Journal of Ethnic Microhistory: Issue 8, II-2024

There are five publications in issue 8, II-2024 of "Journal of Ethnic Microhistory". 1. Dr. Winfrid Halder comments in his essay "The Burden of Memory" on the biographical novel "I was a Wolf Kid from Königsberg" (original title in German: "Ich war ein Wolfskind aus Königsberg") by Ursula Dorn. She describes her experiences that cover mainly the period between the summer of 1944 and October 1948. 2. The editorial board has decided to publish the first chapters of the biographical novel "I was a Wolf Kid from Königsberg" by Ursula Dorn to illustrate to some extent the essay "The Burden of Memory" by Dr. Winfrid Halder. This would be continued in the coming issues of the journal. 3. The article "Germany should be Fit for War" by the historian Alex Dreger is devoted to the comparative analyses of the publication dated October 7, 1894, in "Dortmund Newspaper" (Dortmunder Zeitung) that critically examined Wilhelm Liebknecht's speech in the Reichstag, in which one of the leaders of the SPD introduced a proposal for an army reform in accordance with the political views of Marxists on the armed forces. 4. The article "Do the Soviet Germans Have a Future?" is based on the presentation made on 8 October 1989 in Bonn by the leader of the Russia-German movement Hugo Wormsbecher at the congress of the Association for Germanness Abroad (Verein für das Deutschtum im Ausland - VDA). The original text is in German with a preceding English abstract. 5. The analytical treatise "Moscow is Burning, Moscow is Raging" by Robert Korn is devoted to the anti-German Pogroms in Moscow in May 1915. "Economic measures against Russia-Germans, i.e. the destruction of their enterprises and the deprivation of their property led to an acute aggravation of the social situation, first of all, of the Russian people. The deportation of Russia-Germans, who had been ruined and socially humiliated by the authorities, to the overcrowded central and eastern provinces led to a food supplies' crisis." The paper is written in Russian and preceded by an extended English abstract.