L’étude préalable et la conservation - restauration des graffitis des internés au camp de Drancy by Mélanie Curdy

“…During the Second World War, the Jewish prisoners of the transit camp in Drancy inscribed messages on the walls of their prison. …”
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Une revenance dans l’écriture poétique : les disparus et Vittorio Sereni by Yannick Gouchan

“…His work is marked by an existential injury due to his imprisonment during the Second World War making it impossible for him to take part in History in that period. …”
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L’économie politique de l’Asie : état des lieux et perspectives de recherche pour l’Asie du Sud-Est by Pierre Alary, Elsa Lafaye de Micheaux

“…Asian and Southeast Asian countries have recorded deep socioeconomic transformations since World War 2. These main transformations are: introduction of capitalist regimes; high growth rates, urbanisation and demographic weight. …”
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Oživlá historie Ratenic. Orální historie jako nástroj komunitního zkoumání lokální historie by Michal Louč

“…Then the article presents the project outcomes on the three selected topics – the historical changes of landscape and public space, the working life and finally the life during the Second World War. …”
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THE LIMITS OF EUROPEANINTEGRATION: THE QUESTION OF EUROPEAN IDENTİTY by Selcen Öner

“…Ayrıca Avrupa kimliği inşa süreciyle ulusal kimliklerin inşa süreci arasındaki benzerlikler ve farklılıklara değinilerek ; Avrupa kimliği, ulusal kimlik ve bölgesel kimliklerin AB içindeki pozisyonu İncelenmektedir.After bad memories of the 2nd World War, firstly common economic communities were tried to be established within Europe like the European Coal and Steel Community(ECSC) or EURATOM.…”
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L’aroumain, dialecte du roumain ou langue à part ? by Nicolas Trifon

“…The idea that Aromanian was a dialect of Romanian was long taken for granted, but it was not until after the Second World War that an attempt was made to argue it scientifically. …”
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Pardubičtí Židé a jejich náboženská obec do roku 1918 by Jitka Vojtková, Luboš Kokeš

“… This study describes the Jewish settlement of Pardubice from the first mentions of their residence in primary sources in the early 16th century to the period of the First World War. The main emphasis was put on the establishing and development of the Jewish religious community in the first half of the 19th century, its subsequent institutional consolidation and the resulting influence of the growing Jewish population on the economic, social and cultural emancipation of the town of Pardubice at the turn of the 19th and 20th century. …”
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Langues et discours en situation de guerre : une approche sociolinguistique et pragmatique by Salih Akin

“…Kurdish is an Indo-European language spoken by a population distributed in Iraq, Iran, Syria and Turkey and affected by a conflictual situation from the First World War to the present day. The consequences of the war are manifested on the evolution of the language on several levels: a fragmentation in its linguistic structures as well as in its writing systems, a geographical and political dispersion of its speakers and a decline of its intergenerational transmission. …”
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Open Water Jumping: Clearing Obstacles in the Negotiation of French Rights to The Black Stallion by Cécile Cottenet

“…The story of the introduction of the series in France in the aftermath of World War II, and its inclusion in this now-classic library of children’s texts, is largely unknown. …”
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Pointes, hachoirs et marteaux by Eva Belgherbi

“…Between the opening of the École des beaux-arts to women in the late 19th century and the attack by suffragette Mary Richardson at the dawn of World War I against Velázquez’s The Toilet of Venus, commonly known in English as the Rokeby Venus, there was an abundance of speeches on the subject of the violence of women. …”
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The Crisis of Human Rights. On the Importance and Timeliness of their Catholic Critique by Michał Gierycz

“… Human rights, as they developed after the Second World War, were intended to protect the objective goods necessary for the development of the human person. …”
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The Societal Relevance of the “Rheinischer Merkur” by Regina M. Frey

“…The Rheinischer Merkur, founded in 1946 shortly after the end of the Second World War and shut down by the German Bishops’ Conference in 2010, was a newspaper of this kind. …”
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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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Appropriating the closure of Jesuit missions: Fritz Hochwälder's Das heilige Experiment by F. Hale

“… Since the eighteenth century the history of the Jesuit missionary endeavours in South America, especially their forced closure in 1760s, has been used rhetorically by writers in several genres, providing them with historical evidence to support a variety of latter-day causes. During the Second World War the Viennese Jewish playwright Fritz Hochwälder, then living in exile in Switzerland, followed in this tradition when he wrote his tragedy, Das heilige Experiment. …”
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L’Armure de François Ier : histoires d’un présent diplomatique by Juliette Allix

“…This Doppelküriss became a collector’s item, the incarnation of a royal figure, a European diplomatic issue, a trophy of war and was even considered an arm during the Second World War. The history of this armour sheds light on the way the life of an object can alter its nature and enrich one’s reading of it; it also examines the status accorded from the modern period to the present to the particular cultural heritage constituted by military objects.…”
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Lust, tranquillity and sensuality in French spa towns in the heyday of balneotherapy (the belle époque and the roaring twenties) by Marie-Eve Férérol

“…One was the expansion in bourgeois morality, and the other was the uncertain future at the turn of the 20th century (the advancing tide of modernity, presages of the 1st World War, etc.). Spa towns thus became ‘safety valves’ (Authier, 1997), another world, an escape from everyday life, where all sorts of transgressions were possible. …”
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The Politics of Voice in Duke Ellington’s Beggar’s Holiday (1946) by James O’Leary

“…By analyzing a number of recordings of Beggar’s Holiday’s opening song, “In Between,” I demonstrate that Ellington and Latouche simultaneously invoked and undermined this aesthetic dichotomy to make an intervention into post-World War II left-wing political debates.…”
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Exposer la science dans l’après-guerre. Hommage à Léonard de Vinci et Rembrandt, étude photographique et radiographique au laboratoire du musée du Louvre by Camille Bourdiel

“…Founded in 1931 under the supervision of the Department of Paintings of the Louvre, then closed on the eve of the Second World War, the department was reopened in 1946. It was headed by Madeleine Hours, a former volunteer, who was determined to ensure its revival. …”
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Signs of Innovation in European Cinema. Electronic Music in Antonioni and Tarkovsky by Gabriele

“… In the process of the emancipation of film music that took place in the first decades after World War II, the filmography of Michelangelo Antonioni and Andrei Tarkovsky offers multiple points of interest. …”
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Economic Cycle Policy — Post COVID-19 by Überblick

“…Abstract The coronavirus crisis has plunged the German economy into the deepest recession since the Second World War. Due to its global spread, supply chains have been disrupted and international trade has been severely impaired, which has hit the export-dependent German economy particularly hard. …”
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