Thought lost to the hate of the Nazis for decades, Anders als die Andern, the first film that portrayed a realistic queer relationship, resurfaced in the 1970s
“What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.” – Elie Wiesel
The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919 disappeared from everyone’s memory as soon as it was over. Nobody seemed willing to address it, not even historians. Yet, it had lasting effects on the population that lived through it and has become relevant today once more in our new pandemic times.
It was supposed to be over by Christmas, but when Christmas actually came in that first year of war in 1914, the end was not in sight by a long shot.
Yet, the troops on all fronts were more than ready to see the end, and on that Christmas Day, they tried to overcome the…
Gang Roundup (July 2021) A collection of articles about WWI and a look at some of the new dieselpunk novels.
The Spanish Flu pandemic of one hundred years ago bears striking similarities with the Covid-19 pandemic of today, but it also holds many differences.
Starting immediately after the end of the Great War, travelling to the war zones along the Western Front flourished, especially from the Commonwealth countries. Ex-servicemen and families alike travelled to the places of war to find the graves of their loved ones and commemorate them. But this soon turned into a profitable form of tourism…
That experience of the front defines the youths that took part in WWI. Their souls, their behaviours, the way they saw the future, everything was heavily impacted. Among the many things they had in common was the inability to express their war experience.
November 11, 1918, 11:00am. The Great War ends. Europe and the entire world involved in that cataclysmic war may finally dream of homecoming, and living a normal life again. They soon discovered there was no going back.
The role and the expectation of women had already started to change at the end of the 19th century. WWI hugely accelerated that process. With men away at war, women took up most of the work of men in all fields, and not all of them were ready to renounce it when men returned from…
Veterans needed to be reinserted into civilian life, be offered new opportunities, and very often, they needed to be demobilised in the soul, as well as the ways of life. It was not an easy path. But they were in such great numbers after the war that no political party could ignore them.
“Over by Christmas”. It’s what everybody thought when the war broke out in August 1914. It was not to be. Unexpectedly, the armies came to a stalemate on the fields of Flanders. Unexpectedly, the war turned into the destruction of lives, towns, landscapes, wildlife on an industrial scale. Unexpectedly, it was going to be four…