tsutsui, william m.
This essay explores the political dynamics of the Godzilla film franchise over the past 70 years, arguing that critical and scholarly characterizations commonly oversimplify the movies’ complicated messages, which reflect the complex, often contradictory responses of Japanese filmmakers and audiences to the experiences of war, the atomic bombings, ...
de Zwarte, Ingrid J J Ekamper, Peter Lumey, L H
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Population studies
Precise estimates of the impact of famine on infant and child mortality are rare due to lack of representative data. Using vital statistics reports on the Netherlands for 1935-47, we examine the impact of the Dutch famine (November 1944 to May 1945) on age-specific mortality risk and cause of death in four age groups (stillbirths,
Valli, Katja
In his book “Dreaming in Auschwitz: The Concentration Camp in the Prisoners' Dreams”, Wojciech Owczarski, a Polish professor of literature at the University of Gdansk, Poland, explores dreaming during the Second World War through the lens of the first-person accounts retrospectively written in the 1970s by Polish Auschwitz concentration camp surviv...
Kolbuszewska, Jolanta
The aim of the article is to present the merits of Helena Brodowska-Kubicz, later a professor of the University of Lodz and a researcher of the history of Polish peasantry, in saving the population of Jewish origin during World War II. Born in a village near Lublin and active in the peasant movement since the 1930s, she joined the underground movem...
Amidon, Lily
This thesis explores resistance work in Nazi-occupied France and Vichy France during World War II. The research uses paramilitary acts of resistance as a foil to political resistance, intelligence gathering and evasive resistance, and the home front as a site of resistance to spotlight women’s contributions to the French resistance. By exploring se...
de Vaujany, François-Xavier
Abstract of chapter 6 With this 5th chapter, we move from an intimate, ordinary, at shoulders’ height description to a more general, macro and institutional account of the industrial mobilization and its relationship with digital management. The story of the first and second US industrial mobilization is summarized. The chapter details how it start...
de Vaujany, François-Xavier
This chapter continues the historical exploration of the US industrial mobilization and its relationships with the rise of digital management with a more specific focus on New York. Several archives are used to embody the trends at stake in the macro-history of the mobilization. The industrial history (with a focus on the Brooklyn Navy Yard) and th...
Gerhard, Atalie
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Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies
This essay looks at some of the American film noir that focus on traumatized veterans in the post-World War II era, up to the twenty-first century and argues that noir thrillers centering on mentally disturbed veterans of World War II allow for both commemoration and criticism of the global interventionism that American exceptionalism legitimized d...
hoeniger, cathleen
This article compares the safeguarding of monuments and immoveable works of art in Italy in the first years of World War II to the on-site protection undertaken in Ukraine during the Russian invasion and explores whether traditional or more innovative methods are being employed in Ukraine. Both the planning in advance of war and the implementation ...
de Luelmo Jareño, José María
A diferencia de lo sucedido en el escenario bélico, donde desató las hostilidades y mantuvo la iniciativa en varios frentes a la vez, el régimen nacionalsocialista apenas si pudo equipararse a los países aliados en el uso político de la animación a pesar de conceder a la propaganda una importancia excepcional. A la vista de este fracaso, el artícul...
