Raffael Scheck
Biographic Data
| ID | 317194 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Raffael Scheck |
| GIVEN NAMES | Raffael |
| FAMILY NAME | Scheck |
| SIGNATURE | SCHECK R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Colby College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9510-5419 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Lena Rudeck, Vergnügen in Besatzungszeiten. Begegnungen in westalliierten Offiziers- und Soldatenclubs in Deutschland, 1945–1955. Bielefeld, Transcript 2023
Article Lena Rudeck, Vergnügen in Besatzungszeiten. Begegnungen in westalliierten Offiziers- und Soldatenclubs in Deutschland, 1945–1955. Bielefeld, Transcript 2023 was published on April 1, 2024 in the journal Historische Zeitschrift (volume 318, issue 2)
Kira Thurman. Singing Like Germans: Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms
Journal Article Kira Thurman. Singing Like Germans: Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms. Get access Kira Thurman. Singing Like Germans: Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2021. Pp. 372. Paper $23.95. Raffael Scheck Raffael Scheck Colby College, US Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Hist…
Africans and the Holocaust: Perceptions and Responses of Colonized and Sovereign Peoples Edward Kissi
The new book by Edward Kissi asks three interrelated questions: What did people in Africa know about the Holocaust? What did they think about it? To what extent were they willing to help Jewish refugees? As the author admits, his inquiry has some important geographic limitations because it focuses mostly on British colonies in East and West Africa, as well as the two independent African states, Liberia and Ethiopia (before and after the Italian o…
Love between Enemies: Western Prisoners of War and German Women in World War II
Love between Enemies explores the forbidden relationships which formed between foreign prisoners of war and German women during the Second World War. From the desire to have fun to deep love commitments, this study examines the range of motivations which lay behind these relationships, tapping into new documents and drawing on thousands of court cases to offer a transnational analysis of personal relations between enemies. Highlighting gender rol…
The Danger of “Moral Sabotage”: Western Prisoners of War on Trial for Homosexual Relations in Nazi Germany
The treatment of western prisoners of war in Nazi Germany: Rethinking reciprocity and asymmetry
Given that the Geneva Convention of 1929 placed prisoners of war under the laws of the detaining state, Nazi courts martial could sentence prisoners of war for offences that did not exist in the western democracies, such as insults to the Führer, or severely punish them for acts leading only to mild disciplinary sanctions in Britain or America. Moreover, convicted prisoners of war had to experience the singularly brutal German prison system. Thes…
Western Prisoners of War Tried by Court Martial for Insults to the Führer and Criticism of Nazi Germany
The fact that the Geneva Convention of 1929 placed prisoners of war (POWs) under the laws in effect in the army of the detaining state meant that western POWs in Nazi Germany were exposed to the extremely repressive Nazi wartime legislation. Hundreds of western POWs had to appear in front of German court martials as a result of a joke on Hitler, a critical comment on the conditions of captivity or the behavior of German soldiers. They were judged…
Raphaël Lemkin’s Derivation of Genocide from His Analysis of Nazi-Occupied Europe
The breadth and complexity of Lemkin’s definition of “genocide” results from several influences during the time he developed the concept. One of them is a belief that Nazi Germany was engineering a demographic revolution that would leave Germany predominant in Europe regardless of the outcome of the military conflict. This notion facilitated the assumption of a coherent cynical motivation behind disparate policies, laws, and decrees. Second, Lemk…
Collaboration of the Heart: The Forbidden Love Affairs of French Prisoners of War and German Women in Nazi Germany
Free French Africa in World War II. The African Resistance
Free French Africa in World War II. The African Resistance." Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, 50(3), pp. 487–488
French African Soldiers in German POW Camps, 1940–1945
World War II scholarship is moving beyond an exclusive focus on the United States, Europe, and Japan to examine the experience of people in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Australia. The war initiated important economic, social, and ideological changes in their communities as the result of the participation of millions of Africans and Asians as soldiers and laborers. Not least, the ideological aspect of fighting a war for democracy and self-dete…
French Colonial Soldiers in German Captivity during World War II
This book discusses the experience of nearly 100,000 French colonial prisoners of war captured by Nazi Germany during World War II. Raffael Scheck shows that the German treatment of French colonial soldiers improved dramatically after initial abuses, leading the French authorities in 1945 to believe that there was a possible German plot to instigate a rebellion in the French empire. Scheck illustrates that the colonial prisoners' contradictory ex…
Black Germany: The Making and Unmaking of a Diaspora Community, 1884-1960
Journal Article Black Germany: The Making and Unmaking of a Diaspora Community, 1884–1960 Get access Black Germany: The Making and Unmaking of a Diaspora Community, 1884–1960 . By Robbie Aitken and Eve Rosenhaft . Cambridge and New York : Cambridge University Press . 2013 . xvi + 364 pp. £65/$99 (hardback). Raffael Scheck Raffael Scheck Colby College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 3…
Léopold Sédar Senghor prisonnier de guerre allemand: Une nouvelle approche fondée sur un texte inédit
Nazi Propaganda toward French Muslim Prisoners of War
Because of the strategic value of French North Africa for the Axis war effort, German authorities carried out extensive propaganda efforts among prisoners of war from that region. Special propaganda camps were established in Germany and occupied France to win over a select group of prisoners who, it was hoped, could later influence other prisoners. German propaganda stressed the power of German arms, affinities between Nazism and Islam, and Frenc…
Les prémices de Thiaroye: L’influence de la captivité allemande sur les soldats noirs français à la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale
After repressing the mutiny of West African ex-prisoners in Thiaroye near Dakar on 1 December 1944, the French military authorities concluded that the German treatment of these prisoners had made them prone to revolting. Allegedly, the Germans had planned to destabilize French colonialism by treating the prisoners well (despite the German army massacres of black French soldiers in June 1940) and by allowing black prisoners to enter into intimate …
The Fateful Alliance: German Conservatives and Nazis in 1933. The Machtergreifung in a New Light
This book focuses on the relationship between the German Nationalist People's Party (DNVP) under Alfred Hugenberg and the NSDAP in the period between the formation of the Hitler cabinet on 30 January 1933 and the self-dissolution of the DNVP five months later. It confirms that the alliance between DNVP and NSDAP helped the Nazis rather than the DNVP in the period immediately following the seizure of power; soon, the DNVP became dependent, and fac…
The Prisoner of War Question and the Beginnings of Collaboration: The Franco-German Agreement of 16 November 1940
This article discusses the connections between collaboration and the prisoner of war question in the early Vichy period by tracing the evolution of the Franco-German agreement of 16 November 1940 and its repercussions on French POWs. Based on the Scapini Papers and French and German archival materials, the article argues that the agreement happened in the context of a voluntary policy of collaboration initiated by the Vichy authorities, who hoped…
French Colonial Soldiers in German PRISONER-OF-WAR Camps (1940-1945)
After the conclusion of the armistice with France, the Germans held approximately 120,000 non-white soldiers from the French colonies in France's Occupied Zone. Based on new research in French and German archives, this article argues that the treatment of these prisoners by the Germans was less harsh than is often assumed and that being held in France was an advantage for the POWs. The article further shows that the prisoners experienced a profou…
Genocide and Resistance in Hitler's Bosnia
This book focuses on the Bosnian uprising 1941–1943 and the formative years of the Partisan movement under Tito. The genocidal policies of the Axis-backed Croatian Ustasha regime against Serbs, Jews and Gypsies quickly triggered a large-scale uprising among the Serbs of Bosnia-Hercegovina. Two groups competed for leadership of this uprising: the nationalist Serb Chetnik movement and the Communist-led Partisan movement, whose leadership moved to B…
They Are Just Savages: German Massacres of Black Soldiers from the French Army in 1940
The Wehrmacht. The German Army in World War II 1939-1945
Part One - Creating the Machine 1 Background 2 Hitler Creates a New Army, 1918-39 3 Blitzgrieg! Part Two - The Years of Attack 1 Poland 2 Norway 3 The West, 1940 4 North Africa 5 The Balkans 6 Barbarossa 7 Stalingrad Part Three - The Nature of the Army 1 Senior Command Structure and Leadership Methods 2 Junior Commanders 3 The Army and the Nazi Party Part Four - The Years of Defence 1 Basic Defensive Tactics 2 Italy, Yugoslavia and the Aegean 3 R…
Women on the Weimar Right: The Role of Female Politicians in the Deutschnationale Volkspartei (DNVP)
The DNVP, until 1930 the predominant party of the Weimar Right, attracted a crowd of able women politicians with experience in religious and professional leagues, housewives' associations, and nationalist pressure groups. The article examines to what degree these women partook in right-wing ideology and politics. It first presents statements by party women on the issues that tended to split the party into a moderate and an intransigent wing and c…
Preparing for Weltpolitik: German Sea Power before the Tirpitz Era
Alfred von Tirpitz and German Right-Wing Politics, 1914-1930
In a skillful combination of biographical case study and contextual analysis, Scheck presents a readable, often thrilling, account of the troubled transition period before the Nazi catastrophe. Drawing from a vast base of previously unused documents, the book traces the conspiracies and public campaigns of Great Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, a key figure of the German right. By focusing on Tirpitz, known as a supreme politician and manipulator of p…
The Prisoner of War Question and the Beginnings of Collaboration: The Franco-German Agreement of 16 November 1940
This article discusses the connections between collaboration and the prisoner of war question in the early Vichy period by tracing the evolution of the Franco-German agreement of 16 November 1940 and its repercussions on French POWs. Based on the Scapini Papers and French and German archival materials, the article argues that the agreement happened in the context of a voluntary policy of collaboration initiated by the Vichy authorities, who hoped…
French Colonial Soldiers in German PRISONER-OF-WAR Camps (1940-1945)
After the conclusion of the armistice with France, the Germans held approximately 120,000 non-white soldiers from the French colonies in France's Occupied Zone. Based on new research in French and German archives, this article argues that the treatment of these prisoners by the Germans was less harsh than is often assumed and that being held in France was an advantage for the POWs. The article further shows that the prisoners experienced a profou…
Nazi Propaganda toward French Muslim Prisoners of War
Because of the strategic value of French North Africa for the Axis war effort, German authorities carried out extensive propaganda efforts among prisoners of war from that region. Special propaganda camps were established in Germany and occupied France to win over a select group of prisoners who, it was hoped, could later influence other prisoners. German propaganda stressed the power of German arms, affinities between Nazism and Islam, and Frenc…
They Are Just Savages: German Massacres of Black Soldiers from the French Army in 1940
German Conservatism and Female Political Activism in the Early Weimar Republic
German Conservatism and Female Political Activism in the Early Weimar Republic Raffael Scheck Raffael Scheck Colby College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 15, Issue 1, January 1997, Pages 34–55, https://doi.org/10.1093/gh/15.1.34 Published: 01 January 1997
Raphaël Lemkin’s Derivation of Genocide from His Analysis of Nazi-Occupied Europe
The breadth and complexity of Lemkin’s definition of “genocide” results from several influences during the time he developed the concept. One of them is a belief that Nazi Germany was engineering a demographic revolution that would leave Germany predominant in Europe regardless of the outcome of the military conflict. This notion facilitated the assumption of a coherent cynical motivation behind disparate policies, laws, and decrees. Second, Lemk…
Collaboration of the Heart: The Forbidden Love Affairs of French Prisoners of War and German Women in Nazi Germany
Women on the Weimar Right: The Role of Female Politicians in the Deutschnationale Volkspartei (DNVP)
The DNVP, until 1930 the predominant party of the Weimar Right, attracted a crowd of able women politicians with experience in religious and professional leagues, housewives' associations, and nationalist pressure groups. The article examines to what degree these women partook in right-wing ideology and politics. It first presents statements by party women on the issues that tended to split the party into a moderate and an intransigent wing and c…
The Great Disorder: Politics, Economics, and Society in the German Inflation, 1914-1924
Politics of Illusion: Tirpitz and Right-Wing Putschism, 1922-1924
A German Women's Movement: Class & Gender in Hanover, 1880-1933
Nancy Reagin analyzes the rhetoric, strategies, and programs of more than eighty bourgeois women's associations in Hanover, a large provincial capital, from the Imperial period to the Nazi seizure of power. She examines the social and demographic foundations of the Hanoverian women's movement, interweaving local history with developments on the national level. Using the German experience as a case study, Reagin explores the links between politica…
Authority, Identity and the Social History of the Great War
German Conservatism and Female Political Activism in the Early Weimar Republic
German Conservatism and Female Political Activism in the Early Weimar Republic Raffael Scheck Raffael Scheck Colby College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 15, Issue 1, January 1997, Pages 34–55, https://doi.org/10.1093/gh/15.1.34 Published: 01 January 1997
Alfred von Tirpitz and German Right-Wing Politics, 1914-1930
In a skillful combination of biographical case study and contextual analysis, Scheck presents a readable, often thrilling, account of the troubled transition period before the Nazi catastrophe. Drawing from a vast base of previously unused documents, the book traces the conspiracies and public campaigns of Great Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, a key figure of the German right. By focusing on Tirpitz, known as a supreme politician and manipulator of p…
Preparing for Weltpolitik: German Sea Power before the Tirpitz Era
Alfred von Tirpitz and German Right-Wing Politics, 1914-1930
In a skillful combination of biographical case study and contextual analysis, Scheck presents a readable, often thrilling, account of the troubled transition period before the Nazi catastrophe. Drawing from a vast base of previously unused documents, the book traces the conspiracies and public campaigns of Great Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, a key figure of the German right. By focusing on Tirpitz, known as a supreme politician and manipulator of p…
Women against Versailles: Maternalism and Nationalism of Female Bourgeois Politicians in the Early Weimar Republic
Swiss Funding for the Early Nazi Movement: Motivation, Context, and Continuities
Women on the Weimar Right: The Role of Female Politicians in the Deutschnationale Volkspartei (DNVP)
The DNVP, until 1930 the predominant party of the Weimar Right, attracted a crowd of able women politicians with experience in religious and professional leagues, housewives' associations, and nationalist pressure groups. The article examines to what degree these women partook in right-wing ideology and politics. It first presents statements by party women on the issues that tended to split the party into a moderate and an intransigent wing and c…
The Wehrmacht. The German Army in World War II 1939-1945
Part One - Creating the Machine 1 Background 2 Hitler Creates a New Army, 1918-39 3 Blitzgrieg! Part Two - The Years of Attack 1 Poland 2 Norway 3 The West, 1940 4 North Africa 5 The Balkans 6 Barbarossa 7 Stalingrad Part Three - The Nature of the Army 1 Senior Command Structure and Leadership Methods 2 Junior Commanders 3 The Army and the Nazi Party Part Four - The Years of Defence 1 Basic Defensive Tactics 2 Italy, Yugoslavia and the Aegean 3 R…
They Are Just Savages: German Massacres of Black Soldiers from the French Army in 1940
Genocide and Resistance in Hitler's Bosnia
This book focuses on the Bosnian uprising 1941–1943 and the formative years of the Partisan movement under Tito. The genocidal policies of the Axis-backed Croatian Ustasha regime against Serbs, Jews and Gypsies quickly triggered a large-scale uprising among the Serbs of Bosnia-Hercegovina. Two groups competed for leadership of this uprising: the nationalist Serb Chetnik movement and the Communist-led Partisan movement, whose leadership moved to B…
The Fateful Alliance: German Conservatives and Nazis in 1933. The Machtergreifung in a New Light
This book focuses on the relationship between the German Nationalist People's Party (DNVP) under Alfred Hugenberg and the NSDAP in the period between the formation of the Hitler cabinet on 30 January 1933 and the self-dissolution of the DNVP five months later. It confirms that the alliance between DNVP and NSDAP helped the Nazis rather than the DNVP in the period immediately following the seizure of power; soon, the DNVP became dependent, and fac…
The Prisoner of War Question and the Beginnings of Collaboration: The Franco-German Agreement of 16 November 1940
This article discusses the connections between collaboration and the prisoner of war question in the early Vichy period by tracing the evolution of the Franco-German agreement of 16 November 1940 and its repercussions on French POWs. Based on the Scapini Papers and French and German archival materials, the article argues that the agreement happened in the context of a voluntary policy of collaboration initiated by the Vichy authorities, who hoped…
French Colonial Soldiers in German PRISONER-OF-WAR Camps (1940-1945)
After the conclusion of the armistice with France, the Germans held approximately 120,000 non-white soldiers from the French colonies in France's Occupied Zone. Based on new research in French and German archives, this article argues that the treatment of these prisoners by the Germans was less harsh than is often assumed and that being held in France was an advantage for the POWs. The article further shows that the prisoners experienced a profou…
Nazi Propaganda toward French Muslim Prisoners of War
Because of the strategic value of French North Africa for the Axis war effort, German authorities carried out extensive propaganda efforts among prisoners of war from that region. Special propaganda camps were established in Germany and occupied France to win over a select group of prisoners who, it was hoped, could later influence other prisoners. German propaganda stressed the power of German arms, affinities between Nazism and Islam, and Frenc…
Les prémices de Thiaroye: L’influence de la captivité allemande sur les soldats noirs français à la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale
After repressing the mutiny of West African ex-prisoners in Thiaroye near Dakar on 1 December 1944, the French military authorities concluded that the German treatment of these prisoners had made them prone to revolting. Allegedly, the Germans had planned to destabilize French colonialism by treating the prisoners well (despite the German army massacres of black French soldiers in June 1940) and by allowing black prisoners to enter into intimate …
French Colonial Soldiers in German Captivity during World War II
This book discusses the experience of nearly 100,000 French colonial prisoners of war captured by Nazi Germany during World War II. Raffael Scheck shows that the German treatment of French colonial soldiers improved dramatically after initial abuses, leading the French authorities in 1945 to believe that there was a possible German plot to instigate a rebellion in the French empire. Scheck illustrates that the colonial prisoners' contradictory ex…
Black Germany: The Making and Unmaking of a Diaspora Community, 1884-1960
Journal Article Black Germany: The Making and Unmaking of a Diaspora Community, 1884–1960 Get access Black Germany: The Making and Unmaking of a Diaspora Community, 1884–1960 . By Robbie Aitken and Eve Rosenhaft . Cambridge and New York : Cambridge University Press . 2013 . xvi + 364 pp. £65/$99 (hardback). Raffael Scheck Raffael Scheck Colby College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 3…
Léopold Sédar Senghor prisonnier de guerre allemand: Une nouvelle approche fondée sur un texte inédit
French African Soldiers in German POW Camps, 1940–1945
World War II scholarship is moving beyond an exclusive focus on the United States, Europe, and Japan to examine the experience of people in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Australia. The war initiated important economic, social, and ideological changes in their communities as the result of the participation of millions of Africans and Asians as soldiers and laborers. Not least, the ideological aspect of fighting a war for democracy and self-dete…
Free French Africa in World War II. The African Resistance
Free French Africa in World War II. The African Resistance." Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, 50(3), pp. 487–488
Collaboration of the Heart: The Forbidden Love Affairs of French Prisoners of War and German Women in Nazi Germany
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