Fundstücke | »Guests of the Reich«. An American Riposte to the Nazi Catchphrase ‘Gastarbeiter’, 1943
A weekly newspaper from rural Georgia, July 23, 1943: Under the headline "Guests of the Reich," a short column dissects the National Socialist propaganda term Gastarbeiter in its English translation and calls it "Hitler tosh." The source predates the…
Production of ‘Volksgemeinschaft’. Notes on a Conference in Hameln
The conference From 18 to 20 June 2026, the Dokumentations- und Lernort Bückeberg invited participants to Hameln, to the premises of the Zedita, in cooperation with the Stiftung niedersächsische Gedenkstätten and the Institut für Didaktik der…
›Twice Displaced‹: Queer ›Displacement‹ in Post-War Europe, Lecture of 4 June
4th Alfred Landecker Lecture with Samantha K. Knapton (University of Nottingham) When Pierre Seel, having returned to Alsace in 1945 after the camp and the Wehrmacht, wrote decades later about his liberation, he articulated a sobering finding: the true…
Research Revisited | Twelve Years of the Interdisciplinary Working Group Conflict Landscapes at the University of Osnabrück
Conflict Landscapes in Osnabrück: An Interim Assessment after Twelve Years In spring 2026, the project "The 'Emsland Camps' as a Conflict Landscape in Transformation. Research-Based Learning at the Interface of University Teacher Education, Memorial…