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“Führer has finished the justification for "Case Yellow", Jodl noted. Belgium and the Netherlands were to be accused of having acted "most unneutrally".”

Book:The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

Work

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

This book offers an in-depth exploration of the political, social, and economic factors that contributed to the rise of the Nazi Party and the subsequent collapse of the Third Reich. more

Author

William L. Shirer

William L. Shirer was an accomplished American journalist, renowned for his coverage of World War II. His work, 'The Berlin Diary,' provided a detailed account of the rise of Nazi Germany and the lead-up to the war, becoming a classic historical document. more

“In childhood, overhearing everyday conversations among relatives about collectivization, famine, war, and political repression, I perceived these stories as curious — sometimes frightening — episodes my loved ones had endured. Although they belonged to a past not so distant, I felt them as something that had happened long ago, almost like events that occurred only slightly later than the fairy tales I loved so much. Much of what I heard I did not yet understand, but my young memory — still largely unfilled — carefully recorded these fragments of history, preserving events and facts deep within its silent annals.” — Volodymyr Shablia, Stone. Book One. Author's foreword Context note: This reflection from the author’s foreword shows how the collective trauma of the early twentieth century entered a child’s consciousness indirectly — through family conversations, half-understood words, and inherited memory. What first felt distant and almost mythical would later reveal itself as lived history, shaping both the author’s worldview and the moral foundation of the novel.”

War Coming Of Age Famine Family History Childhood Memory Collective Memory Political Repression Ussr History Historical Memory Historical Trauma

Book:Камінь. Біографічний роман. Книга перша. Перші кроки до світла та назад: Дитинство та занурення в ГУЛАГ.

Source: Камінь. Біографічний роман. Книга перша. Перші кроки до світла та назад: Дитинство та занурення в ГУЛАГ.

“His only means of discovering how his body functions is to take bodies apart, as a child might dismantle a mechanical toy. The child's aim is not to fathom the functions of mechanics itself, but to find answers to the riddle of its own existence. Analogously, the unresolved question that underlies the soldier male's impotent attempts to gain mastery over objects by tearing them apart, and thus rendering them knowable, seems to be that of the construction of his own self— a question which acquires tremendous explosive force in a body never rendered capable of experiencing itself in relation to other bodies. The soldier male cannot know what impels him to tear out his own entrails, what moves him to spill his own contents in an effort to discover what species of being he may be.”

War

Book:Male Fantasies, Vol. 2: Male Bodies - Psychoanalyzing the White Terror

Source: Male Fantasies, Vol. 2: Male Bodies - Psychoanalyzing the White Terror

“It is imperative to discern that one who has not witnessed war, has no elucidation of the world - destructive.”

World War Knowledge Destruction Witness Discernment Elucidation

Author:Zac Ochsenbine

“Маловтішне то заняття — штудіювати історію: розквіти держав на крові й падіння держав на крові, переможні криваві війни і криваві поразки, диктатори і полководці, гризня за владу, змови, замахи, самодурства царів... Дикість, кров, торжество егоїзму окремих осіб і цілих народів. Після війни перепочинок, доки діти виростуть у солдатів; після перепочинку — війна. Тоді людство видається мені нічним школярем: ледве встигнувши збагнути свої помилки, відмирає старе покоління, на зміну йому приходить молоде і починає ті помилки спочатку...”