scholarly journals War stories: Invited commentary on… Documented combat exposure of US veterans seeking treatment for combat-related post-traumatic stress disorder

2005 ◽  
Vol 186 (6) ◽  
pp. 473-475 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Wessely
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Soviet Bloc ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress ◽  
Berlin Wall ◽  
King's College ◽  
History Of ◽  
Post Traumatic ◽  
War Stories ◽  
Second World

In 2005 King's College London and the Oral History Society are hosting a conference on the oral history of the Second World War (http://www.oralhistory.org.uk). The conference will bring together research that starts with the verbal testimonies of both combatants and civilians involved in the conflict. But note that I write ‘starts with’ those oral testimonies. I doubt that any of the presenters will argue that these testimonies are the only source of information we have on what happened during the war. All will agree on the importance of listening carefully to the stories told, but also of interpreting, analysing and supplementing them with information from other sources. Many of the papers to be presented also look at how narratives have changed over time. Testimonies of the war from the former East Germany, for example, have changed dramatically since the fall of the Berlin Wall, a process that has happened in all of the countries of the former Soviet bloc, albeit in different ways. War stories change according to who is doing the telling, who is doing the listening, and why the story is being told now.

Case Study: “Above all, we need the WITNESS”: The Oral History of Holocaust Survivor

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Wiederhorn
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Holocaust Survivor ◽  
Holocaust Studies ◽  
The Face ◽  
History Of ◽  
Research And Education ◽  
Holocaust Narratives ◽  
Second World

Holocaust survivor and witness accounts began long before the Second World War ended. Diaries, journals, letters, notes hidden, buried, and stuffed into jars or between floor boards were mostly lost and destroyed, but those that have been recovered express desperation to tell, to document, to bear witness, and to commemorate. This article records the oral history of holocaust survivors. Together with the countless thousands of testimonies that would be recorded during the next sixty years, these eyewitness accounts would change the face of research and education, not only in the field of Holocaust studies but across academic boundaries. Together with the countless thousands of testimonies that would be recorded during the next sixty years, these eyewitness accounts would change the face of research and education, not only in the field of Holocaust studies but across academic boundaries. The second half of the twentieth century saw a renewed interest in holocaust narratives.

scholarly journals Mental health services in Croatia

2009 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 91-93
Author(s):  
Sladjana Strkalj Ivezic ◽  
Martina Rojnic Kuzman ◽  
Maja Silobrcic Radic
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Psychiatric Treatment ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Roman Catholicism ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress ◽  
World War ◽  
Dramatic Rise ◽  
Post Traumatic ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Second World

The Republic of Croatia is in central Europe, on the Mediterranean. A large majority of its 4 440 000 inhabitants are Croats (89.6%). The main religion is Roman Catholicism (88%). Sixteen per cent of the population is aged over 65 years. Croatia was a part of Yugoslavia after the Second World War until 1991, when Croatia declared independence. Following the declaration, Croatia was attacked by the Yugoslav army and by Serbia and suffered a devastating war (1991–95). The transition had consequences for mental health, for example a dramatic rise in the prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder, especially among soldiers. The majority of soldiers received appropriate psychiatric treatment; there has, however, been an increase in claims motivated by secondary gain, as a result of government policy.

scholarly journals Second World War veterans with chronic post-traumatic stress disorder

1998 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 211-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roderick J. ⊘rner ◽  
Wolter S. de Loos
Keyword(s):  
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder ◽  
Traumatic Stress ◽  
Stress Disorder ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress ◽  
World War ◽  
Patient Reports ◽  
Post Traumatic ◽  
Present Case Study ◽  
Second World

The present case study describes a typically complex clinical presentation of chronic post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) suffered by a Second World War veteran and advises on multi-disciplinary out-patient management extending to acute hospital care. Limited symptomatic impact of psychological and psychopharmacological therapies is discussed, and related to patient reports of satisfaction with therapeutic outcome.

The Cold War: A Very Short Introduction

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert J. McMahon
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Vietnam War ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Berlin Wall ◽  
Short Introduction ◽  
History Of ◽  
Full Analysis ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Second World

The Cold War: A Very Short Introduction discusses the Cold War, which dominated international life from the end of the Second World War to the fall of the Berlin Wall. But how did the dispute begin, and why did it move from its origins in post-war Europe to encompass virtually every corner of the globe? This VSI considers these questions and more, providing a truly international history of the Cold War and examining its enduring legacy. It draws on the most recent scholarship and documents to offer a full analysis of all aspects of the war. These include the Vietnam War and the changing global politics since the 1970s.

Policing Communism Across the ‘White Man's World’: Anti-Communist Co-operation between Australia, South Africa and Britain in the Early Cold War

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 170-196
Author(s):  
Evan Smith
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Soviet Bloc ◽  
Close Monitoring ◽  
Intelligence Services ◽  
History Of ◽  
British Commonwealth ◽  
Second World

In the aftermath of the Second World War, the British Commonwealth faced the twin ‘threats’ of decolonisation and communism, with many across the Commonwealth seeing decolonisation as the first step towards communist dictatorship. Recent scholarship has shown that the British attempted to ‘manage’ the decolonisation process to prevent socialist movements or national liberation movements sympathetic to the Soviet Bloc from coming to power. Therefore Britain, along with the Dominions, co-ordinated their intelligence services to combat the communist threat across the Commonwealth. This paper explores how this co-ordination of anti-communist efforts was implemented in Britain, Australia and South Africa in the early Cold War era, which involved the breaking of strikes using the armed forces, the close monitoring of ‘persons of interest’ and the (attempted) banning of the Communist Party. It also seeks to demonstrate that the history of anti-communism, similar to communism, has an international dimension that is only starting to be investigated by historians.

scholarly journals Writing History on their Own: War, Identity, and the Oral History of the “Old China Hands”

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ling-ling Lien
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Second World War ◽  
California State University ◽  
State University ◽  
World War ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Common ◽  
Common Memory ◽  
Second World

This article uses the oral history project of the Old China Hands collected by the California State University at Fullerton to illustrate how oral history serves as the vehicle of identity-making. The term Old China Hands first referred to long-term British settlers engaged in the commercial, diplomatic and missionary arenas in nineteenth-century China. During the Second World War, citizens of the Allied nations were interned in the Japanese camps, which then became the common memory for foreign settlers in China. Not until the 1980s did those former civilian internees begin to reconnect with each other and share their stories in public; the oral history project of the Old China Hands was one such effort. Focusing on the organization, facilitation and contextualization of the oral history project, this article will discuss how the recollection of wartime experience became a process of identity-making.

Turning Aliens into Socialists

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-93
Author(s):  
Jessica Moberg
Keyword(s):  
Outer Space ◽  
The United States ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
History Of ◽  
Swedish History ◽  
Second World ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Highly Evolved

Immediately after the Second World War Sweden was struck by a wave of sightings of strange flying objects. In some cases these mass sightings resulted in panic, particularly after authorities failed to identify them. Decades later, these phenomena were interpreted by two members of the Swedish UFO movement, Erland Sandqvist and Gösta Rehn, as alien spaceships, or UFOs. Rehn argued that ‘[t]here is nothing so dramatic in the Swedish history of UFOs as this invasion of alien fly-things’ (Rehn 1969: 50). In this article the interpretation of such sightings proposed by these authors, namely that we are visited by extraterrestrials from outer space, is approached from the perspective of myth theory. According to this mythical theme, not only are we are not alone in the universe, but also the history of humankind has been shaped by encounters with more highly-evolved alien beings. In their modern day form, these kinds of ideas about aliens and UFOs originated in the United States. The reasoning of Sandqvist and Rehn exemplifies the localization process that took place as members of the Swedish UFO movement began to produce their own narratives about aliens and UFOs. The question I will address is: in what ways do these stories change in new contexts? Texts produced by the Swedish UFO movement are analyzed as a case study of this process.

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