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Une saison noire: Les massacres de tirailleurs sénégalais, ...

Une saison noire: Les massacres de tirailleurs sénégalais, ...

Raffael Scheck

Dans ce livre sans complaisance, l'historien allemand Raffael Scheck retrace le déroulement de ces crimes de guerre et s'interroge sur leur généalogie, faisant la part des préjugés raciaux contre les Noirs, de la peur des francs ...
Alfred Von Tirpitz and German Right-wing Politics: 1914 - 1930

Alfred Von Tirpitz and German Right-wing Politics: 1914 - 1930

Raffael Scheck

Focusing on the activity of Great Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz after 1914, Scheck presents a fascinating combination of biographical and contextual analysis explaining the predicament of the conservative German right in the troubled ...
Hitler's African Victims: The German Army Massacres of Black ...

Hitler's African Victims: The German Army Massacres of Black ...

Raffael Scheck

This book, first published in 2006, documents these war crimes on the basis of extensive research in French and German archives.
Germany, 1871-1945: A Concise History

Germany, 1871-1945: A Concise History

Raffael Scheck

Germany, 1871-1945 presents an original, lucid, and thought-provoking history.
Building Up German Hegemony in Central Europe, 1933-1938

Building Up German Hegemony in Central Europe, 1933-1938

Raffael Scheck

Discusses how German politician and Fuhrer Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) rearmed Germany, dismantled the legacy of the Treaty of Versailles, and made Germany a hegemonic power in Central Europe again.
Mothers of the nation: right-wing women in Weimar Germany

Mothers of the nation: right-wing women in Weimar Germany

Raffael Scheck

In an article from 1990, Helen Boak observed: "Women's participation in the Catholic, conservative and liberal parties and these parties' attitudes to their female members have not been investigated." (Helen Boak, "Women in Weimar Politics.
Lecture Notes, Germany and Europe, 1871-1945

Lecture Notes, Germany and Europe, 1871-1945

Raffael Scheck

Contains lecture notes for a history class, "Germany and Europe, 1871-1945," taught at Colby College in Waterville, Maine.
Colonial Soldiers in Europe, 1914-1945: "Aliens in Uniform" ...

Colonial Soldiers in Europe, 1914-1945: "Aliens in Uniform" ...

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For an overview of French colonial soldiers in The Second World War, see Raffael Scheck, “French African Soldiers in World War II,” in A Companion to World War II, ed. Thomas W. Zeiler and Daniel M. DuBois (Walden, Massachusetts, Oxford ...
French Colonial Soldiers in German Captivity during World War II

French Colonial Soldiers in German Captivity during World War II

Raffael Scheck

This book discusses the experience of French colonial prisoners of war captured by Nazi Germany during World War II. It illustrates that the colonial prisoners' contradictory experiences with French authorities, French civilians, and German ...
The Death Penalty Today

The Death Penalty Today

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Robert M. Bohm. 5. Poll data in this section is from http://www.pollingreport.com/ crime.htm#Death. 6. On the incidence of wrongful convictions in criminal cases, see Huff, 2002; Poveda, 2001; and Scheck et al., 2001.
Possible Lives: Authors and Saints in Renaissance Italy

Possible Lives: Authors and Saints in Renaissance Italy

Alison Knowles Frazier

... of bishops' vitae: e.g., the life of Zenobius by the layman Naldo Naldi (d.c. 1513 ), dedicated in 1499 to Raffael Girolami, who claimed descent from the saint's line . See Sally J. Cornelison, “A French King and a Magic Ring: The Girolami and ...
Die Maultaschen-Connection: die ausserparlamentarische ...

Die Maultaschen-Connection: die ausserparlamentarische ...

Martin Born

Man habe neue Hinweise und bitte um Stellungnahme. Nach gut einstündiger Bedenkzeit kam der Telefonrückruf aus dem Staatsministerium. Regierungssprecher Manfred Zach bestätigte, daß der Scheck, den Lothar Späth als Beleg für die ...
Historische Anstöße: Festschrift für Wolfgang Reinhard zum ...

Historische Anstöße: Festschrift für Wolfgang Reinhard zum ...

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Nicole Reinhardt (Anm. 53) S. 295. " Vgl. zur Affäre um den Raub eines Gemäldes von Raffael aus Perugia, I. Stader (Anm. 53) S. 270-276. Der Bologneser Legat Luigi Capponi brachte Scipione Borghese in Kontakt mit dem „ Malerstar“ Guido ...

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