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Abstract\nPoints of interestThis paper unveils the story of Wilhelm, an individual with intellectual and physical disabilities in the context of eugenics practices during the Nazi regime. The findings of the singular case study are presented in a storytelling format, for contextual understanding, and to help everyone better comprehend the challenges faced by individuals with intellectual disabilities. Wilhelm’s story has been discussed through the lens of social justice shaping his world into one in which violence was justifiable. Lessons have been drawn to advocate for ongoing evaluation of social justice concepts, guided by criteria that reflect the realities and voices of the individuals involved. Additionally, we seek to enhance possibilities to unveil stories and honor the memory of individuals with intellectual disabilities who endured the atrocities of the Nazi era.Exploring the untold stories of people with intellectual disabilities during the Nazi era helps us understand their experiences, ensuring their voices are heard, remembered, and honored.By sharing a personal story, this research helps everyone gain a clearer picture of the struggles faced by individuals with intellectual disabilities.This work sheds light on a lesser-known part of history, showing how the Nazi regime’s eugenics policies impacted individuals with intellectual disabilities and their families.By learning from the past, this research deepens our understanding of the systemic discrimination these individuals have faced and inspires efforts to rethink social justice in ways that truly reflect their experiences and needs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction. The article deals with one interesting pattern of research heuristics tackled to create a unified empirical database on forced labor relocations of Rostov Oblast-based Soviet citizens to Nazi Germany. Goals. The source study primarily attempts a consistent reconstruction of individual elements to the ethnic stratification among the O starbeiter (‘Eastern workers’) from the selected region, the former to be facilitated by the current identification of ethnic Kalmyks among such displaced individuals. This specific epistemological perspective has never been addressed by the preceding historiographic tradition, which makes the research practice relevant enough. Materials and methods. The integrated use of traditional archival search methods at the Taganrog Office of Rostov Oblast Archive (Russia) and the City Archive of Lüdenscheid (Germany) made it possible to identify an approximate circle of Kalmyk Soviet citizens forcibly displaced from Taganrog. Results. The paper contributes to a consistent understanding of how Nazi Germany’s forced labor civilian deportations from occupied territories took place, and outlines the phenomenon’s dynamics. The undertaken reconstruction of the ethnic stratification among forcibly displaced Soviet citizens clearly illustrates the rigid universalism of the occupation authorities that were seeking to gain ‘living space’ for ‘true Aryans’. The integrated object for Nazi repressive actions was civilian populations of occupied regions viewed as inferior communities, with no special privileges for any certain ethnic group. A particularly valuable result is that the study has yielded preliminary verifications for a number of ethnic Kalmyks that experienced such forced labor relocations to Nazi Germany.

Reflection of Roman Foreign Policy in the Thinking of Simone Weil In her study Hitler et la politique extérieure de la Rome antique, the French philosopher Simone Weil compares Roman foreign policy with the Nazi regime of Adolf Hitler. Just as the Romans conquered various peoples and states over several centuries in antiquity, Hitler attempted something similar at a quicker tempo in the twentieth century, and used the same methods to do so. Simone Weil's primary reflection in the text is on three common components: credulity, cruelty and propaganda. She uses the works of Greek and Roman historians and writers (e.g. Appian, Livy, Herodotus, Polybius) to show that the Romans represent a negative ancestor of Nazi foreign policy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

What should we do with the remnants of Nazism? Should we dispose of them? Is it acceptable to sell them at a flea market or on the internet? At what point does memory become nostalgia, or even illegal neo-Nazi activity? Objects related to Nazism get discovered in various places and contexts – whether in one’s own basement, at flea markets or an online portal, in the estate of relatives or even in the trash. Even if one’s own family history is not entangled with the Nazi regime, such finds trigger feelings ranging from shame to detachment and even fascination. The exhibition "Disposing of Hitler. Out of the Cellar, Into the Museum", House of Austrian History ("Hitler entsorgen. Vom Keller ins Museum", Haus der Geschichte Österreich) asks about the social responsibility in dealing with relics of Nazism and explores the question of how these things can strengthen democratic consciousness in the present.

Aurelia Kotkiewicz's article is devoted to the tragic story of Carola Neher's life. Carola Neher was an extraordinary German actress and a close associate of Bertolt Brecht. In the 1930s, she escaped from the Nazi regime to the Soviet Union, there to become one of the victims of the Great Terror. The fate of Carola Neher was the inspiration for an exhibition put up by the International Memorial Society in 2017 called "Carola Neher's Theater of Life" and for the theatrical spectacle Memoria, staged by the Mеyerhold Center in Moscow and directed by Anastasia Patlai. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Numerous bloody wars and conflicts have been fought throughout world history, but World War II was the most devastating and generally produced the greatest losses in human, material, infrastructural, cultural and state resources. Undoubtedly the biggest culprit for this, almost catastrophic scenario, was Adolf Hitler. He, together with his associates, started a conflict that will pay millions, people with their lives, misery, misfortune and concentration camps. This semi-educated failed painter, non-worker, mediocrity and fanatical admirer of Germanic mythology and Wagner in the 1930s. century from idlers and bohemians turned into the most mentioned person in recent history. Because of his fantasies and illusions about racial superiority, he pushed Germany into a catastrophe from which it recovered decades after the end of the war, and turned the swastika - an old Hindu symbol that personifies the Sun and fertility, ie life - into the most hated thing in human history. In its systematic approach to killing millions of men, women and children, carried out by a civilized nation, that rule was one of the most horrific in history. How could an entire nation allow itself to be ruled in such a way? How could it happen that no one knows what is happening in front of their own door? Did Germany be inhabited by millions of little Hitler - men, women who each in their own way nurtured the same hatred as their Führer? A heated debate on this has been going on for a long time and will certainly continue in the future. Adolf Hitler tried to impose his vision of the world based on racial inequality. His reign is one of the darkest periods in world history.

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This paper focuses attention on the reception of the exhibition “Deutsche Bildhauer der Gegenwart”, which was inaugurated on April 23rd, 1938 at the Institute of Art Propaganda in Warsaw – an institution whose exhibition hall was considered a venue of crucial importance to the cultural policy of the Polish state. The presentation was organized in the framework of a cultural exchange between Poland and Germany which was initiated by an exhibition of Polish contemporary art mounted in 1935 at the Preußischen Akademie der Künste in Berlin.