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Il y a des personnalités qui demeurent dans la mémoire collective par l’empreinte qu’elles ont laissée sur le destin de leurs pays. Pierre Werner (29 décembre 1913 – 24 juin 2002) est de ceux-là. Ministre d’État, Premier Ministre et ministre des Finances pendant de longues décennies, cet intellectuel catholique et démocrate résolu fut l’un des rares hommes d’État qui a traversé le XXe siècle.

An interview I gave to Luxembourger Wort reporter Laurent Schmit on June 8th 2017, from 15:50 to 16:10. We spoke about the impact of the Marshall Plan in Luxembourg, the changes it brought to the country, and the impact on the integration process. I am cited in the 3rd to last paragraph in the column.

The German soldiers who fell during the Second World War were buried in large cemetery complexes throughout Europe. Construction and design guidelines drawn up by the Wehrmacht itself put national socialist ideology into a concrete form, furthering the myth of sacrifice for the fatherland. Hitler appointed a special architect, Wilhelm Kreis, to design gigantic memorials. In the course of the war both the Wehrmacht and the architect had to adjust their plans to the realities of war; the "heroic" plans could not be realized.

The story of the a doctors villa (Dr. Nicolas Huberty (1890-1976)) and his friends (among them first communist minister Dr. Charles Marx (1903-1946)) helping two French pilots to escape Germans in 1940.

The aim of the master thesis "Le Luxembourg aux origines de l'OTAN (1948-1953)" is twofold. On the basis of a theoretical model studying the behaviour of Luxembourg as a small state in multilateral organisations, the thesis intends to analyse the Grand-Duchy's strategy in the negotiations leading to the creation of NATO and its first years of existence. In the second part, the research focusses on how the country's membership in the Transatlantic Alliance impacted its domestic policy.

Dans son édition d’avril 2016, la revue d'histoire luxembourgeoise « Hémecht » a publié l’article « Le Benelux et les réfugiés fuyant l’Allemagne nazie: les spécificités du Luxembourg » rédigé par Frank Caestecker et Denis Scuto.

We are pleased to announce the Inaugural Issue of the Journal of Historical Network Research, a new publication dedicated to historical research by means of theories and methodologies developed in social network analysis and network science.