strategia Laivasto laivaston strategia puolustuksen suunnittelu Natsi-Saksa Neuvostoliitto Suomi Schweden 1941 zweites Weltkrieg Marine Strategie Marine-Strategie See-Strategie Flotten-Strategie Verteidigungsplanung Kriegsplanung NS-Deutschland Deutschland Sowjetunion Finnland Sverige andra världskriget 1941 flottan marinstrategi strategi krigsplanering flottstrategi sjömakt försvarsplanering Nazityskland Sovjetunionen Finland History Historia Other Humanities not elsewhere specified Övrig annan humaniora
19	Man & Machine: A Narrative of the Relationship Between World War II Fighter Advancement and Pilot Skill Burnett, Brian, II 18 May 2023 (has links) No description available. Military History African American Studies American Studies Asian Studies Armed Forces Black History World History Technology Russian History Museum Studies Modern History History Higher Education European History European Studies Curtiss P-40 Warhawk Tomahawk Kittyhawk pilot training fighter plane World War II ww2 World War 2 tactics strategy messerschmitt bf-109 fw-190 focke-wulf Imperial Japanese ki-43 ki-27 dogfights maneuvers aerial development military history air force army air force United States Russian Luftwaffe tuskegee airmen

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