Limity důvěry. Bývalí vojáci Wehrmachtu ve službě u československého letectva v Británii za druhé světové války by Zdenko Maršálek

“… The paper explores the trust limitations of the Czechoslovak exile authorities during World War II towards those volunteers of the Czechoslovak exile military forces who had formerly served in the Wehrmacht. …”
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The Journey of Plastics: Historical Development, Environmental Challenges, and the Emergence of Bioplastics for Single-Use Products by Jade Stanley, David Culliton, Antonio-Jonay Jovani-Sancho, Adriana Cunha Neves

“…Its observations include the rise of mass plastic production during World War II and the post-war development, showcasing plastics’ economic and societal impact. …”
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Las políticas de ayuda y de evacuación de los refugiados españoles en Francia durante la ocupación nazi by Ángel Herrerín López

“…The hard conditions imposed by French authorities to these refugees got worse with the Nazi occupation of France during World War II. Spanish organizations such as the Servicio de Evacuación de Refugiados Españoles (SERE) and the Junta de Auxilio a los Republicanos Españoles (JARE) took care of them. …”
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Le film de mobilisation centrasiatique by Valérie Pozner

“…This little set of motives was recycled in various genra (feature shorts, musicals, documentaries) which are analyzed here on the example of the production of the main Soviet studio during the World War II, that of Alma-Ata.…”
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Old believers in the 20th century of Lithuania by Grigorijus Potašenko

“…Generally, before World War II, over 50,000 Old Believers inhabited Poland.   …”
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Ancient Art in the Collection of the National Museum in Gdańsk by Grzegorz First

“…The remaining artifacts stored in Gdańsk have not been thoroughly studied; they do not form a homogeneous collection, and it cannot be ruled out that they may also be remnants of former bourgeois collections dating back to the 16th century or German collections acquired in Gdańsk after World War II. …”
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The Politics of Voice in Duke Ellington’s Beggar’s Holiday (1946) by James O’Leary

“…By analyzing a number of recordings of Beggar’s Holiday’s opening song, “In Between,” I demonstrate that Ellington and Latouche simultaneously invoked and undermined this aesthetic dichotomy to make an intervention into post-World War II left-wing political debates.…”
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Unreal Cities: the Veterans’ Homecoming and the Fate of Postwar Noir by Benoît Tadié

“…Noir fiction was shaped, in the aftermath of World War II, by a generation of ex-servicemen who wrote, under the guise of crime stories, about the difficulty of returning to American cities and civilian life. …”
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The question of Baltic states in the policy of the Great Western powers in 1943 by Ramojus Kraujelis

“… The fate of the Lithuania and other Baltic States was determined during the years of World War II. The most important, still unanswered question in Lithuanian historiography is when exactly the fate of Baltic States was doomed. …”
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Open Water Jumping: Clearing Obstacles in the Negotiation of French Rights to The Black Stallion by Cécile Cottenet

“…The story of the introduction of the series in France in the aftermath of World War II, and its inclusion in this now-classic library of children’s texts, is largely unknown. …”
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«Intended to prepare a march replenishment for active Red Army»: to the history and perpetuation of memory of 39th Omsk reserve rifle brigade (division) by A. V. Sushko

“…The article proved that during the years of World War II, the brigade sent to the front the largest number of fighters in comparison with other units formed in the Omsk region and sent to the front in full force. …”
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Signs of Innovation in European Cinema. Electronic Music in Antonioni and Tarkovsky by Gabriele

“… In the process of the emancipation of film music that took place in the first decades after World War II, the filmography of Michelangelo Antonioni and Andrei Tarkovsky offers multiple points of interest. …”
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When Ethnic Identity is a Private Matter by Kjell Olsen

“…This article analyses the change of articulation of ethnic boundaries on the coastline and the fjord areas in Finnmark, Northern Norway in the post-World War II period. From being a ‘social stigma’ in the 1950s a Sámi identity is today something that can be expressed in certain cultural constructed spaces. …”
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Antisemitism in Medicine: An International Perspective by Michael Gordon, Jerome Teitel, Ted Rosenberg, Ruth Oratz, Naomi Katz, David Katz

“…Eventually quotas fell, and the period after World War II once again saw a tremendous growth in numbers of Jews excelling in medicine internationally. …”
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Sole Native Authority (SNA) and the People at War: A Historical Review of the 1948 Erunkoja tax Riot in Ile-Ife by Abiodun S. Afolabi

“…The paper argues that the increase in taxes after World War II had a political underpinning to the protest that led to the Erunkoja riot of 1948. …”
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O dziecięcej tożsamości (tragicznie) zerwanej – gdy przemoc symboliczna może życie ocalić by Maria Szczepska-Pustkowska, Małgorzata Lewartowska-Zychowicz, Longina Strumska-Cylwik

“…The former concerns the analysis of Polish Jews’ childhood experiences from the World War II period, connected with the breaking of the primary national and religious identity and re-integration into a new Polish identity. …”
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School of Diplomatic English by D. A. Kryachkov

“…Chair of English Language № 1 considers itself the successor of the English Language Chair, established at the Faculty of International Relations at the Moscow State University during the World War II. After the Faculty was reformed into MGIMO the Department of English Language began to grow rapidly. …”
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La revendication bretonne dans la littérature du IIIe Emsav : une inversion des valeurs by Tristan Loarer

“…The decade following the end of World War II failed to rebuild, in Brittany, the popular emulation that certain “nationalist” militants could have wished for around the question of the specific Breton identity. …”
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“Uncle Vova, we are with you!” The use of childhood semantics in Russian political propaganda by Wojciech Siegień

“…The analysis proves that the semantics of the Russian propaganda message is based on patterns from previous eras with an invariant element – World War II, which is a kind of myth about the beginning of the Russian world. …”
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Tabi Devletler Neden Otonomi Arttırmaya Yönelir? 1964-1975 Dönemi Türk-Amerikan İlişkilerindeki Krizi Açıklamak by Hüsna TAŞ YETİM, Ali BALCI

“…Following World War II, Turkey was keen on being a part of the emerging US-led order. …”
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