Germany category: 4580 books
The Politics of Religion in Soviet-Occupied Germany
The Case of Berlin-Brandenburg 1945–1949
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2011
This book discusses the religious policies of the Soviet military authorities and their allies in the Socialist Unity Party in the Soviet zone, but more importantly, who devised them, how they did so, and how they attempted to implement them. In doing so, it illustrates how the Soviet authorities...
Chosen Nation
Mennonites and Germany in a Global Era
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the global Mennonite church developed an uneasy relationship with Germany. Despite the religion's origins in the Swiss and Dutch Reformation, as well as its longstanding pacifism, tens of thousands of members embraced militarist German nationalism. Chosen...
'For Their Own Good'
Civilian Evacuations in Germany and France, 1939-1945
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
The early twentieth-century advent of aerial bombing made successful evacuations essential to any war effort, but ordinary people resented them deeply. Based on extensive archival research in Germany and France, this is the first broad, comparative study of civilian evacuations in Germany and France...
Holocaust versus Wehrmacht
How Hitler's "Final Solution" Undermined the German War Effort
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
In 1941, as Nazi Germany began its disastrous campaign against the Soviet Union, Hitler's other campaign, to exterminate European Jewry, was also commencing in earnest. What began with organized executions carried out by the Einzatsgruppen evolved into systematic genocide, reaching its frenzied final...
'Gleichschaltung' and where it failed
What kind of resistance against this policy occurred within the German people, and where did the Nazis fail to reach their goal of total coordination?
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2006
Essay from the year 2005 in the subject History Europe - Germany - National Socialism, World War II, grade: A (originality!), La Trobe University Melbourne, course: Nazi Germany and Europe, 14 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The 'marriage' of the party and the Volk (people)...
Suppressed Terror
History and Perception of Soviet Special Camps in Germany
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
At the end of World War II, the Soviet secret police installed ten special camps in the Soviet occupation zone, later to become the German Democratic Republik. Between 1945 and 1950, roughly 154,000 Germans were held incommunicado in these camps. Whether those accused of being Nazis, spies, or terrorists...
by Thorstein Veblen
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
Published at the beginning of World War I, this 1915 collection brings together thirty years of writings on the social and economic conditions that brought the Germany into global conflict. He considers the ancient origins of the German people, their historic conflict with England, and the economic policy of the imperial state.
by Tiki Travel
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Würzburg (Germany) Travel Guide - Tiki Travel
The Tiki Travel guides use the text from WikiTravel.org, a complete and reliable worldwide travel guide written and edited by Wikitravellers from around the globe. An active table of contents enables users to jump directly to the section...
From School to War
Growing Up in Hitler’s Germany
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
As a child in 1930s Germany, Wolf Dettbarn was playful and curious, plopping old ladies’ hats into a bathtub to see if they would float and watching tadpoles hatch on the banks of the Werra River. At odds with his military family, Wolf dreamed of becoming a doctor, but the rising power of the Nazi...
The Myth and Reality of German Warfare
Operational Thinking from Moltke the Elder to Heusinger
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Surrounded by potential adversaries, nineteenth-century Prussia and twentieth-century Germany faced the formidable prospect of multifront wars and wars of attrition. To counteract these threats, generations of general staff officers were educated in operational thinking, the main tenets of which were...
Germany's Hidden Crisis
Social Decline in the Heart of Europe
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
How neoliberalism is causing a crisis in Germany
Upward social mobility represented a core promise of life under the “old” West German welfare state, in which millions of skilled workers upgraded their Volkswagens to Audis, bought their first homes, and sent their children to university....
Stormtroopers (RLE Nazi Germany & Holocaust)
A Social, Economic and Ideological Analysis 1929-35
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
This examination of Hitler’s stormtroopers provides vital insights into the collapse of the Weimar Republic and the establishment of the Nazi state. Drawing on a wide range of archival sources and extensive biographical material left by the stormtroopers themselves, the author challenges the belief...
The Westweg
Through Germany's Black Forest
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
This guidebook is all you need to discover The Westweg, a 285km walk along the length Germany's Black Forest from Pforzheim to Basel. This classic long-distance trail takes around two weeks to walk, in stages of 15-28km. The route is well way-marked and suitable for experienced hikers and those new...
The Festivalist Guide to the Oktoberfest in Germany
Worlds biggest festival in München
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
The Festivalist Guide to the Oktoberfest in Germany is EVERYTHING you need to know about THE Oktoberfest in München, the BIGGEST festival in the world. Something you MUST visit once, read this guide to know what to dress, where to go and how to behave to have an AMAZING experience.
The Festivalist, Experience the World.