Book Release “Fighting Hunger, Dealing with Shortage”

We are excited to announce the publication of our book edition “Fighting Hunger, Dealing with Shortage”. This collaborative project, released in two volumes, is an edited collection of primary sources. For the first time an insight is…
Herder-Institut, Marburg. Bildarchiv.

State of North Rhine-Westphalia supports research into occupied societies in Europe during the Second World War

Thanks to funding from the “Programme for the Humanities, Social and Cultural Sciences”, an online portal is being developed within the framework of the research project “Occupied Societies in the Second World War – A European Perspective”.…
Societies under German Occupation - Reading in Hamburg
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Reading of sources from the editorial project

“There are not enough potatoes, there is just hunger” wrote an unknown Czech author with trembling hands on the margin of a newspaper clipping. Wherever the German Wehrmacht moved in, shortage and hunger soon began to dominate the lives…