British Jewry and the Attempted Boycott of Nazi Germany, 1933–1939 by Zbyněk Vydra

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İkinci Dünya Savaşı’nın Başladığı Gün Avrupa’daki Durum: Ülkelerin Savaşa Hazırlık Durumları ve Bunun Savaşa Yansıması by Burak ÇINAR

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Some remarks and documents concerning the emigration of Polish mathematicians during the 1930s and early 1940 by Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze

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Soviet Diplomatic Efforts to Prevent Hungary’s Alignment with Germany in World War II (1939– 1941) by V. F. Pryakhin

“…In this geopolitical scenario, American and Western European actors (including Great Britain and France) were relegated to the role of observers, anticipating a prolonged conflict between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union that would drain both. …”
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Memory Politics on Screen: The Aesthetics of Historical Trauma in Izaokas (Isaac) (2019) by Gabrielė Norkūnaitė

“…The film actualised heated debates on a national level over the role of ordinary Lithuanians in the Holocaust and collaboration with Nazi Germany, in spite of the fact that the filmmakers did not intend to engage in historical debates. …”
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The Anti-Hitler Coalition: From Enmity to Military Alliance — A Formula for Success by A. Yu. Borisov

“…They try to revive certain political myths, which have been debunked long ago, that the Soviet Union and the Nazi Germany bear equal responsibility for the outbreak of World War II, that the Red Army did not liberate Eastern Europe but ‘occupied’ it. …”
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Hospodářský bojkot jako odpověď na antisemitismus. Příklad druhé Československé republiky by Tomáš Jiránek

“… The economic boycott of Nazi Germany became one of the weapons in the fight against the anti-Semitism of the Nazi regime. …”
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Le luxembourgeois, enfant naturel de la Seconde Guerre mondiale by Nicolas Lefrançois

“…From simple oral and regional variety of the High German, it acquired the status of language to support an identity and political demand of the population during the Second World War: to dissociate itself from Nazi Germany and to affirm its cultural peculiarity. …”
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Letecká báze na Českomoravské vysočině by Pavel Petr

“… The signing of the Munich Pact at the end of September 1938 did not only signify the demise of the first Czechoslovak Republic, but it also brought an end to a range of policies and regulations that Czechoslovakia had adopted in the second half of the 1930s in order to prepare for a potential conflict with Nazi Germany. This preparation entailed not only the well-known construction of the fortification line along the border with Germany, but also extensive construction of new airports. …”
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“Relief is a political gesture:” The Jewish Labor Committee’s interventions in war-torn Poland, 1939-1945 by Catherine Collomp

“…In the context of the division and occupation of Poland by the USSR and by Nazi Germany, the JLC’s help materialized in two ways: relief (generally in kind) was sent to Jewish refugees in Russia; money was sent for relief and for weapons to Jews in the General Government region under German rule. …”
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Recepcja i rozwój idei eugenicznej na ziemiach polskich w XIX i XX wieku by Anna Słoniowska

“…Nowadays people confine eugenics to one period (The Second World War), and one place (Nazi Germany). But the truth is that eugenics existed in almost every country, including Poland. …”
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The 2nd Guards Tank Army in the Berlin Strategic Offensive Operation by V. O. Daynes

“…One of the greatest battles of the Great Patriotic and also the World War II took place on the outskirts of the capital of Nazi Germany on April 16, 1945. Three magor fronts - 1st Belorussian, 2nd Byelorussian, 1st Ukrainian - and four tank armies were involved. …”
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The shadow side of occupational therapy: Necropower, state racism and colonialism by Pier-Luc Turcotte, Dave Holmes

“…To prevent the recurrence of these injustices, history must be unveiled and occupational therapists urged to come to terms with their own involvement and responsibility.Objective and Method Utilising Achille Mbembe’s concept of necropolitics, this academic essay blends select historical and philosophical perspectives to explore occupational therapy’s concealed role in manifestations of institutionalised violence.Results By examining its roles in World War II and France’s colonisation of Algeria, we make visible the development of occupational therapy’s distinct ‘shadow side’. In Nazi Germany’s Euthanasia Programme, it became a tool for identifying which lives were deemed ‘worthy of living’ and which were not, which indirectly contributed to the killing of 200,000 disabled persons. …”
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History of the Second World War: Countering Attempts to Falsify and Distort to the Detriment of International Security by V. G. Kiknadze

“…United States, European Union and Ukraine tend to distort the results of the Second World War to remove the history of the Great Patriotic War, the feat of the Soviet people, who saved the world from fascism, and the Soviet Union (Russian Federation), together with Nazi Germany put in the dock of history, accusing all the troubles of the XX century. …”
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Commissariats of Military Industry during the Great Patriotic War by Yu. V. Il’In

“…Largely due to this fact, the Soviet Union won in serious confrontation with the military-industrial complex military industry of Nazi Germany and its satellites. On the basis of archival documents and testimony of contemporaries the article shows the contribution of the defense industry in the Soviet Union's victory in the Great Patriotic War.…”
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The problem of “harm” in the theory of international relations by M. A. Gadzhiev

“…Political governance of biological aspects of the life of the population is directly related to the problem of physical harm in the sense that biopolitics, on the one hand, is aimed at maintaining the physical health of the population, on the other hand, politics is still at the core of biopolitics, so sometimes it can turn against all or part of its population as happened in Nazi Germany. Today, biopolitics at the global level is implemented in the UN development programs, in various international and transnational initiatives to promote international development, as well as in global health governance. …”
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Diplomatic History of the Great Patriotic War and the New World Order by A. Y. Borisov

“…The decisive role of the Soviet Union and its armed forces in the defeat of Nazi Germany and its allies was the strong foundation on which to build the strategy and tactics of Soviet diplomacy during the war. …”
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Agitation and propaganda work and fight against defeatist sentiments in Khanty-Mansiysk National District at initial stage of the Great Patriotic War by E. V. Leshukova

“…The author comes to the conclusion that in the difficult conditions of the beginning of the war with Nazi Germany, the party leadership of the district showed determination and firmness in carrying out measures of a political and educational nature. …”
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Lost in Broadcasting: League of Nations, International Broadcasting and Swiss Neutrality by A. S. Khodnev

“…During the peak of Nazi Germany's advances, Bern adopted stringent measures against the LN, upholding a resolute diplomatic stance. …”
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