Germany category: 4580 books
Jewish Life in Nazi Germany
Dilemmas and Responses
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
German Jews faced harsh dilemmas in their responses to Nazi persecution, partly a result of Nazi cruelty and brutality but also a result of an understanding of their history and rightful place in Germany. This volume addresses the impact of the anti-Jewish policies of Hitler’s regime on Jewish family...
Weimar in Exile
The Antifascist Emigration in Europe and America
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
A magisterial history of the artists and writers who left Weimar when the Nazis came to power
In 1933 thousands of intellectuals, artists, writers, militants and other opponents of the Nazi regime fled Germany. They were, in the words of Heinrich Mann, “the best of Germany,” refusing to...
by David Motadel
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
With troops fighting in regions populated by Muslims from the Sahara to the Caucasus, Nazi officials saw Islam as a powerful force with the same enemies as Germany: the British Empire, the Soviet Union, and the Jews. David Motadel provides the first comprehensive account of Berlin’s ambitious attempts to build an alliance with the Islamic world.
Serving the Reich
The Struggle for the Soul of Physics under Hitler
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
After World War II, most scientists in Germany maintained that they had been apolitical or actively resisted the Nazi regime, but the true story is much more complicated. In Serving the Reich, Philip Ball takes a fresh look at that controversial history, contrasting the career of Peter Debye, director...
The Descent of Darwin
The Popularization of Darwinism in Germany, 1860-1914
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
In Germany, more than anywhere else, Darwinism was a sensational success. Setting his analysis against the background of popular science, Kelly follows popular Darwinism as it permeated education, religion, politics, and social thought in Germany. He explains how the popularizers changed Darwin's...
Speculations on German History
Culture and the State
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
German history never loses its fascination. It is exceptionally varied, contradictory, and raises difficult problems for the historian. In a material sense, there have been a great many Germanies, so that it was long unclear what "Germany" would amount to geopolitically, while German intellectuals...
Civilizing the Enemy
German Reconstruction and the Invention of the West
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2009
For the past century, politicians have claimed that "Western Civilization" epitomizes democratic values and international stability. But who is a member of "Western Civilization"? Germany, for example, was a sworn enemy of the United States and much of Western Europe in the first...
Reverberations of Nazi Violence in Germany and Beyond
Disturbing Pasts
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Reverberations of Nazi Violence in Germany and Beyond explores the complex and diverse reverberations of the Second World War after 1945. It focuses on the legacies that National Socialist violence and genocide perpetrated in Europe continue to have in German-speaking countries and communities, as...
by Joseph W. Bendersky
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
This balanced history offers a concise, readable introduction to Nazi Germany. Combining compelling narrative storytelling with analysis, Joseph W. Bendersky offers an authoritative survey of the major political, economic, and social factors that powered the rise and fall of the Third Reich. Now in...
by Stephen J. Lee
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Hitler and Nazi Germany provides a concise introduction to Hitler’s rise to power and Nazi domestic and foreign policies through to the end of the Second World War. Combining narrative, the views of different historians, interpretation and a selection of sources, this book provides a concise introduction...
by Geoff Layton
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Exam Board: AQA, Edexcel, OCR & WJEC
Level: A-level
Subject: History
First Teaching: September 2015
First Exam: June 2016
Give your students the best chance of success with this tried and tested series, combining in-depth analysis, engaging narrative and accessibility. Access to History...
Role Model and Countermodel
The Golden Age of Iberian Jewry and German Jewish Culture during the Era of Emancipation
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
This book explores the “Golden Age” of Sephardic Jewry on the Iberian Peninsula and its perception in German Jewish culture during the era of emancipation. For Jews living in Germany, the history of Sephardic Jewry developed into a historical example with its distinctive valence and signature...
The Mark of Cain
Guilt and Denial in the Post-War Lives of Nazi Perpetrators
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
The Mark of Cain fleshes out a history of conversations that contributed to Germany's coming to terms with a guilty past. Katharina von Kellenbach draws on letters exchanged between clergy and Nazi perpetrators, written notes of prison chaplains, memoirs, sermons, and prison publications to illuminate...
Christmas in Germany
A Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
For poets, priests, and politicians--and especially ordinary Germans--in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the image of the loving nuclear family gathered around the Christmas tree symbolized the unity of the nation at large. German Christmas was supposedly organic, a product of the winter solstice...