Between the 1920s and the 1940s, many German and Austrian Jews who were escaping persecution from the Holocaust sought refuge in Shanghai, China. While there is extensive research on the impact of the Holocaust in the West, I chose to explore the escape and patterns of migration to East Asia. In Shanghai, China, European Jews […]
C29: Der Krieg und die Krieger im deutschen Film: authentische Perspektiven und Geschichten War in German Cinema: Authentic Perspectives of the Soldiers’ Stories
The experience of war is transformative. It upheaves, changes, then dispenses with the lives of those who experience it, leaving them to rebuild from the ruins and establish new normality. This understanding of war is strongly echoed in the German cinematic canon of the 1920s through the 1960s. This project views these films as primary […]