Wykład wtorkowy: Bastiaan Willems: Life and death in East Prussia, 1944-1945

Wykład

wto. 03.12.2024 | 18:00
Warszawa

East Prussia was the first German province the Red Army reached, and the first where fighting took place. It saw battle from August 1944 until May 1945 - nine months, longer than any other German province. The dominant narrative for this era is that of the Germans' flight and expulsion, but these months can teach us much more. Taking a more holistic approach to violence, this talk will discuss Nazi crimes perpetrated against foreign labourers and Jews, Red Army violence against civilians, violence of the German military perpetrated against its own population, and the post-war hardships faced by the remaining German population, showing how these related to each other.

Bastiaan Willems is a Lecturer in the History of War in 20th Century Europe at Lancaster University. His research examines different types of violence during the final year of the Third Reich and its immediate aftermath. He recently published Violence in Defeat: The Wehrmacht on German Soil, 1944-145 (Cambridge University Press: 2021).

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Seminarium
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