{"id":8434,"date":"2019-05-07T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/?p=8434"},"modified":"2025-04-29T09:47:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T09:47:05","slug":"victory-day-to-commemorate-the-end-of-wwii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/victory-day-to-commemorate-the-end-of-wwii","title":{"rendered":"Victory Day to commemorate the end of WWII"},"content":{"rendered":"
Victory Day celebrated through Europe on 8 May 1945 to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany’s unconditional surrender of its armed forces marketing the end of World War II in Europe. Victory Day in Russia, as well as\u00a0some former Soviet Union republics, is celebrated on May 9 as Germany\u2019s surrender was signed late in the evening on May 8, 1945 when it was already May 9 in Russia. For most European nations, and especially for the Russian people, that war had a profound impact on national memory and its trauma is still very much alive.<\/h5>\n
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In recognition of the day Berghahn is pleased to offer a selection of our\u00a0WWII History books<\/a> and relevant Berghahn Journals special issues (access to journals until May 16).<\/h5>\n
Please note that this year Berghahn Books turns 25<\/strong> and to mark this important milestone, we are offering 25% off all print and eBooks<\/strong> throughout the site. For print titles, please add the coupon code\u00a0BB25<\/b>. For eBooks, the discount is automatic.<\/h5>\n

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EXPERIENCE AND MEMORY<\/a>
\nThe Second World War in Europe
\nEdited by J\u00f6rg Echternkamp and Stefan Martens<\/p>\n

Volume 7, Contemporary European History<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n

CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC BOOK OF THE YEAR 2011<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis stimulating, wide-ranging collection deftly combines national and European perspectives, which makes it especially valuable for the study of the post-Cold War era and the new Europe. Historians of memory in particular will find it useful, but so will others interested more generally in postwar European history. Highly recommended<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0 \u00b7\u00a0 <\/b>Choice<\/strong><\/p>\n

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TO THE BOMB AND BACK<\/a>
\nFinnish War Children Tell Their World War II Stories
\nEdited by Sue Saffle
\nForeword by Kai Rosnell<\/p>\n

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Between 1939 and 1945 some 80,000 Finnish children were sent to Sweden, Denmark, and elsewhere, ostensibly to protect them from danger while their nation\u2019s soldiers fought superior Soviet and German forces. This is the first English-language account of Finland\u2019s war children and their experiences, told through the survivors\u2019 own words.<\/p>\n

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\"OccupationForthcoming in Paperback! June 2019<\/em><\/p>\n

OCCUPATION IN THE EAST<\/a>
\nThe Daily Lives of German Occupiers in Warsaw and Minsk, 1939-1944
\nStephan Lehnstaedt<\/p>\n

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\u201cLehnstaedt\u2019s powerful work should inspire additional research\u2026 Highly Recommended.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 Choice<\/strong><\/p>\n

In this exhaustive study, Stephan Lehnstaedt provides a nuanced, eye-opening portrait of the lives of these men and women, who constituted a surprisingly diverse population\u2014including everyone from SS officers to civil servants, as well as ethnically German city residents\u2014united in its self-conception as a \u201cmaster race.\u201d<\/p>\n

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THE PARTICIPANTS<\/a>
\nThe Men of the Wannsee Conference
\nEdited by Hans-Christian Jasch and Christoph Kreutzm\u00fcller
\nTranslated from the German by Charlotte Kreutzm\u00fcller-Hughes and Jane Paulick<\/p>\n

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Although the Wannsee Conference of January 20, 1942 is today understood as a signal episode in the history of the Holocaust, many of its attendees remain relatively unknown to nonspecialists. Combining accessible prose with scholarly rigor, The Participants<\/em> presents fascinating profiles of the all-too-human men who implemented some of the most inhuman acts in modern history.<\/p>\n

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\"ViewsVIEWS OF VIOLENCE<\/a>
\nRepresenting the Second World War in German and European Museums and Memorials
\nEdited by J\u00f6rg Echternkamp and Stephan Jaeger
\nAfterword by Jay Winter<\/p>\n

Volume 19, Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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This volume takes a historical perspective on museums covering the Second World War and explores how these institutions came to define political contexts and cultures of public memory in Germany, across Europe, and throughout the world.<\/p>\n

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THE ENEMY ON DISPLAY<\/a>
\nThe Second World War in Eastern European Museums
\nZuzanna Bogumi\u0142, Joanna Wawrzyniak, Tim Buchen, Christian Ganzer and Maria Senina<\/p>\n

Volume 7, Museums and Collections<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n

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Eastern European museums represent traumatic events of World War II, such as the Siege of Leningrad, the Warsaw Uprisings, and the Bombardment of Dresden, in ways that depict the enemy in particular ways. This image results from the interweaving of historical representations, cultural stereotypes and beliefs, political discourses, and the dynamics of exhibition narratives. This book presents a useful methodology for examining museum images and provides a critical analysis of the role historical museums play in the contemporary world. As the catastrophes of World War II still exert an enormous influence on the national identities of Russians, Poles, and Germans, museum exhibits can thus play an important role in this process.<\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Introduction: <\/a><\/strong>The Enemy on Display<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"TheTHE INDOCTRINATION OF THE WEHRMACHT<\/a>
\nNazi Ideology and the War Crimes of the German Military
\nBryce Sait<\/p>\n

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Far from the image of an apolitical, \u201cclean\u201d Wehrmacht that persists in popular memory, German soldiers regularly cooperated with organizations like the SS in the abuse and murder of countless individuals. This in-depth study reveals that military indoctrination was but one piece of the larger effort at the socialization of young men during the Nazi era.<\/p>\n

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MATTERS OF TESTIMONY<\/a>
\nInterpreting the Scrolls of Auschwitz
\nNicholas Chare and Dominic Williams<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis is a major book that changes the field. It is a brilliant and original work of superb historical research and profoundly affecting cultural analysis.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Griselda Pollock<\/strong>, University of Leeds<\/p>\n

In 1944, members of the Sonderkommando\u2014the \u201cspecial squads,\u201d composed almost exclusively of Jewish prisoners, who ensured the smooth operation of the gas chambers and had firsthand knowledge of the extermination process\u2014buried on the grounds of Auschwitz-Birkenau a series of remarkable eyewitness accounts of Nazi genocide. This careful and penetrating study examines anew these \u201cScrolls of Auschwitz,\u201d which were gradually recovered, in damaged and fragmentary form, in the years following the camp\u2019s liberation. It painstakingly reconstructs their historical context and textual content, revealing complex literary works that resist narrow moral judgment and engage difficult questions about the limits of testimony.<\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Introduction:<\/a><\/strong> Matters of Testimony<\/a><\/p>\n

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THE SECOND GENERATION<\/a>
\n\u00c9migr\u00e9s from Nazi Germany as Historians
\nWith a Biobibliographic Guide
\nEdited by Andreas W. Daum, Hartmut Lehmann, and James J. Sheehan<\/p>\n

Volume 20, Studies in German History<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n

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Of the thousands of young people who fled Nazi Germany before World War II, a remarkable number became trained historians. By placing autobiographical testimonies alongside historical and professional analysis, this richly varied collection comprises the first sustained effort to illuminate the role these men and women played in modern historiography.<\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Introduction<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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THE GREATER GERMAN REICH AND THE JEWS<\/a>
\nNazi Persecution Policies in the Annexed Territories 1935-1945
\nEdited by Wolf Gruner and J\u00f6rg Osterloh<\/p>\n

Volume 20, War and Genocide<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

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Between 1935 and 1940, the Nazis incorporated large portions of Europe into the German Reich. The contributors to this volume analyze the evolving anti-Jewish policies in the annexed territories and their impact on the Jewish population, as well as the attitudes and actions of non-Jews, Germans, and indigenous populations.<\/p>\n

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THE ANATOMY OF MURDER<\/a>
\nEthical Transgressions and Anatomical Science during the Third Reich
\nSabine Hildebrandt
\nForeword by William E. Seidelman<\/p>\n

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Of the many medical specializations to have been transformed by the rise of National Socialism, anatomy has received little attention. As historian and physician Sabine Hildebrandt reveals, anatomists progressed through gradual stages of ethical transgression; in some cases, the traditional model of working with deceased bodies gave way to experimentation with the \u201cfuture dead.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Introduction<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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VANISHED HISTORY<\/a>
\nThe Holocaust in Czech and Slovak Historical Culture
\nTomas Sniegon<\/p>\n

Volume 18, Making Sense of History<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cVanished History represents a major contribution to the field of collective memory and Holocaust studies in the Czech and Slovak republics [and] offers a thoughtful analysis of the Holocaust\u2019s position in Czech and Slovak historical culture during \u2018the long 1990s\u2019.<\/em>\u201d \u00b7 Judaica Bohemiae<\/strong><\/p>\n

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For a full list of our WWII titles please visit the subject\u00a0webpage<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/h5>\n
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Contributions to the History of Concepts<\/strong><\/p>\n

Special Issue:\u00a0Concept in Focus: Citizenship in Europe after World War II. Guest Editors: Claudia Wiesner and Anna Bjork (Vol. 9, Issue 1)<\/a><\/p>\n

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French Politics, Culture and Society<\/strong><\/p>\n

Special Issue: The Rescue of Jews in France and its Empire during World War II: History and Memory.\u00a0Guest Editor: Vicki Caron (Vol. 30, Issue 2)<\/a><\/p>\n

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Historical Reflections<\/strong><\/p>\n

Special Issue:\u00a0Micro-annihilation. Guest Editor: Dennis Klein (Vol. 39, Issue 2)<\/a><\/p>\n

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