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Hanna Diamond

Autor de Fleeing Hitler: France 1940

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La guerre de 1940: se battre, subir, se souvenir (2014) — Contribuidor — 1 copia

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Conocimiento común

Otros nombres
Diamond, Hanna Elizabeth
Fecha de nacimiento
1962-04-14
Género
female
Nacionalidad
UK
Lugares de residencia
Bath, England, UK
Cardiff, Wales, UK
Educación
University of Sussex
Ocupaciones
historian
professor of French history
author
Organizaciones
Cardiff University
University of Bath
Premios y honores
Leverhulme Fellowship (2021-2023)
Biografía breve
Hanna Diamond is a professor of French history at Cardiff University, Wales. She earned both her undergraduate and postgraduate degrees at the University of Sussex. She won an ESRC-CNRS scholarship to undertake her History DPhil research in France, which she completed in 1992 with a dissertation on "Women and the Second World War in the Toulouse region." After several years working in a variety of higher education institutions in Paris, including the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Fontenay-aux-Roses and Université de Paris X Nanterre, she was appointed lecturer at the University of Bath in 1993. She was named to a Chair at Cardiff University in 2014. Prof. Diamond's specialty is the social and cultural history of France during World War II and memory of this period. She is interested in oral histories of people's everyday experiences of these traumatic events, and developed an interactive website (http://www.fleeinghitler.org/) to enable people to post family stories about experiences in Nazi-occupied Europe. She has worked in an advisory role with the Musée de la Libération de Paris-Musée du général Leclerc-Musée Jean Moulin, and co-curated with Dr. Sylvie Zaidman, the museum's director, the 2020 exhibition entitled 1940: Les Parisiens dans l'exode (1940: Parisians in the Exodus). Prof. Diamond has a Leverhulme Fellowship in 2021-2023 to research the wartime activities of Josephine Baker, who acted as a spy for the French Resistance. Her books include Women and the Second World War in France, 1939-1948: Choices and Constraints (1999) and Fleeing Hitler: France 1940 (2007). She also works with a number of radio, television, film, and theater directors, producers, and scriptwriters.

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I bought this book for a family member who as a child took part in the Exodus. I personally didn't think it would be very interesting, it covers such a seemingly minor event in World War II history in such detail, I assumed it would be banal. I was wrong. Not only did the Exodus directly shape the course of the war, the book is hugely educational, entertaining, and even relevant to today.

Diamond has a novelists sense of building a story so that by the time the Nazi's invade you feel ready to flee along with everyone else. The story is mainly told through the direct quotes of about a dozen people, of which we have excellent records. The first few chapters deal with the build-up and then Exodus. Then there is an excellent history of how and why the French government split into the Vichy government and the government in exile - this has always been confusing to me and now I understand it was largely in direct consequence of the Exodus.

The lessons of mass hysteria and propaganda are clear - sometimes everyone else really is wrong, and the safest thing to do is go against the grain. I live in the DC region and after the 9/11 attacks I often wonder what a mass evacuation would be like. Clearly, the first decision is whether to leave home at all when there is mass confusion and conflicting instructions from authorities, the road can be more dangerous than staying home. Assuming one leaves, the number one lesson is always keep your family together, never separate, even for a brief time, and have lots of food and water and gasoline.
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Stbalbach | Dec 2, 2007 |

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