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A short video lecture explaining the marshal plan, and its impact on WWI and WWII reparations, the re-integration of Germany and German Economic recovery after WWII.

In this presentation, I will present my PhD dissertation on the cultural dynamics of home movies in the twentieth century. In my research, I have investigated how various generations have recorded their memories on film, video and digital media, and, more specifically, how changes in these “technologies of memory” have shaped new forms of home movie making and screening.

Memorecord is a digital public history project. This crowdsourcing experiment combines community participation and academic research to offer a new perspective on the history of migration in Luxembourg. The project makes use of new communication technologies to approach history in a collaborative way.

Frequency values and distribution are considered to compute informational measures in multilingual historical and literary corpora.

Ruim 100 jaar geleden begonnen de eerste amateurs zichzelf en hun omgeving vast te leggen in bewegend beeld. Tegenwoordig doet vrijwel iedereen dit met de smartphone, maar nog niet zo lang geleden behoorden het maken en vertonen van amateurfilms – ook wel ‘familiefilms’ of ‘home movies’ genoemd – enkel tot de welgestelde families en hobbyisten.

In the town of Esch-sur-Alzette in southern Luxembourg, people prepare for Pentecost in May 1940; the town dresses up, the children look forward to the traditional fair. But this will not take place. For on 10 May 1940, the war comes to the Grand Duchy. Germany invades neutral Luxembourg. Even today, 10 May is considered a "day of fate" - because the lives of the entire population changed in one fell swoop.