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The book tells about the Russian Orthodox community in Luxembourg, which exists since 1929. The historical overview covers the path of the White emigration through Eastern Europe to the Grand Duchy, the establishment of the Russian colony in Mertert and Wiltz, and the renovation of the parish after the church was built in 1982.

The aim of the Bachelor's thesis is to examine how national socialist principles about human reproduction and "racial purity" impacted the female inmates in the penal institution in Saarbrücken, Germany. Over 200 personal files of German women accused of illegal abortion were examined for this study. The thesis also elaborates on conceptions of womanhood, sexuality and medical misconceptions as well as the impact of the social strata of the affected women.

Die deutschen Einwanderer prägten Saint Petersburg seit der Gründung der Stadt am Anfang des 18. Jh. Im Ersten Weltkrieg erlebte deren Gemeinde starke Diskriminierung, was zur Auswanderung der Deutschen führte. Jedoch die deutsche Schule (die erste Schule der Stadt überhaupt) gibt es auch heute, 300 Jahre später.

The arrival on the market of “hyperconnected” glasses is raising many questions on the increasing mediation of social relationships through digital tools. “Google Glasses” are designed to be permanently connected to the Internet, and can be worn all day long to add digital information to our “natural” field of vision and to record our various actions.

Automobile sounds contain information on the technical state of the car; these sounds can be used to monitor the car while driving, and, in case of a flaw, to diagnose its source. For German car mechanics, listening to car sounds was, since the institutionalization of the trade in the 1930s, a legitimate entrance to diagnostic knowledge. The introduction of new diagnostic equipment in the 1950s contested the epistemic status of diagnostic listening.