Retelling the History of the German Occupation in Prague during WWII

Problem Statement/Research Question: How can Digital Humanities methods offer previously unknown insights into the history of the German occupation in Prague during World War II (1941-1945), especially through the use of hardly consulted administrative docments?

Data Sources: Thousands of digitized documents containing more than 4000 cases of offences against the war economy. Data from many of the documents has already been extracted and added to a searchable database. Challenge: data in two languages: Czech and German. Additional related law documents have been digitized.

Audience: Historians, history students.

Inspirations: One possible example: the US-Iran Relations Project (https://us-iran.mit.edu)

Skills needed: Database, UI/UX design, metadata, NLP (NER, topic modelling, etc.)

Note: This project is part of a newly funded collaboration with the Czech Academy of Science.