Announcements
13.02.2025 - 14.02.2025 Simone Lässig (German Historical Institute Washington), Sebastian Schwecke (Max Weber Forum for South Asian Studies, Delhi), and Swen Steinberg (Queen's University, Kingston). in collaboration with Christoph K. Neumann (OI Istanbul), Maria Framke (Erfurt University), and Jens Hanssen (OI Beirut)

The International Conference: “Refugees in Global Transit. Encounters, Knowledge, and Coping Strategies in a Disrupted World, 1930s-50s” will take place on the 13th and 14th of February 2025 in Mumbai, India. The conference is organized by Simone Lässig (German Historical Institute Washington), Sebastian Schwecke (Max Weber Forum for South Asian Studies, Delhi), and Swen Steinberg (Queen’s University, Kingston), in collaboration with Christoph K.

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Reviews
Rev. by Arianna Pasqualini, University of Bologna

This volume is situated within the recently developed historiographical trend that examines the encounters between the Cold War East and African movements. Using a biographical and historical-anthropological approach, Sebastian Pampuch explores the presence of African exiles in the German Democratic Republic (GDR), recovering a history long marginalized in Germany and presenting the critique of capitalism as one of the main motives for attraction towards the Eastern bloc.

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Journals

Uncovering Non-Official Expectations of Independence in Africa
Ed. by Ngozi Edeagu and Dmitri van den Bersselaar

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Articles
By Jens Jäger, Historisches Institut, Universität zu Köln

Interpol – or rather the International Criminal Police Commission (ICPC) [1], as it was known until 1956 – was the only international organization to fall entirely into German hands after 1933. In contrast to the Nazi policy towards international organizations, which was generally ambivalent if not hostile [2], the new leaders of the German police took a keen interest in the ICPC.

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Conference Reports
12.10.2023 - 14.10.2023 Cristian Cercel, Institute for Danube Swabian History and Regional Studies, Tübingen; Dietmar Müller, Leipzig University
By David Borchin, Institut für Interdisziplinäre Studien und Forschungen, Lucian-Blaga-Universität-Sibiu
 
08.10.2024 - 31.01.2025, Gesellschaft für Globalgeschichte
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