In seinem 1924 veröffentlichten Roman bewertete der Autor mit dieser Formel das merkwürdige Ende des Weltkrieges (Waffenstillstand, Revolution, Paris/Versailles): „Es geschah nichts.“ Siehe Gründungsmanifest.
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A detail? While the British and the Empire put itself and the other colonisers, all on the Entente's side, on moral high ground, the facts on the ground told a different story. Here's the case of British Afghanistan 1923, as the Waziri tribesmen of an Afghan village were bombed (Sean Andrew Wempe, The Revenants of the German Empire. Colonial...
Obwohl England den deutschen Feind einen höheren Anteil der Reparationszahlungen abverlangt, besetzten seine belgischen und französischen Alliierten Teile der Weimarer Republik, weil diese in eine problematische Lage der Ablösung geraten war (Georges-Henri Soutou, Peter de Bourgraaf).
ESSAY: A New Look at Anne Frank, Her Father, and WWI Through Literature and History. A centennial collection of writers' articles
Podcast! Three years after the scuttling of the German navy on the would-be final day of the Armistice and as many years following the signing of the Treaty and "League of Versailles", right-wing extremists in the three-year-old Weimar Republic murder another top-ranking politician. Walther Rathenau had served for a few months as its seventh...
Die Akten der Passauer Tagung vom 27.XI.21 sollen publiziert werden. Dies soll in der beim AVM Verlag München neu gegründeten Reihe "Romain Rolland Studien" geschehen.
An English-language transcript of the Aufa100 founding manifesto is expected to be published by an academic publisher in either the United States or Switzerland/the Federal Republic of Germany. The "Decolonizing Versailles" manuscript was proofread by Veronica Burgstaller (GB) and Doris Moorhead (GB). In the run up to the publication, feel free to ...
At our first symposium, January 25, 2021, we launched the call for the establishment of a new common commemorative day: Let us celebrate and commemorate "a century of decolonisation", in German: die Hundertjahrfeier der Entkolonialisierung. Today is the call's first anniversary. On December 15, 2021, it was submitted to the Conference on the Future...
Shortly after the first world war and an equally devastating pandemic for all, solely the German nation would plunge into another era of catastrophes. What happened?
Es brauchte das Zentenarium und hundert Jahre, bevor nichtweißen Opfern des Großen Krieges ein ordentliches Denkmal neben dem der nichtschwarzen US-Kameraden gesetzt wurde. Unsere Kommission verfolgte über das Jahr 2021 die Entwicklungen im US-Bundesstaat.
Warum dauerte der Krieg nach offizieller Lesart für die Vereinigten Staaten genauso lange wie für die auslösenden Staaten von 1914, obwohl das neutrale Lager erst nach drei Jahren von Washington verlassen wurde?
In Genf beginnt die wortwörtlich internationalisierte Verwaltung der überseeischen Gebiete Deutschlands. Wie im Pariser Winter von 1919 übernehmen die britischen Vertreter plus die Funktionäre, die aus der überraschenden Erscheinung einer British Empire Delegation (Britischen Reichsdelegation) hervorgegangen sind, nach wie vor die Hauptrolle in...
Sunday September 12, histocamp's opening evening, the second-to-none transnational team of Verena, Sabrina, Annette and me won the exhilarating histo-quiz. It coincides with a similar concept of ours: developing a bilingual centenary-quiz.
Anlässlich des 2020 erschienenen Buches von Professor Philipp Austermann „Der Weimarer Reichstag: Die schleichende Ausschaltung, Entmachtung und Zerstörung eines Parlaments“ hatte Aufa100 das Vergnügen, den Autor und Dozenten für Staatsrecht, Politik und Geschichte Deutschlands und Europas an der Hochschule des Bundes für öffentliche Verwaltung...
Why has the centenary of Erzberger's violent death only been commemorated within national boundaries so far? Wouldn't it be helpful for many others in Europe and beyond to share Germany's "Erzberger Year 2021" culture of memory? At the initial events earlier this year, the Aufa100 founder seemed to appear as the only non-German participant.
Out of the war-unleashing core of the 33 signatory states, including five British colonies, at the final day of the Paris Conference on June 28, 1919, the state of war lasted shortest for the 1917 accessed United States of America?
A hundred years ago, this was the first day that saw Austrian-born Adolf Hitler as a leader. Aged 32, the lead of the Nationalist Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) was taken up by this Westfront veteran. His leadership career would not end before the final, subterraneous stage of his life in the Führerbunker, 24 years later on in Berlin....
"The truce is a significant event in the Decade of Commemorations. Reflecting on the truce, which was agreed 100 years ago, it is appropriate to recall how the people in the streets of villages, towns and cities hoped and prayed for peace," Irish President Michael D Higgins is quoted by the Irish Times.