It pains me that I haven’t updated GHB since last Wednesday, and I probably won’t again until the weekend. The reason is because I got a rush job for German-to-English translation of some very, very dense and difficult German. It concerns psychological research and it’s just simply brutal. Here’s a single sentence to give you an idea. Yes, this is just one sentence:
Darüber hinaus deutet Vieles darauf hin, dass in Aus- und Weiterbildungslehrgängen für Pflegepersonen (im Altenbereich) ein geringes Gewicht auf die Vermittlung von Wissen und die Förderung von Kompetenzen gelegt wird, die es Pflegepersonen ermöglichen, über explizite und implizite Momente des eigenen Wahrnehmens, Erlebens und Denkens, die ihre pflegerische Tätigkeit unmittelbar und häufig unbewusst beeinflussen, in professioneller Art und Weise zu reflektieren.
I’m not really that good of a translator. In fact, I’m not a translator in any official capacity at all. But I accepted the job and it’s moving forward, albeit very slowly; I’m doing it during my evenings, since I have a day job. It should be finished by Friday.
So anyway, as I said, it kills me to leave GHB so unattended. During little breaks in the work, I have surfed around to look at stuff as always, so I just mention a few things here now.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Last week I tweeted about the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s First Person podcast series. Since then I’ve taken the time to look around more at the rest of the USHMM’s website, and I’m very impressed with what’s available. Just one example is their Online Exhibitions page. Have a look at it. If you like original source material like oral histories, interviews, documents, film footage and the like, then this is really a place for you to stop by.
Harvard Law School Library: Nuremberg Trials Project
According to the introductory page, Harvard has over a million documents related to the trials. They don’t seem to have scanned many of them yet to make them available online, but there are some from the “Doctors’ Trials”, the trials concerning such experimentation on human subjects. If you look at their Documents page, you get an example of how the prosecution worked with documents. The page shows you an original German document, a typed version (still in German), another typed version (now translated to English), and a “Staff Analysis” prepared by the prosecution staff. I found that interesting.
This web site has several videos containing eyewitness testimony of people who resisted fascism throughout Europe. The videos even contain English subtitles. I’ve just watched the testimony of Ms Romana Verdel from Carinthia. Very interesting!
That’s all for now. GHB will be back in normal operation soon. Bis bald!
