Germany category: 4580 books
Each Child Is My Only One
Lotte Carlebach-Preuss, the Portrait of a Mother and Rabbis Wife
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
In Each Child Is My Only One: Lotte Carlebach-Preuss, the Portrait of a Mother and Rabbi’s Wife, Miriam Gillis-Carlebach, the daughter of Rabbi Dr. Joseph Zvi Carlebach (1883–1942), last Chief Rabbi of Hamburg and its surroundings, describes her childhood in the lively household of a rabbi’s...
Hitler's Enabler: Neville Chamberlain and the Origins of the Second World War
Neville Chamberlain and the Origins of the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Was Adolf Hitler hell-bent on inciting a war, and there was no course of action by any national leader that could have prevented World War II? Or, did Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's appeasement policy with Germany and slowness in strengthening England's armed forces directly encourage Hitler...
Through the Lion Gate
A History of the Berlin Zoo
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
In 1943, fierce aerial bombardment razed the Berlin zoo and killed most of its animals. But only two months after the war's end, Berliners had already resurrected it, reopening its gates and creating a symbol of endurance in the heart of a shattered city. As this episode shows, the Berlin zoo offers...
The Discourse Strategies of Imperialist Writing
The German Colonial Idea and Africa, 1848-1945
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
In this monograph, Felicity Rash examines German colonialist texts through the lens of linguistics, using multiple analytic approaches in order to contribute to the study of ideological discourse. Focusing on texts from Germany’s colonial period during the Second Reich, the book describes the discourse...
German Foreign Policy, 1918-1945
A Guide to Current Research and Resources
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Christoph Kimmich’s German Foreign Policy, 1918-1945: A Guide to Current Research and Resources is the most comprehensive guide to archival resources and published materials on the foreign policy of Weimar and Nazi Germany. It lists the archives, libraries, and research institutes, public and private,...
Hitlers Prisons
Legal Terror in Nazi Germany
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
State prisons played an indispensable part in the terror of the Third Reich, incarcerating many hundreds of thousands of men and women during the Nazi era. This important book illuminates the previously unknown world of Nazi prisons, their victims, and the judicial and penal officials who built and...
by Lt. Donald G. Taggart
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
Few units in the U.S. Army can boast as proud a unit history as the Third Infantry Division; it fought on all of the Europe and North African fronts that American soldiers were engaged against the Axis forces during World War II. The 3rd Infantry Division saw combat in North Africa, Sicily, Italy,...
by Lt. Donald G. Taggart
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
Few units in the U.S. Army can boast as proud a unit history as the Third Infantry Division; it fought on all of the Europe and North African fronts that American soldiers were engaged against the Axis forces during World War II. The 3rd Infantry Division saw combat in North Africa, Sicily, Italy,...
Friendly Enemies
Britain and the GDR, 1949-1990
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
During the Cold War, Britain had an astonishing number of contacts and connections with one of the Soviet Bloc’s most hard-line regimes: the German Democratic Republic. The left wing of the British Labour Party and the Trade Unions often had closer ties with communist East Germany than the Communist...
Nazi Propaganda (RLE Nazi Germany & Holocaust)
The Power and the Limitations
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
Based on a detailed examination of specific aspects of Nazi propaganda, this book (originally published in 1983) enhances the understanding of National Socialism by revealing both its power and its limitations. The work tackles aspects of Nazi propaganda which had been neglected in the past, but together...
The Investigation
A True Story from Nazi Germany
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
On January 30 1933, a German-Jewish civil servant is sitting at his desk at the Baumeisterstrasse Tax Office, in central Hamburg. He has just signed a number of documents and is looking out of the window when one of his staff rushes into the room without knocking and announces that Adolf Hitler...
The Wilhelmshaven Revolt
A Chapter of the Revolutionary Movement in the German Navy 1918-1919
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
THE IMPORTANT ROLE of the seamen in the revolutionary class struggle has not hitherto received the attention it so richly deserves — probably because seamen do not count as a voting force, and also because the “Brotherhood of the Sea” is more international than any other trade or occupation....
Necessary Luxuries
Books, Literature, and the Culture of Consumption in Germany, 1770–1815
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
The consumer revolution of the eighteenth century brought new and exotic commodities to Europe from abroad—coffee, tea, spices, and new textiles to name a few. Yet one of the most widely distributed luxury commodities in the period was not new at all, and was produced locally—the book. In Necessary...
by Paul Leverkuehn
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
Seldom can the true history of a secret service be revealed but the total collapse of Nazi Germany provided the opportunity and Dr. Paul Leverkuehn has taken it. He was himself a senior member of the Abwehr, Germany's Military Intelligence Service, and one of Admiral Canaris's trusted collaborators....