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Kent College History's curator insight,
August 17, 2017 10:29 AM
'Belsen (full name Bergen-Belsen) was set up in 1943. It was never used as a death-camp, but was still a place of unbelievable horrors and brutality. Towards the end of the war, thousands of Jews had been evacuated from camps in eastern Europe and marched west to avoid the advancing Soviet army. There were 40,000 prisoners at Belsen in April 1945, many dying each day, as well as thousands who had recently died and had not been buried.'
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Kent College History's curator insight,
June 27, 2017 6:32 AM
'Helmut Kohl earned his place in history by securing the successful reunification of Germany after the collapse of communism.'
Kent College History's curator insight,
April 30, 2017 5:33 AM
'As one of the high-society sisters who enthralled and scandalised 20th Century England, Unity Mitford's return home from Germany in January 1940 caused an outcry. Fresh from an ill-fated dalliance with Adolf Hitler and with a bullet lodged in her brain, Unity had the government, MI5 and the nation's gossip columnists hot on her heels. So how did she end up living with a family in a quiet Warwickshire vicarage?'
Kent College History's curator insight,
February 17, 2017 10:02 AM
This revision podcast is for History students studying Nazi Germany. It is the second of two podcasts that present an explanation of the range of factors that contributed to the rise of Hitler.
Kent College History's curator insight,
January 17, 2017 3:17 PM
Part 1 of the old film about post-War Europe.
Kent College History's curator insight,
February 4, 2016 3:01 AM
Some images of the German hyperinflation of 1923.
Nuremberg Tours in English's curator insight,
February 5, 2016 4:42 AM
Hyperinflation in the 20's caused considerable suffering in Germany and contributed to a mindset among many people that helped make Hitler's rise possible.
Kent College History's curator insight,
October 30, 2016 6:56 PM
Some images of the German hyperinflation of 1923.
Kent College History's curator insight,
September 4, 2016 9:39 AM
'A previously unknown meeting between George V and his Foreign Secretary reveals that the King told him to "find a reason" to go to war with Germany.'
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Kent College History's curator insight,
July 20, 2017 5:14 AM
Roger Moorhouse's response in 2014 to Vladimir Putin's defence of the Nazi-Soviet Pact.
Kent College History's curator insight,
June 1, 2017 3:16 AM
'From Hans Fallada to Vladimir Nabokov, a novelist recommends fiction from a city moving through its darkest years.'
Kent College History's curator insight,
February 19, 2017 6:10 AM
'To what extent can Britain and Germany’s responses to the migrant crisis be explained by similar episodes in the past? Two historians offer their perspectives...'
Douglas Vance's curator insight,
February 9, 2018 3:00 PM
The social, political, and economic impacts of reunification are still being flt today. The old policies of both East and West Germany still impact the cultural and social habits of Germans. Despite the borders between the two former nations being eliminated almost 30 years ago, the differences between the two halves of Germany will be felt for decades to come. Issues from vaccines to child care to trash production all feel the effects of the policies of the former division.
tyrone perry's curator insight,
April 20, 2018 11:48 AM
From when this article was written it has been 26 years since Germany was completely unified. But over the last two years there has been a rift between east and west Germany. Economically the east feels left behind by the west with their rise of wealth. The west is mad that the east doesn’t taken in as many refugees as they do. These rifts between the two are not making things easy to work out between the two. All they are doing are pointing fingers and not coming up with solutions. Many people of the younger generations don’t feel as divided as the older generations do. They feel they are Germans and not east or west. Maybe they can find a way to bring people together as one.
Corey Rogers's curator insight,
December 15, 2018 1:00 AM
You may think that since the fall of the Berlin wall that Germany has reunified itself and has become a strong nation again but that isnt such the case. The fact is that most of West Berlin still feel left out and feel that they are still shorted in the reunification.
Kent College History's curator insight,
October 28, 2016 4:08 AM
'The Harvard Law School Library's Nuremberg Trials Project is an open-access initiative to create and present digitized images or full-text versions of the Library's Nuremberg documents, descriptions of each document, and general information about the trials.'
Kent College History's curator insight,
August 10, 2016 2:26 PM
German World War I posters from the Imperial War Museum
Richard Aitchison's curator insight,
March 7, 2018 10:09 AM
If Turkey wants to move forward it must address its past. This basis of this article is that with Germany, who has its own very bad past history with genocide, officially acknowledging Turkey's genocide when will Turkey finally do so. Germany not only has a history of genocide, but as the article state it has a key history with the Ottoman Empire (formerly where Turkey is located) and thus many Turkish ancestors, including at the time the Prime minister. Turkey who has refused to acknowledge that this genocide ever occurred and that it was simply just a causality of war must make certain cultural changes unless it will continue to fall into a land in which progressive ideas will never reach. Turkey who wants to economically move forward, thus aligning with the EU can not do this until they take ownership of its past and make an effort to continue human rights actions into the future. Will Turkey ever do this? One would think they would have to if they do ever want to be apart of the the EU which would be a major political and economic victory for the Turks. Germany on the other hand can be a world leader in human rights as it tries to correct the wrongs of its past as well.
Mark Hathaway's curator insight,
October 9, 2015 9:46 AM
This is no question that living on a train is a radical decision to make. It is a direct challenge to the idea that you are suppose to settle into one particular area. While I doubt that this specific phenomenon will catch on, our society is becoming more mobile. People are becoming less tied down to one specific area. The Millennial generation is changing many of the previous social norms. The Millennial generation is waiting longer than any previous generation to marry and start a family. Many are even questioning the institution of marriage itself. Members of the older generations, will decry these changes. This is a familiar cycle that occurs through out history. The Older generation always decries the changes instituted by the Younger generation.
Richard Aitchison's curator insight,
February 6, 2018 11:31 AM
A pretty fascinating article that shows someone that pushes her boundaries everyday. A German student, Leonine Mueller, got into a dispute with her landlord and made a decision that would shock many. She would leave the apartment (not shocking) and go live on trains (very shocking). How is this possible? Well she bought a subscription that allows her to board every train in the country for free (which was cheaper than living in her apartment) and she carries just a backup and needed materials. As a college student she does her work on the trains. As they interviewed her she says how it was more than an economical decision and she wanted people to look at the "normal" and question it, why do we do what we do? She gets to travel the country and meet many new people and see things see never would have expected to get out of a college education. First off for this to work you have to have great public transportation which Germany does, in a country with no transportation or infrastructure this would have been next to impossible. She also does not have children and is young enough to be able to live day to day with this life style. It is a very cool idea and would seem like an awesome experience and at least a great social experiment, but her location for sure plays a key role in this ability to accomplish this. I will look for more stories on her and to see what her outcome was in this situation.
Danielle Lip's curator insight,
April 7, 2015 9:13 PM
Borders seem to be a problem whether you live in one continent or another, everyone wants power and control but not everyone can gain it. This video focuses and goes into depth about enclave and exclave borders, showing the irregularity of the borders in different areas that causes conflicts and problems. An example of a problem that the citizens have to deal with is that some villages can not leave due to the road blocks due to the borders. I can not imagine not being able to leave a certain area for all that time, I would go insane and I imagine those people are as well. International borders power has to be split somehow and not everyone can always come to an easy decision because parts of the land are claimed but the people do not have any control of it. Irregular borders cause more trouble than they are worth in my opinion. The final interesting fact about this video was that you learn that Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan are the two locations that have the most irregular border, these places must have the most conflict and problems. These borders are in places such as Germany, South Asia, China, Belgian, Sweden and Central Asia.
Nicholas A. Whitmore's curator insight,
December 17, 2015 5:17 PM
A fascinating look into the complexity of borders. It is always important to keep in mind when looking at maps that the borders are neither permanent or defined as it exists in reality. Borders on world maps are rough estimations of what the borders actually are for they can't depict precise details on such a large scale. Furthermore regional/local maps sometimes do not whether as to conform to the border misconception unfortunately. In Central Asia as defined int he video the border were primarily a result of the Soviet Unions attempts to divided ethnic minorities reducing their power (primarily Stalin). As a result the countries after the collapse proceeded to claim the ethnic groups which created enclaves within each-other. As long as these groups are on peaceful terms this kind of thing isn't an issue. Unfortunately it does make the peoples lives in the enclaves slightly more difficult due to having to cross the border twice to see the rest of your country. This kind of thing was even done to the Jews in the first century AD who like the Russians wanted to eliminate or at least reduce attempts at revolution by the local populace. Hopefully Central Asia has or will make the lives of these enclaves easier.
David Stiger's curator insight,
October 28, 2018 8:56 PM
I think it's fair to say that people in general take maps for granted. The devotion and reverence for the written word - specifically the published written word - prevents people from realizing that much of the world is a social construct. Geographically, borders are social constructs - sometimes loose agreements between different groups of people to establish territorial boundaries in order to claim resources. This video, which speaks to the complicated reality of territorial enclaves and 'exclaves,' illustrates how borders are social constructs. They can often be illogical, awkward, and highly disputable. Examining the several exclaves and enclaves shared between Armenia and Azerbaijan is evidence of the geopolitical mess that disputed borders create. What is most fascinating about this case is the assessment of how Joseph Stalin tampered with international borders as a geopolitical strategy in order to sow instability and weakness. This strategy allowed the the Soviets to more easily conquer and subjugate foreign peoples - all in the name of proletariat revolution.
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