POSTWAR: A Global History of the Second World War's Legacy

The holocaust was a terrible event against the Jewish people in Europe and caused many to leave the continent.  There was a large zionist movement in Palestine when the persecution of the Jewish people in Germany began.  This movement continued to the postwar period and was focused around getting people to move to Palestine.  The […]

The formation of Israel as a homeland for Jews around the world had its beginnings over a decade before the U.N’s charter making it so. In the 1930s Palestine had been a British mandate and there were many Jews who sought to make it an independent state. It was during this time as fascism and …

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In 1933 in what would be the future state of Israel, the Revisionist Jewish newspaper Hazit Haam, published an article on the rise of Hitler and the fate of the Jews in Germany, saying “The Jews of Germany are being persecuted now not despite their efforts to be part of their country but because of … Continue reading →

After the Holocaust occurred and WWII had ended, there were millions of Displaced Persons throughout Europe. Of these millions, many of them we Jews who had survived the atrocities of the Holocaust. Many of them were orphaned and alone, not knowing what to do or where to go. One idea that seemed appealing to many …

Continue reading “Zionism and the Holocaust”

The Holocaust, or the mass killing of the Jews during World War II, is the most known genocide of all time. When the Holocaust ended, there were thousands of displaced Jews that had nowhere to call home. Even though the prosecution of Jews in Europe by the Nazis had ended, there was still an issue …

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Throughout my previous blogs, I have spent a lot of time examining various ways in which WWII acted as a destructive force. From the physical destruction of landscapes and people, to the more abstract constructions of identity and labor relations,…

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Christopher Jackson Holocaust and Homelands Out of all the wars in world history WWII is possible the best documented. Though the first world war was suspected to be the first and last war on that scale. Still got a second and people are almost eagerly awaiting the third. Though WWII will likely remain the best-known …

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  The man in the image above stands dominantly over the continent of Africa. The image shows the complete persona of an Englishman with detailed…

One of the greatest population transfers in the history of Europe occurred in the aftermath of the second World War. Millions of Displaced Persons were repatriated to their homelands or moved to new homes after the war. The governments of Western Europe after the war looked at their own ravaged economies and then saw an …

Continue reading “Refugees And the Labor Pool”

Along with all the other crises immediately following WWII, the issue of labor rose to the forefront of these discussions of resettlement and economic growth. The photo that I chose is of refugees working in a shoe factory. The way … Continue reading →