Kiril Feferman, The Holocaust in the Crimea and the North Caucasus

Le livre de Kiril Feferman aborde un sujet jusqu’à présent très peu étudié, celui du massacre des Juifs durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale en Crimée et dans le Caucase du nord. Les principaux documents connus sur cette région et cette période furent rédigés pour Le Livre noir par, entre autres, Viktor Šklovskij, Il´ja Erenburg et Lejb Kvitko, qui transcrivirent des témoignages portant sur les massacres perpétrés par les Allemands à Kislovodsk, Stavropol, Kerč´, Džankoj, Jalta, où, comme le rap..

Did the Nazis plan to extend the final solution beyond Europe? Assessing the evidence

This article examines theories that Nazi Germany had a plan to extend the Final Solution to the Near East, to Shanghai, and beyond Europe’s borders more generally. It argues for a strictly pan-European interpretation of the Final Solution policy as it unfolded in history, while acknowledging the implications of the Nazi Weltanschauung for Jews around the world who might have fallen under Nazi occupation

Denis Skopin, La photographie de groupe et la politique de la disparition dans la Russie de Staline

Denis Skopin, a philosopher in St. Petersburg, Russia, earned his doctorate in aesthetics at l’Université Paris VIII. Theoretically informed by the French philosopher Gilbert Simondin (1924‑1989), Skopin offers a meditation in La photographie de groupe on the meaning of altered photographs dating to the late 1930s, held in the archives of the St. Petersburg branch of Memorial. He focuses on two aspects of the photographic record of Stalin’s terror: photographs of groups rather than of individ..

Denis Skopin, La photographie de groupe et la politique de la disparition dans la Russie de Staline

Denis Skopin, a philosopher in St. Petersburg, Russia, earned his doctorate in aesthetics at l’Université Paris VIII. Theoretically informed by the French philosopher Gilbert Simondin (1924‑1989), Skopin offers a meditation in La photographie de groupe on the meaning of altered photographs dating to the late 1930s, held in the archives of the St. Petersburg branch of Memorial. He focuses on two aspects of the photographic record of Stalin’s terror: photographs of groups rather than of individ..

German Military Orientalism: Third Reich Imperialism, The German Army, and the "Islam Question" in Eastern Europe

This dissertation examines the Third Reich’s “Islam Question” in the context of empire and war in Eastern Europe. Relying on a range of primary sources (novels, academic journals, diaries, memoirs, military service newspapers, and others), I argue that in Army Group South, the German army’s characterizations, assumptions, and expectations of Soviet Muslims were driven by orientalist ambivalence, which manifested as competing narratives of Muslims as both adversarial and cooperative, but this orientalism became increasingly favorable over time. Whereas other scholarship has attributed this turn in German military rhetoric and practice to pragmatism, I contend that such developments could be easily rationalized due to existing currents of orientalist ambivalence within German society and also within Nazi racial ideology. I also use the Sonderverband Bergmann and the 162nd Turkestan Division as case studies to examine the friction between orientalist theories and assumptions and the realities of combat and occupation on the Eastern Front.Doctor of Philosoph

Soviet Jews in World War II

This volume discusses the participation of Jews as soldiers, journalists, and propagandists in combating the Nazis during the Great Patriotic War—as the period between June 22, 1941, and May 9, 1945, was known in the Soviet Union. The essays included here examine both newly discovered and previously-neglected oral testimony, poetry, cinema, diaries, memoirs, newspapers, and archives. This is among the first books to combine the study of Russian and Yiddish materials, reflecting the nature of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, which for the first time during the Soviet period included under the same institutional umbrella both Yiddish-language and Russian-language writers. This volume will be of use to scholars, teachers, students, and researchers working in Russian and Jewish history

An \u27Alter Kampfer\u27 at the Forefront of the Holocaust: Otto Ohlendorf Between Careerism and Nazi Fundamentalism

On April 7th, 1951, Holocaust perpetrator Otto Ohlendorf’s death sentence was carried out according to the ruling of the United States Military Courts in Nuremberg. In The United States vs. Otto Ohlendorf, et. al., leaders of the Einsatzgruppen, mobile killing units, were tried for war crimes which led to the deaths of millions of Jews and partisans. Under Ohlendorf’s leadership of Einsatzgruppen D, more than 90,000 people were liquidated in the Ukraine. After this assignment, Ohlendorf resumed his positions head of Domestic Security in the Reich Security Main Office. As the war ended, he surrendered, and revealed the full scope of Einsatzgruppen activity, which eventually led to the second set of Nuremberg Trials. Outside of the Holocaust and the trial, little has been written on Ohlendorf. His academic career and ideology are insufficiently analyzed. This dissertation analyzes Ohlendorf’s life, career, and National Socialist ideology. The key factor in exploring his motivations is to fuse together careerism and ideology through his elite status as an Alter Kämpfer, “old fighter” and Nazi party member before 1933. From this designation, Ohlendorf enjoyed privileged employment, promotions, and a high level of trust within the party. Further explored is the placement of Ohlendorf into the historiographical debate, and how his ideology, career, trial, and death connected to his position as an Alter Kämpfer. Ultimately, analyzing the historiography reveals how memory has been fashioned in such ubiquitous topics as World War II, Nazi Germany, and the Holocaust

Geschichte der Krim: Iphigenie und Putin auf Tauris

The book surveys the history of the Crimea from ancient times to the present, reflecting both the latest research and the author’s own recent findings. In the context of recent developments in the Crimea and what most legal experts regard as Russia’s illegal annexation of the Crimean Peninsula, the study examines the historical background for today’s conflict.Die Ende Februar 2014 beginnende sog. Krim-Krise machte nicht zuletzt der deutschsprachigen Öffentlichkeit deutlich, dass die Halbinsel Krim noch eine terra incognita für sie ist, über deren Vergangenheit selbst historisch Interessierte nur wenig wissen. Tatsächlich ist die 1783 annektierte Krim für die überwiegende Zahl der Russen ein hoch emotionalisierter, unveräußerlicher Teil Russlands. Die international renommierte Expertin Kerstin S. Jobst erzählt die Geschichte der Krim in ihrer Komplexität, in der Russen lange Zeit keine Rolle spielten, dafür aber griechische Kolonisten, eurasische Reitervölker, Krimtataren und andere das Schicksal der Halbinsel gestalteten

Geschichte der Krim: Iphigenie und Putin auf Tauris

The book surveys the history of the Crimea from ancient times to the present, reflecting both the latest research and the author’s own recent findings. In the context of recent developments in the Crimea and what most legal experts regard as Russia’s illegal annexation of the Crimean Peninsula, the study examines the historical background for today’s conflict.Die Ende Februar 2014 beginnende sog. Krim-Krise endete mit der Annexion der völkerrechtlich zur Ukraine gehörenden Halbinsel durch die Russländische Föderation. Dieses Ereignis machte nicht zuletzt der deutschsprachigen Öffentlichkeit deutlich, dass die Halbinsel Krim mehr oder weniger immer noch eine terra incognita für sie ist, über deren Vergangenheit selbst historisch Interessierte nur wenig wissen. Mit großem Erstaunen wird seitdem u.a. gefragt, warum die Krim für Russland eine so große Bedeutung hat, dass sie bereit ist, die Ächtung der Weltgemeinschaft und wirtschaftliche Sanktionen auf sich zunehmen. Tatsächlich ist die 1783 annektierte Krim für die überwiegende Zahl der Russen ein hoch emotionalisierter, unveräußerlicher Teil Russlands. Deren Geschichte ist aber sehr viel älter - und über die längste Zeit spielten Russen dort keine Rolle. Griechische Kolonisten, eurasische Reitervölker, Krimtataren und andere gestalteten vielmehr ihr Schicksal