Tourism and Erotic Imaginaries in Wartime Paris: French and Germans during the Occupation, 1940-1944 by Bertram M. Gordon

“…This essay focuses on the intersections of tourism, war, and erotics in occupied Paris during the Second World War. Too frequently, tourism is considered a only peacetime phenomenon. …”
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Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871 – 1918 by Arzu Melek Ozgumus

“…In Blood and Iron, Katja Hoyer delves into the rise of German Empire and its eventual fall, leading to the First World War, a pivotal event that reshaped the European map. …”
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To Cover or to Hide? The Role of the Media in the Trials of the Nazis and Their Collaborators by Tomas Vaiseta

“….), Making Justice Visible: War Crimes Trials, Media and Memory after World War II, Osnabrück: fibre Verlag, 2022. …”
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Des guerres et des dictatures à travers les vignettes by Silvina Campo

“…The article proposes an analysis of comic strips that revolve around the Spanish Civil War and the Second World War, having as authors those who had to confront those conflicts in childhood.…”
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SOCIAL BACKGROUND OF CAREER GUIDANCE SYSTEM: RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS by E. Dianina

“…Considered periods: ancient civilizations (Ancient Egypt, Babylon, China), antiquity The Middle Ages, the period of the First World War, Europe and the United States in the XIX and XX century. …”
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Working in partnership with parents: the triangular connection by Maayan Burstein

“…Modern residential care in Israel can trace its history back to the end of the Second World War. At that time, orphaned Jewish children were sent to Palestine for refuge, and as part of the building of a Jewish society in the future. …”

La mémoire de la Grande Guerre à travers les odonymes en France by Clément Millon

“…But the number of odonyms who commemorates the second world war, or other conflicts, is more important. We have to ask what the cause of that is.…”
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The question of Baltic states in the policy of the Great Western powers in 1943 by Ramojus Kraujelis

“… The fate of the Lithuania and other Baltic States was determined during the years of World War II. The most important, still unanswered question in Lithuanian historiography is when exactly the fate of Baltic States was doomed. …”
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A PROBLEM OF OPENING OF THE SECOND FRONT IS IN EUROPE: LOOK AFTER SEVEN DECADES by A. A. Paderin

“…Therefore he answers on the row of concrete questions, such as Why did the second front in Europe became reality only on the fifth year of Second world war? What led soviet government to strive so persistently for its fastest opening? …”
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Locarno Treaties (1925) in the Context of the Versailles System Transformation as seen from London by E. V. Khakhalkina, V. S. Dzyuba

“…The authors argue that the Locarno Treaties represent one of the turning points in the development of the international order after World War I. The Treaties were not a mere add-on to the Versailles system, in fact, they had replaced it and became the main legal instrument for maintaining security in the region. …”
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A rediscovered fragment of a human mandible from Predmostí u Prerova (Czech Republic): Predmostí 21 by Eva Drozdová

“…It is a Gravettian fossil thought to have been destroyed during the Second World War. The authenticity of the fossil and its description are discussed and it is also compared with other fossils of the Moravian Upper Palaeolithic.…”
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Quadriptyque narratif autour de la Seconde Guerre mondiale by Joëlle Ginestet

“…Four works of fiction about the Second World War published by the Institut d’Etudes Occitanes between 1951 and 1978 fostered the renewal of the narrative form in Occitan fictionalized writings. …”
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Imigração no Brasil e na Alemanha: contextos, conceitos, convergências by Sérgio Costa

“…The article compares discourses and policies directed to immigrants in Brazil during the "nationalization campaign" at the time of the Second World War with efforts to "integrate" immigrants in contemporary Germany. …”
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Racial Fault-lines in “Baseball’s Great Experiment:” Black Perceptions, White Reactions by Henry D. Fetter

“…By so doing, the paper will illuminate the fault-lines that characterized race relations within both the sport of baseball and the larger society as each was confronted with new challenges to long established policies and practices in the years after the Second World War.…”
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Italy and the history of preventive conservation by Simon Lambert

“…After a brief look at the history of preventive conservation from Antiquity to the Second World War, two seldom-discussed Italian initiatives are presented: The Franceschini Commission (1964) and the Pilot plan for the programmed conservation of cultural heritage in Umbria (1976).…”
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Primordiality of Salvatore Scarpitta by Antonella Chiazza

“…The article analyzes the artistic research by Salvatore Scarpitta, one of the major protagonists of the international art scene after the Second World War, in its different phases: expressionist, abstract-figurative and informal. …”
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Lucio Fontana and the Architecture by Antonella Chiazza

“…This article explores the Spatialism in architectural terms, which is at the base of Lucio Fontana’s work after the Second World War. A fundamental and lesser-known aspect of the artist’s work, developed since 1949, is the creation of ‘Ambienti Spaziali’, really and truly architectural spaces that test the perception and often even the sense of balance of visitors. …”
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The emergence of an independent Polish state and the problem of national minorities by G. G. Dedurin

“…The main approaches to the regulation of the status of national minorities in the Polish state restored after the First World War were investigated. They were reflected in the relevant provisions of the first Constitution of independent Poland (March 1921), which was a kind of compromise between the views of the Polish right-wing led by Roman Dmowski, who advocated the absolute dominance of ethnic Poles' interests, and the leaders of Polish socialist parties (T. …”
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Skrifbeskouing en oorredingsretoriek: perspektiewe op performatiewe prediking by Johan Cilliers

“…The critique that has been levelled against this understanding of Scripture and preaching, initiated through the mind-set of the Enlightenment (Kant), gaining momentum since the Second World War, and coming to full fruition in the so-called postmodernism, is briefly addressed. …”
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Joseph Loxton Rawbon, the "Master Restorer" by Cyndie Lack

“…A colourful character with bombastic flair, his numerous enterprises, however limited in their success, exemplify the boundless optimism of the Industrial Age and open a small window onto the history of Toronto's early cultural development through to the Second World War.  Remarkably, Rawbon believed that, like his artist's stretchers and other inventions, the restoration of paintings held a key to the making of a fortune.…”
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