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+ anna seghers, holocaust, nazi, the seventh cross, world war ii

The Transmission of Hate in Anna Segher’s “The Seventh Cross”

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While the normality of life amidst the tyranny of fascism caught my attention in Anna Seghers’ novels, I also noticed how Seghers, in The Seventh Cross, details the ways that youth become indoctrinated into fascism and oppressive political ideologies. There are multiple scenes in The Seventh Cross that involve the Hitler Youth or young men joining the SA and SS, specifically George Heisler’s younger brother Heini.  Early during his … Read More The Transmission of Hate in Anna Segher’s “The Seventh Cross”

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+ history, Literature, Pedagogy, syllabus, world war ii

The Reverberations of World War II Syllabus

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Since childhood, I’d been fed the constant patriotic narrative of World War II, imbibing the events in which the United States had direct involvement from Pearl Harbor to D-Day to the Battle of the Bulge and more. I never really veered from those stories until I started looking deeper into World War II a few years ago, specifically the connections between Jim Crow and the … Read More The Reverberations of World War II Syllabus

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+ Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, doug wilson, drama, i am my own wife, identity, lgbtq+, russia, world war ii

Charlotte von Mahlsdorf and the Importance of History

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In March 2023, Tennessee governor Bill Lee signed the Tennessee Adult Entertainment Act, or the Tennessee drag ban, into law. The ban modifies section 2 of Tennessee Annotated Code § 7–51–1401 which governs the location and business hours of “adult-oriented establishments” and section 2 defines “Adult cabaret.” The drag ban defines an “Adult cabaret performance” as any performance not located in an “adult cabaret” that involves, among … Read More Charlotte von Mahlsdorf and the Importance of History

+ adolf eichmann, eichmann in jerusalem, hannah arendt, ida b wells, jim crow, world war ii

Accountability and the Banality of Evil

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Ida B. Wells begins Southern Horrors: Lynch law in All Its Phases (1892) by quoting a piece she wrote in the May 21, 1892, edition of the Free Speech, a Black newspaper in Memphis. In the piece, she lists recent acts of racial violence across the United States. She writes, “Eight negroes lynched since last issue of the ‘Free Speech’ one at Little Rock, … Read More Accountability and the Banality of Evil

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+ germany, Gregor von Rezzori, holocaust, Literature, Memoirs of an Anti-Semite, world war ii

Looking at Ourselves in Gregor von Rezzori’s “Memoirs of an Anti-Semite”

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When I initially picked up Gregor von Rezzori’s Memoirs of an Anti-Semite, I wanted to incorporate it into a course alongside Anna Seghers’ Transit, Magda Szabó’s Katalin Street, and other novels focusing on texts by European writers written during or following the Holocaust. However, as I read the five stories collected in Rezzori’s text, I discovered that it may be a difficult text, for … Read More Looking at Ourselves in Gregor von Rezzori’s “Memoirs of an Anti-Semite”

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