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by Klaus Mann
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2017
In this second installment of his autobiography (following Kind dieser Zeit), Klaus Mann describes his childhood in the family of Thomas Mann and his circle, his adolescence in the Weimar Republic, and his experiences as a young homosexual and early opponent of Nazism. He also describes how, after...
Dreamland of Humanists
Warburg, Cassirer, Panofsky, and the Hamburg School
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Deemed by Heinrich Heine a city of merchants where poets go to die, Hamburg was an improbable setting for a major intellectual movement. Yet it was there, at the end of World War I, at a new university in this commercial center, that a trio of twentieth-century pioneers in the humanities emerged....
The Ruling Elite
Death, Destruction, and Domination
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Providing a general overview of the accurate history of World War IIwhich was essentially a continuation of World War I with the same saber-rattling participantsThe Ruling Elite describes the circumstances leading up to World War II. Author Deanna Spingola discusses how the diaspora-distributed international...
Justice Denied
An Historical Sojourn
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
The world has been inundated with horror stories about what the Germans did during the last century, but most Americans know little about what was done to the Germans or to German Americans. In Justice Denied, author Dr. Joe Wendel offers a complete picture to the story about how Germans and German...
Voyage of the Damned
A Shocking True Story of Hope, Betrayal, and Nazi Terror
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
The “extraordinary” true story of the St. Louis, a German ship that, in 1939, carried Jews away from Hamburg—and into an unimaginable ordeal (The New York Times).
On May 13, 1939, the luxury liner St. Louis sailed from Hamburg, one of the last ships to leave Nazi Germany before World...
Walter's Welcome
The Intimate Story of a German-Jewish Family's Flight from the Nazis to Peru
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
“[A] captivating life account of an extended German-Jewish family that survived the Holocaust thanks to the determined efforts by one of its members” (Leo Spitzer, author of Hotel Bolivia**).**
Walter’s Welcome is the story of Walter Neisser and the more than fifty members of his family he...
A Place They Called Home
Reclaiming Citizenship. Stories of a New Jewish Return to Germany
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2018
This book gives a voice to the descendants of Jewish Holocaust survivors who have chosen to restore their German citizenship. Dena, a New Hampshire retiree, feels at home in Germany the moment the vineyards across the Rhine come into her view. Maya, a journalist for Deutsche Welle, pursued German...
by David Pollard
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
During the final decade of Nietzsche's life, when he was mad, his sister created an archive in his name. She placed him upstairs as a living exhibit while she beavered away in the rooms beneath rewriting his work and establishing him as a great name in the new world of Nazi Germany. Her efforts gave...
by Paul Ham
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
By looking deeply into the Führer's childhood, war experiences, and early political career, this rigorous narrative seeks to answer this question: How did the early, defining years of Hitler’s life affect his rise to power?
When Adolf Hitler went to war in 1914, he was just 25 years old....
by Franz von Papen
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
The memoirs of Franz von Papen offer a fascinating view of the German Hierarchy from the reign of the last Kaiser to the reign of terror of Adolf Hitler. Although there is an element of self-justification, Conservative von Papen lays bare the machinations of the German politicians that led to Hitler...
The Kaiser's Pirates
Hunting Germany?s Raiding Cruisers in World War I
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
The Kaiser’s Pirates is a dramatic and little-known story of World War I, when the actions of a few men shaped the fate of nations. By1914 Germany had ships and sailors scattered across the globe, protecting its overseas colonies and showing the flag” of its new Imperial Navy. After war broke...
by Pierre Van Paassen
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
The Forgotten Ally is a beautifully written book, as the New York Times review describes it—The expression of one of the most passionately generous hearts in the writing profession. Van Paassen writes with the power and fervor of a latter-day prophet, without forgetting the need for facts, figures...
Jagdverband 44
Squadron of Experten
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012
There was no Luftwaffe fighter unit like Jagdverband 44. Formed in February 1945, the unit grew out of Hitler's bizarre decision that the Me 262 jet fighter should be used as a bomber, despite its potential in the daylight defensive battles over the Reich. Seen as a grave mistake by Göring, a small...
by Pier Paolo Battistelli
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
Nicknamed 'The Desert Fox' for his cunning command of the Afrika Korps, Erwin Rommel remains one of the most popular and studied of Germany's World War II commanders. He got his first taste of combat in World War I, where his daring command earned him the Blue Max, Germany's highest decoration for...