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Narratives and identity of defeat: Japanese former military elite officers after 1945
by Aiko Otsuka Aiko Otsuka is a Ph.D student in the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Cambridge University. Recently in Japan, more war veterans have now started to tell stories about their atrocities from World War 2. Some Japanese war veterans have given lectures about the terrible crimes committed in Asia during…
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Why historians should learn how to code (at least a bit)
by Janine Noack Historians spend hours and hours in front of computer screens and paper sources from other centuries trying to create a cohesive narrative. Mostly we use Microsoft Word to write down our ideas and the internet to browse for information. But our computers can offer us way more than that. We may not always…
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Narrating the First World War and experiencing the World Café
by Janine Noack Interested and inspired by the article about the Weber World Café Charlotte Jahnz published last month on our blog, I decided that I wanted to experience the WorldCafé myself. I visited on the day that the topic “Narrating the First World War – Experiences and Reports from Transregional Perspectives” was happening in…
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Responses to BBC Radio 4: “Germany: Memories of a Nation” Part 1
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Responses to BBC Radio 4 Germany: Memories of a Nation “Divided Heaven” Part 2
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