The Case of the Aryan Jesus Dogma: Enlarging Entitlement Through Propaganda

In a national effort to promote anti-Semitism, the Institute for the Study and Eradication of Jewish Influence (ISEJI) was established in Nazi Germany. Its leader, Walter Grundmann, was instrumental in the promotion of the Aryan Jesus dogma in scholarly circles. Through a quid pro quo arrangement with a state-based university, the dogma was given scholarly respectability. The dogma asserted that Jesus was not Jew. This dogma gained enough support to be adopted into the German Lutheran Church’s catechism of the time. Not only was the motivation for the promotion of the dogma suspect, but the reasoning used to arrive at the conclusion was faulty. The dogma contributed to the body of Nazi propaganda that vilified Jews as enemies of the Aryan society.

Sleep No More： Nightmares in Emerging Nazi Germany

Charlotte Beradt collected hundreds of dreams she gathered in Germany between 1933 and 1939, hid them, and then sent them abroad. According to her The Third Reich of Dreams, people living under the totalitarian government of Nazi Germany had fears of listening devices picking up their own thoughts even when they were asleep, of having no walls, and of being condemned for talking in their sleep. The dreams reveal fears, insecurities, confusion, guilt, and lack of trust. Dream research has often been impaired because researchers were examining dreams during REM ~Rapid Eye Movement） sleep, while many nightmares occur during non-REM sleep. The Beradt＇s study showed the advantage of retrospective accounts. Dreams of other trauma victims include the discovery of dead bodies and being killed oneself and often replicas of actual events. Such nightmares preclude the restorative function of sleep. Psychotherapy, however, using dreams from traumas when conducted in a safe environment, can be helpful and relieve patients from suffering.

Guilt, Love, and Forgiveness in David Hare＇s The Reader and Bernhard Schlink＇s Der Vorleser

The paper proposes to investigate feelings of guilt, love, and forgiveness as Hare＇s The Reader （2009）. It will focus on Hare＇s selection of detail in his they manifest themselves in David screenplay The Reader; a dramatic adaptation of Bernhard Schlink＇s novel of 1995. This will involve comparing the novel to the dramatic text for the purpose of showing the movement from narrative to dramatic rendering. The paper aspires to reach the conclusion that Hare＇s screenplay, The Reader creates a world of signification where the interplay of guilt, love, and forgiveness shape the textual and stage space. Read in light of Shoshana Felman＇s The Juridical Unconscious （2002）, the play investigates the traumatic history of Nazi Germany with scope for analysis of guilt and forgiveness and the possibility of atonement through love and literature. The focus of the paper will be on the ideological and formal structure of the play and its impact on meanings and interpretations.

The Major Cause of the Collapse of the Versailles System

The establishment of the Versailles System was marked with the Paris Peace Conference,which aimed to settle peace for World War I.The peace settlement was an excuse for the allied countries to regain and recover their powers.This,in turn,called for large amount of reparations and punishments on the losing countries.The signing of the Treaty of Versailles heralded the collapse of the volatile system set up afterwards.Countries adopted the policies of appeasement,complied to the race of powers,and abandoned the so-called consensus on“peace”.Indeed,the collapse of the Versailles System had many causes.However,the rise of Nazi was its direct trigger.This article will mainly focus on how the Versailles System led to the rise of the Nazi and what the Nazi did to accelerate the fall of the system.

The Transmission of Household Objects from the National Socialist Era to the Present in Germany and Austria： A Local Conversation Within a Globalized Discourse

Increasingly, scholars of Holocaust memory stress its globalization： the ways in which the Holocaust has become a model or reference point for remembered events that belong to quite different historical and cultural contexts. The best of this literature acknowledges the ways in which the local, national, and global are in continual dialogue. This article looks at an instance in which memory remains stubbornly local and national even in contexts in which it is ostensibly internationalized. The article is concerned with history exhibitions about the Nazi era in Germany and Austria and examines one particular set of museum objects： household possessions that have been stored in homes since 1945 and that are typically presented by the museum as having ＂resurfaced＂ in the present. These objects are used to concretize abstract processes of remembering and forgetting, communication and silence, in the years from 1945 to the end of the twentieth century. As such, they form part of ongoing debates about how family memory operated during that period in Germany and Austria.

On Interpretations of Heidegger's Black Notebooksfrom the Viewpoint of Academic Micro-Politics

This article is to explore the micro-political situation behind interpretations of Heidegger5s Black Notebooks in the academic context.In order to show a whole and complete picture,this article first presents a detailed description of the publication information of the Black Notebooks and of the debates about anti-Semitism that arose after their publication in the West.Then we try to compare the interpretations of the Black Notebooks most prevalent in the West with those in Chinese academia,in order to delineate their different tendencies in interpretations.Finally,by comparison of distinctive tendencies from both sides,we find out that there are already academic micro-political attitudes guiding these varying interpretations of Heidegger's Black Notebooks.