Blog
In this section, current events related to Julius Erasmus and the research on his person are observed and commented.
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Thoughts on war: Viktor Levengarts on his father Lev Mikhailovich Levengarts, who died as a Russian soldier in 1942 (Published on 30/05/2025)
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Thoughts on war: Werner Bergengruen – The Sermon on the Mount (Published on 27/05/2025)
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“Modern culture of remembrance” in the District of Düren: “Flower ban”, “dance theater” and the Geneva Conventions (Published on 22/05/2025)
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Thoughts on war: “Youth under Fate” – Biographies of young Germans 1946 to 1949 (Werner D.) (Published on 18/05/2025)
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Thoughts on war: Laurence Binyon – For the Fallen (1914) (Published on 09/05/2025)
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Thoughts on war: Dietrich Bonhoeffer – Von der Dummheit [“About Stupidity“] (1943) (Published on 06/05/2025)
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Mail Correspondence with Soldiers at War (“Feldpostbriefe”): Letters of German soldier Wolfgang Kluge from Russia, October 1943 (Published on 02/05/2025)
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Modern culture of remembrance” in the District of Düren: The “flower ban” by the District of Düren on the German military cemeteries in Hürtgen Forest before the State Constitutional Court of Northrhine-Westfalia (Published on 30/04/2025)
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Mail Correspondence with Soldiers at War (“Feldpostbriefe”): Letter from the German soldier Walter Simon to his wife, February 1945 (Published on 25/04/2025)
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Mail Correspondence with Soldiers at War (“Feldpostbriefe”): Farewell letter from the English pilot Michael A. Scott to his father in August 1940 (Published on 17/04/2025, latest update on 16/05/2025)
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Thoughts on war: “Die Not des Waldes” [“The forest‘s plight“] by Walther Freist (Published on 11/04/2025)
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Mail Correspondence with Soldiers at War (“Feldpostbriefe”): Last letters of German soldier August Willy Hagel to his family, Eastern Front 1943 (Published on 28/03/2025)
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“Modern culture of remembrance” in the District of Düren: Information from the District administration on “incidents with a right-wing extremist background” at the military cemeteries in Hürtgen and Vossenack and on “violations” of the cemetery rules (Published on 13/03/2025)
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Thoughts on war: Otl Aicher, “the contaminated thinking” (Published on 07/03/2025)
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Mail Correspondence with Soldiers at War (“Feldpostbriefe”): Letter from the English soldier Reg Fayers, crew member of a “Halifax” bomber, about the war and his missions over Germany (Published on 28/02/2025)
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Mail Correspondence with Soldiers at War (“Feldpostbriefe”): Last letters from Stalingrad – Letter from an unnamed German soldier on the principle of “Resist the beginnings” (Published on 21/02/2025)
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Mail Correspondence with Soldiers at War (“Feldpostbriefe”): Letter from the US soldier Roy F. Bergengren Jr. on the futility of war (Published on 18/02/2025)
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Thoughts on war: “Youth under Fate” – Biographies of young Germans 1946 to 1949 (Published on 08/02/2025)
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Mail Correspondence with Soldiers at War (“Feldpostbriefe”): Last letters of German soldier Theodor Goebel to his family, February 1945 (Published on 10/01/2025)
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Episodes of War: “Klaus” by Johanna Ruger (Published on 03/01/2025)
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