Germany category: 4580 books
Nazi Germany and the Humanities
How German Academics Embraced Nazism
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
In 1933, Jews, and to a lesser extent, political opponents of the Nazis, suffered an unprecedented loss of positions and livelihood at Germany's universities. With few exceptions, the academic elite welcomed and justified the acts of the Nazi regime, uttered no word of protest when their Jewish and...
The German Patient
Crisis and Recovery in Postwar Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2010
The German Patient takes an original look at fascist constructions of health and illness, arguing that the idea of a healthy "national body"---propagated by the Nazis as justification for the brutal elimination of various unwanted populations---continued to shape post-1945 discussions about...
Exorcising Hitler
The Occupation and Denazification of Germany
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
The collapse of the Third Reich in 1945 was an event nearly
unprecedented in history. Only the fall of the Roman Empire fifteen
hundred years earlier compares to the destruction visited on Germany.
The country's cities lay in ruins, its economic base devastated. The
German people stood at the brink...
Stasi
The Untold Story Of The East German Secret Police
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
In this gripping narrative, John Koehler details the widespread activities of East Germany's Ministry for State Security, or Stasi.” The Stasi, which infiltrated every walk of East German life, suppressed political opposition, and caused the imprisonment of hundreds of thousands of citizens, proved...
by Friedrich Engels
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
Originally published in 1926, this translation of Engels’ account of the Peasant War in fourteenth Century Germany explores the social and economic forces that led to peasant rebellion with a particular focus on how closely this related to the Reformation. Engels gives examples of key figures involved...
After the Reich
The Brutal History of the Allied Occupation
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2009
The shocking history of the brutal occupation of Germany after the Second World War
When the Third Reich collapsed in 1945, Germany was a nation in tatters, in many places literally flattened by bombs. In the ensuing occupation, hundreds of thousands of women were raped. Hundreds of thousands...
by Geoff Layton
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 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...
by Dagmar Reese
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2010
Growing Up Female in Nazi Germany explores the world of the Bund Deutscher Mädel (BDM), the female section within the Hitler Youth that included almost all German girls aged 10 to 14. The BDM is often enveloped in myths; German girls were brought up to be the compliant handmaidens of National Socialism,...
Weimar Publics/Weimar Subjects
Rethinking the Political Culture of Germany in the 1920s
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
In spite of having been short-lived, “Weimar” has never lost its fascination. Until recently the Weimar Republic’s place in German history was primarily defined by its catastrophic beginning and end - Germany’s defeat in 1918 and the Nazi seizure of power in 1933; its history seen mainly in...
Synthetic Socialism
Plastics and Dictatorship in the German Democratic Republic
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Eli Rubin takes an innovative approach to consumer culture to explore questions of political consensus and consent and the impact of ideology on everyday life in the former East Germany. Synthetic Socialism explores the history of East Germany through the production and use of a deceptively simple...
Between Mass Death and Individual Loss
The Place of the Dead in Twentieth-Century Germany
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Recent years have witnessed growing scholarly interest in the history of death. Increasing academic attention toward death as a historical subject in its own right is very much linked to its pre-eminent place in 20th-century history, and Germany, predictably, occupies a special place in these inquiries....
The Corrigible and the Incorrigible
Science, Medicine, and the Convict in Twentieth-Century Germany
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
The Corrigible and the Incorrigible explores the surprising history of efforts aimed at rehabilitating convicts in 20th-century Germany, efforts founded not out of an unbridled optimism about the capacity of people to change, but arising from a chronic anxiety about the potential threats posed by...
by Ludwig Leidig
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
Bombshell is an unknown true story unearthed from World War II documents. Although a historical biography, it reads as a dramatic psychological thriller, and it covers the dark period of the Third Reich in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. -----Barbara Goette accepts an offer to join global tycoon Ludwig...
Marriage in Turkish German Popular Culture
States of Matrimony in the New Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
During the first decade of this millennium Germany’s largest ethnic minority—Turkish Germans—began to enjoy a new cultural prominence in German literature, film, television and theater. While controversies around forced marriage and “honor” killings have driven popular interest in the situation...