The thesis " The Second World War in Nove Mesto nad Metuji" puts the main focus on years 1935-1945. The largem space is devoted to the Second World War and Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. The text is divided into fourteen chapters, each chapter describes a separate topic. There information about prewar conditions, war situation, economy or culture. The emphasis is on resistance in Nove Mesto nad Metuji and victims. The thesis describes also coexistence od Czechs, Jews and Germans.

At the beginning of American involvement in the Second World War the United States Navy developed a new class of vessel that had a tremendous impact during World War II. This vessel was the Patrol Torpedo boat. Originally designed to conduct torpedo attacks on enemy surface vessels, the PT boat successfully adapted multiple roles in addition to being a torpedo attack craft. The versatility of the Patrol Torpedo boat during World War II serving in these various roles and as an element of the US Navy has not been recognized by recent scholarship. Using primary sources from the National Archives in College Park, Maryland, and secondary sources this paper demonstrates that the Patrol Torpedo boat was a weapon that exemplified economy of force. A small inexpensive naval vessel was able to replace larger ships and work with different elements of the fleet to deny the use of coastal waters to the enemy.

When the United States entered World War II, federal officials began planning a war on prostitution and decided to make New Orleans the poster city for reform. New Orleans held a reputation for being a destination for prostitution tin the U.S. A federally appointed group aptly named the Social Protection Division began a repression campaign in militarily dense areas throughout the United States. The goal was to protect soldiers by eliminating the threat from venereal disease carrying prostitutes. The Social Protection Division created a campaign with the New Orleans Health Department and the New Orleans Police Department to repression prostitution. Some in New Orleans, however, tried to undermine these efforts and continue the profitable tradition of prostitution. From 1942-1945, New Orleans became part of the internal war waged by the federal government against women deemed sexually dangerous to protect the patriotic male soldier being sent off to war.

Throughout World War II, the belligerent countries took enemy civilians, as well as soldiers, prisoner. The majority of the camps created to hold these prisoners were located in the European and Asian theaters of battle, but the United States operated prisoner of war camps and civilian internment camps as well. American internment camps, administered by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), imprisoned persons from the Axis countries of Japan, Italy, and Germany, deemed a threat to national security and categorized as a group as “enemy aliens.” Generally, these individuals were not threats, and a sizable number were legal U.S. citizens. Crystal City Internment Camp, located in Crystal City, Texas, interned individuals from all three enemy national backgrounds and allowed entire families to reside with the arrested family member. This research will attempt to highlight the daily experience of the internees in the Crystal City Internment Camp through internees’ oral histories and official camp reports, with a focus specifically on the German prisoners. Although scholars have examined these internment camps, little attention has been given to daily life in these camps.

This paper deals with the problematic of ego-documents as historical sources. The following study is based on one example of these sources regarding the municipality of Studená during the first half of the 20th century. It is mainly focused on the local chronicle depicting the period of 1938-1949 written by the native of Studená and writer Vlasta Javořická. The important part of this work is an edition of this chronical completed with the comparaison with its almost identical copy. The chronical is characteristic of a noticable amount of specificities. It is predominantly an ego-document rather than an institutional and commemorative source. Through the analysis of local chronicles (ie. ego-documents) and the study of additional sources this paper aims to contribute among others to the theoretical problematic of the criticism of the historical sources. At the same time, it shall extend the existing findings regarding the study of the society and the reflection of some periods of the 20th century thanks to the official local chroniclers as well as the authors of different sources having a similar character. The main problematic of this paper is the question whether it is possible to fully use the ego-documents for the factual learning or rather for the research of the history of mentalities, dailyness, cultural and social history, ethnography, etc.

Esta pesquisa procura analisar os sentidos da questão negra na obra de Florestan Fernandes. A imbricação entre os problemas raciais e sociais em solo brasileiro, produzida quando, nos anos 1950, ele fez pesquisas para a UNESCO sobre o negro na estrutura social do país, nos levou a investigar a genealogia de sua formação em S. Paulo. As primeiras relações acadêmicas e institucionais do jovem sociólogo foram abordadas visando a análise das principais correntes que o influenciaram. A documentação internacional encontrada, como correspondên-cia pessoal de alguns de seus professores e colegas estudantes, boletins insti-tucionais de algumas universidades e organizações internacionais, artigos e re-latórios acadêmicos, revelou o crescimento, ao longo dos anos 1940, da teia de relações de Florestan com alguns dos principais sociólogos da Escola de Chi-cago. O momento era de pós-guerra e teve importância mundial não só para o desenvolvimento de novas teses sobre o racismo, como para a abertura de es-paço para a ação dos intelectuais, na forma de uma agenda de antirracismo, apoiada nos direitos humanos. Os nexos entre as teses de Florestan a respeito da situação do negro e a constituição de uma rede intelectual vinculada, so-bretudo, aos Estados Unidos são o objeto privilegiado desta pesquisa. Discu-tiremos, portanto, a importância destas teias para o pensamento do sociólogo sobre racismo, pobreza e democracia no Brasil. / This research aims at analyzing some meanings of the race question in Florestan Fernandes oeuvre. The imbrication of race and social problems in Bra-zil, produced when, throughout the 1950s, he carried out research on the Negro in national social structure, led me to investigate his early education in São Paulo. Young sociologist first academic and institutional relations were considered to the extent of investigating the most influent leanings into his education. International documents found, such as private correspondence from some of his main pro-fessors and colleagues, university and international organizations bulletins, and academic papers and reports, revealed Fernandes wide range of relations with some of Chicago Schools most important sociologists of the 1940s. The time felt like reconstruction due to post-Second World War, and it had great importance not only to the development of new theses concerning racism, but also to the widening of space in terms of intellectuals actions, within an antiracism agenda, supported by human rights agencies. Connections between Fernandes theses regarding the Negro situation and the making of an intellectual network, mainly through the United States, are the privileged object of this research. Therefore, it will be analyzed the importance of these relations to his theses on racism, poverty and democracy in Brazil.

A presente dissertação busca oferecer uma leitura do romance Os Vestígios do Dia, de Kazuo Ishiguro, partindo do pressuposto de que o entendimento da obra requer um olhar sob quatro ângulos temporais: o presente da narrativa (1956, ano da Crise de Suez); a época em que se localiza cada fato narrado (em geral, o período entreguerras); uma espécie de passado mítico de uma Grande Inglaterra ao qual o narrador se referencia internamente; e o ano da recepção imediata da obra (1989, ano da queda do Muro de Berlim, embora o livro tenha sido publicado meses antes desse acontecimento). Segundo esta leitura, o romance consistiria em uma espécie de obra de fim de século que lançaria um olhar de estranhamento para o século XX a partir da perspectiva de um narrador que se vincula a valores anteriores a isso e de um leitor que avalia tanto esse narrador quanto seus oponentes de 1956 com o privilégio de uma distância temporal que criaria um efeito de ironia dramática. / This dissertation seeks to offer an interpretation of Kazuo Ishiguros novel The Remains of The Day based on the assumption that understanding the work requires viewing it from four temporal angles: the narrative present (1956, the year of the Suez Crisis); the time in which each narrated fact is located (the interwar period, in most cases); a sort of mythical past of a Great Britain to which the narrator refers inwardly; and the year of the immediate reception of the work (1989, the year of the fall of the Berlin Wall, though the book is published several months before the USSR falls apart). According to this reading, the novel would consist of a kind of fin-de-siècle work that throws a look of estrangement upon the twentieth century from the perspective of a narrator who is linked to values prior to this time and a reader who looks at both this narrator and his opponents in 1956 with the privilege of a temporal distance that end up creating an effect of dramatic irony.

Esta dissertação aborda o livro Crônicas da Guerra na Itália de Rubem Braga. Trata-se de uma investigação acerca do estilo do cronista, que apresenta um andamento singular na literatura brasileira moderna, assim como dos problemas da representação da participação da Força Expedicionária Brasileira (FEB) na Segunda Guerra Mundial, sobretudo, porque isso se deu ao lado das potências democráticas, enquanto, no Brasil, vivia-se sob a ditadura do Estado Novo. A análise vai focar uma série de tensões internas desta antologia: o lirismo e as inquietudes sociais; a dinâmica entre o particular e o universal, o efeito das censuras, etc., para compreender até que medida estes elementos condicionaram as soluções estéticas do prosador capixaba ao contar a história do Mestre Pracinha. / This thesis discusses Rubem Braga\'s book Crônicas da Guerra na Itália. It is an investigation into the author\'s style, which has a unique pace in the modern Brazilian literature, as well as into problems of representation of the Expeditionary Forces participation in World War II, especially because it occurred alongside the democratic powers, whilst Brazil was under the rule of the Estado Novo dictatorship. The analysis will focus on a series of internal tensions of this anthology: the lyricism and the social concerns; the dynamic between the particular and the universal, the effect of censorship etc, in order to understand to which extent these elements impacted the aesthetic solutions Braga adopted to tell Mestre Pracinha\'s story.

Cette thèse concerne les politiques sociales en Grande-Bretagne, dans l'État français, ainsi que dans l'Italie fasciste pendant la Deuxième guerre mondiale. Mon approche ne se borne pas aux années de guerre. Il tient en compte la dépendance des précédentes politiques dans les trois Pays, et elle est ouverte aux développements de l'après-guerre. J'ai réparti ce travail en trois parties, en poursuivant des critères méthodologiques et thématiques. Dans la première partie, j'ai donné un aperçu des politiques sociales dans les trois Pays de la fin du 19e siècle jusqu'au déclenchement de la guerre. Dans cette section, j'ai analysé la nature incrémentielle des politiques sociales, en retraçant les héritages en matière de politique sociale dans chaque Pays. De toute manière, les autres deuxième et troisièmes parties constituent le cœur de la recherche. La deuxième partie est une analyse comparée des politiques mises en place pendant la guerre, ainsi que des projets formulés pour l'après-guerre. Elle est divisée en trois chapitres qui correspondent à chaque Pays examiné, avec un chapitre conclusif où les résultats de la recherche sont croisés, afin de renforcer la compréhension comparative du sujet. La troisième partie porte sur un examen comparé/transnational de l'exploitation politique des reformes sociales. D'un côté, la politique sociale a été utilisée pour renforcer le front intérieur gagner le consensus. De l'autre côté, la diffusion des informations et de la propagande sur les projets de réforme pour l'après-guerre devait jouer le rôle primaire dans la reconstruction des relations internationales après la guerre. / My dissertation concerns the social politics in Great Britain, in the Vichy regime, and in Fascist Italy during World War II. My approach to the topic, however, is not narrowly limited to the war years. It takes into account the path dependence of the previous policies in the three countries, and is open to the further developments of the immediate postwar years. I split my work in three parts, according to methodological and thematic criteria. ln a first part, I provided the overview of the social politics enacted in the three countries from the end of the 19th Century to the outbreak of the war. ln this section, I captured the incremental nature of the social policies, also retracing the specific policy legacy in each country. The very cure of my research, however, dwells in the other two parts. ln section two, I carried out a comparative analysis of the policies implemented during the war, and the draft projects for after the war. This section is split in three chapters, where I scrutinized the social politics in each country, and a conclusive chapter where I crossed the results of my investigation, strengthening its comparative aspects. The third part is a comparative/transnational exploration on the political use of social policy. On the one hand, social policy was exploited to strengthen the home front and gamer domestic political consensus. On the other, the dissemination of information and the propaganda of the postwar social project was also expected to play a not secondary role in the resettlement of the international relations after the war

This diploma thesis deals with the relationship between two important figures at Nazi Germany during the Second World War - Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler and Commander in Chief of the Luftwaffe Hermann Goering. Although these two men participated on a large scale in shaping the policy of the Third Reich, their relationship went through a various stages during a war time. They did not get along afterwards and the initial euphoria and confidence of their relationship did not last long. As a time went it started to appear partial disagreements that resulted rupturing of work and personal relationship. This so called "cooperation" of both the in the Nazi Germany during the war of the 20th century is the core of this work.