A Transnational Approach to Resistance in Europe, 1936-48
6-7 September 2016, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow Keynote Speakers: Professor MacGregor Knox, LSE Professor Nicola Labanca, Università degli Studi di Siena Registration now open To register for the conference, please visit the online shop. Background From the invasion of Abyssinia to the end of World War Two, Italy experienced a decade of war. This conference…
A special issue of Patterns of Prejudice edited by Dan Stone In the October 2015 issue of the Journal of the Association of Jewish Refugees, Rabbi Walter Rothschild spoke of ‘public disgust at images of corpses on the beaches and reports of dozens suffocated in what were little more than mobile gas chambers on the…
Franziska Zaugg “The Designated Successor was found dead in his bedroom at dawn on December 14 [1981]. Albanian television made a brief announcement of the facts at noon: ‘During the night of December 13, the Successor succumbed to a nervous depression and took his own life with a firearm’.” The well-known Albanian writer Ismail Kadare…
As a consequence of the military defeat of the Axis powers and the establishment of communist regimes in eastern and southeastern Europe under Soviet domination, various organized groups decided to resist by force the newly established systems of repression and compulsion. In some cases these groups were newly formed; in others the roots were wartime.…