Do posts in a group also show in the general feed? Don't want to post in both and accidentally spam everyone with duplicates 😅 Also, is there a way to see your previous posts, or do you have to look back through the feed? Thanks 🙂
calwall
@calwall
Currently enjoying a very interesting Zoom seminar by Kévin Roger, about 'Latin Motets and Literary Networks in the Late Middle Ages: Intertextuality, Rhetoric, and Digital Reading', as part of the #universityofoxford All Souls Seminars in Medieval and Renaissance Music series. Highly recommend the series if you are interested in #music, #history, #poetry, or if you just want to learn something new. More information can be found at the following link, for future seminars: https://www.music.ox.ac.uk/all-souls-seminars-medieval-and-renaissance-music
#otd 1945, the Red Army reached Auschwitz, freeing the remaining prisoners. Nazi-German troops and employees had fled, some the day before, having destroyed all evidence they could, leaving only those too sick or too weak for the Death Marches; the evacuation West. 15,000 prisoners died in the marches. Locals went to the camp to help, taking care of prisoners, others did what they could with food and sheltering escapees along the Marches
I visited the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum in 2016; a very poignant and informative place. I would recommend a visit to anyone wanting to learn more
#history #ww2 #holocaustmemorialday #holocaust #auschwitz
CDCHDCLNL
I would like to add that the Russians were not considered liberators by everyone. Many members of my adoptive family (Germans) lost their male relatives in Russian captivity; they were murdered. Among them was an 18-year-old who had just joined the military. His sister, who was 12 years older, had to flee within her own country (they were not Jews, they were Christians). With two children, one of them a baby, and her mother. Aunts joined them. This mother also lost her husband in Russian captivity; he was a school director in Silesia, then Breslau (Wroclaw). Many women were brutally raped. They suffered until the end. For our family, the Russians were not heroes. This trauma continues throughout the family.
And yes, of course, what happened to the Jews must never be allowed to happen again. That is quite clear.
Catha @CDCHDCLNL i agree with you. They did not liberate military prisoners from german camps, they imprissoned them again.
calwall Thank you for those thoughtful insights. I do, for the reasons you mention above, avoid the term 'liberation' in my work. I think it has too many wider and politicised associations. I will leave the wider unpacking of the word to students of Liberation History, who will know it better than I. Would 'released' perhaps be less politicised than 'freed' as used above? Do let me know your thoughts
#otd the 1934 declaration of non-violence (broken 1939) was signed between Germany and Poland. The intention was to stabilize relations between Poland and her western neighbour, and secure the status of the border as agreed at Versailles. By this time Hitler was Chancellor, Germany had left the League of Nations, and re-armament had begun. For years, German leaders had threatened the border. A similar agreement with USSR was in place since 1932.
Image shows the borders of Germany after Versailles. Of particular contention were Danzig and the Polish Corridor (between Germany proper and East Prussia)
#history #poland #germany #ww2 #military
admin Okay. Thank you. I sort this our later this weekend. Its combination with the IOS devices i got last week. I am on it
Howiewow @dansant if it's private, how do people find it to join?
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Howiewow @dansant but I won't just come across it and think oh that looks interesting, I'll join that. I have to look for it?
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