What is happening in #Tigray? An interview with the wonderful @tekgw.bsky.social Teklehaymanot (Tekle) Weldemichael from @manchester.ac.uk soundcloud.com/niod_rewind_... #massviolence #famine #genocide #siege #censorship

NIOD Rewind Episode 48 - Genocide in Tigray: Assault on the Womb, Starvation and Censorship

What is happening in Tigray? In this episode Anne van Mourik speaks with Teklehaymanot (Tekle) Weldemichael (University of Manchester) about the strong evidence that Ethiopia committed genocide in Tig

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#PODCAST | What is happening in Tigray? @annevanmourik.bsky.social speaks with @tekgw.bsky.social (@manchester.ac.uk) about the evidence that Ethiopia committed genocide in Tigray, and (the lack of) academic freedom to publish on it. 🎧 Listen in any podcast platform or go here: edu.nl/qaxbb

#PODCAST | Are perpetrators of mass atrocities really “monsters”? @annevanmourik.bsky.social and @lucyjgaynor.bsky.social interview Alette Smeulers (@rug.nl), who argues that those who commit extreme violence are often more ordinary than we think. 🎧 Listen in any podcast platform or: edu.nl/etqfq

✨New Publication!✨ Despite #starvation's centrality as a weapon in the #Holocaust & #WWII, NS killings are often associated with gas chambers & death by bullets. Why? Part of a Special Issue on 'Knowledge at Risk', ed. @laurienvastenhout.bsky.social & Anne Klotz. academic.oup.com/hgs/advance-...

Shrouded in “Silence”? Textbook knowledge on starvation in East and West Germany (1945–1989)

Abstract. Despite starvation's central role as a weapon in the Holocaust and the Second World War, National Socialist killings are primarily associated wit

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#LONGREAD | Modern famine is man-made. It is political and used as a tool of violence. In this longread, @annevanmourik.bsky.social, @lucyjgaynor.bsky.social and Solange Fontana explore how hunger and mass violence are connected, how we can recognize it, and hold those responsible to account.

LONGREAD | The Violence of Hunger

LONGREAD | This NIOD longread explores how hunger and mass violence are connected, how we can recognize it, and hold those responsible to account.

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#PODCAST | In the first episode of Season 7 @annevanmourik.bsky.social talks with @susieprotschky.bsky.social to explore the question of perpetrator trauma in the aftermath of the Dutch–Indonesian War. 🎧Listen to the podcast in your favourite podcast platform or here: soundcloud.com/niod_rewind_...

🚀New NIOD Rewind podcast ep: with @toensmeyer.bsky.social and Peter Romijn about Tönsmeyer's new book on Europe under German occupation 1939–1945 What can the book teach us about how to understand situations of occupation today? 👉 Spotify, podcast app, and: soundcloud.com/niod_rewind_...

Call for Papers: Special Issue on Starvation in Contexts of Mass Violence and Genocide. Please see the attached notice for full details.

“Ranglijsten maken leidt niet alleen af van de kern – hoe werkte kolonialisme écht, en wie betaalde daar de prijs voor, ook sinds de onafhankelijkheid – maar kan ook moeiteloos worden ingezet voor hedendaagse politieke agenda’s.” Uitstekende observatie!

Anne van Mourik@annevanmourik.bsky.social · 12mo ago

@roelfrakking.bsky.social en ik schreven een opinie: 👉Pas als we de logica van koloniale onderdrukking en het verzet ertegen begrijpen, kunnen we inzien hoe kolonialisme zich telkens opnieuw een weg baant in onze wereld van vandaag

@roelfrakking.bsky.social en ik schreven een opinie: 👉Pas als we de logica van koloniale onderdrukking en het verzet ertegen begrijpen, kunnen we inzien hoe kolonialisme zich telkens opnieuw een weg baant in onze wereld van vandaag

de Volkskrant@volkskrant.nl · 12mo ago

Opinie: De vraag wie de grootste koloniale misdadiger was (en antwoorden met: ‘Nederland’), brengt ons niet verder

Zondag 17 aug is Ugur Ümit Üngör te gast bij @vprozomergasten.bsky.social Eerder sprak ik hem voor de NIOD podcast over 80 jaar oorlog verzamelen: van WOII tot Syrië, de Joegoslavische oorlogen en de Yezidi-genocide. 📻 Luister: soundcloud.com/niod_rewind_... 🍿Ik kijk zondag! #zomergasten #vpro

NIOD Rewind Episode 42 - 80 Years of Collecting War

Exactly eighty years ago, in the midst of the liberation’s chaos, the NIOD (then the RIOD) was founded with a clear mission: to document Dutch experiences of the Second World War. In this special anni

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Did European colonialism truly end in the 20th century, as we often assume? Check out Anne van Mourik's (NIOD) interview with CIGH's Martin Thomas about his book The End of Empires and a World Remade (2024).

If empires were so powerful, military, politically, economically, why and how did they collapse? My interview with Martin Thomas @exeter.ac.uk on imperialglobalexeter.com/2025/06/26/n...

NIOD Rewind: The End of Empires and a World Remade

Martin Thomas and Anne van MourikNIOD Rewind Did European colonialism truly end in the 20th century, as we often assume? In this episode Anne van Mourik (NIOD) speaks with Martin Thomas (Exeter Uni…

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📯 Why is colonial violence different from violence in non-imperial spaces? This and more in this freshly published episode in which I interview Prof. Martin Thomas @exeter.ac.uk about his master piece ‘The End of Empires and a World Remade’ #niodrewind #colonialism soundcloud.com/niod_rewind_...

NIOD Rewind Episode 44: The End of Empires and a World Remade

Did European colonialism truly end in the 20th century, as we often assume? In this episode Anne van Mourik (NIOD) speaks with Martin Thomas (Exeter University) about his book The End of Empires and a

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Very informative podcast on "Hunger as a Weapon of War and Genocide". Learned more in one podcast then all news. Including the Gaza case. With presenter @annevanmourik.bsky.social and the fantastic Ingrid de Zwarte and Alex de Waal. soundcloud.com/niod_rewind_... #genocide #famine #palestine

NIOD Rewind Episode 43 - Hunger as a Weapon of War and Genocide

In this episode, Anne van Mourik (NIOD) sits down with famine scholars Alex de Waal (Tufts University) and Ingrid de Zwarte (Wageningen University & Research) to discuss how hunger can be used as a p

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Namibia to mark German colonial genocide for first time with memorial day as claims for reparations continue www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Namibia to mark German colonial genocide for first time with memorial day

Concentration camps and pseudoscientific experiments were used by German officials to torture and kill.

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In #Sudan, #Gaza, and beyond, #starvation is used as political-military instrument of power. Why isn’t the world acting? With: Alex de Waal and Ingrid de Zwarte soundcloud.com/niod_rewind_... 📯 Spotify, podcast apps and the @niodamsterdam.bsky.social website #famine #historypodcast #genocide

NIOD Rewind Episode 43 - Hunger as a Weapon of War and Genocide

In this episode, Anne van Mourik (NIOD) sits down with famine scholars Alex de Waal (Tufts University) and Ingrid de Zwarte (Wageningen University & Research) to discuss how hunger can be used as a p

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During a basement clearout at the Supreme Court in #Argentina, workers stumbled upon some champagne crates. Inside, they found stacks of #Nazi documents sent from the 🇩🇪 embassy in #Japan in 1941. The Buenos Aires #Holocaust museum has been tasked with making an #archive bbc.com/news/article...

New article is out! How were (education and film) narratives of the #WWI Allied naval #blockade (1914–19) and of German #hunger used to promote resilience, justify governmental food policies, and support racist ideologies in Weimar Germany? rb.gy/w7odzz

“I haven't eaten so well for so long!” | 13 | Representations of the A

This chapter analyses evolving narratives surrounding the Allied Blockade (1914–19) in Germany during WWI through the Weimar era using textbooks and film. While

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🎉 80 years of NIOD! Founded in 1945, amid the chaos of liberation, NIOD began documenting #WWII experiences. 👉Jaap Cohen, Eveline Buchheim, @uungor.bsky.social & Arvid de Raaij about collecting war & violence—from the Nazi occupation to the 2025 #Ajax–Maccabi riots soundcloud.com/niod_rewind_...

NIOD Rewind Episode 42 - 80 Years of Collecting War

Exactly eighty years ago, in the midst of the liberation’s chaos, the NIOD (then the RIOD) was founded with a clear mission: to document Dutch experiences of the Second World War. In this special anni

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New piece out on "The Long War" in the Netherlands, Indonesia & Germany. During and after #WWII—roles of victim, perpetrator & witness shifted constantly. This matters for how we remember mass violence today. (🇩🇪pp. 30–31) printed in Aktion Sühnezeichen

I’ve been working on something new: NIOD Rewind Flash – 10-min episodes where I chat with experts on #war and #violence to connect history with today’s news. 1st ep: dr. Anne-Lise Bobeldijk talks about how #Trump & #Putin use #WWII history for political gain 🎧 soundcloud.com/niod_rewind_...

NIOD Rewind Flash Episode 41 - History at stake: Trump, Putin and the War in Ukraine

In the first episode of a special NIOD Rewind series called Flash, Anne van Mourik speaks with historian Dr. Anne-Lise Bobeldijk (NIOD) about how president Trump and president Putin are exploiting Wor

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Once again, the rise of the AfD and its relatively greater popularity in the East has led to yet another round of discussion around the legacy of the GDR and contemporary German politics. A short thread:

#PODCAST | In a special NIOD Rewind Flash, @annevanmourik.bsky.social speaks with @acbobeldijk.bsky.social about how Trump and Putin are exploiting WWII history to support their political strategies. 🎧 Listen to the flash episode via your favorite platform or here: soundcloud.com/niod_rewind_...

I’ve been working on something new: NIOD Rewind Flash – 10-min episodes where I chat with experts on #war and #violence to connect history with today’s news. 1st ep: dr. Anne-Lise Bobeldijk talks about how #Trump & #Putin use #WWII history for political gain 🎧 soundcloud.com/niod_rewind_...

NIOD Rewind Flash Episode 41 - History at stake: Trump, Putin and the War in Ukraine

In the first episode of a special NIOD Rewind series called Flash, Anne van Mourik speaks with historian Dr. Anne-Lise Bobeldijk (NIOD) about how president Trump and president Putin are exploiting Wor

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‘Many teachers don’t want to do this, but they’re trapped’: film shows extent of Putin indoctrination in Russian schools

‘Many teachers don’t want to do this, but they’re trapped’: film shows extent of Putin indoctrination in Russian schools

Two years after he started documenting the effect of the Ukraine war on his pupils, Pavel Talankin reveals how it led to accolade – and exile from home As Russian tanks advanced into Ukraine in February 2022, Vladimir Putin was waging a parallel battle…

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Op 13 januari presenteren we in Museum Rotterdam onze brochure Hongersnood als levend verleden. Ervaringen en aanbevelingen. Toegepaste geschiedenis voor beleidsmakers, politici, museummedewerkers, de cultuursector, enz. @mcorporaal.bsky.social @charleyb.bsky.social @annevanmourik.bsky.social

Ik zoek een stagiair voor mijn project! Specifiek iemand die goed Frans 🇫🇷 leest. Spread the word 🙏🏼

NIOD@niodamsterdam.bsky.social · 2y ago

#STAGE | Per 1 februari 2025 is het NIOD op zoek naar een stagiair om te assisteren bij een onderzoek rondom ‘gemengd gehuwden’ tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog in West-Europa, onder leiding van NIOD-onderzoeker @laurienvastenhout.bsky.social. Het betreft een aanstelling van 3 maanden. Meer info. ⤵️

It was a pleasure to host you Martin Hamre- and dive into the topic of fascist internationalism! @hamremar.bsky.social soundcloud.com/niod_rewind_... #fascism #germanhistory #historypodcast

NIOD Rewind Episode 39 - The Paradoxes of Fascist Internationalism

In recent years, several far-right parties espousing nationalist, anti-immigrant, and Eurosceptic ideas have garnered significant support. Despite their nationalist ideologies, these contemporary far-

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Martin Hamre@hamremar.bsky.social · 2y ago

My PhD thesis, which is currently revised for book publication, discusses diverse forms of fascist internationalism in the 1930s. If you want to learn more about my research, please reach out or listen to this podcast episode hosted by @annevanmourik.bsky.social on open.spotify.com/episode/2F69...

💫 New article! We know the #BerlinAirlift as a heroic tale, but many Germans were critical of U.S. food aid. Some even claimed Americans used powdered milk for baseball lines⚾ To what extent did more negative tales ended up in #textbooks and contrasted the dominant story? doi.org/10.1057/s427...

Textbooks, hunger, and humanitarian narratives: representations of U.S. food policies to Germany on a regional scale (1949–89) - Journal of Transatlantic Studies

This article investigates the significance of United States (U.S.) post-WWII food aid to Germany in West German textbooks from a regional angle during the Cold War period. Previous studies have predom...

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