Rumors of the Holocaust: Expressing an Unspeakable Knowledge
A contribution exploring the role of rumor in the development and articulation of knowledge on the Holocaust as it was unfolding.
Research, Resources, Perspectives
A contribution exploring the role of rumor in the development and articulation of knowledge on the Holocaust as it was unfolding.
In March 1943, six Russian prisoners of war escaped from a factory in Neustadt where they had been forced to work. To recapture them, the German authorities dispatched SS-Untersturmführer Koermann and SS-Rottenführer Duske from the Hundestaffel “dog squad” at Flossenbürg...
Editor’s note: As has previously been mentioned on this blog, our sister blog, Migrant Knowledge, also always bears some relevance to the history of knowledge. This is not surprising since, as that blog’s motto...
“Freedom through knowledge” was one of the slogans of Planned Parenthood’s first national campaign in 1942.1 Publishing pamphlets, posters, and testimonials under the headline “Planned Parenthood in Wartime,” the organization related contraception to the...
This is the final of three pieces on provenance research that we are publishing in conjunction with the 6th German/American Provenance Exchange Program (PREP) in Washington, DC. As art objects circulate over time, they...
Brainstorming as a way to organize ideation was first practiced in the United States in 1938 in the advertising firm Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn (BBDO). One partner, Alex Osborn, later described it as...