The Greek Civil War in Retrospect - Stathis Kalyvas
... and other innovations into historical research. This was intellectually more attractive than following the common paths of mainstream political history. Later, of course, the social romanticism of this concept of “the people” later turned into a racist conception under the influence of National Soci ...
... and other innovations into historical research. This was intellectually more attractive than following the common paths of mainstream political history. Later, of course, the social romanticism of this concept of “the people” later turned into a racist conception under the influence of National Soci ...
Schieder commission
Documents on the Expulsion of the Germans from Eastern-Central Europe is the abridged English translation of a multi-volume publication that was created by a commission of West German historians between 1951 and 1961to document the population transfer of Germans from East-Central Europe that had occurred after World War II. Created by the Federal Ministry for Displaced Persons, Refugees and War Victims, the commission headed by Theodor Schieder (thus known as the Schieder commission) consisted primarily of distinguished historians, however with a Nazi past. Therefore while in the immediate post war period the commission was regarded as composed of very accomplished historians; later, the assessment of its members, changed. Subsequently, the modern historians are debating to what degree the findings of the commission can be seen as reliable, and to what degree they were influenced by Nazi and nationalist point of view.Motivated by the Lebensraum ideology, some of the historians themselves had played an active role in these war crimes. Due to its relative frankness, the final summary volume was suppressed for political reasons and was never finished.