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Weimar Cities
The Challenge of Urban Modernity in Germany, 1919–1933
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Weimar Cities explores Germany's efforts to come to grips with its great cities after World War I; by extension the book measures the feasibility of the postwar experiment that was the Weimar Republic. The book focuses particularly on the weakness, both local and national, that resulted from the disjunct between the cities’ perceived and actual power.
The Kaiser's Chemists
Science and Modernization in Imperial Germany
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
In the early twentieth century, an elite group of modern-minded scientists in Germany, led by the eminent organic chemist Emil Fischer, set out to create new centers and open new sources of funding for chemical research. Their efforts led to the establishment in 1911 of the chemical institues of the...
Holocaust Angst
The Federal Republic of Germany and American Holocaust Memory since the 1970s
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
In the face of an outpouring of research on Holocaust history, Holocaust Angst takes an innovative approach. It explores how Germans perceived and reacted to how Americans publicly commemorated the Holocaust. It argues that a network of mostly conservative West German officials and their associates...
Voices from the Gulag
The Oppression of the German Minority in the Soviet Union
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
"Voices from the Gulag" draws on a wealth of available sources to tell the story of the German settlements in Russia, from their beginning during the reign of Empress Catherine the Great, to their accomplishments and, finally, their destruction under Stalin. It relates the harsh living conditions...
Beyond the Prison Gates
Punishment and Welfare in Germany, 1850-1933
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Germany today has one of the lowest incarceration rates in the industrialized world, and social welfare principles play an essential role at all levels of the German criminal justice system. Warren Rosenblum examines the roots of this social approach to criminal policy in the reform movements of the...
Art, Ideology, and Economics in Nazi Germany
The Reich Chambers of Music, Theater, and the Visual Arts
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
From 1933 to 1945, the Reich Chamber of Culture exercised a profound influence over hundreds of thousands of German artists and entertainers. Alan Steinweis focuses on the fields of music, theater, and the visual arts in this first major study of Nazi cultural administration, examining a complex pattern...
by Donna L. Walter
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
This is a true story of two siblings, Sophie and David, who are separated by the Bolshevik Revolution and World War I. Sophie and her family immigrated to America in 1913, but David stayed in Russia, and was drafted into the tsars army. Their families stayed in touch until the mid 30s, when one could...
Composing the Canon in the German Democratic Republic
Narratives of Nineteenth-Century Music
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
When the German Democratic Republic (GDR) was founded in 1949, its leaders did not position it as a new state. Instead, they represented East German socialism as the culmination of all that was positive in Germany's past. The GDR was heralded as the second German Enlightenment, a society in which...
Nurses and Midwives in Nazi Germany
The "Euthanasia Programs"
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
This book is about the ethics of nursing and midwifery, and how these were abrogated during the Nazi era. Nurses and midwives actively killed their patients, many of whom were disabled children and infants and patients with mental (and other) illnesses or intellectual disabilities. The book gives...
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by Heinz Knoke
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Includes the Aerial Warfare In Europe During World War II illustrations pack with over 180 maps, plans, and photos.
Heinz Knoke was one of Nazi Germany’s outstanding pilots, and this dramatic record of his experiences, illustrated with personal photos, has become a classic among aviation...
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
The End of the Cold War and the Collapse of the Communist Regime
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the history of the Berlin Wall in next to no time with this concise guide.
50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the fall of the Berlin Wall.When the Berlin Wall was built unexpectedly in 1961, it divided the city for 28 years,...
by Captain Stephen P. Gray
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
This case study analyzes the role of operational art in Allied operations at Anzio, Italy and the battle for Rome (January 22-June 4, 1944). As part of the Allied Campaign in Italy, the amphibious assault on Anzio-code-named Operation Shingle, and the subsequent drive to Rome remains one of the most...
by Lieutenant Colonel Patricia L. C. Priest
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Over the years, the United States Air Force takes much credit for bringing World War II to closure. The strategic bomber, eventually along with long range fighter, was put in the skies over Germany to gain air superiority and to disrupt the war making abilities of Germany and, in particular, the Luftwaffe....
by Major Timothy F. Lindemann
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
In the history of modern warfare, Weserübung Nord, the German invasion of Norway in 1940, occupies a distinguished station as the first campaign “jointly” planned and executed by ground, sea, and air forces. This paper examines the origins, concept, and planning of Weserübung Nord, as well as...