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Bill Niven @bniven.bsky.social · 5d

If you are in Berlin on 19th October please come and watch! This film about Hanna Miley’s Kindertransport journey won best documentary film at the Berlin Indie Festival. I am passing on Hanna’s invitation. Amy Williams and I were part of the film project and will be there to talk about it.

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Bill Niven @bniven.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks!

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Bill Niven @bniven.bsky.social · 5d

Can anyone give me an idea what 50 Reichsmark would have bought me in 1939 Germany? Trying to get a sense of how much that is…

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Bill Niven @bniven.bsky.social · 5d

Instructions for the Viennese Kindertransport on 10 January 1939:

„Mit Rücksicht auf die Witterungsverhältnisse in England wird dringend empfohlen, den Kindern warme Unterwäsche und Kleidung, womöglich auch Gummischuhe mitzugeben“

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Bill Niven @bniven.bsky.social · 8d

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Bill Niven @bniven.bsky.social · 8d

Looking forward to discussing this film with Elizabeth Ward in Halle (Puschkino) on 29 October.

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Bill Niven @bniven.bsky.social · 8d

Looking forward to this conference next week…

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Bill Niven @bniven.bsky.social · 14d

Looking forward to speaking and hearing the papers at this conference in Limerick in October.

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Bill Niven @bniven.bsky.social · 15d

Keeping the head down…

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Bill Niven @bniven.bsky.social · 16d

New book on Günter Grass following on from a great conference in Gdansk

Bill Niven @bniven.bsky.social · 17d

Just out…

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Bill Niven @bniven.bsky.social · 17d

www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/themen-entde...

Die Zukunft des NS-Gedenkens

Dieses Buch widmet sich vor dem Hintergrund aktueller Entwicklungen der Geschichte und Gegenwart des NS-Gedenkens in Deutschland und den damit verbundenen Herausforderungen für die Zukunft.

www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com

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Bill Niven @bniven.bsky.social · 20d

Will do when back in UK!

Bill Niven @bniven.bsky.social · 20d

Honoured to hold the opening lecture at the Hans Mayer Society conference. Thanks to @jansueselbeck.bsky.social for the great article on Metropolis which helped me.

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Bill Niven @bniven.bsky.social · 26d

Extrovertly passionate people awaken suspicion because the more emotionally cagy cannot grasp that such openness can be nature rather than design. They are also easily misunderstood and accused of manipulation. And they get bullied.

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Bill Niven @bniven.bsky.social · 26d

Looking forward to speaking about representations of Jewish women in German literature and film at the Hans Mayer Conference in Cologne

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Bill Niven @bniven.bsky.social · Aug 30

Fantastic news - the film about the life of Kindertransportee Hanna Miley to which Amy Williams and I (to a much lesser extent) contributed has won best documentary at the Berlin Indie Film Festival - after successes in Austin and Cannes. So pleased for Hanna and the fantastic film team!

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Bill Niven @bniven.bsky.social · Aug 28

www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/goetz...

Götz Aly über die Deutschen und die Naziverbrechen: "Wie konnte das geschehen?"

Götz Aly fragt noch einmal, warum so viele mitmachten bei den Verbrechen der Nationalsozialisten.

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Bill Niven @bniven.bsky.social · Aug 23

If you are in Cologne in September…

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Bill Niven @bniven.bsky.social · Aug 9

www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

Briefwechsel zwischen Ingeborg Bachmann und Heinrich Böll

Unbehauste trifft Eigenheimbewohner, aber ohne erotische Ambitionen: Der lange gesperrte Briefwechsel zwischen Ingeborg Bachmann und Heinrich Böll ist jetzt zu lesen. Es geht um Ruhm, um Reisen – und ...

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Bill Niven @bniven.bsky.social · Aug 9

www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/inter...