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Ink and Paper in the Camp. Ego-Documents of Luxembourger Conscripts in the Soviet Captivity
Ganschow, Inna
2024In Janz, Nina; Scuto, Denis (Eds.) The Impact of War Experiences in Europe
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Keywords :
Wehrmacht; Ego-documents; Soviet Union
Abstract :
[en] In the paper by Inna Ganschow, the camp experience in the Soviet Union as a result of forced conscription will be treated, specifically in its artistic processing: secretly written diaries and letters by Luxembourg Wehrmacht soldiers. Contemporary historical research today calls them ego documents – private, handwritten texts of a personal nature. The range of texts to be examined in the lecture ranges from the smuggled out notes and letters that their released comrades took with them to Luxembourg, through diaries, speeches and self-made dictionaries to poems, short stories and drawings, some of which were in the camp and some immediately after the return from Tambov and other camps in the Soviet Union. The focus is on the question of dealing with the thesis of the Auschwitz concentration camp survivor Viktor Frankl, psychiatrist and neurologist from Vienna, that the meaning of camp life - logotherapy - can have a self-healing effect and increase the self-healing powers, which increases the chances of survival.
Research center :
- Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH) > Contemporary History of Luxembourg (LHI)
Disciplines :
History
Author, co-author :
Ganschow, Inna  ;  University of Luxembourg > Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH) > Contemporary History of Luxembourg
External co-authors :
yes
Language :
English
Title :
Ink and Paper in the Camp. Ego-Documents of Luxembourger Conscripts in the Soviet Captivity
Publication date :
2024
Event name :
The Impact of War Experiences in Europe
Event organizer :
c2dh
Event place :
Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Event date :
26.-28.10.2022
Audience :
International
Main work title :
The Impact of War Experiences in Europe
Author, co-author :
Publisher :
De Gruyter, Rossum, Netherlands
Edition :
24
Peer reviewed :
Peer reviewed
Name of the research project :
ZWANG
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