Germans

At the end of World War II, a young Japanese Canadian would stand trial and face execution for having committed war crimes and betraying his country.One of the most bizarre …

charged the enemy position and overpowered three Germans. Using them to assist him, he evacuated the captain … results could follow from severe mis- treatment. The Germans had not gone out of their way to humiliate or ridi- … ridi- cule their captives, as “the Germans were dealing with another white race [emphasis in original] …

“The multiplicity of perspectives and voices represented in this collection draws attention to core contradictions associated with Canadian identity. Interconnected themes and analytical frames enrich the work, offering unique ways …

(primarily prairie-based Ukrainians, Poles, and Germans and their associated labour unions) to recognize …

Cette étude retrace l'histoire des membres de l'Église presbytérienne Mackay qui ont servi pendant la Première Guerre mondiale, de leurs familles restées au pays et de l'Église qui a réagi …

dwell­ ings which, for the most part, the original Germans built and owned.New Edinburgh 21 …

The Second World War gave birth to the Atlantic Charter, the UN Charter, the Paris Peace Treaties, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Fourth Geneva Convention, and the Genocide …

for major offenders. Between 1945-1950, 400,000 Germans were in detention and 1.4 million forbidden to … punishment.” The aim being “to shake and humiliate” the Germans and prove to them beyond any possible challenge …

The Second World War gave birth to the Atlantic Charter, the UN Charter, the Paris Peace Treaties, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Fourth Geneva Convention, and the Genocide …

for major offenders. Between 1945-1950, 400,000 Germans were in detention and 1.4 million forbidden to … punishment.” The aim being “to shake and humiliate” the Germans and prove to them beyond any possible challenge …

How a German submarine sank a Canadian military hospital ship during the First World War and sparked outrage.On the evening of June 27, 1918, the Llandovery Castle — an unarmed, …

scrambled aboard the submarine and seven or eight Germans gathered around me ask- ing ‘What do you want?’” … used their oars to pull up next to U- 86. The Germans wanted to speak with the highest- ranking ship … Sylvester was sent back to the lifeboat. The Germans said they wanted to talk to a Canadian medical … carried anything but patients,” replied Lyon. The Germans, the major later told reporters, “seemed obsessed … muse about the possibility that spies had fed the Germans stories about American pilots being transported …

One of the many impacts of our multi-year Afghanistan contribution was to sensitize both politicians and senior bureaucrats to the risks associated with unknown outcomes.11 A combination of events, all …

generated stay-behind forces too, such as the Germans and the French, so did smaller NATO states like …

After Estonia ended socialist rule and transitioned back to a market democracy, Estonians enjoyed vast improvements in their incomes, living standards and other key measures of prosperity. After the second …

been conquered by invaders from all directions: Germans, Danes, Poles, Swedes, and Russians. The Estonians … those who invaded Estonia, such as the Baltic Germans, tried to extract as much wealth as they could … first step. Sensing their own opportunity, the Germans decided to let the Russian exile Vladimir Lenin … Refusing to recognize Estonian independence, the Germans established a brutal occupation that lasted 9 months … political influence of foreign elites, such as Baltic Germans (Rauch, 1995: 87–89). With these goals in mind …

Leaving Other People Alone reads contemporary North American Jewish fiction about Israel/Palestine through an anti-Zionist lens. Aaron Kreuter argues that since Jewish diasporic fiction played a major role in establishing …

simultaneously—so what, in the end, is the big deal? The Germans have proved definitively to all the world that …

After the Soviet Union invaded Estonia and imposed socialism, living standards in Estonia plummeted—particularly compared to neighbouring Finland. Estonia and Finland share much in common including geography and natural resources. …

been conquered by invaders from all directions: Germans, Danes, Poles, Swedes, and Russians. The Estonians … those who invaded Estonia, such as the Baltic Germans, tried to extract as much wealth as they could … first step. Sensing their own opportunity, the Germans decided to let the Russian exile Vladimir Lenin … Refusing to recognize Estonian independence, the Germans established a brutal occupation that lasted 9 months … political influence of foreign elites, such as Baltic Germans (Rauch, 1995: 87–89). With these goals in mind …