Eduard Henri Benjamin van Lier studied medicine in Utrecht, where he sat for his medical finals on 26 June 1908. He obtained his doctoral degree on 8 July 1909 in Utrecht on a thesis 'On the interfibrillation material in the corium with mammals'. From 1909 until 1921, he was acting director of the M…
It is still an extremely sensitive topic: suicide during the Second World War. Historians have not known what to do with it for a long time. What is the place of suicide bombers in war history?
Remarkably little has been written on this subject and there seems to be no list of names or memorial book…