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  • Wiesel's Night: A Biography

    Creator:
    Krueger, Jessica
    Abstract:
    Elie Wiesel’s Night has become a canonical work in the genre of Holocaust literature. This thesis examines the process by which Night achieved this status. An argument will be composed using, as evidence, analysis of Elie Wiesel’s life, the broad history of Holocaust literature, and the complexities surrounding Night’s publication...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    :_____________________________________________________ Kara Ritzheimer Elie Wiesel’s Night has become a canonical work in the genre of Holocaust

  • Managing Complicity: Two German Doctors and the United States in the Twentieth Century

    Creator:
    Vaughn, Elizabeth P. C.
    Abstract:
    This thesis examines the origins and outcomes of Operation Paperclip, a program the U.S. government operated in the years immediately following WWII to recruit former Nazi doctors, scientists, and technicians, and capitalize on their research experience. As part of this operation, the U.S. welcomed two doctors who had conducted medical...
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    Masters Thesis
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    : ______________________________________________________ Kara L. Ritzheimer This thesis examines the origins and outcomes of Operation

  • German Democracy and the Far-Right Since 1945: Populism and Minorities

    Creator:
    Arellano, Daniel
    Abstract:
    The following pages set out to document the German far-right since 1945, along with the responses from the German government and the experience of minorities that extremists tend to target. This study finds that the German government’s heavy-handed response to visible far-right political parties as early as the 1950s consequently...
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    Masters Thesis
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    receptive and proactive major advisor. Daniel would also like to thank Dr. Kara Ritzheimer for her

  • Germans and the Union: Immigrants' Struggle Against Assimilation in the Civil War Era

    Creator:
    Diebel, Nathan W.
    Abstract:
    The United States of America is founded upon immigration, and Germans are one of the first European ethnic groups to settle en masse in North America. The common narrative of immigration is that of the “melting pot”; characterized by assimilation of cultures into one ‘super’ culture. German immigration has often...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    _____________________________________________________________________ Kara Ritzheimer, Committee Member, representing School of History, Philosophy, and Religion

  • The Politics of Homophobia: Examining the Intersection of Political Expediency and Nazi Ideology

    Creator:
    Varela, C. Alexander
    Abstract:
    Homosexual men in Nazi Germany experienced legal and social oppression that was rooted in both the cultural homophobia of Twentieth Century Germany and the existential homophobia of high-ranking Nazi officials. However, the Nazi Regime’s enforcement of homonegative policy was not unilateral, often ignoring the actions of members of Nazi-affiliated groups....
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    Honors College Thesis
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    _____________________________________________________________________ Kara Ritzheimer, Committee Member, representing History