Publications and Presentations


Publications

PUBLICATIONS IN PROGRESS

  1. “Fighting for a Foreign Power: The Personal Experiences of Luxembourgers in the German Army at the Eastern Front, 1942-1945”, German-Soviet War (Cornell University Press) edited by Jeff Rutherford, peer-reviewed, 2024.
  2. “The “long arm” of the military justice of the Wehrmacht – A case study on Luxembourgish desertions”, Co-authorship with Sarah Maya Vercruysse, in Military Justice (De Gruyter, double blind peer-review), 2024
  3. “Remnants of Wehrmacht Soldiers – The Burial and Commemoration Practices of Fallen Wehrmacht Soldiers in Russia and Europe (1941-1923)”, in Peter Lang Series Studies in Contemporary History, April 2024 (peer-reviewed)
  4. “The impact of war experiences in Europe – The conscription of non-German men and women into the Wehrmacht and Reichsarbeitsdienst (1938-1945), edit. by Nina Janz and Denis Scuto (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024)
  5. “Being a Soldier – Between individual and soldierly experientality of Luxembourgish recruits in WWII”, (chapter) in The impact of war experiences in Europe – The conscription of non-German men and women into the Wehrmacht and Reichsarbeitsdienst (1938-1945), edit. by Nina Janz and Denis Scuto (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024)

PRESENTATIONS and LECTURES 

  1. “The violent turn in soldier’s letters” – Violent Turns: Sources, Interpretations, Responses, The Schaeffer Center & The Center for Critical Democracy American University Paris (21/06/2023)
  2. “Crowdsourcing – how to? Example of WARLUX” – XpoNorth Digital: Shared Perspectives Conference (Virtual) (13/05/2023)
  3. “Project WARLUX – Introduction to research database and the interactive website”, Forum Z “Local history close up – Personal war experiences in Schifflingen (Lokalgeschichte ganz nah – Persönliche Kriegserlebnisse in Schifflingen”) (22/02/2023)
  4. “Transnational Encounters in Soldiers’ Letters – Example WARLUX – Letters from Luxemburgers in the German Wehrmacht”, Atelier du transnational Séminaire de recherche en histoire contemporaine, Institute Historirique Allemand, Paris (6/12/2022)
  5. “Why do historians collect new sources? War Experiences in Luxembourg. The Second World War and Today”, Voices from the War – Path to Peace : Ukrainian and international insights, Luxembourg Centre Contemporary and Digital History; Polska.lu, LUkraine and Europe Direct at the University of Luxembourg (20/11/2022)
  6. “Being a Soldier – Between individual and soldierly experientality of Luxembourgish recruits in WWII”, International Conference – The impact of war experiences in Europe – The conscription of non-German men and women into the Wehrmacht and Reichsarbeitsdienst (1938-1945) (26-28/10/2022)
  7. “From ‘forced conscription’ to compulsory military service: Luxembourg’s ‘forced conscripts’ and the question of post-war military service”, with Felix Streicher, Department of History, Maastricht University, International Conference – The impact of war experiences in Europe – The conscription of non-German men and women into the Wehrmacht and Reichsarbeitsdienst (1938-1945) (26-28/10/2022)
  8. “Student Project – WAR LETTERS. Teaching with Transkribus Lite”, Transkribus User Conference, Read Coop/Transkribus, Innbruck (30/09/2022)
  9. “Crowdsourced Archives – Private Archives and personal collections”, Digital Archives, Big Data and Memory, Alborg University, Copenhagen (24-26/08/2022)
  10. “The Long Arm of Military Justice in the Wehrmacht – The Arrest and Resettlement of Families of Deserters Sentenced by a Wehrmacht Military Court”, Conference on Military Justice Conference, Free University Berlin (07/2022)
  11. “Between fulfilment of the legal mandate and clarification of the fate of dead soldiers of WWII – The efforts of a private association to exhume and identify German military dead”, International Conference Actions for the Missing: Scientific and Vernacular Forms of War Dead Accounting, NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, KNAW Amsterdam (08-09/06/2022)
  12. “Hero? Volunteer? Traitor? Depends on the data. Datafication in wartime and post-war sources in Luxembourg“, Datafication in the Historical Humanities: Reconsidering Traditional Understandings of Sources and Data, GHI Washington, D.C. (02-04/06/2022)
  13. “The foreign soldier’s transnational experience in the Nazi military (sphere) – A biographical study of conscripts and volunteers from Luxembourg in the Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS and their military and individual experience in WWII“, Society for Military History, Dallas Texas (28/04-01/05/2022)
  14. “Im Spannungsfeld zwischen Informationsfreiheit und Datenschutz: Das Luxemburger Archivgesetz von 2018 und die zeithistorische Forschung“ (In the area of tension between freedom of information and data protection: The Luxembourg Archives Law of 2018 and contemporary historical research), together with Prof. Dr. Christoph Brüll (University of Luxemburg), International Conference Strategies of Prevention. Access to archival records in France and Germany in international comparison, German Historical Institute, Paris (19-20/01/2022)
  15. “Crowdsourcing and Digital Ego-Doc Collection of Project WARLUX”, at Hands-on Seminar “What is a war letter“? Interdisciplinary Seminar Series on digitized historical documentation, C2DH/NIOD, Amsterdam/Belval (online) (12/01/2022)
  16. “WARLUX: Mapping war experiences of Luxembourgish recruits during WWII“, Lecture at Digital History Seminar, Institute of Historical Research/School of Advanced Study, University of London (07/12/2021)
  17. “Using digital data analysis on recruited Luxembourgers in WWII”, Nodegoat 21 Day, at University of Bern, Historical Institute (04/06/2021)
  18. “Ambiguities in biographies of Luxembourgish conscripts during and after WWII”, Compromised Identities? Perpetration and Complicity, Past and Present, Institute of Advanced Studies at University College London Virtual Conference (06 – 07/06/2021)
  19. “Cultural Heritage Archives and Research Prospects”, Virtual Conference on Cultural Heritage, Department of History Mata Sundri College for Women, University of Delhi (27/11/2020)
  20. “The digital approach in WARLUX: The Impact and Legacy of War Experiences in Luxembourg”, Digital Humanities and Historical Research in the Benelux Countries, at FID Benelux, Low Countries Studies, University of Münster Virtual Conference (24 – 25/09/2020)
  21. “Dealing with the Fallen German Soldiers of the Second World War in Russia“, International Conference History and the Present in the 21st Century. Theories, Methods and Debates in International Conference, Deutsch-Russische Historikerkommission/Junges Netzwerk für Deutsch-Russische Geschichte, State Pedagogic University of Jaroslavl (16 – 17/09/2019)
  22. “The Transfiguration of Death and Mass Violence into Pride and Parades during WWII” Fascism and Violence Uppsala, Second Convention of the Association of Comparative Fascist Studies (COMFAS), Universität Uppsala, (25 – 27/09/ 2019)
  23. “Walking the line between history and archives – The collection of Emile Peters at the National Archives”, Researcher meets Curator, Conference on the trends in scientist biographies and its consequences for curators, archivists and researchers of university and scientific collections at Dutch Foundation for Academic Heritage (SAE), Maastricht Universität, und Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands (Royal Net. Acad. Sc) (22/03/2019)
  24. “German soldier graves of the Second World War: Walking the line between hero glorification and reconciliation”, Research Seminar, Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH), University of Luxembourg (16/01/2019)
  25. “Die Arbeit auf den ehemaligen Schlachtfeldern des zweiten Weltkrieges – Exhumierungen und Arbeiten des Volksbundes Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge in Russland“ (The work on the former battlefields of the Second World War – exhumations and work of the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge in Russia), Konfliktlandschaften. Militärgeschichte im interdisziplinären Dialog, University of Osnabrück (10 – 12/10/2018)
  26. “The Politics of Graves – War Dead and their Resting Places in the Commemoration Practice between Germany and Russia after WWII”, History as an Instrument of Contemporary International Conflicts International Conference an der University of Cracow, (25 – 27/10/2018)
  27. “Resting in Russian Soil – Commemoration, Exhumation and Cemeteries of German Fallen Soldiers of WW II in Today Russia”, International Forum for Young Scholars of Soviet and Post-Soviet History and Culture, International Centre for the History and Sociology of World War II and Its Consequences at National Research University – Higher School of Economics, Moscow (11 – 13/12/2017)
  28. “Reconciliation over the graves? The German-Russian historical dialogue”, Workshop Reconciliation Politics in Europe and Asia, American Institute for German Contemporary Studies/Johns Hopkins University Washington, D.C./USA (15/09/2016)
  29. “Reconciliation above the Graves – The Politics of Memory of War Dead in Germany” Conference Historical Justice and Memory Network, “The Politics of Memory: Victimization, Violence, and Contested Narratives of the Past.” an der Columbia University, New York/USA (12/2015)
  30. “Battlegrounds and burial sites as memorials – The transformation of war cemeteries from heroic symbols to places of mourning” Conference German Studies Association/War and Violence Network Washington, D.C./USA, (10/2015)
  31. “Ehrenhaine und Heldengräber – Friedhöfe und Kriegsgräber des Zweiten Weltkrieges als raumgebundene Topographien deutschen Heldentums 1939-1945“ (Groves of Honour and Heroes’ Graves – Cemeteries and War Graves of the Second World War as Spatial Topographies of German Heroism 1939-1945), Workshop “Das verräumlichte Selbst. Topographien kultureller Identität” at Zentrums für Kulturwissenschaftliche Forschung Lübeck (ZKFL) (09/2015)
  32. “Kriegslandschaften in Deutschland und Russland, Erinnerung und Aufarbeitung“ (War Landscapes in Germany and Russia, Memory and Reappraisal), International Summer Academy of Polish Academy of Sciences, Berlin “Der Zweite Weltkrieg aus transnationaler Perspektive Neue Forschungsansätze im Dialog“ (09/2015)
  33. “Kriegslandschaften als Erinnerungslandschaften – Deutsche Soldatenfriedhöfe als letzte Spuren des Krieges“(War Landscapes as Landscapes of Remembrance – German Military Cemeteries as the Last Traces of War), Guest lecture at the South Ural University, Chelyabinsk/Russia on (funded by DAAD, lecture tour programme) (08/2015)
  34. “Died for the Fatherland – The Soldier`s Death in the Second World War”, Summer School on Political Violence at the University of Edinburgh (06/2015)
  35. “From Battlegrounds to Burial Grounds’ – The Cemetery Landscapes of the German Army, 1939-1945”Conference “War and Geography“ at City University New York/USA (05/2015)
  36. “Die Erinnerungs- und Jugendarbeit in Osteuropa – Soldatenfriedhöfe als Erinnerungs- und Lernorte“ (Die Erinnerungs- und Jugendarbeit in Osteuropa – Soldatenfriedhöfe als Erinnerungs- und Lernorte), Conference “Lessons of the Past: Totalitarianism in Museums, Memorials, Archives and Media in Modern Russia and Germany“ at University of Perm/Russia (12/2014)
  37. “Gefallenenbestattungen und Totengedenken im Zweiten Weltkrieg“ (Burials of the Fallen and Commemoration of the Dead in the Second World War), 19. Historikertreffen “Fantom e.V“ in Kooperation mit der Deutschen Dienstelle (WASt) and Landesarchiv Berlin (10/2014)
  38. “Der Soldatentod in der Wehrmacht – Ehrenhaine und Heldengedenken im Zweiten Weltkrieg“ (Soldier’s Death in the Wehrmacht – Honorary Memorials and Heroes’ Remembrance in the Second World War), Conference “Vom Umgang mit den Toten. Sterben im Krieg von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart“, Bayerisches Armeemuseum Ingolstadt (09/2014)
  39. “Die Soldatengräber- und -friedhöfe im Zweiten Weltkrieg und die Kriegsgräberfürsorge in der Wehrmacht“ (The Military Graves and Cemeteries in the Second World War and War Graves Commission in the Wehrmacht ), Conference “Transmortale V – Neue Forschungen zu Sterben, Tod und Trauer“ im Museum für Sepulkralkultur, Kassel (03/2014)
  40. “Soldatenfriedhöfe im Zweiten Weltkrieg und zur Kriegsgräberfürsorge in der Wehrmacht“ (Military cemeteries in the Second World War and war graves care in the Wehrmacht), Colloquium “Die Bauaufgabe Soldatenfriedhof / Kriegsgräberstätte zwischen 1914 und 1989“, Humboldt-Universität Berlin und Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte Munich (02/2014)

ORGANISATION OF CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS

  1. Forum Z “Local history close up – Personal war experiences in Schifflingen (Lokalgeschichte ganz nah – Persönliche Kriegserlebnisse in Schifflingen”) (22/02/2023)
  2. Roundtable on Digital Cultural Heritage Event Series at Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (with Carmen Noguera) – September 2022 – February 2023
  3. Panel – “Transnational Soldier Experience – Biographical approach to soldierlyexperientiality”, Society for Military History, Dallas Texas (28/04-01/05/2022)
  4. “War Letters – Follow up Workshop“ – Research, Meta-Data and Indexation“ – International workshop co-organised by N Janz (with WARLUX team) andNIOD/Amsterdam, University of Luxembourg, Belval (31/05/2022)
  5. “The impact of war experiences in Europe – The conscription of non-German men andwomen into the Wehrmacht and Reichsarbeitsdienst (1938-1945), Universität Luxemburg,Belval (26-28/10/2022)
  6. “War Letters in the Digital Age – Interdisciplinary Hands-on Seminar Series on digitizedhistorical documentation”, co-organized with Milan van der Lange (NIOD, Amsterdam),online (12/01/2022)
  7. Zwangssoldaten, Malgré-Nous, Zwangsrekrutéiert ? – Dénominations, Chiffres etStatistiques en comparaison internationale / Zwangssoldaten, Malgré-Nous, Zwangsrekrutéiert ? – Begriffe, Zahlen und Statistiken im internationalen Vergleich, International Workshop, Project WARLUX, University of Luxemburg (14/10/2021)

PUBLICATIONS (PEER-REVIEWED) 

  1. “Die Erinnerungskultur des Zweiten Weltkrieges in Luxemburg”, in Erinnerungskultur in Verwaltungswissenschaften (Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2023) p. 441-544.
  2. “The Participatory Aspect Of Creating A Collection On WWII Collecting Ego-Documents From Luxembourgish Recruits And Their Families.” Etica & Politica / Ethics & Politics XXV (2): 81–103.
  3. “The Politics of Graves – Negotiations, Practice and Reactions about Fallen https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110769791-010/htmlGerman Soldiers of World War Two and Their Resting Places in Russia“, in, Instrumentalizing the Past. The Impact of History on Contemporary International Conflicts, Vienna 2022, p. 133–146.
  4. “Die Exhumierung toter deutscher Soldaten des Zweiten Weltkrieges in Russland durch den Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e.V.“ (The exhumation of dead German soldiers of the Second World War in Russia by the German War Graves Commission (Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e.V.) “Konfliktlandschaften interdisziplinär“, Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, August 2022
  5. “Von Erdhügeln, Massengräbern und Einzelgrabstätten – Militärische Begräbniskultur von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart”, in Soldat – Kind – Zwangsarbeiterin – Deserteur. Wer ist in den Soldatengräbern auf dem Friedhof Ohlsdorf bestattet, edit. by Barbara Leisner, (Edition Alster Hamburg, 2021), p.29-48.
  6. “Justiz, Richter und Anwälte während der nationalsozialistischen Besatzung im Großherzogtum Luxemburg. Ein Forschungsbericht” (The Judiciary, Judges and Lawyers during the National Socialist Occupation in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. A research report), in richten – strafen – erinnern. Nationalsozialistische Justizverbrechen und ihre Nachwirkungen in der Bundesrepublik, edit. by Janna Lölke; Martina Staats, (Wallstein, Göttingen 2020), p. 53-66. 
  7. “Der Soldatentod in der Wehrmacht – Ehrenhaine und Heldengedenken im Zweiten Weltkrieg“, in Vom Umgang mit den Toten. Sterben im Krieg von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, edit. by Martin Clauss (Schöningh Paderborn, 2019), p. 199-2019.
  8. “Documents and Research Possibilities of the Soviet Prisoners of War in German Archives”, in Occupation Annihilation – Forced Labour. Paper from the 20th Workshop on History and Memory of National Socialist Concentration Camps”. Edit. by Fréderic Bonnesour, Philipp Dinkelaker, Sarah Kleinmann, Jens Kolate and Anja Reuss, (Metropol Berlin, 2017), p. 235-254. 
  9. “From Battlegrounds to Burial Grounds’ – The Cemetery Landscapes of the German Army, 1939 -1945”, in War and Geography. The Spatiality of Organized Mass Violence, edit. by Sarah K. Danielsson/Frank Jacob (Ferdinand Schöningh Verlag, 2017), p. 147-162. 
  10. “Totenhügel und Waldfriedhöfe – die Gräber und Friedhöfe für gefallene Wehrmachtssoldaten während des Zweiten Weltkriegs zwischen individueller Gräberfürsorge und nationalsozialistischem Totenkult“, in RIHA Journal online, June 2017 (http://www.rihajournal.org/articles/2017/0150 0176-special-issue-war- graves/0174-janz).
  11. “Von Toten und Helden“ in “Archiv für Sozialgeschichte“ (Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung), 55 (2015): 177-204. 

FURTHER ARTICLES

  1. “Heldentod”; “Soldatenfriedhof”, in: Großes Lexikon der Bestattungs- und Friedhofskultur. Wörterbuch zur Sepulkralkultur, Medienkultureller Teil: Von Absurdes Theater bis Zombie, edit. by Zentralinstitut für Sepulkralkultur Kassel (Frankfurt/Main 2019), p. 82-85; p. 213-216.
  2. “Neuere Soldatenfriedhöfe aus der Zeit nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg, Friedhof und Denkmal“ (More recent military cemeteries from the period after the Second World War, cemetery and memorial), Heft 3/4 – 2019, 64. Jahrgang Schwerpunktthema: Neue Begräbnisanlagen, p.29-31.
  3. “Aus der Arbeit zweier Gräberoffiziere an der Ostfront 1941–1944“ (From the work of two grave officers on the Eastern Front 1941-1944), Arbeitskreis für Militärgeschichte, http://portal-militaergeschichte.de/ganz_graeberoffiziere –in, (01/08/2018) (DOI: 10.15500/akm20.08.2018).
  4. “Немецкие военные захоронения в Европе как места памяти в условиях диктатуры и демократии” (German military cementries in Europe as memory places in the democracy and dictatorship), in Вестник ЮУрГУ, серия «Социально-гуманитарные науки», Том 17, № 2 (2017)
  5. “Reconciliation over the Graves? or the German-Russian Reconciliation of Sologubovka”, Online Essay American Institute of Contemporary German Studies/Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C., November 2016 https://www.aicgs.org/publication/reconciliation-over-the-graves-a-german-war-%20cemetery-in-russia/
  6. “Compiègne, 21. Juni 1940” – Die historische Quelle, in: Militärgeschichte. Zeitschrift für historische Bildung, 2/2010, p. 28.

REVIEWS

  1. Postcards from the Western Front. Pilgrims, Veterans, and Tourists after the Great War, by Mark Connelly, in Francia-Recensio, 2023-2, 19.–21. Jahrhundert – Époque contemporaine
  2. The Soviet Myth of World War II – Patriotic Memory and the Russian Question in the USSR, by Jonathan Brunstedt, in Journal of Military History, 68/2, 2002 p. 488-489.
  3. Dimensionen der Mittäterschaft. Die europäische Kollaboration mit dem Dritten Reich, by Klaus Kellmann in: Hémecht, 2022, 3, p. 371-374
  4. The Lost Soldier: The Ordeal of a World War II GI from the Home Front to the Hürtgen Forest, Chris Hartley, in Michigan War Studies Review, August 2021.
  5. Tschechen in der deutschen Wehrmacht. Totgeschwiegene Schicksale, by Emmert František, Kehl 2021. ISBN 978-3-88571-395-1, In: H-Soz-Kult, 26/08/2021, <www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-96511>.
  6. The Museum of American War Letters, Review of Online “Museums“, In: H-Soz-Kulut 15/05/2021, https://www.hsozkult.de/review/id/rezwww-205?title=the-museum-of-american-war-letters
  7. The Second World War in the Twenty-first Century Museum: From Narrative, Memory, and Experience to Experientiality, Stephan Jaeger (Berlin/Boston 2020), in: The Military History Journal, January 2021, Vol. 85, No. 1, p. 293-94. 
  8. Ewige Ruhe? Grabkulturen in Luxemburg und den Nachbarregionen / Concession à perpétuité? Culture funéraires au Luxembourg et dans les régions voisines, edit. by Sonja Kmec, Robert L. Philippart, Antoinette Reuter, Luxembourg : Capybarabooks, 2019, in: Hémecht – Zeitschrift für Luxemburger Geschichte / Revue d’histoire luxembourgeoise, vol. 3/2020, p. 380-381.