NIOD Rewind Podcast on War & Violence

What kind of knowledge can we gain from WWII games? In episode 12 of Niod Rewind, Anne van Mourik interviews Pieter van den Heede about his dissertation 'Engaging with the Second World War through Digital Gaming', which he defended last February (2021). Pieter studied how digital entertainment games such as Call of Duty represent the war and the Holocaust in particular, and how players reflect on playing these games.

To what extent do studios make WWII games according to the last historical insights about how people actually dealt with this mass violence? How is it that some games become political and thereby seem to align with right-wing ideologies?

In this episode of NIOD Rewind, Anne van Mourik speaks  with Ismee Tames and Robert Gildea about their new book Fighters across  Frontiers. Transnational resistance in Europe, 1936-1948. The book is  the product of years of research by a team of two dozen historians, and  it reveals that resistance against Fascism was not narrowly delineated  by country but startlingly transnational.

What did Ismee and  Robert learn from this collaborative scholarship? How did the book come about? Where do the experiences of the transnational fighters take us?  And what does it tell us?

Anne van Mourik talks with Roel Frakking on the term 'extreme violence'  and the importance of local dynamics in researching decolonisation  conflict. Roel is a postdoc researcher at the Royal Netherlands  Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (KITLV, Leiden) where he is  researching the regional dynamics of the Indonesian war against Dutch  recolonisation (1945-1950). His latest publication, co-authored with  Professor Martin Thomas (Exeter), deals with the micro-dynamics of  violence during decolonization conflicts in Southeast Asia and Africa  after 1945 in the Low Countries Historical Review 135, 2 (2020).

In episode 9 of NIOD REWIND, Anne van Mourik and Thijs Bouwknegt interview historian Kerstin von Lingen.

Prof. Dr. Kerstin von Lingen is a historian and researcher, Professor at the Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna. From 2013-2017, she led an independent research group at Heidelberg University in the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context” entitled “Transcultural Justice: Legal Flows and the Emergence of International Justice within the East Asian War Crimes Trials, 1946-1954,” supervising four doctoral dissertations on the Soviet, Chinese, Dutch, and French war crimes trial policies in Asia, respectively. Her publications include two monographs in English, Kesselring’s Last Battle: War Crimes Trials and Cold War Politics, 1945-1960 (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2009) and Allen Dulles, the OSS and Nazi War Criminals: The Dynamics of Selective Prosecution (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013). Her edited volumes include: Transcultural Justice at the Tokyo Tribunal: The Allied Struggle for Justice, 1946-48 (Brill 2018); Justice in times of turmoil: War Crimes trials in the Wake of Decolonization and Cold War in Asia(Palgrave 2016); Debating Collaboration and Complicity in War Crimes Trials in Asia (Palgrave 2017). In German, she published the multi-authored volumes Kriegserfahrung und nationale Identität in Europa [War experience and national identity in Europe after 1945], Paderborn: Schoeningh, 2009, and co-edited with Klaus Gestwa, Zwangsarbeit als Kriegsressource in Europa und Asien [Forced labor as a resource of War: European and Asian perspectives), Schoening 2014.

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In episode 8 of NIOD REWIND, Anne van Mourik and Thijs Bouwknegt interview historian Iva Vukušić. Iva is a lecturer at Utrecht University and a Visiting Research Fellow at King’s College London. She recently defended her PhD — online (!) — which focuses on Serbian paramilitaries and irregular armed forces during the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s. Iva worked for the Sense News Agency in The Hague, analyzing evidence from trials at the United Nations’ International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and before that, she was an analyst and researcher at the Special War Crimes Department of the State Prosecutor’s office in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Follow her on Twitter: @VukusicIva

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Music, intro/ outro: Roy van Rosendaal

In deze speciale reeks van de NIOD Rewind podcast gaan  onderzoekers van het NIOD in op de coronacrisis en de onzekere tijden  die dit met zich mee brengt. Hoe ervaren zij de crisis zelf? En hoe  analyseren zij, vanuit het perspectief van hun onderzoek, de  gebeurtenissen in de samenleving?

Anne van Mourik spreekt met  NIOD-directeur Frank van Vree. Hoe analyseert hij de coronacrisis? Welke  historische analogieën ziet hij? En het NIOD staat deze week stil bij  het 75-jarig bestaan, hoe ziet Frank de toekomst van het instituut?

Een podcast door: Anne van Mourik, Thijs Bouwknegt en Anne-Lise Bobeldijk.

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In deze speciale reeks van de NIOD Rewind podcast gaan  onderzoekers van het NIOD in op de coronacrisis en de onzekere tijden  die dit met zich mee brengt. Hoe ervaren zij de crisis zelf? En hoe  analyseren zij, vanuit het perspectief van hun onderzoek, de  gebeurtenissen in de samenleving? In de derde aflevering spreekt  Anne-Lise Bobeldijk met Ralf Futselaar over medische geschiedenis,  hamsteren en zijn werk aan de Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam.

Een podcast door: Anne van Mourik, Thijs Bouwknegt en Anne-Lise Bobeldijk.

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In this seventh episode of NIOD REWIND Anne van Mourik and Thijs Bouwknegt interview Prof. dr. Peter Romijn. Peter is head of the Research Department of the NIOD and Professor of Twentieth-Century History at the University of Amsterdam.

Recently he published a new book about The Netherlands at war in Europe and Asia, 1940-1950. During the Second World War both the Netherlands and the Dutch East Indies (today's Indonesia) were under German and Japanese occupation (1940-1945). After being liberated, the Netherlands engaged in a violent decolonisation war in Indonesia (1945-1950). In his book, Peter, refuses to see the latter war only as an aftermath of the former one; it focuses on the many continuities of a society continuously mobilised for internal conflict and external warfare, trying to come to terms with the profound changes in international relations.

More information on his book can be found here (in Dutch): https://www.niod.nl/nl/de-lange-tweede-wereldoorlog-nederland-1940-1949

In deze speciale reeks van de NIOD Rewind podcast gaan  onderzoekers van het NIOD in op de coronacrisis en de onzekere tijden  die dit met zich mee brengt. Hoe ervaren zij de crisis zelf? En hoe  analyseren zij, vanuit het perspectief van hun onderzoek, de  gebeurtenissen in de samenleving? In de tweede aflevering spreekt Thijs  Bouwknegt de kersverse hoogleraar Holocaust en Genocide Studies, Uğur  Ümit Üngör.

Een podcast door: Anne van Mourik, Thijs Bouwknegt en Anne-Lise Bobeldijk.

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In episode 6 of NIOD REWIND Anne van Mourik and Thijs  Bouwknegt interview historian Ingrid de Zwarte (Wageningen University).  De Zwarte's research explores the role of food and famine in modern  conflict in the broadest sense: from hunger as a political and military  tool in warfare to social self-organisation in times of hunger, and from  the demographic impact of famine to the effects of hunger on migration  and state formation. Her book “The Hunger Winter. Fighting Famine in the  Occupied Netherlands, 1944-1945” (Cambridge University Press) is  available from August 2020. [hyperlink: www.cambridge.org/nl/academic/subj…441945?format=HB]

Together  with M. Corporaal (PI) and L. Jensen, De Zwarte has been awarded a NWO  NWA-ORC Grant for the project Heritages of Hunger: Societal Reflections  on Past European Famines in Education, Commemoration and Musealisation.  Working with famine experts from sixteen countries, it investigates the  past and present significance of European famines in educational  institutions and the heritage sector. (for more information: www.ru.nl/heritagesofhunger/)

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Accralate - The Dark Contenent by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)