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How Hitler Could Have Won World War II
The Fatal Errors That Led to Nazi Defeat
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Most of us rally around the glory of the Allies' victory over the Nazis in World War II. The story is often told of how the good fight was won by an astonishing array of manpower and stunning tactics. However, what is often overlooked is how the intersection between Adolf Hitler's influential personality...
1924
The Year That Made Hitler
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
The dark story of Adolf Hitler's life in 1924--the year that made a monster
Before Adolf Hitler's rise to power in Germany, there was 1924. This was the year of Hitler's final transformation into the self-proclaimed savior and infallible leader who would interpret and distort Germany's historical...
They Thought They Were Free
The Germans, 1933–45
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
“When this book was first published it received some attention from the critics but none at all from the public. Nazism was finished in the bunker in Berlin and its death warrant signed on the bench at Nuremberg.”
That’s Milton Mayer, writing in a foreword to the 1966 edition of They...
Out of Passau
Leaving a City Hitler Called Home
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
The true story behind the film The Nasty Girl: A memoir by a German woman who uncovered her hometown’s war crimes and complicity with the Nazis.
Nestled along the Danube in southern Germany, Passau is a pleasant tourist destination known for its historic buildings and scenic views at the...
Fromms
How Julius Fromm's Condom Empire Fell to the Nazis
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
If you wanted to buy a top-quality condom in prewar Germany, you bought Fromms Act, the first brand name condom and still a leading brand in the German market. The man behind this "pure German quality product" was Julius Fromm, a Jewish entrepreneur who had immigrated from Russia as a child....
by David King
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
“Gripping… a disturbing portrait of how an advanced country can descend into chaos.” —Frederick Taylor, Wall Street Journal
The Trial of Adolf Hitler tells the true story of the monumental criminal proceeding that thrust Hitler into the limelight after the failed beer hall putsch,...
German History 1789-1871
From the Holy Roman Empire to the Bismarckian Reich
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
During recent years, there has been a noticeable increase in interest in the nineteenth century, resulting in many fine monographs. However, these studies often gravitate toward Prussia or treat Germany's southern and northern regions as separate entities or else are thematically compartmentalized....
Selling under the Swastika
Advertising and Commercial Culture in Nazi Germany
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Selling under the Swastika is the first in-depth study of commercial advertising in the Third Reich. While scholars have focused extensively on the political propaganda that infused daily life in Nazi Germany, they have paid little attention to the role played by commercial ads and sales culture in...
Visions of Modernity
American Business and the Modernization of Germany
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 1994
In much the same way that Japan has become the focus of contemporary American discussion about industrial restructuring, Germans in the economic reform in terms of Americanism and Fordism, seeing in the United States an intriguing vision for a revitalized economy and a new social order. During the...
1932
The Rise of Hitler and FDR--Two Tales of Politics, Betrayal, and Unlikely Destiny
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Two Depression-battered nations confronted destiny in 1932, going to the polls in their own way to anoint new leaders, to rescue their people from starvation and hopelessness. America would elect a Congress and a president—ebullient aristocrat Franklin Roosevelt or tarnished “Wonder Boy” Herbert...
Ich bin ein Berliner!
„Ich bin ein Berliner!“ The Story of U.S. President John F. Kennedy’s visit to Germany, June 1963
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2013
The endless attempts over the past half century, by historians, journalists and producers of television documentaries to demystify the Kennedy administration have generally failed. To this day, John F. Kennedy is still the second most popular President since Abraham Lincoln, according to polls taken....
Blood and Culture
Youth, Right-Wing Extremism, and National Belonging in Contemporary Germany
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2009
Over the past decade, immigration and globalization have significantly altered Europe’s cultural and ethnic landscape, foregrounding questions of national belonging. In Blood and Culture, Cynthia Miller-Idriss provides a rich ethnographic analysis of how patterns of national identity are constructed...
by R. Paul Evans, Steve Waugh, John Wright
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
Endorsed by WJEC
Confidently tackle curriculum change with the market-leading series for WJEC GCSE History; relaunched to cover the new content and assessment requirements, this book helps every student develop the in-depth knowledge and historical skills they need to achieve their best.
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Environmental Organizations in Modern Germany
Hardy Survivors in the Twentieth Century and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
German environmental organizations have doggedly pursued environmental protection through difficult times: hyperinflation and war, National Socialist rule, postwar devastation, state socialism in the GDR, and confrontation with the authorities during the 1970s and 1980s. The author recounts the fascinating...