Tag: World War II

Finding the Hidden Hospital Corpsmen in World War II Military Medicine: The Experience of the Paraprofessional Medical Worker in Action

By: Sandra Buso On September 11, 1942, Pharmacist’s Mate First Class Wheeler B. Lipes approached his commanding officer William E. Ferrall with a serious problem. Seaman First Class Darrel Rector had been ill for three days with severe belly pain, nausea, and fever. PhM1c Lipes was now certain that Seaman Rector was suffering from acute appendicitis. Standard medical practice called for an immediate appendectomy, but … Continue reading Finding the Hidden Hospital Corpsmen in World War II Military Medicine: The Experience of the Paraprofessional Medical Worker in Action

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Intermarriage and Margarethe von Trotta’s Rosenstrasse: Fact, Fiction, and the Murky Place In-between

This paper focuses on the marriages specifically affected during the Rosenstrasse incident, also known as the Factory Action, which lasted from February 1943 to March 1943 in Berlin, Germany. I look at how inter-racial marriages were perceived by the participants and mainstream German society, the impetus for the Rosenstrasse round up of intermarried Jews, the ramifications of the successful protest and release of the Jews held on Rosenstrasse. I analyze the debate between Nathan Stoltzfus and Wolf Gruner regarding the interpretation of the Rosenstrasse Protest and their divergent views regarding the causes of the protest’s eventual success in releasing the Jewish men married to Christian women. Finally, I compare the factual events of Rosenstrasse with the interpretations of von Trotta, Gruner, and Stolzfus. Continue reading Intermarriage and Margarethe von Trotta’s Rosenstrasse: Fact, Fiction, and the Murky Place In-between

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The Nuremburg Laws of the Third Reich and their Interpretation through the Melodrama of Detlef Sierck/Douglas Sirk’s La Habanera (1937)

By: Sandra Buso The concept of the biocracy in the Third Reich holds that the state is a body, and the body must be healthy for the good of the Volk or the people. The biocracy could be contaminated through what was considered racially inferior blood, such as the Jews. But the racial contamination was not limited to Jewish blood. Many races were considered inferior, … Continue reading The Nuremburg Laws of the Third Reich and their Interpretation through the Melodrama of Detlef Sierck/Douglas Sirk’s La Habanera (1937)

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