In “Albert of the Capitals,” the last of the three strongest texts, Duras relates an episode in the first days after the liberation, when the Resistance exercised summary judgment on some collaborators. She and another Resistance member hold a waiter, a man known as Albert of “The Capitals...
A key open question relates to the central concept around which this summary is structured: the concept of multiple memory systems. This widely accepted idea is coming under review. What is the relationship between memory systems such as working, episodic, perception and semantic memory? This open...
The Holocaust: An Unfinished Historyby Dan Stone. Not a happy book at all! A re-examination of the Holocaust, how widespread the perpetrators were, and how it there are still echoes in our societies today. Recent Books -- North Woods, The Demon of Unrest, Team of Rivals, Titanium Noir...
Between the ages of 19 and 21, I wrote a series of notes (the longest is about a page, so somewhere between a sketch and a mini-essay I guess) that made up a kind of summary of my worldview at the time. At this point I don’t remember why I wrote them, but I’m sure it ...
As with the naming of wars and atrocities, terms like “genocide” and “the Holocaust” are useful, especially if we want – as we clearly do – to have some kind of coherent, understandable narrative that can be taught and remembered as history. But in their grim way, these are still...
Night of the Long Knives summary Related Questions How did Heinrich Himmler die? Why was Adolf Hitler significant? How did Adolf Hitler rise to power? Why did Adolf Hitler start World War II? Who were Adolf Hitler’s most important officers?
This method, which is used widely nowadays, was developed originally to study the lives of holocaust survivors and Nazi soldiers [33,34,35]. When people are invited to tell their story at length and in their own way, they reveal what is important to them and unfold the “gestalt” ...
The aim of this study, therefore, is to determine the long-term effects of fetal and infant exposure to famine and to bring forth an exhaustive summary of relevant parameters to predict them. We expect the results of this work to be a first step in aiding field health workers in ...
Both an iridium (n.铱) anomaly and a fern spike appear in rocks at the end of the Triassic, too. That accounts for the disappearing ichnotaxa:the creatures that made them did not survive the holocaust. The surprise is how rapidly the new ichnotaxa appear. ...
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