Category: Luxembourg
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Tales of Crime and Murder. Court cases in the archival collection of the National Archives in Luxembourg
The documents from the Luxembourgish justice authorities, especially from the “cour d’assise”, tell stories about blood and thunder, murder and thieves, but also reveal stories about people, their personal histories, and their struggles in everyday life. One night in 1906 in the Grund of Luxembourg City, under the curved Bridge Adolphe, strollers made a terrible […]
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Start of “WARLUX”
Soldiers and their communities in WWII: The impact and legacy of war experiences in Luxembourg – at C2DH, University of Luxembourg More than 10,000 Luxembourgish soldiers and recruits and an unknown number of Luxembourgish men and women wore German uniforms during WWII in armed forces and civil organizations, such as the Wehrmacht, Waffen-SS, armed police […]
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Hunting for documents promising new insights into Luxembourg’s history.
What can the past tell us about the present and future? Nina Janz gives insights into her work as a Research Associate at the Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) – interview with sience.lu (August 2019) Nina, you are digging through the history of 200 years of legal system, court practice and of the […]
Nina Janz 