Under a Foreign Flag: Integrating Units and Personnel in the British German Armed Forces, 1940-1945 Significant numbers of foreign personnel served armed forces during Second World. Yet there is no study that compares situates these as multinational entities. This article examines Britain's Germany's policies towards recruitment, organisation employment non-nationals their this conflict. There were several forms participation but focuses on recruits who came from German-occupied or neutral...

This article examines transnational social engineering through a biographical study of Alfred Zander, Swiss member humanist and internationalist pedagogical movement known as New Education later founding fascism volunteer to the German Waffen-SS during Second World War. The bridging concept that allowed Zander's seemingly contradictory transformation was his belief in necessity return classroom, politics, previously existing ‘organic’ state: Volksgemeinschaft. case suggests broader view...

Abstract This article explores the pre-war background of Swiss, Swedish and Danish men who volunteered for Nazi Waffen-SS combat formation during Second World War. Through a detailed biographical examination officer corps volunteers, this contradicts what I call myth volunteers – long-standing popular to some extent scholarly interpretation that perceives as lower-class, social outsiders criminally inclined or mentally unstable nature. Instead demonstrates these held distinctly European...

COVID-19 has affected university assessment procedures on a large scale. This empirical study aims to understand the types of high-stakes exams delivered online at Lucerne School Business in Switzerland during “Corona Semesters” 2020 and 2021 decision-making factors that influenced their implementation. To do so, authors conducted semi-structured interviews with eight faculty members across variety disciplines. Requirements from exam workflow (preparation, proctoring, grading) were...

Historical figures have long served as case studies for leadership lessons. The current article argues that authors of such works—whether academics or popular writers—can neglect to consult the findings professional historians and thus fail contextualize their historical subjects appropriately. highlights this phenomenon through an examination two most leaders: Ernest Shackleton Erwin Rommel.

Click to increase image sizeClick decrease size Notes The German federal police. Unlike the FBI, BKA was not endowed with a large staff of its own but instead meant coordinate police responses between Länder. government sought avoid acknowledging RAF's ideological motives and highlight their criminal nature. Hence they referred them as Baader-Meinhof Bande or gang. It is important note that this title belies leadership role Ensslin who “an equal” Baader Meinhof. Wunschik published book on...

Abstract The past decade has seen a proliferation of studies examining the environmental dimensions World War II. This article analyses this literature by engaging with relevant parallel historiographical streams on war and non‐military history. It suggests that scholars working non‐European focus have been innovative in their use global transnational approaches. Studies Axis‐occupied Europe, other hand, uncovered nuanced dynamics behind fascist regimes' efforts to manipulate nature....

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe an innovative approach overcoming a common dilemma in designing negotiation simulations – that situating simulation real-life or fictitious context. This binary choice, which the authors call designer’s dilemma, has profound implications for types learning activities and outcomes can be integrated into overall experience. As way trade-offs inherent developed what they term hybrid simulations, blend elements fact fiction its contextual design...

In diesem Artikel führen wir mögliche Gründe an, dass Genossenschaften geeignet sind, komplexe Probleme in der Nachhaltigkeit zu lösen. Statt uns auf existierende Forschung stützen, ist Inhalt dieses Aufsatzes hypothetisch und verbindet zwei Forschungsgebiete, nämlich Probleme. Komplexe wie Klimawandel oder Ressourcenknappheit sind schwierig definieren von verschiedenen Akteuren mit konkurrierenden Interessen widersprüchlichen Anforderungen gekennzeichnet. Beitrag legen dar, warum gewisse...