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Families of Luxemburgish Wehrmacht recruits

Sarah Maya Vercruysse

Families of Luxemburgish Wehrmacht recruits during the Nazi occupation and the impact of local authorities and National Socialist organizations on their everyday lives

Written by Sarah Maya Vercruysse

On 16 and 17 May 2022, the second Doctoral Students' Forum, organised by the Doctoral Students' College of the Hannah Arendt Institute (HAIT), took place.

Under the title "Individual and Organisation in Authoritarian and Democratic Social Systems", numerous young academics came together at the Bautzener Straße Memorial in Dresden. The main focus was on questions about the individual scope for action of actors in the field of tension between organisations in dictatorships, as well as biographical continuities and discontinuities across the historical ruptures and transformations of political orders. Sarah Maya Vercruysse, working at the WARLUX project writes about her research. She writes about the Luxembourgish Wehrmacht recruits during the National Socialist occupation and the influence of local authorities and National Socialist organisations on their everyday lives: https://haitblog.hypotheses.org/3525.

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C²DH Podcast - Innovating & Sharing History - WARLUX - Soldiers and their communities in WWII

Since March 2020, the Warlux project at C²DH has been delving into the experiences and narratives of Luxembourg's 'forced recruits' and their families during the Second World War. The aim is to break with the traditional historiography surrounding the 'forced recruits' and to critically examine established narratives within the country's overarching historical discourse. Rather than treating these young men as a homogeneous group, the project explores the personal experiences of the soldiers, as well as the fates of their families during the war, utilizing a wide range of (new) sources and innovative digital methods.[....]

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Letters by Emile Kremer from Schifflange - A new WARLUX collection

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Letters by Emile Kremer from Schifflange- A new WARLUX collection

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During the recent Forum Z on war experiences in Schifflange, which also served as a crowdsourcing day, the researchers were delighted to receive a substantial new collection of letters and postcards by Emile Kremer and his family. The documents were loaned to the Musée National de la Résistance et des Droits Humains (MNRDH) and professionally scanned at the University of Luxembourg. Afterwards, the originals were returned to their owner. [....]

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