Blog
In this section, current events related to Julius Erasmus and the research on his person are observed and commented.
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Episodes of War: The bombing of Bitburg at Christmas 1944 (Published on 24/12/2024)
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Mail Correspondence with Soldiers at War (“Feldpostbriefe”): Letters from the German soldier Werner Pott from Russia, Christmas 1941 (Published on 22/12/2024)
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Episodes of War: “Christmas Eve 1944 – agonizing questions” by Hilda Birnbaum (Published on 20/12/2024)
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Humanity in War: “Once more or: Christmas in captivity” by Hermann Kuhlmann (Published on 17/12/2024)
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Episodes of War: Christmas 1945 in captivity – “The Trumpeter of Arkansas” by Rudolf Müller (Published on 13/12/2024)
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Mail Correspondence with Soldiers at War (“Feldpostbriefe”): Letters from the German soldier Harry Mielert from Russia, winter 1943 (Published on 09/12/2024)
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Mail Correspondence with Soldiers at War (“Feldpostbriefe”): Letter from US soldier Sidney Diamond from the South Pacific to his fiancée Estelle Spiro in November 1944 (Published on 29/11/2024)
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Mail Correspondence with Soldiers at War (“Feldpostbriefe”): Last letters from Stalingrad – Letter from an unnamed German soldier from 1942 about his grief at having killed a burning Russian tank soldier (Published on 22/11/2024)
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Episodes of War: The Nun of Vire, August 1944 (Published on 16/11/2024)
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“Modern culture of remembrance” in the District of Düren: The statement of the President of Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e. V. on the “Dance Theater” at the military cemetery in Vossenack on the occasion of Remembrance Day 2023 – a “fact check” (Published on 13/11/2024)
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Mail Correspondence with Soldiers at War (“Feldpostbriefe”): Last letter of German soldier Werner Hast to his family (Published on 08/11/2024)
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Thoughts on war: From the memorial speech of German soldier Bernhard Beckering for a fallen friend, March 1944 (Published on 04/11/2024)
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Mail Correspondence with Soldiers at War (“Feldpostbriefe”): Letter of 18-year old American soldier Morton D. Elevitch from November 1943, telling his mother how he is being taught to kill (Published on 29/10/2024, latest update on 22/12/2024)
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Thoughts on war: Poem “Jahrgang 1926” (“Born in 1926”) by German soldier Andreas Bergmann, who died at the age of 19 (Published on 24/10/2024)
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Thoughts on war: Dire Straits – Brothers in Arms (Published on 21/10/2024)
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Thoughts on war: Werner Bergengruen – Secret of the Abyss (Published on 11/10/2024)
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Mail Correspondence with Soldiers at War (“Feldpostbriefe”): Letter of German soldier Kurt Vogeler from Russia, December 1941 (Published on 01/10/2024)
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Mail Correspondence with Soldiers at War (“Feldpostbriefe”): Letter of German soldier Friedrich Reinhold Haag from Russia, 12 July 1942 (Published on 13/09/2024)
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“Modern culture of remembrance” in the District of Düren: The “Dance Theater” over the graves of the war dead at the military cemetery in Vossenack on the occasion of Remembrance Day (“Volkstrauertag”) 2023 (Published on 19/08/2024, latest update on 30/08/2024)
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Mail Correspondence with Soldiers at War (“Feldpostbriefe”): Last letter of German soldier Jakob Stöcker from Russia, 4 January 1944 (Published on 07/08/2024)
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Mail Correspondence with Soldiers at War (“Feldpostbriefe”): Last letter of German soldier Gerhard Schulze from Russia, 22 March 1945 (Published on 22/07/2024)
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Thoughts on war: Hannes Wader – Es ist an der Zeit (“The time has come“) (Published on 03/07/2024)
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In Memoriam: Nikolai Orlov and the Fallen of Myasnoi Bor (Николай Орлов и павший Мясной Бор) (Published on 26/06/2024, latest update on 09/07/2024)
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Mail Correspondence with Soldiers at War (“Feldpostbriefe”): The letters of German soldier Adelbert Rühle, 1939 to 1942 – part 4 of 4 (Published on 14/06/2024)
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Thoughts on war: Werner Bergengruen – The Lie (Published on 07/06/2024)
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Thoughts on war: Reinhard Mey – Sei wachsam (“Be vigilant“) (Published on 03/06/2024)
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Thoughts on war: Gustave M. Gilbert and the “Nuremberg Diary“ – Mechanisms of motivating people to participate in war and for the elimination of resistance (Published on 17/05/2024)
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Mail Correspondence with Soldiers at War (“Feldpostbriefe”): The letters of German soldier Adelbert Rühle, 1939 to 1942 – part 3 of 4 (Published on 14/05/2024)
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“Modern culture of remembrance” in the District of Düren: The distortion of remembrance on the national Remembrance Day (“Volkstrauertag”) (Published on 21/04/2024)
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Thoughts on war: “Youth under Fate” – Biographies of young Germans 1946 to 1949 (Published on 11/04/2024)
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Mail Correspondence with Soldiers at War (“Feldpostbriefe”): Letter of German soldier Hans-Joachim Breitenbach from Russia, 7 October 1941 (Published on 02/03/2024)
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Humanity in war: Open letter from the former young Soviet forced laborer Vladimir Prichodko to the citizens of Stuttgart in 1973 (Published on 16/02/2024)
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“Modern culture of remembrance” in the District of Düren: The removal of the memorial stone for Julius Erasmus by the District in September 2022 (Published on 06/02/2024)
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Humanity in war: The US combat medic John Warren Smedberg in the Second World War (Published on 18/01/2024)
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Mail Correspondence with Soldiers at War (“Feldpostbriefe”): Letters from 16-year-old member of the German “Volkssturm” Georg Spieler to his family in 1945 (Published on 14/01/2024)
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Humanity in war: Siberia, December 1944 (Published on 03/01/2024)
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