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Journal articles on the topic "WWII story"

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S. Brilev. ""Electrician": A WWII Spy Story." International Affairs 65, no. 002 (2019): 252–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.21557/iaf.53420855.

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S. Brilev. "The Untold Story of Anglo-Soviet Intelligence Cooperation During WWII." International Affairs 64, no. 003 (2018): 190–205. http://dx.doi.org/10.21557/iaf.51401261.

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S. Brilev. "The Untold Story of Anglo-Soviet Intelligence Cooperation During WWII." International Affairs 64, no. 005 (2018): 263–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.21557/iaf.52036531.

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Bushkin, Hanan, Roelf van Niekerk, and Louise Stroud. "Searching for meaning in chaos: Viktor Frankl's story." Europe’s Journal of Psychology 17, no. 3 (2021): 233–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.5964/ejop.5439.

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The existential psychiatrist Viktor Frankl (1905–1997) lived an extraordinary life. He witnessed and experienced acts of anti-Semitism, persecution, brutality, physical abuse, malnutrition, and emotional humiliation. Ironically, through these experiences, the loss of dignity and the loss of the lives of his wife, parents and brother, his philosophy of human nature, namely, that the search for meaning is the drive behind human behaviour, was moulded. Frankl formulated the basis of his existential approach to psychological practice before World War II (WWII). However, his experiences in the concentration camps confirmed his view that it is through a search for meaning and purpose in life that individuals can endure hardship and suffering. In a sense, Frank’s theory was tested in a dramatic way by the tragedies of his life. Following WWII, Frankl shaped modern psychological thinking by lecturing at more than 200 universities, authoring 40 books published in 50 languages and receiving 29 honorary doctorates. His ideas and experiences related to the search for meaning influenced theorists, practitioners, researchers, and lay people around the world. This study focuses specifically on the period between 1942 and 1945. The aim is to explore Frankl’s search for meaning within an unpredictable, life-threatening, and chaotic context through the lens of his concept of noö-dynamics.
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Ellis, Karen. "Life on the frontline of COVID-19: Jean's story." Nursing and Residential Care 23, no. 4 (2021): 1–2. http://dx.doi.org/10.12968/nrec.2021.23.4.14.

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Jean Ryder moved to Royal Star & Garter, Surbiton, in 2014, accompanied by her WWII and RAF veteran husband. She died in May 2020, following a positive COVID-19 test. As the nation commemorates the anniversary of the first lockdown with a National Day of Reflection, Jean's daughter Karen Ellis remembers her parents' time at the Home, her mother's sudden death, and why she is still waiting for closure.
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Stec, Monika, and Krystyna Badurka. "Tak zwani partyzanci. Z Krystyną Badurką rozmawia Monika Stec." Studia Litteraria et Historica, no. 1 (December 31, 2012): 1–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.11649/slh.2012.024.

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So-called partisans. Monika Stec in an interview with Krystyna Badurka Referring to the story of her father’s death in 1945, Krystyna Badurka-Rytel discusses the times before and after World War II. Before WWII, her father, Felix Badurka, was a soldier of the Home Army, while after the war he served as the chairman of the National Council and built "the new system". For decades, the Badurka family has been trying to find out who is responsible for his murder.The story of tracking perpetrators is presented against a broader background: the attitude of the population and the Church towards the underground army during and after WWII; the socio-political changes (specifically in rural areas) after World War II, as well as the modern times, in particular the attitude to the past. Krystyna Badurka-Rytel objects to the current Polish political history, because, as she believes, it glorifies the war crimes committed by the so-called “conspiracy” by honouring the participants with books and monuments.
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West, Nigel. "Ian Fleming's Commandos: The Story of 30 Assault Unit in WWII." Global War Studies 13, no. 1 (2016): 86. http://dx.doi.org/10.5893/19498489.130110.

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Matkovits-Kretz, Eleonóra. "Calvary of the Germans in Hungary at the end of WWII." Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, European and Regional Studies 7, no. 1 (2015): 51–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/auseur-2015-0005.

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Abstract The German community in Hungary suffered many blows at the end of World War II and after it, on the basis of collective guilt. Immediately after the Red Army had marched in. gathering and deportation started into the camps of the Soviet Union, primarily into forced-labour camps in Donetsk, the Caucasus, and the Ural mountains. One third of them never returned. Those left behind had to face forced resettlement, the confiscation of their properties, and other ordeals. Their history was a taboo subject until the change of the political system in 1989. Not even until our days, by the 70th anniversary of the events, has their story reached a worthy place in national and international remembrance. International collaboration, the establishment of a research institute is needed to set to rights in history the story of the ordeal of the German community after World War II. for the present and future generations
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Huxen, Keith. "Using Oral Histories at the National WWII Museum." Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals 13, no. 2 (2017): 75–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/155019061701300203.

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This article examines the development of the oral history collection at the National WWII Museum and how that collection is used in the permanent exhibits and other programming to support the museum's mission to tell the American story of why the war was fought, how it was won, and what it means today. It details the collection's beginnings under the late Dr. Stephen Ambrose, challenges in the collecting process, and policies and processes that the Research Department of the museum uses today to expand the collection (now holding more than 9,000 personal accounts). The article also discusses use of these oral histories as the museum seeks to add value to its oral history collection through online publishing, inclusion in permanent exhibits, and their use as support in future initiatives and other programming.
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van der Berg, Catharijne. "Ideology in Favour of Russian Orthodox Church in Russian Film The Priest." Beacon: Journal for Studying Ideologies and Mental Dimensions 2, no. 1 (2019): 010511808. http://dx.doi.org/10.55269/thebeacon.2.010511808.

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Modern Russian film director Vladimir Khotinenko created complex ideological parable in his movie “Pop” (“The Priest”, 2009). He rethought history of Pskov Orthodox mission during World War II in a highly ideological way. He introduced an imagined character, Russian Orthodox priest Father Alexander Ionin whose prototype is Father Alexiy Ionov, a real member of Pskov Orthodox mission. Despite the similarity of their names, there is no real likeness between the historical man and protagonist of the movie. Vladimir Khotinenko rewrote the life story of the clergyman so that is could fit the two major ideological narratives of the movie: the story about pro-Soviet patriotism of Russian Orthodox Church clergy during WWII and the story about ancient Russian sanctity based on the archetype of Holy Rus.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "WWII story"

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Wiedemann, Susan M. "Ethical Leadership: Life Story of George Ciampa, U.S. WWII Military Veteran and Community Leader." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1592914267573177.

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Rozītis, Juris. "Displaced Literature : Images of Time and Space in Latvian Novels Depicting the First Years of the Latvian Postwar Exile." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för baltiska språk, finska och tyska, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-607.

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In the years immediately following the Second World War, the main part of Latvian literature was produced by writers living outside Latvia. To this day Latvian literature continues to be written outside Latvia, albeit to a much smaller extent. This study examines those Latvian novels, written outside Latvia after the Second World War, which depict the realities of the early years of exile. The aim of the study is to describe the image of the world of exile as depicted in these novels. Borrowing from Bakhtin's concept of the chronotope, images relating to time and space in these novels are examined in order to discern a mental topography of exile common to all these novels - a chronotope of exile. The novels are read as part of a collective narrative, produced by a particular social group in unordinary historical circumstances. The novels are regarded as this social group’s common perception of its own experience of this historical reality. The early years of exile fall into two distinct periods: first, the period of flight from Latvia and life in and around the Displaced Persons camps of postwar Germany; second, the early years of settling in a new country of residence after emigration from Germany. A model of the perceived world is constructed in order to compare these two periods, as well as their divergence from a standard perception of oneself in the world. This model consists of various time-spaces radiating concentrically out from the individual – ranging from the physically and psychologically near-lying time-spaces of one’s personal and intimate life, through everyday social time-spaces, as well as formal societal time-spaces, to the more distant abstract and conceptual perceptions of one’s place in the universe. Basic human concepts such as home, family, work, intimate relationships, social administration, and most notably the homeland – Latvia – are plotted at various points within these models. Divergences between the models describing the perception of time and space in the two early periods of exile thus become apparent.
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Books on the topic "WWII story"

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Nigel, Fountain, ed. WWII: The people's story. Reader's Digest, 2003.

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Maurey, Jack R. One more sea story from WWII. AuthorHouse, 2005.

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Neal, Robert L. A war story: Memoir of WWII. Meyer, 2005.

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ill, Iskowitz Joel, ed. Rebekkah's journey: A WWII refugee story. Sleeping Bear Press, 2006.

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Neal, Robert L. A war story: Memoir of WWII. Meyer, 2005.

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Webster, C. R. Dogs and soldiers: A WWII love story. Author House, 2010.

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Nusz, Sam A. Sam's story: South Dakota through WWII Europe. iUniverse, 2012.

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Fein, Eric. Mystery at Manzanar: A WWII internment camp story. Stone Arch Books, 2009.

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Murray, Weir Brenda, ed. To be as brave: A WWII veteran's story. Brenda Weir Advertising/Public Relations, 2001.

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Chen, Chongzhi. Force 136: Story of a WWII resistance fighter. Asiapac Books, 1995.

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Facchin, Eugenio Luis. "Borie II, Campaign in the Pacific Ocean (WWII), in the Korean War, in the Vietnam War, in the Mediterranean (July to December, 1956), Miscellaneous, Other Minor Actions." In The Untold Story of a Fighting Ship. Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92624-3_2.

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von Arnauld, Andreas. "Deadlocked in Dualism: Negotiating for a Final Settlement." In Remedies against Immunity? Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-62304-6_16.

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AbstractWhile on the international plane Germany has as strong a position as one could wish for, a second appeal to the ICJ does not seem advisable. Though not formally estopped from challenging Sentenza 238/2014, Germany would at least face a principled contradiction (Wertungswiderspruch). Like Italy, Germany takes the position that international obligations must be disregarded should they be found incompatible with fundamental rights enshrined in the national constitution. Concerning the underlying conflict, another formally strong German position proves to have inherent shortcomings. To argue that, as far as Italian citizens are concerned, all matters of compensation had been dealt with comprehensively in the German–Italian lump sum agreement of 1961 carries some conviction. However, the limitations of that agreement, the erosion of the individual’s strict mediatisation in international law, and recent German compensation schemes for other victims of World War II (WWII) have fuelled a growing discontent with this final settlement. Having been doubly denied recognition as victims by the injustices of non-retroactivity and of differentiation, the Italian WWII victims ‘in oblivion’ have pursued compensation claims for over a decade now. It would go too far to argue an individual claim for financial compensation under international law for historic wrongs. The principle of intertemporal law, however, has its merits as well as its defects. This chapter argues in favour of mildly piercing the veil of intertemporality by reliance on fundamental ethical principles as part of the law in force already at the time of the original violation. A breach in this kind of obligation should give rise to an obligatio de negotiando under the principle of just satisfaction. Such a legal construction takes up the idea that in most of the recent cases of ‘history taken to court’, compensation is but a secondary aim, the primary aim being to ‘tell one’s own story’ as a counter-narrative to hegemonic discourse. By entering into negotiations with the victims ‘in oblivion’, Germany—and Italy—could and should attempt to finally solve what has been and remains a fundamentally unjust situation.
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Conner, Thomas H. "The ABMC Story Goes On, 1960–Present." In War and Remembrance. University Press of Kentucky, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813176314.003.0009.

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This chapter looks at the work the ABMC has been doing since World War II ended. The chairmanships of Generals Jacob Devers and Mark Clark are explored in some detail. Maintenance of the memorials is a mission of remembrance that the ABMC is strongly upholding. Some additional sites have been created since 1960, and “interpretive centers” continue to be added to the World War I and II memorials. Presidential visits to some of the cemeteries since the Carter years have expanded public awareness of these places of memory. The commission directed the construction of the WWII Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., that was dedicated in 2004. This chapter concludes with an assessment of the enduring importance of the work of the ABMC. The WWI veterans have all passed away, and WWII veterans are becoming fewer. The ABMC’s efforts to maintain the beautiful memorials, monuments, and cemeteries keep the many stories, examples learned, and sacrifices continually fresh in the public mind.
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Melchior, Inge. "WWII on the Periphery of Europe: A Contested Chapter." In Guardians of Living History. Amsterdam University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789462989023_ch06.

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Chapter 6 introduces Europe as a significant Other to the stage, and with that the memory of WWII. In times of East-West memory clashes in Europe, the emotional Estonian story easily stirs up feelings of insecurity, facing the perceived hegemonic and incontestable European WWII narrative. The lack of a Holocaust memory and the memory of Estonian men in SS uniforms as freedom fighters evokes the fear of being misunderstood and subordinate within Europe. They feel torn between the moral obligations towards their (grand)parents and their wish to be seen as ‘full Europeans’. Within the European family the lack of closure and of a settled Estonian history makes the struggle with ‘European memories’ feel very unequal, painful, and vulnerable.
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Kollmann, Karl, Calum E. Douglas, and S. Can Gülen. "Prelude." In Turbo/Supercharger Compressors and Turbines for Aircraft Propulsion in WWII: Theory, History and Practice—Guidance from the Past for Modern Engineers and Students. ASME, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/1.884676_ch1.

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Prof. Dr.-Ing. Kollmann is one of the most important aeronautical engineers in the story of piston aeroengine development in Germany in WWII. In 12 years, Dr.-Ing. Kollmann progressed from the role of senior engineer to chief engineer of the aeroengine design department in Daimler-Benz. This book is an historical record of his own engineering work in developing high performance piston aeroengines. The original document that Dr.-Ing. Kollmann wrote in 1947 is presented here in English with extensive additional material by the authors.
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Santiago-Velez, Mildred. "Latina of America." In Advances in Religious and Cultural Studies. IGI Global, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-3738-4.ch009.

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This is the life story of the firstborn child of a young Puerto Rican couple who began their married life in Brooklyn, New York during the post-WWII years of the late 1940s. The child grew up in a home where two languages and cultures peacefully coexisted and provided the stage for successful bilingual development in Spanish and English. Over the years, her growing knowledge of these languages, their cultures, and far-reaching effects on the path to self-discovery and identity inculcated a deeply rooted love for both. The narrator shares many language and culturally enriching moments that took place at home, in church, in school, and in her social environment. In addition to narrating life story snapshots, the author includes poems she wrote that not only expand on the lived experiences, but also demonstrate the power of words during a quest for self-discovery.
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Breton, Mireille Le. "Rewriting the memory of immigration: Samuel Zaoui’s Saint Denis bout du monde." In Reimagining North African immigration. Manchester University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9780719099489.003.0013.

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This article reflects on the memory of North-African immigration in twentieth-century France, and focuses more particularly on the fate of the chibanis, the first generation of immigrants who came from Algeria to work in France during the economic boom of the post WWII era. Grounded in the works of historians of memory Nora and Ricoeur, this chapter analyzes how Samuel Zaoui’s novel Saint Denis Bout du monde portrays first-generation immigrants in a new light. Indeed, moving away from the traditional, largely negative, stories of loss, the novel partakes of new narratives of regaining and repairing, what Susan Ireland calls ‘a kind of Narrative recovery.’ The novel can be read as the story of the forgotten generation, which repairs collective amnesia as it regains memory, in order to reconcile itself with the past. This article goes further to show how a new narrative of reconciliation is able to trigger the shift in the episteme of migrant literature.
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Donnar, Glen. "Conclusion." In Troubling Masculinities. University Press of Mississippi, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496828576.003.0006.

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This concluding chapter interrogates the presumed eradication of deep-seated anxieties identified throughout the book about the failings of males in “protective” roles in recent Hollywood film. The chapter focuses on the jingoistic 12 Strong (2018), which recounts the story of the first Special Forces team deployed into Afghanistan following 9/11. The film restages both America’s initial military response to the originary terror attacks and of reassuring “male action” subgenres—from the cavalry western to the WWII combat film—to erase the gendered sense of failure of 9/11 and the irresolution of the “war on terror.” The film’s coda showcases the supposedly triumphant return of soldier-father heroes, paragons of idealized American masculinity, to the home. However, the chapter finds that gendered anxieties about “protective” failings persist through multiple genre and narrative incoherences, which invert the “hero’s homecoming” and reiterate just how pervasive and enduring “gender trouble” remains in American film post-9/11.
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Griep, Mark A., and Marjorie L. Mikasen. "Isomorphs of Paranoia: Chemical Arsenals." In ReAction! Oxford University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195326925.003.0007.

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In the United States after the September 2001 attacks, citizens were advised to protect themselves from toxic dusts by covering their windows with plastic sheeting and duct tape that could be purchased from any hardware store. One hundred years ago, terrorists would not have had ready access to today’s common chemicals to create makeshift explosives, and citizens would not have had access to plastic sheeting or duct tape to protect themselves from aerosols or gases. Chemical weapons have engendered a cloud of fear since their introduction into warfare during World War I. Recently, the large-scale use of chemicals as lethal weapons has drifted from warfare to terrorism. Chemical weapons are often equated with poison gases (either asphyxiation or nerve agents), but as can be seen in the list of movies for this chapter, they are actually the most diverse type of weapon. Some of these weapons are discussed elsewhere in the book (psychedelic agents, chapter 5; explosives, chapter 9). The chemistry in nuclear weapons movies is discussed in the commentary sections for those movies that use them. The movies in this chapter are closely linked to spy movies, which lie at the nexus of the action and thriller genres. Spy movies are appealing in part because these charming, good-looking government employees live by their wits and gut reactions to make split-second decisions that are best for the spy and the government. But a spy is only as good as the villain; otherwise, it wouldn’t be challenging or fun. So, the final ingredient for the movie choices in this chapter is that many of them refer to actual chemical weapons, which grounds them in the real world. The audience knows these weapons are dangerous and can be misused by the wrong person. Only about 70 chemical compounds have been put to use during military conflicts over the past century, and they are classified based on their effects. Asphyxiating and blistering agents were created for WWI (1914–1918); nerve agents were developed for WWII (1940–1945) but never used in that war; napalm was also created for WWII but it generated public comment only when used in the Vietnam War; nonlethal psychedelics were tested extensively during the 1950s but haven’t been documented as having been used yet; herbicides and tear gas were used tactically during the Vietnam War.
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Geheber, Philip Keel. "‘Nous ne suivons pas la même route’: Flaubertian Objectivity and Mansfield’s Representations of Travel." In Katherine Mansfield and Translation. Edinburgh University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474400381.003.0007.

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This chapter offers a reading of Mansfield’s ‘Urewera Notebook’, which features notes on Gustave Flaubert as well as diary entries and vignettes of travelling lone women, to first situate Mansfield’s early aesthetic interests in objectively representing characters in transit. It then argues that Mansfield’s 1915 story ‘An Indiscreet Journey’ is a feminist transposition of the infamous cab ride of Madame Bovary into a French WWI setting. Mansfield’s translation of Flaubertian objectivity and tropes from Madame Bovary to suit her own perspective and context exemplifies how this mode of thematic and aesthetic translation functions as a generative mode of literary production.
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Conference papers on the topic "WWII story"

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Śwituszak, Paula Karina, and Alina Tomaszewska -Szewczyk. "RETOUCHES WITH HISTORY – CONSERVATION OF THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS BY ADOLF HERMAN DUSZEK AND ITS AUTHORIAL POST-WWII RESTORATION." In RECH6 - 6th International Meeting on Retouching of Cultural Heritage. Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/rech6.2021.13508.

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WWII left a great proportion of cultural heritage in Middle-Eastern Europe damaged. In the immediate aftermath of the war, there was neither necessary expertise, manpower nor resources to deal with such complex and total conservational challenges. Artists and craftsmen took to preserving and repairing the most darling objects of local heritage, leaving to us not only their original works, but also visible marks of the struggle to preserve them. Today, we are facing the task to preserve the multilinear story hidden behind those objects - their original body, wounds, and bandages, showing both the art of creation as well as the art of restoration to next generations. A great example of such a conservation effort is the story of The Sacred Heart of Jesus, painted by Adolf Herman Duszek in 1924 and restored by him after the war, in 1950. Over 70 years later, the painting required another intervention – mainly because of the bad state of preservation of the paint layer. The main challenge of this restoration was to find the balance between leaving the visible traces of the history of the object, the conservation ethics as well as the aesthetics and expectations of the recent owners. As it turns out, the impact of a private context is a significant aspect during the formation of the conservation programme. This paper discusses the need for compromises which had to be reached during the conservation of this particular painting.
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Marfella, Giorgio. "Seeds of Concrete Progress: Grain Elevators and Technology Transfer between America and Australia." In The 38th Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand. SAHANZ, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.55939/a4000pi5hk.

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Modern concrete silos and grain elevators are a persistent source of interest and fascination for architects, industrial archaeologists, painters, photographers, and artists. The legacy of the Australian examples of the early 1900s is appreciated primarily by a popular culture that allocates value to these structures on aesthetic grounds. Several aspects of construction history associated with this early modern form of civil engineering have been less explored. In the 1920s and 1930s, concrete grain elevator stations blossomed along the railway networks of the Australian Wheat Belts, marking with their vertical presence the landscapes of many rural towns in New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, and Western Australia. The Australian reception of this industrial building type of American origin reflects the modern nation-building aspirations of State Governments of the early 1900s. The development of fast-tracked, self-climbing methods for constructing concrete silos, a technology also imported from America, illustrates the critical role of concrete in that effort of nation-building. The rural and urban proliferation of concrete silos in Australia also helped establish a confident local concrete industry that began thriving with automatic systems of movable formwork, mastering and ultimately transferring these construction methods to multi-storey buildings after WWII. Although there is an evident link between grain elevators and the historiographical propaganda of heroic modernism, that nexus should not induce to interpret old concrete silos as a vestige of modern aesthetics. As catalysts of technical and economic development in Australia, Australian wheat silos also bear important significance due to the international technology transfer and local repercussions of their fast-tracked concrete construction methods.
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