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Fatih Akin's Cinema And The New Sound Of Europe, Seda Öz
Fatih Akin's Cinema And The New Sound Of Europe, Seda Öz
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a book review of Berna Gueneli's Fatih Akin's Cinema and the New Sound of Europe (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019).
Forced Migration: A Syrian Exodus To Germany, Taylor Witt
Forced Migration: A Syrian Exodus To Germany, Taylor Witt
Journal of Undergraduate Research at Minnesota State University, Mankato
The Syrian Civil War has killed over 500,000 people and displaced over 12 million since it began in 2011. The conflict has resulted in forced migration on a massive scale. Syrian people have been displaced within Syria, to the surrounding Arab states and to Europe. This has led to an immigration crisis in some parts of the European Union. Germany has become a primary destination for these refugees, but nationalist, xenophobic forces have started pushing back against what is perceived to be an invasion of foreigners into their land and their borders. This project examines the sentiments of German citizens …
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The Bridge
Peeling the Onion is the intriguing name of the memoirs written by the celebrated German author, Gunter Grass, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1999. His memoirs cover the twenty-year period from the outbreak of World War II in September 1939 until the publication of his best selling book, The Tin Drum, in 1959. In other words, the book begins in Danzig, where he was born and lived with his parents and sister, and it also ends in Danzig, where the novel, The Tin Drum, takes place.
Matie's Dagbog [Matie' S Diary], Matie Eliva Petersen-Larsen
Matie's Dagbog [Matie' S Diary], Matie Eliva Petersen-Larsen
The Bridge
Matie begins her diary, "I think I will begin a diary of this my most exciting year, so I will not forget a small thing. But for now I must hurry to my stateroom and pack my luggage." That was September 7, 1900, on a ship headed for Cuxhaven, Germany, her ultimate destination being the island of Als, Denmark, where her father's relatives lived. Matie had been given this year-long trip as a gift from her parents for helping to raise her eight brothers and sisters, younger than she, and for teaching them to read and write English, as Danish …
Trends. When Governments Want Government To Change, Ibpp Editor
Trends. When Governments Want Government To Change, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
This Trends article discusses regime change in Germany and Iraq in a political psychological context.
Memories Of World War Two, Alice Schelbert
Memories Of World War Two, Alice Schelbert
Swiss American Historical Society Review
Each family was obligated to get a plot of land in order to grow vegetables, potatoes, and Indian corn. I abhorred working in field and garden, but luckily my younger sister enjoyed such tasks. Therefore I did the household chores, mended clothes and, for instance, spent hours undoing the runs in nylon stockings with a special hair-thin hook. The stockings were so expensive, so special, and so dearly beloved, yet one was not to wear them with runs.
Book Notes: Ambiguous Loss. Learning To Live With Unresolved Grief, Between The Alps And A Hard Place: Switzerland In World War Ii And Moral Blackmail Today, Around The World In Twenty Days: The Story Of Our History-Making Balloon Flight, Vergessene Geschichte: Illustrierte Chronik Der Frauenbewegung, Pauline Boss, Angelo Codeville, Bertrand Picard, Brian Jones, Mathe Gosteli
Book Notes: Ambiguous Loss. Learning To Live With Unresolved Grief, Between The Alps And A Hard Place: Switzerland In World War Ii And Moral Blackmail Today, Around The World In Twenty Days: The Story Of Our History-Making Balloon Flight, Vergessene Geschichte: Illustrierte Chronik Der Frauenbewegung, Pauline Boss, Angelo Codeville, Bertrand Picard, Brian Jones, Mathe Gosteli
Swiss American Historical Society Review
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Gertrude Hofmann Langer. The Story Of A Life, Edward G. Langer
Gertrude Hofmann Langer. The Story Of A Life, Edward G. Langer
Swiss American Historical Society Review
I was born on May 1, 1911 in Kttsnacht, Canton Zttrich, Switzerland. That day is a national holiday in Switzerland which is their equivalent of our Labor Day. It certainly was Labor Day for my mother, Marie Walder Hofmann. (December 22, 1890 - August 23, 1959). The name Kttsnacht means a kiss in the night. My name was a very common name in Switzerland at the time. I had no middle name. The Swiss spelling of my name is Gertrud.
Swiss Settlers Of The Carolina Back Country: Saxe Gotha, Switzers' Neck, The Dutch Fork, And Lexington, Claudette Holliday
Swiss Settlers Of The Carolina Back Country: Saxe Gotha, Switzers' Neck, The Dutch Fork, And Lexington, Claudette Holliday
Swiss American Historical Society Review
The Township Act and Saxe Gotha The year was 1716 and a lone outpost, the Congaree garrison, located about five miles below the mouth of the Saluda River and below the Congaree Creek on the western bank of the Congaree River offered little protection for low country settlements from Indians resisting the take-over of their homelands. By 1722 the garrison was abandoned.
Book Review: Target Switzerland: Swiss Armed Neutrality In World War Ii., Karl Wood
Book Review: Target Switzerland: Swiss Armed Neutrality In World War Ii., Karl Wood
Swiss American Historical Society Review
Stephen P. Halbrook's 1998 book, Target Switzerland: Swiss Armed Neutrality in World War II is a well-narrated account of the Swiss preparedness to resist any possible invasion by a hostile power, but most especially by the Nazis, through the critical years of the 1930s and 1940s. The author brings to bear his considerable skills of persuasion and journalistic perception, reminiscent of the late William Shirer, of whose work he makes extensive use for historical perspective. He offers an argument that the "true Swiss experience in the war" lay not in the recently much-discussed accommodations made to the Nazis, "a regrettable …
Book Review: Dorlikon An Der Grenze Des Wachstums. Zur Kulturgeschichte Einer Zürcher Dorfschaft Im 17. Jahrhundert., Leo Schelbert
Book Review: Dorlikon An Der Grenze Des Wachstums. Zur Kulturgeschichte Einer Zürcher Dorfschaft Im 17. Jahrhundert., Leo Schelbert
Swiss American Historical Society Review
This impressive study has three main sections. The author offers, first, what he titles as Erzählung, that is narrative or story. In five chapters he gives a wealth of detail about the lives of the Dorlikon families, their struggle to meet the challenges of a sometimes harsh climate, their sparse resources due to bad harvests, the resulting loss of rented farms, and the cycles of birth, procreation, and death. Their valorous strivings as well as occasional misdeeds are reconstructed with meticulous concern for exact documentation. Key documents are cited in their original seventeenth century German. What emerges is a …
Bombing The Sister Republic: The United States And Switzerland During World War Ii, James H. Hutson
Bombing The Sister Republic: The United States And Switzerland During World War Ii, James H. Hutson
Swiss American Historical Society Review
At 11:10 A.M., April 1, 1944, American military authorities in London received the following "strike message" from aircraft attacking a target in Europe: "392 Group bombed Last Resort with poor results at 10:50 hours. " This terse communication described the "gravest violation " of Swiss neutrality during the Second World War--in fact, during the entire twentieth century: the bombing of the city of Schafthausen by planes of the 2nd Division of the American 8th Army Air Force.