TURKEY’S SEARCH FOR SECURITY AND THE SOVIET FACTOR DURİNG THE SECOND WORLD W AR by Şaban Çalış

“…In this essay, an attempt has been inade to analyse Turkey’s search for security during the Second World War within the context of the Soviet factor and Turkish diplomatic relations with the great powers. …”
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Wartime and Post-War Confiscations of East Asian Objects Held in the Collections of the Celje Regional Museum by Davor Mlinarič

“… The article attempts to clarify, on the basis of laws adopted during and after the Second World War, how East Asian items became part of the museum collections held today by the Celje Regional Museum (Pokrajinski muzej Celje, PMC). …”
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Humdrum Tasks of the Salaried Men: Edwin Williams, a London County Council Architect at War by Nick Beech

“…By concentrating on the ‘organisation’ and ‘progress’ of production that architects engaged with during the Second World War and after, new configurations of continuity and change emerge in which the ‘humdrum tasks’ of ‘salaried men’ appear crucial.…”
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Recepcja i rozwój idei eugenicznej na ziemiach polskich w XIX i XX wieku by Anna Słoniowska

“…Nowadays people confine eugenics to one period (The Second World War), and one place (Nazi Germany). But the truth is that eugenics existed in almost every country, including Poland. …”
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Lessons of the Great Patriotic War and World War II for Contemporary Russia by I. I. Belousov

“…After the Second World War 70 years have passed. Essentially already gone a generation of people for whom it was not a story, and the nationwide disaster and personal experience. …”
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«The history cannot be rewritten, it can be added...» by Yu. Z. Kantor

“…Petersburg historian, doctor of historical sciences, museologist and journalist, well-known expert on the history of international relations on the eve and during the Second World War, the author of the most complete and well-known biography of the red marshal M. …”
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The state of Lithuanian mathematical terminology in the post war period by Vidmantas Pekarskas, Albina Pekarskienė

“… The status of Lithuanian mathematical terminology in the period after the Second World War was investigated. The Lithuanian terminology of elementary and higher mathematics was discussed there. …”
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Embarking on Friendship: Exploring Early Soviet-Indian Relations by S. I. Lunev

“…By the onset of the Second World War, the USSR had virtually no experience or established traditions of interaction with South Asian countries. …”
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Tourism and Erotic Imaginaries in Wartime Paris: French and Germans during the Occupation, 1940-1944 by Bertram M. Gordon

“…This essay focuses on the intersections of tourism, war, and erotics in occupied Paris during the Second World War. Too frequently, tourism is considered a only peacetime phenomenon. …”
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The Women’s Land Army (1944): Vita Sackville-West’s Non-Fictional Wartime Writing by Christine REYNIER

“…The Women’s Land Army draws our attention to the lives of the women who joined the WLA during the Second World War. The status of this book is discussed here: is it mere propaganda, a historical document, or a piece of modernist writing? …”
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Des guerres et des dictatures à travers les vignettes by Silvina Campo

“…The article proposes an analysis of comic strips that revolve around the Spanish Civil War and the Second World War, having as authors those who had to confront those conflicts in childhood.…”
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Working in partnership with parents: the triangular connection by Maayan Burstein

“…Modern residential care in Israel can trace its history back to the end of the Second World War. At that time, orphaned Jewish children were sent to Palestine for refuge, and as part of the building of a Jewish society in the future. …”

La mémoire de la Grande Guerre à travers les odonymes en France by Clément Millon

“…But the number of odonyms who commemorates the second world war, or other conflicts, is more important. …”
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INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING OF GREAT BRITAIN IN A GEOPOLITICAL CONTEXT by Vitaliy Tereshchuk

“…It was revealed that the BBC World Service in different periods of its existence practised different models of broadcasting, realizing their inherent goals — colonial broadcasting (maintaining the unity of the British Empire), counter-propaganda in the interwar period and the period of the Second World War (countering informational influence alienation of Nazi Germany and the USSR), propaganda during the Second World War (formation of favourable public opinion regarding the activities of the anti-Hitler coalition) and the Cold War (anti-communist propaganda), in the times of the bipolar and post-bipolar world — positioning itself as a "surrogate" media that provides truthful news in countries where access to independent sources of information is limited by political regimes. …”
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Legionáři před Mimořádným lidovým soudem v Chrudimi 1945–1948 by Jarosalv Nečas

“…The main section of the study is focused on their lives during the Second World War and their post-war trials before the Extraordinary People`s Court in Chrudim. …”
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A rediscovered fragment of a human mandible from Predmostí u Prerova (Czech Republic): Predmostí 21 by Eva Drozdová

“…It is a Gravettian fossil thought to have been destroyed during the Second World War. The authenticity of the fossil and its description are discussed and it is also compared with other fossils of the Moravian Upper Palaeolithic.…”
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Les grandes lignes de développement du pragmatisme by Shunsuke Tsurumi

“…It continues with a critical analysis of the evolution of pragmatism in the United States after the Second World War. The article concludes with a reflection on the possibility of accommodating pragmatism in Japan in a popular rather than technocratic mode.…”
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Falaise, as marcas da história numa cidade da Normandia by Confins

“…The history of Falaise, a Normandy town, has been marked by two key historical events: the construction of William the Conqueror’s castle, and the battle of the “Falaise pocket”, the cause of major destruction at the end of the Second World War. These two events can still be seen in the urban landscape, particularly during the medieval festivals held every year around the castle, which still dominates the town, and at the memorial built to keep alive the memory of the population’s suffering.…”
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Quadriptyque narratif autour de la Seconde Guerre mondiale by Joëlle Ginestet

“…Four works of fiction about the Second World War published by the Institut d’Etudes Occitanes between 1951 and 1978 fostered the renewal of the narrative form in Occitan fictionalized writings. …”
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Imigração no Brasil e na Alemanha: contextos, conceitos, convergências by Sérgio Costa

“…The article compares discourses and policies directed to immigrants in Brazil during the "nationalization campaign" at the time of the Second World War with efforts to "integrate" immigrants in contemporary Germany. …”
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