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• Navigating kinship
• Unauthorized identity craft
• "Working with my sister's papers"
• Dying relations?
• Marriage, love, and inequality
• Conclusion: unpredictable dynamics of kinship

"Argonauts of West Africa examines the paradoxes of kinship in the lives of unauthorized African migrants as they struggle for mobility, employment, and citizenship in Europe. In a rapidly changing and highly precarious context, migrants turn to kinship in search of security, stability, and predictability. Through the exchange of identity documents, assistance in obtaining such documentation, marriage, or cohabitation, new kinship dynamics are continually made and remade to navigate the shifting demands of European states. These new kinship relations, however, often prove unreliable, taking on new, unexpected dynamics in the face of codependency; they become more difficult to control than those who entered into such relations could have imagined. Through unusually close ethnographic work in West African migrant communities in Amsterdam, Apostolos Andrikopoulos reveals unseen dynamics of "siblinghood" through shared papers, the tensions of race and gender that develop in mutually beneficial marriages, and the vast, informal networks of people, information, and documentation on which migrants rely. Throughout, Andrikopoulos demonstrates how inequality, exclusionary practices, and the changing policies of an often-violent state demand new forms of kinship to successfully navigate complex migration routes"-- Provided by publisher

• Navigating kinship
• Unauthorized identity craft
• "Working with my sister's papers"
• Dying relations?
• Marriage, love, and inequality
• Conclusion: unpredictable dynamics of kinship

• The enigma of the Republic
• Turbulent beginnings
• A new country (1609-1650)
• A world power (1650-1713)
• The armed forces
• A market economy
• Worldwide trading network
• Riches
• Toil and trouble
• Community
• The authorities
• A dissonant chorus
• Freedom against all odds
• The urban landscape
• A lettered land
• Religious pluralism
• A new approach to science and philosophy
• Paintings, paintings everywhere
• The end of the Golden Age.

Rembrandt, Hals and Vermeer are still household names, even though they died over three hundred years ago. In their lifetimes they witnessed the extraordinary consolidation of the newly independent Dutch Republic and its emergence as one of the richest nations on earth. As one contemporary wrote in 1673: the Dutch were 'the envy of some, the fear of others, and the wonder of all their neighbours'. During the Dutch Golden Age, the arts blossomed and the country became a haven of religious tolerance. However, despite being self-proclaimed champions of freedom, the Dutch conquered communities in America, Africa and Asia and were heavily involved in both slavery and the slave trade on three continents. This substantially revised second edition of the leading textbook on the Dutch Republic includes a new chapter exploring slavery and its legacy, as well as a new chapter on language and literature.

• Introduction
• Amsterdam, 1905-1927
• Berlin, 1927-1939
• Westerbork, 1939-1945
• Amsterdam, 1945-1949
• London, 1949-1971
• Hilversum, 1958
• Up North / Down South, 1959-1960
• Mississippi, 1960-1963
• Alabama, 1965-1966
• Befriending Langston Hughes, 1945-1967
• Epilogue : pursuing ghosts

Rosey E. Pool (1905-71) did not live an ordinary life. She witnessed the rise of the Nazis in Berlin firsthand, tutored Anne Frank, operated in a Jewish resistance group, escaped from a Nazi transit camp, published African American poets in Europe, operated a London "salon" with her partner, witnessed independence movements in Nigeria and Senegal, and took part in the American civil rights movement. I Lay This Body Down is the first study of Pool and her remarkable transatlantic life. A translator, educator, and anthologist of African American poetry, Pool corresponded, after World War II, with Langston Hughes, W. E. B. Du Bois, Naomi Long Madgett, Owen Dodson, Gordon Heath, and others who fostered her involvement in the Black Arts Movement, both in Britain and the United States. Though Pool was often cast as an outsider-one poet was amazed that "one so removed" was interested in the Black cause-she saw herself as part of a transatlantic struggle against oppression. For Pool, the "yellow Jew stars" the Nazis forced her to wear "were our darker skins." Rosey E. Pool's life allows Lonneke Geerlings to explore intersections of European and American history. As a Holocaust survivor and activist fighting against segregation in the Deep South, Pool connects stories that are often studied and told in isolation. Her life helps us understand the intersecting histories of Jewish Europe and Black America, but it also allows us to see how Pool dealt with tragedy, trauma, and loss. At its core, this book is about resilience and hope. Indeed, Pool's life illuminates the power of reinvention for dealing with both challenging personal circumstances and the traumas of global history.
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• Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: The personal politics of daily diplomacy Diplomacy as a gendered institution The micro study as method: background and materials Conceptualizing trust as a bridge between personal and political Setting the scene Part I. The diplomatic couple
• 1. The persistent notion of the incorporated wife
• 2. In love and diplomacy
• 3. Carte blanche? Diplomatic secrecy and marital trust
• 4. The diplomatic couple as template Concluding remarks on the diplomatic couple II. The diplomatic home
• 5. Homemaking for diplomats
• 6. Domestic staff
• 7. The home as a diplomatic arena Concluding remarks on the diplomatic home Part III. Dinner diplomacy
• 8. Dinner diplomacy as an everyday practice
• 9. Diplomatic food Concluding remarks on dinner diplomacy Part IV. Diplomatic aptitude
• 10. Diplomatic appearances
• 11. Diplomatic discourse Concluding remarks on diplomatic aptitude Conclusion: Behind the scenes of building the postwar world Everyday power structures in Western diplomacy Political impact of personal relations Diplomacy as a likeminded institution Bibliography Index.
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Unravelling the mechanisms of daily diplomacy in the mid-20th century, this book follows one Dutch diplomatic couple, the van Kleffens, on their postings from the 1930s to the 1950s to offer a new perspective on how non-officials and personal politics shaped the postwar world. Combining private and public source materials, Erlandsson foregrounds the political culture of diplomacy and highlights events and people which have been left off the official record. The book integrates the detailed study of behind-the-scenes diplomatic practice into the larger narrative of traditional diplomatic history, connecting social practices with political outcomes. Exploring how women's tea drinking was used to achieve post-war foreign policy and how Rosa, a Guatemalan cook, contributed to the international standing of the Netherlands, it offers a more inclusive history by recognising the diplomatic work done by actors who were not diplomats. In doing so it demonstrates the ways in which diplomacy was class-bound, gendered and racialized, and proves that historicizing gender and cultural norms is crucial to understanding political and international history.
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"This book is based on three books in Dutch that were published in 2020 as the result of an assignment given by Rotterdam Municipality to the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean STudies (Kitlv-Knaw) to investigate the city's colonial past and links with slavery. The three books were published together by Boom Uitgevers Amsterdam: Gert Oostindie (ed.), Het koloniale verleden van Rotterdam; Alex van Stripriaan, Rotterdam in slavernij ; Francio Guadeloupe [et al], (eds.), Rotterdam, een postkoloniale stad in beweging."--Title page verso.

Dorestad was the largest town of the Low Countries in the Carolingian era. As a riverine emporium on the northern edge of the Frankish Empire, it functioned as a European junction, connecting the Viking world with the Continent. In 2019, the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden hosted its quinquennial international congress based around Dorestad, located at present-day Wijk bij Duurstede. This third edition, 'Dorestad and its Networks', coincided with the.

From the acclaimed author of The Gunpowder Age, a book that casts new light on the history of China and the West at the turn of the nineteenth century George Macartney's disastrous 1793 mission to China plays a central role in the prevailing narrative of modern Sino-European relations. Summarily dismissed by the Qing court, Macartney failed in nearly all of his objectives, perhaps setting the stage for the Opium Wars of the nineteenth century and the mistrust that still marks the relationship today. But not all European encounters with China were disastrous. The Last Embassy tells the story of the Dutch mission of 1795, bringing to light a dramatic but little-known episode that transforms our understanding of the history of China and the West. Drawing on a wealth of archival material, Tonio Andrade paints a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of an age marked by intrigues and war. China was on the brink of rebellion. In Europe, French armies were invading Holland. Enduring a harrowing voyage, the Dutch mission was to be the last European diplomatic delegation ever received in the traditional Chinese court. Andrade shows how, in contrast to the British emissaries, the Dutch were men with deep knowledge of Asia who respected regional diplomatic norms and were committed to understanding China on its own terms. Beautifully illustrated with sketches and paintings by Chinese and European artists, The Last Embassy suggests that the Qing court, often mischaracterized as arrogant and narrow-minded, was in fact open, flexible, curious, and cosmopolitan.
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From the acclaimed author of The Gunpowder Age, a book that casts new light on the history of China and the West at the turn of the nineteenth century George Macartney's disastrous 1793 mission to China plays a central role in the prevailing narrative of modern Sino-European relations. Summarily dismissed by the Qing court, Macartney failed in nearly all of his objectives, perhaps setting the stage for the Opium Wars of the nineteenth century and the mistrust that still marks the relationship today. But not all European encounters with China were disastrous. The Last Embassy tells the story of the Dutch mission of 1795, bringing to light a dramatic but little-known episode that transforms our understanding of the history of China and the West. Drawing on a wealth of archival material, Tonio Andrade paints a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of an age marked by intrigues and war. China was on the brink of rebellion. In Europe, French armies were invading Holland. Enduring a harrowing voyage, the Dutch mission was to be the last European diplomatic delegation ever received in the traditional Chinese court. Andrade shows how, in contrast to the British emissaries, the Dutch were men with deep knowledge of Asia who respected regional diplomatic norms and were committed to understanding China on its own terms. Beautifully illustrated with sketches and paintings by Chinese and European artists, The Last Embassy suggests that the Qing court, often mischaracterized as arrogant and narrow-minded, was in fact open, flexible, curious, and cosmopolitan.
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• Introduction
• 1. The Swabian league and the politics of alliance (1488-1534)
• 2. Alliances and the early reformation (1526-1545)
• 3. Alliances and new visions for the empire and Low Countries (1540-1556)
• 4. Shared sovereignty and regional peace (1552-1567)
• 5. Shared sovereignty and multi-confessionality in the empire and Low Countries (1566-1609)
• 6. Religious alliance and the legacy of past leagues (1591-1613)
• 7. Religious alliance and the Thirty Years War (1610-1632)
• 8. Westphalia and politics of alliance in the empire and Dutch Republic (1631-1696)
• Conclusion
• Bibliography.
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During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, dozens of alliances asserting shared sovereignty formed in the Holy Roman Empire and the Low Countries. Many accounts of state formation struggle to explain these leagues, since they characterize state formation as a process of internal bureaucratization within individual states. This comparative study of alliances in the Holy Roman Empire and the Low Countries focuses on a formative time in European history, from the late fifteenth century until the immediate aftermath of the 1648 Peace of Westphalia, to demonstrate how the sharing of sovereignty through alliances influenced the evolution of the Empire, the Dutch Republic, and their various member states in fundamental ways. Alliances simultaneously supported and constrained central and territorial authorities, while their collaborative policy-making process empowered smaller states, helping to ensure their survival. By revealing how the interdependencies of alliance shaped states of all sizes in the Empire and the Low Countries, Christopher W. Close opens new perspectives on state formation with profound implications for understanding the development of states across Europe.
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• List of contributors Dedication Preface
• 1. Introduction: The Canal District in Global Perspective - Jan Nijman
• PART I: HISTORIC ORIGINS 2. Between art and expediency: Origins of the Canal District - Jaap Evert Abrahamse 3. Designing the world's most liberal city - Russell Shorto 4. A privileged site in the city, the republic and the world economy - Herman van der Wusten
• PART II: EVOLUTION 5. Bourgeois homes: The elite spaces of the Canal District - Cle Lesger and Jan Hein Furnee 6. The architectural essence of the Canal District: Past and present - Freek Schmidt 7. The Canal District: A continuing history of modern planning - Len de Klerk
• PART III: 21ST CENTURY CHALLENGES 8. Preservation through transformation: Amsterdam through the lens of Barcelona - Mark Warren, Melisa Pesoa and Joaquin Sabate 9. The Canal District as a site of cognitive-cultural activities: "A miracle of spaciousness, compactness, intelligible order" - Robert Kloosterman and Karin Pfeffer 10. Cause Celebre: The contested history of the Canal District - Susan Legene and T.C. Ver Loren van Themaat 11. The Canal District as home: Living in a commodified space - Fenne Pinkster and Willem Boterman.
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In terms of design, scale, and blending of ecologicical and aesthetic function, Amsterdam's seventeenth-century Canal District is a European marvel. Its survival for four centuries is a testament to its ingenuity, reflected in its designation as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2010. The Canal District today is an extraordinary example of resilient historic design and cultural heritage in a living city, but it is not without present-day challenges: in recent years, its urban ecology has become subject to severe pressures of global tourism and supergentrification. This edited volume brings together seventeen reputable scholars to debate questions about the origins, evolution, and future of the Canal District. With these differing approaches and perspectives on the Canal District the contributions render a collection where the whole is much more than the sum of the parts. The book breaks new ground in our understanding of the District's historic design, its evolution over four hundred years, and the fundamental issues in future-facing strategies and policies. While the main focus is clearly on Amsterdam, the discussions in this collection have an important bearing on broader questions of urban historic preservation elsewhere, and on questions about enduring urban design.
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• List of contributors Dedication Preface
• 1. Introduction: The Canal District in Global Perspective - Jan Nijman
• PART I: HISTORIC ORIGINS 2. Between art and expediency: Origins of the Canal District - Jaap Evert Abrahamse 3. Designing the world's most liberal city - Russell Shorto 4. A privileged site in the city, the republic and the world economy - Herman van der Wusten
• PART II: EVOLUTION 5. Bourgeois homes: The elite spaces of the Canal District - Cle Lesger and Jan Hein Furnee 6. The architectural essence of the Canal District: Past and present - Freek Schmidt 7. The Canal District: A continuing history of modern planning - Len de Klerk
• PART III: 21ST CENTURY CHALLENGES 8. Preservation through transformation: Amsterdam through the lens of Barcelona - Mark Warren, Melisa Pesoa and Joaquin Sabate 9. The Canal District as a site of cognitive-cultural activities: "A miracle of spaciousness, compactness, intelligible order" - Robert Kloosterman and Karin Pfeffer 10. Cause Celebre: The contested history of the Canal District - Susan Legene and T.C. Ver Loren van Themaat 11. The Canal District as home: Living in a commodified space - Fenne Pinkster and Willem Boterman.
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In terms of design, scale, and blending of ecologicical and aesthetic function, Amsterdam's seventeenth-century Canal District is a European marvel. Its survival for four centuries is a testament to its ingenuity, reflected in its designation as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2010. The Canal District today is an extraordinary example of resilient historic design and cultural heritage in a living city, but it is not without present-day challenges: in recent years, its urban ecology has become subject to severe pressures of global tourism and supergentrification. This edited volume brings together seventeen reputable scholars to debate questions about the origins, evolution, and future of the Canal District. With these differing approaches and perspectives on the Canal District the contributions render a collection where the whole is much more than the sum of the parts. The book breaks new ground in our understanding of the District's historic design, its evolution over four hundred years, and the fundamental issues in future-facing strategies and policies. While the main focus is clearly on Amsterdam, the discussions in this collection have an important bearing on broader questions of urban historic preservation elsewhere, and on questions about enduring urban design.
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• Preface One -War Babies Two-Social Reality, Military Policy Three-Liberation and Slavery Four-Aftermath Five-Margraten Six-Limited Service Seven-Liberation Children Eight-In England Nine-Out of England Ten-Occupation Babies Eleven-Adulthood Twelve-Settling Lives Thirteen-International Families Afterword by Sebastiaan Vonk About the Authors Appendix: Relevant World War II Era Law and Custom for International Marriage, Immigration, Birth Status, Adoption and Assistance Chapter Notes Bibliography Index.
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In the Netherlands, a small group of biracial citizens has entered its eighth decade of lives that have been often puzzling and difficult, but which offer a unique insight into the history of race relations in America. Though their African American fathers had brought liberation from Nazi tyranny at the end of World War II, they were in a segregated American military derived from a racially divided American society. Decades later, some of their children could finally know of a father's identity and the life he had led after the war. Just one would be able to find an embrace in his arms, and just one would arrive at her father's American grave after 73 years. But they could now understand their own Dutch lives in the context of their fathers' lives in America.
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• Acknowledgments -- List of Tables -- List of Plates -- Note -- Introduction -- 1 Dutch Diplomatic History -- 2 Chinese Diplomatic History -- 3 Merging Histories -- 4 Traits of Modern Dutch-Chinese Relations -- 5 Aims, Arguments, and Organization of the Book -- Part 1: Readjustment -- 1 Diplomatic Relations During the Prewar Years: 1927-1936 -- 1International Context -- 2 Development of Bilateral Ties -- 3 Dutch Official Representation in China -- 4Chinese Official Representation in the Netherlands -- 5Conclusion -- 2 Remission of the Dutch Share in China's Boxer Indemnity -- 1A Watershed Moment -- 2The Central Hydraulic Research Institute at Nanjing -- 3Life, Loss, and Lasting Friendship -- 4 Effects and Significance -- Plates 1-24 -- Part 2: Realignment -- 3 Diplomatic Relations during the War Years: 1937-1945 -- 1International Context -- 2Development of Bilateral Ties -- 3 Dutch Official Representation in China -- 4 Chinese Official Representation in the Netherlands -- 5 Conclusion -- 4 Abrogation of Dutch Extraterritorial Rights in China -- 1The System of Extraterritoriality in China -- 2 Extraterritoriality and Dutch-Chinese Treaty Relations -- 3 The Dutch-Chinese Treaty of -- 4 Effects and Significance -- Plates 25-45 -- Part 3: Reset -- 5 Diplomatic Relations during the Postwar Years: 1946-1950 -- 1 International Context -- 2 Development of Bilateral Ties -- 3 Dutch Official Representation in China -- 4 Chinese Official Representation in the Netherlands -- 5Conclusion -- 6 Recognition of the People's Republic of China -- 1 Early Encounters -- 2 The Path to Recognition -- 3 Rationales, Response, Result -- 4 Effects and Significance -- Conclusion -- 1 Change and Continuity -- 2 Policies and People -- 3 Power Dynamics -- 4 Past and Present -- 5The Future Past -- Appendix 1: Chronology of Major Events -- Appendix 2: Overview of Senior Envoys, 1927-1950 -- Appendix 3: Exchange of Notes Dated 4 April 1933 -- Appendix 4: Joint Announcement Dated 15 February 1943 -- Appendix 5: Dutch-Chinese Treaty of 29 May 1945 -- Appendix 6: Notes on Recognition, March/April 1950 -- Bibliography -- Index

In this meticulously researched volume, Vincent Chang resurrects a near forgotten yet pivotal chapter of Dutch-Chinese ties to narrate how World War II, the civil war in China, and Indonesia's decolonization redefined and remade this age-old bilateral relationship. Drawing on a unique range of hitherto unexplored archives, the book explains how China's nascent rise on the global scene and the Netherlands' simultaneous decline as a colonial power shaped events in Dutch-controlled Indonesia (and vice versa) and prompted a recalibration of their mutual ties, culminating in the Netherlands' recognition of the People's Republic and laying the foundations for Dutch and Chinese policies through to the present. Offering insightful analyses of power dynamics and international law at the close of empire, this book is a critical resource for historians and China specialists as well as scholars of international relations.
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• Introduction : Anglo-Dutch conflict in the North Sea and beyond / David Ormrod and Gijs Rommelse
• The seventeenth-century Anglo-Dutch Wars in a European context / Gijs Rommelse and Roger Downing
• Anglican Royalism and the origins of the Second Anglo-Dutch War / Paul Seward
• War, foreign relations and politics in the Netherlands from the Second Anglo-Dutch War to the Revolution of 1688 / Elizabeth Edwards
• Competing navies : Anglo-Dutch naval rivalry, 1652-88 / John B. Hattendorf
• The Dutch and English fiscal-naval states : a comparative overview / Richard J. Blakemore and Pepijn Brandon
• Dutch and English dockyards and coastal defence, 1652-89 / Ann Coats and Alan Lemmers
• The Second Anglo-Dutch War in the Caribbean / Nuala Zahedieh
• Competing claims : international law, diplomacy and Anglo-Dutch rivalry in seventeenth-century North America / Jaap Jacobs
• Merchant companies at war : the Anglo-Dutch wars in Asia / Erik Odegard
• Arguing over empire : international law and Anglo-Dutch rivalry in the Banda Islands, 1616-67 / Martine van Ittersum
• Michiel de Ruyter : a multi-purpose hero / Remmelt Daalder
• Anglo-Dutch historical commemorations and the public, 1973-2017 / David Ormrod

This book re-examines the history of Anglo-Dutch conflict during the seventeenth century, of which the three wars of 1652-4, 1665-7 and 1672-4 were the most obvious manifestation. Low-intensity conflict spanned a longer period. From 1618-19 hostilities in Asia between the Dutch and English East India Companies added new elements of tension beyond earlier disputes over the North Sea fisheries, merchant shipping and the cloth trade. The emerging multilateral trades of the Atlantic world added new challenges. This book integrates the European, Asian, American and African dimensions of the Anglo-Dutch Wars in an authentically global view. The role of the state receives special attention during a period in which both countries are best understood as 'fiscal-naval states'. The significance of seapower is reflected in the public history of the Anglo-Dutch wars, acknowledged in the concluding chapters. The book includes important new research findings and imaginative new thinking by leading historians of the subject. DAVID ORMROD is an Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Kent. GIJS ROMMELSE is Head of History at the Haarlemmermeer Lyceum in Hoofddorp, the Netherlands, and an Honorary Visiting Fellow at the University of Leicester. CONTRIBUTORS: Richard Blakemore, Pepijn Brandon, Ann Coats, Remmelt Daalder, Roger Downing, Elizabeth Edwards, John B. Hattendorf, Martine Julia van Ittersum, Jaap Jacobs, Alan Lemmers, Erik Odegard, David Ormrod, Gijs Rommelse, Paul Seaward, Nuala Zahedieh.
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"Facsimile met weergave van de Osmaanse tekst en vertalingen in het moderne Turks en Nederlands van het vriendschapsverdrag dat Turkije en de Republiek der Zeven Provinciën in 1612 met elkaar sloten."

• Vorwort / Obürgermeister Daniel Schranz
• Zwangsarbeit und Arbeitseinsatzpolitik in den besetzten Niederlanden / Christian Kuck
• Forced Labor / Arbeitseinsatz. Erinnerungen an Oberhausen 1943 bis 1945 / Andries ter Brugge
• Zu den Erinnerrungen von Andries ter Brugge / Christian Kuck
• Kontextualisierungen / Clemens Heinrichs
• Ein Sohn erinnert sich / Jeroen ter Brugge

Der Niederländer Andries ter Brugge kam im Juli 1943 als 19-jähriger nach Oberhausen, um dort Zwangsarbeit für die NS-Kriegswirtschaft leisten zu müssen. Nach seiner Befreiung am 11. April 1945 ging Andries ter Brugge nicht sofort zurück in die Niederlande, sondern stand bis zum Abzug der US-amerikanischen Truppen aus dem Ruhrgebiet in deren Dienst. 1947 schrieb Andries ter Brugge als 23-jähriger seine Erinnerungen an diese Zeit auf und konnte nicht nur über seine Zeit als Zwangsarbeiter, sondern auch über die ersten Wochen in der befreiten Ruhrgebietsstadt berichten. Sein Bericht zeichnet sich durch eine seltene Offenheit und Differenziertheit in der Darstellung sowohl der deutschen Bevölkerung als auch der Zwangsarbeiter aus. Die unmittelbare zeitliche Nähe der Niederschrift des Berichts zur erlebten Zeit macht dieses Dokument besonders wertvoll. Mit dieser Publikation erweitert die Gedenkhalle den Themenschwerpunkt „Zwangsarbeit im Nationalsozialismus 1939 - 1945" in ihrer Dauerausstellung um einen weiteren Erinnerungsbericht. Ausführliche Erläuterungen betten dieses wertvolle Dokument verständlich in die Zeitgeschichte ein