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Anne van Mourik @annevanmourik.bsky.social · 22d

@niodamsterdam.bsky.social @uni-wuppertal.bsky.social @peterromijn.bsky.social

Anne van Mourik @annevanmourik.bsky.social · 22d

🚀New NIOD Rewind podcast ep: with @toensmeyer.bsky.social and Peter Romijn about Tönsmeyer's new book on Europe under German occupation 1939–1945

What can the book teach us about how to understand situations of occupation today? 👉 Spotify, podcast app, and:
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Journal of Genocide Research @journalgenocide.bsky.social · 22d

Call for Papers: Special Issue on Starvation in Contexts of Mass Violence and Genocide. Please see the attached notice for full details.

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Kees Ribbens @histk.bsky.social · Aug 21

“Ranglijsten maken leidt niet alleen af van de kern – hoe werkte kolonialisme écht, en wie betaalde daar de prijs voor, ook sinds de onafhankelijkheid – maar kan ook moeiteloos worden ingezet voor hedendaagse politieke agenda’s.” Uitstekende observatie!

Anne van Mourik @annevanmourik.bsky.social · Aug 21

@roelfrakking.bsky.social en ik schreven een opinie:
👉Pas als we de logica van koloniale onderdrukking en het verzet ertegen begrijpen, kunnen we inzien hoe kolonialisme zich telkens opnieuw een weg baant in onze wereld van vandaag

de Volkskrant @volkskrant.nl · Aug 21

Opinie: De vraag wie de grootste koloniale misdadiger was (en antwoorden met: ‘Nederland’), brengt ons niet verder

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Anne van Mourik @annevanmourik.bsky.social · Aug 21

@roelfrakking.bsky.social en ik schreven een opinie:
👉Pas als we de logica van koloniale onderdrukking en het verzet ertegen begrijpen, kunnen we inzien hoe kolonialisme zich telkens opnieuw een weg baant in onze wereld van vandaag

de Volkskrant @volkskrant.nl · Aug 21

Opinie: De vraag wie de grootste koloniale misdadiger was (en antwoorden met: ‘Nederland’), brengt ons niet verder

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Anne van Mourik @annevanmourik.bsky.social · Aug 14

Zondag 17 aug is Ugur Ümit Üngör te gast bij @vprozomergasten.bsky.social

Eerder sprak ik hem voor de NIOD podcast over 80 jaar oorlog verzamelen: van WOII tot Syrië, de Joegoslavische oorlogen en de Yezidi-genocide.

📻 Luister: soundcloud.com/niod_rewind_...

🍿Ik kijk zondag!

#zomergasten #vpro

NIOD Rewind Episode 42 - 80 Years of Collecting War

Exactly eighty years ago, in the midst of the liberation’s chaos, the NIOD (then the RIOD) was founded with a clear mission: to document Dutch experiences of the Second World War. In this special anni

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Marc Palen @mwpalen.bsky.social · Jun 26

Did European colonialism truly end in the 20th century, as we often assume?

Check out Anne van Mourik's (NIOD) interview with CIGH's Martin Thomas about his book The End of Empires and a World Remade (2024).

NIOD Rewind: The End of Empires and a World Remade

Martin Thomas and Anne van MourikNIOD Rewind Did European colonialism truly end in the 20th century, as we often assume? In this episode Anne van Mourik (NIOD) speaks with Martin Thomas (Exeter University) about his book The End of Empires and a World Remade: A Global History of Decolonization (Princeton University Press). He argues that decolonization was not just the transfer of power from colonizers to the colonized, but a global, often violent process that forged new alliances, reshaped international connections, and left behind enduring colonial legacies.

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Anne van Mourik @annevanmourik.bsky.social · Jun 27

If empires were so powerful, military, politically, economically, why and how did they collapse?

My interview with Martin Thomas @exeter.ac.uk on imperialglobalexeter.com/2025/06/26/n...

NIOD Rewind: The End of Empires and a World Remade

Martin Thomas and Anne van MourikNIOD Rewind Did European colonialism truly end in the 20th century, as we often assume? In this episode Anne van Mourik (NIOD) speaks with Martin Thomas (Exeter Uni…

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Anne van Mourik @annevanmourik.bsky.social · Jun 25

📯 Why is colonial violence different from violence in non-imperial spaces?

This and more in this freshly published episode in which I interview Prof. Martin Thomas @exeter.ac.uk about his master piece ‘The End of Empires and a World Remade’

#niodrewind #colonialism

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NIOD Rewind Episode 44: The End of Empires and a World Remade

Did European colonialism truly end in the 20th century, as we often assume? In this episode Anne van Mourik (NIOD) speaks with Martin Thomas (Exeter University) about his book The End of Empires and a

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Lijphart @lijphart.bsky.social · May 29

Very informative podcast on "Hunger as a Weapon of War and Genocide". Learned more in one podcast then all news. Including the Gaza case.

With presenter @annevanmourik.bsky.social and the fantastic Ingrid de Zwarte and Alex de Waal.

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#genocide #famine #palestine

NIOD Rewind Episode 43 - Hunger as a Weapon of War and Genocide

In this episode, Anne van Mourik (NIOD) sits down with famine scholars Alex de Waal (Tufts University) and Ingrid de Zwarte (Wageningen University & Research) to discuss how hunger can be used as a p

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Luke Moffett @lukemoffett.bsky.social · May 28

Namibia to mark German colonial genocide for first time with memorial day as claims for reparations continue
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Namibia to mark German colonial genocide for first time with memorial day

Concentration camps and pseudoscientific experiments were used by German officials to torture and kill.

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Anne van Mourik @annevanmourik.bsky.social · May 27

In #Sudan, #Gaza, and beyond, #starvation is used as political-military instrument of power. Why isn’t the world acting?
With: Alex de Waal and Ingrid de Zwarte

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📯 Spotify, podcast apps and the @niodamsterdam.bsky.social website

#famine #historypodcast #genocide

NIOD Rewind Episode 43 - Hunger as a Weapon of War and Genocide

In this episode, Anne van Mourik (NIOD) sits down with famine scholars Alex de Waal (Tufts University) and Ingrid de Zwarte (Wageningen University & Research) to discuss how hunger can be used as a p

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Anne van Mourik @annevanmourik.bsky.social · May 26

haha thank you for this...I think I needed more coffee at the time 🤣

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Lucy Gaynor @lucyjgaynor.bsky.social · May 13

During a basement clearout at the Supreme Court in #Argentina, workers stumbled upon some champagne crates.

Inside, they found stacks of #Nazi documents sent from the 🇩🇪 embassy in #Japan in 1941.

The Buenos Aires #Holocaust museum has been tasked with making an #archive

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Anne van Mourik @annevanmourik.bsky.social · May 13

New article is out!
How were (education and film) narratives of the #WWI Allied naval #blockade (1914–19) and of German #hunger used to promote resilience, justify governmental food policies, and support racist ideologies in Weimar Germany? rb.gy/w7odzz

“I haven't eaten so well for so long!” | 13 | Representations of the A

This chapter analyses evolving narratives surrounding the Allied Blockade (1914–19) in Germany during WWI through the Weimar era using textbooks and film. While

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Anne van Mourik @annevanmourik.bsky.social · May 8

🎉 80 years of NIOD!
Founded in 1945, amid the chaos of liberation, NIOD began documenting #WWII experiences.

👉Jaap Cohen, Eveline Buchheim, @uungor.bsky.social & Arvid de Raaij about collecting war & violence—from the Nazi occupation to the 2025 #Ajax–Maccabi riots
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NIOD Rewind Episode 42 - 80 Years of Collecting War

Exactly eighty years ago, in the midst of the liberation’s chaos, the NIOD (then the RIOD) was founded with a clear mission: to document Dutch experiences of the Second World War. In this special anni

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Anne van Mourik @annevanmourik.bsky.social · May 5

New piece out on "The Long War" in the Netherlands, Indonesia & Germany.

During and after #WWII—roles of victim, perpetrator & witness shifted constantly. This matters for how we remember mass violence today.

(🇩🇪pp. 30–31) printed in Aktion Sühnezeichen

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Anne van Mourik @annevanmourik.bsky.social · Feb 24

I’ve been working on something new: NIOD Rewind Flash – 10-min episodes where I chat with experts on #war and #violence to connect history with today’s news.

1st ep: dr. Anne-Lise Bobeldijk talks about how #Trump & #Putin use #WWII history for political gain 🎧

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NIOD Rewind Flash Episode 41 - History at stake: Trump, Putin and the War in Ukraine

In the first episode of a special NIOD Rewind series called Flash, Anne van Mourik speaks with historian Dr. Anne-Lise Bobeldijk (NIOD) about how president Trump and president Putin are exploiting Wor

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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · Feb 25

Once again, the rise of the AfD and its relatively greater popularity in the East has led to yet another round of discussion around the legacy of the GDR and contemporary German politics. A short thread:

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NIOD @niodamsterdam.bsky.social · Feb 24

#PODCAST | In a special NIOD Rewind Flash, @annevanmourik.bsky.social speaks with @acbobeldijk.bsky.social about how Trump and Putin are exploiting WWII history to support their political strategies.

🎧 Listen to the flash episode via your favorite platform or here: soundcloud.com/niod_rewind_...

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Anne van Mourik @annevanmourik.bsky.social · Feb 24

I’ve been working on something new: NIOD Rewind Flash – 10-min episodes where I chat with experts on #war and #violence to connect history with today’s news.

1st ep: dr. Anne-Lise Bobeldijk talks about how #Trump & #Putin use #WWII history for political gain 🎧

soundcloud.com/niod_rewind_...

NIOD Rewind Flash Episode 41 - History at stake: Trump, Putin and the War in Ukraine

In the first episode of a special NIOD Rewind series called Flash, Anne van Mourik speaks with historian Dr. Anne-Lise Bobeldijk (NIOD) about how president Trump and president Putin are exploiting Wor

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Anne van Mourik @annevanmourik.bsky.social · Feb 24

Yes you're right I think!

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Anne van Mourik @annevanmourik.bsky.social · Feb 24

I thought this was an interesting article in this context (in Dutch): www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

It argues that the differences can be traced back further than the DDR era, with the late establishment of Christianity in the East. But undoubtedly the GDR/FRG divide played a role as well indeed

Wat verklaart het succes van AfD in de voormalige DDR?

Duitse verkiezingen: Komend weekend wordt AfD naar verwachting de grootste in alle deelstaten in het oosten van Duitsland. Waarom doet deze partij het zo goed in de voormalige DDR? NRC vergelijkt inwo...

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Feb 9

‘Many teachers don’t want to do this, but they’re trapped’: film shows extent of Putin indoctrination in Russian schools

Two years after he started documenting the effect of the Ukraine war on his pupils, Pavel Talankin reveals how it led to accolade – and exile from home As Russian tanks advanced into Ukraine in February 2022, Vladimir Putin was waging a parallel battle…

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Lotte Jensen @lottejensen.bsky.social · Jan 5

Op 13 januari presenteren we in Museum Rotterdam onze brochure Hongersnood als levend verleden. Ervaringen en aanbevelingen. Toegepaste geschiedenis voor beleidsmakers, politici, museummedewerkers, de cultuursector, enz. @mcorporaal.bsky.social @charleyb.bsky.social @annevanmourik.bsky.social

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