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1 day ago · The Schutzstaffel ( SS; also stylised as ᛋᛋ with Armanen runes; German pronunciation: [ˈʃʊtsˌʃtafl̩] ⓘ; lit. 'Protection Squadron') was a major paramilitary organisation under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany, and later throughout German-occupied Europe during World War II .
1 day ago · Adolf Hitler. Adolf Hitler [a] (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, [c] becoming the chancellor in 1933 and then taking the title of Führer und Reichskanzler in 1934.
5 days ago · Combat Resilience in the First World War – a Historiographical Review. Book: Enduring the Great War: Combat, Morale and Collapse in the German and British Armies, 1914-1918. Alexander Watson. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2009, ISBN: 9780521881012; 312pp.; Price: £55.00.
4 days ago · The book is divided into five chapters: ‘Mutilating’, which examines disability and war; ‘Malingering’, which explores feigned illness in the civil and military spheres; ‘Bonding’, which deals with comradeship and with the effects of war on heterosexual relationships; ‘Inspecting’, which investigates military, governmental, and ...
- Joanna Bourke
- 1996
1 day ago · World War II was a conflict that involved virtually every part of the world during 1939–45. The main combatants were the Axis powers (Germany, Italy, and Japan) and the Allies (France, Great Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, and China). It was the bloodiest conflict, as well as the largest war, in human history.
4 days ago · This loneliness can be seen in stark contrast to a life of comradeship enjoyed during the war. This sense of loneliness and suspicion can be seen in the imagery of “an alien in a land of alien-kind”. The poem further highlights how many soldiers reintegrate into society with a sense of ambivalence and confusion after their war experience.
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1 day ago · But for myself, on this occasion, 1 was thrilled by the wish of the President of the United States to bring our two countries so directly together in a new declaration or charter, and to revive and renew the comradeship and brotherhood which joined the English-speaking world together in the late war, and is now, if carried into effect, the ...
