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Papers by Robert Gerwarth
Central European History, 2007
This, the first of two complementary chapters on the First World War and its colonial aftermaths,... more This, the first of two complementary chapters on the First World War and its colonial aftermaths, focuses on the collapse of ‘compact’ empires in Central, Eastern, and South-Eastern Europe. It conceptualizes the reconfiguration of Europe and its eastern borderlands after the collapse of Imperial Russia, Austria-Hungary and Imperial Germany as a form of decolonization internal to Europe during a ‘Greater War’ that, broadly speaking, continued until 1923. The global ramifications of this particularly European struggle became evident in new repressive techniques by colonial states and the widespread turn towards political violence to achieve the overthrow of imperial regimes.
Journal of Modern European History
If it is true, as they say, that the victors write the history, then our understanding of World W... more If it is true, as they say, that the victors write the history, then our understanding of World War I and the century that followed is at the very least incomplete. Take, for example, the seemingly basic question of when the war ended. The standard date of November 11, 1918 privileges the experiences of the victors, most notably France, Great Britain and the United States, all of which use it as a time for national holidays based on war memorialization. Some war memorials use 1914 and 1919 to mark their periodization in recognition of June 28, 1919, the date of the signing of the Treaty of Versailles that legally ended the war with Germany. That date, too, privileges the victors. Moreover, the Paris Peace Conference produced four more treaties, the last, the Treaty of Sèvres, not signed until August 1920 then fundamentally revised by the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923.
The English Historical Review, 2015
From the Ancient World to the Era of Human Rights, 2000
Journal of Modern European History, 2015
Journal of Modern European History, 2015
Legacies of Violence: Eastern Europe's First World War, 2000
The Cambridge History of the First World War, 2000
Revista De Occidente, 2014
Vingtieme Siecle Revue D Histoire, Aug 19, 2008
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Επιστήμη και Κοινωνία: Επιθεώρηση Πολιτικής και Ηθικής Θεωρίας, 2015
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Central European History, 2007
This, the first of two complementary chapters on the First World War and its colonial aftermaths,... more This, the first of two complementary chapters on the First World War and its colonial aftermaths, focuses on the collapse of ‘compact’ empires in Central, Eastern, and South-Eastern Europe. It conceptualizes the reconfiguration of Europe and its eastern borderlands after the collapse of Imperial Russia, Austria-Hungary and Imperial Germany as a form of decolonization internal to Europe during a ‘Greater War’ that, broadly speaking, continued until 1923. The global ramifications of this particularly European struggle became evident in new repressive techniques by colonial states and the widespread turn towards political violence to achieve the overthrow of imperial regimes.
Journal of Modern European History
If it is true, as they say, that the victors write the history, then our understanding of World W... more If it is true, as they say, that the victors write the history, then our understanding of World War I and the century that followed is at the very least incomplete. Take, for example, the seemingly basic question of when the war ended. The standard date of November 11, 1918 privileges the experiences of the victors, most notably France, Great Britain and the United States, all of which use it as a time for national holidays based on war memorialization. Some war memorials use 1914 and 1919 to mark their periodization in recognition of June 28, 1919, the date of the signing of the Treaty of Versailles that legally ended the war with Germany. That date, too, privileges the victors. Moreover, the Paris Peace Conference produced four more treaties, the last, the Treaty of Sèvres, not signed until August 1920 then fundamentally revised by the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923.
The English Historical Review, 2015
From the Ancient World to the Era of Human Rights, 2000
Journal of Modern European History, 2015
Journal of Modern European History, 2015
Legacies of Violence: Eastern Europe's First World War, 2000
The Cambridge History of the First World War, 2000
Revista De Occidente, 2014
Vingtieme Siecle Revue D Histoire, Aug 19, 2008
Acceso de usuarios registrados. Acceso de usuarios registrados Usuario Contraseña. ...
Επιστήμη και Κοινωνία: Επιθεώρηση Πολιτικής και Ηθικής Θεωρίας, 2015
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This is the first systematic pan-European study of the hundreds of thousands of non-Germans who f... more This is the first systematic pan-European study of the hundreds of thousands of non-Germans who fought - either voluntarily or under different kinds of pressures - for the Waffen-SS (or auxiliary police formations operating in the occupied East). Building on the findings of regional studies by other scholars - many of them included in this volume - The Waffen-SS aims to arrive at a fuller picture of those non-German citizens (from Eastern as well as Western Europe) who served under the SS flag. Where did the non-Germans in the SS come from (socially, geographically, and culturally)? What motivated them? What do we know about the practicalities of international collaboration in war and genocide, in terms of everyday life, language, and ideological training? Did a common transnational identity emerge as a result of shared ideological convictions or experiences of extreme violence? In order to address these questions (and others), The Waffen-SS adopts an approach that does justice to the complexity of the subject, adding a more nuanced, empirically sound understanding of collaboration in Europe during World War II, while also seeking to push the methodological boundaries of the historiographical genre of perpetrator studies by adopting a transnational approach.
J o c h e n B ö h l e r · R o b e r t G e r wa r t h Einleitung: Ost-und Südosteuropäer in der Wa... more J o c h e n B ö h l e r · R o b e r t G e r wa r t h Einleitung: Ost-und Südosteuropäer in der Waffen-SS "Am 23. 3. [1943] wurde auf Befehl eines Offiziers der 256. Inf.[anterie]Div.[ision] die gesamte Einwohnerschaft des Ortes Nikulinka erschossen und das Dorf niedergebrannt, da in der Nacht ein deutscher Unteroffizier in diesem Ort erschossen wurde. Die Einwohnerschaft im Bereich des VI. A.[rmee]K.[orps] kann mit geringen Ausnahmen als zuverlässig bezeichnet werden und hat sich den wenigen Banditen gegenüber stets ablehnend verhalten. Um die Bevölkerung und den O[rdnungs] D[ienst], auf deren Mitarbeit wir angewiesen sind, nicht auf die Seite der Banditen zu treiben, befehle ich, daß Sühnemaßnahmen wie oben geschildert, nur nach genauer Feststellung der Tatsachen und Untersuchung durch die Herren Divisionskommandeure befohlen werden können. gez. Jordan General der Infanterie" 1 Während des Zweiten Weltkriegs trugen Millionen von Männern deutsche Uniformen, die keine deutsche Staatsbürgerschaft besaßen. Im Frühjahr 1945 stammte über die Hälfte von einer Million Soldaten der Waffen-SS aus 15 anderen europäischen Nationen. In der Wehrmacht dienten insgesamt über zwei Millionen nichtdeutsche Soldaten. 2 Weitere nichtmilitärische Hilfsformationen wie etwa die weißrussischen und ukrainischen "Schutzmannschaften" kamen im Jahr 1942 auf über 300 000 Mann. Des Weiteren wurden in der besetzten Sowjetunion lokale Kräfte für einen "Ordnungsdienst" angeworben. 3