Germany category: 4580 books
In the Garden of Beasts
Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
Erik Larson, New York Times bestselling author of Devil in the White City, delivers a remarkable story set during Hitler’s rise to power.
The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America’s first ambassador to Hitler’s Nazi Germany in a year that proved to be a...
Reporting on Hitler
Rothay Reynolds and the British Press in Nazi Germany
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
Allegedly the only man capable of holding the Führer's intense gaze, Rothay Reynolds was a leading foreign correspondent between the wars and ran the Daily Mail's bureau in Berlin throughout the 1920s and 1930s. The enigmatic former clergyman was one of the first journalists to interview Adolf Hitler,...
Germany in the Modern World
A New History
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
With a careful blend of concision and rich detail, Sam A. Mustafa's readable and lively text traces German history from Roman times to the present, placing particular emphasis on the past three centuries. Balanced and clearly written, the book guides readers expertly through the complex tangle of...
by Konrad Heiden
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2018
In 1934, Social Democrat journalist Karl Heiden, wrote this important, critical, contemporary and insightful account of the rise of Nazism from its 1918 origins as Anton Dexler’s German Workers’ Party (NSDAP) through to the eve of the Röhm purge in the 1934, the ‘Night of the Long Knives’....
From the Bonn to the Berlin Republic
Germany at the Twentieth Anniversary of Unification
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
The fall of the Berlin Wall and the unification of East and West Germany in 1989/90 were events of world-historical significance. The twentieth anniversary of this juncture represents an excellent opportunity to reflect upon the evolution of the new Berlin Republic. Given the on-going significance...
by John Provan
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2012
After 60 years of serving as the Gateway to Europe, Rhein-Main Air Base is ceasing operations on September 30, 2005. The unique history and determination of this Air Base has supported over 170 humanitarian airlift operations, to include the famous Berlin Airlift. Since 1945, some 8 million GI's...
Nazism as Fascism
Violence, Ideology, and the Ground of Consent in Germany 1930-1945
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Offering a dynamic and wide-ranging examination of the key issues at the heart of the study of German Fascism, Nazism as Fascism brings together a selection of Geoff Eley’s most important writings on Nazism and the Third Reich.
Featuring a wealth of revised, updated and new material, Nazism...
The Downfall of Money
Germany’s Hyperinflation and the Destruction of the Middle Class
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
An economic horror story: The complete meltdown of a major modern country's financial system, and its disastrous effects on every aspect of society.
A hundred years ago, many theorists believed-just as they did at the beginning of our twenty-first century-that the world had reached a state...
Trams or Tailfins?
Public and Private Prosperity in Postwar West Germany and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
In the years that followed World War II, both the United States and the newly formed West German republic had an opportunity to remake their economies. Since then, much has been made of a supposed “Americanization” of European consumer societies—in Germany and elsewhere. Arguing against these...
Life in the Third Reich
Daily Life in Nazi Germany, 1933-1945
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2015
Life in the Third Reich draws extensively on interviews, letters and diaries from the earliest days of the Nazi Party to the final hours of the thousand-year Reich to reveal how the Hitler cult influenced and corrupted every aspect of life, from education, health, business, the press, the judicial system...
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Dana was a native of Frankfurt (Oder) and a college student in East Berlin in the mid and late 1980s. She answered a letter that I wrote to Bulgaria Today magazine, which was located in Sofia, Bulgaria, in 1984. Dana is somewhat younger than I am. She often wrote to me while traveling on a train from...
The Nazi Séance
The Strange Story of the Jewish Psychic in Hitler's Circle
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
World War I left Berlin, and all of Germany, devastated. Charlatans and demagogues eagerly exploited the desperate crowds. Fascination with the occult was everywhere – in private séances, personalized psychic readings, communions with the dead – as people struggled to escape the grim reality...
by Francis Russell
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2018
Here, from New York Times bestselling historian Richard Russell, is the dramatic story of Germany - from the rise of Charlemagne to the age of Martin Luther, from the Thirty Years' War to the iron rule of Otto von Bismarck, and from the formation of the Weimar Republic to the fighting of two world wars.
by Philipp Studt
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2006
Essay from the year 2005 in the subject History Europe - Germany - World War I, Weimar Republic, grade: 70%, Lancaster University, course: Germany 1870-1990-the restless nation, 17 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The Weimar Republic, Germany's first democracy founded in the...