On February 9, 1945 Margarete Marquardt was loaded onto a cattle car and expelled from her home in East Prussia: “[W]e . . . were set on the march eastward. Then we were loaded into cattle cars. The cars remained closed for five days, nailed shut and totally black inside. During the whole trip, whichContinue reading “German Expellees in the Anglo-American Press, 1944-1950”
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Victims, Memory, and the Holocaust
When Raul Hilberg published the first academic study of the Holocaust in 1961, Jewish scholars and intellects harshly criticized the author in public forums. The criticism focused on Hilberg’s adamancy that 6 million Jews passively accepted their extermination by the Nazi regime and offered no resistance. Hilberg argued that his narrative of the Holocaust wasContinue reading “Victims, Memory, and the Holocaust”
The Long Walk
Yesterday, I picked up The Long Walk by Slavomir Rawicz at my local bookstore. I know that I initially set out to collect my thoughts on more academic and intellectually challenging works but I was attracted to this book for several reasons. First is that it falls into my interests as a historian. I spentContinue reading “The Long Walk”
Douglas I. Bell 