Exile Governments, Academics, and Activists in the Capital of Free Europe, 1940–1945
Last week, French president Macron declared we were “at war” with a virus. The rhetoric had been martial before – „fighting“ the virus, doctors „at the front“ against an invisible “enemy“ – but now,...
Due to the recent spread of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, the Humboldt University Berlin has taken immediate precautionary measures. All events, conferences and conventions are cancelled until July 20th 2020. Unfortunately, this also applies to...
The United Nations War Crimes Commission (UNWCC) is receiving more and more scholarly attention. Established in 1943 by the Allied states in London, it prepared for the trial of war crimes committed by Axis...
Our legal history research seminar, AK GRR, co-organized by Benjamin Lahusen, Marcus Payk, Kim C. Priemel, and myself, has been running since 2014. In November 2019, the journal Zeithistorische Forschungen/ Contemporary Studies of History...
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"Capital of Europe" is a blog following the Freigeist research project "The London Moment. Transnational Collaboration of Governments-in-exile during the Second World War and its Impact on European History". The project, coordinated by Dr. Julia Eichenberg, the Principle Investigator, is based at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin and funded by the Volkswagen-Stiftung.
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