Фотоальбомы немецких солдат. (Photo albums of German soldiers.)
MeFi, Photo albums of German soldiers:
“Photo albums of German soldiers. Fully scanned photos from the personal albums of German soldiers from the Second World War and the years preceding it.”
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Der Spiegel, From ‘Anschluss’ to ‘Zyklon B’. New Dictionary Highlights Nazi Words to Avoid:
“But there is another, more subtle, linguistic trap which both Germans and non-Germans can easily fall into — and which is far worse a faux pas than a mere slip of the article. Mention that you’ve found the “Endlösung” (”final solution”) to a problem you’ve been grappling with, or that you’ve made a “Selektion” (”selection”) from a number of possible alternatives, and you will quickly find yourself the target of disapproving stares.
The reason is simple — the aforementioned words are so tainted by their use by the Nazis that they are now completely taboo. To modern German ears, “Endlösung” will forever be associated with Hitler’s genocidal “Final Solution to the Jewish Question,” while “Selektion” is now verbum non grata due to its use to refer to the death camp practice of “selecting” inmates to be executed.”
Eitz, Thorsten, Stötzel, Georg - Wörterbuch der “Vergangenheitsbewältigung”
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Der Spiegel, East German Spook Reunion:
“At first glance, it looked like a group of retirees on holiday: two buses filled with gray-haired men, and a few women, heading north on the German Autobahn. But rather than heading for Legoland or Tivoli Gardens, the group was on its way to the University of Southern Denmark in Odense. And they weren’t tourists either. Rather, all of them — at least 60 in total — were former East German spies.”
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“In southwestern Germany, an American archaeologist and his German colleagues have found the oldest mammoth-ivory carving known to modern science. And even at 35,000 years old, it’s still intact.”
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BBC: “German scientists are piloting new software to try to reassemble secret documents shredded by East Germany’s secret police before reunification.”
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Waarom de programma’s van VPRO’s tv-kanaal /Geschiedenis niet on demand te zien zijn is me altijd onduidelijk. Het documentaire kanaal Holland Doc doet namelijk niet zo rottig. Afijn, in deze herdenkingsweek is op het themakanaal /Geschiedenis ondermeer Vastberaden, maar soepel en met mate. Herinneringen aan Nederland in de jaren 1938 - 1948. te zien. ‘Een kritische beschouwing over de rol van ‘de’ Nederlander tijdens en rond de Tweede Wereldoorlog’ van Hans Keller, Henk Hofland en Hans Verhagen uit 1974. Aanbevolen.
Verder deze week op /Geschiedenis, onder meer: Portret van Anton Mussert van Paul Verhoeven uit 1969 en Kamp Amersfoort: Geschiedenis van een plek, van Hans Verhagen en Armando.
Zie de /Geschiedenis-gids voor de aanvangstijden. Linken naar artikelen uit de reguliere VPRO-gids online is trouwens ook uit den boze, de artikelen hebben geen permanente link en lijken na een dag voorgoed verdwenen te zijn. Knap lastig. Hoe zit dat precies Erwin Blom?
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Trouw: “Het Russische concern Sistema wordt met steun van president Poetin vermoedelijk aandeelhouder in Telecom Italia en zo indirect uitbater van glasvezelnetten in Nederland.” Zie ook: “KPN laat Gazprom zijn Duitse glasnet verhuren.”
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