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Occupied Ruptures in Space

Cultural recovery of the landscape within the former inner German border area

by Günter Marks
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2016

With the reunification of Germany in 1990, the two sides of the former inner German border area found itself no longer as remote regions on the margins of two separated political and social hemispheres, but in the center of a reunited Europe. With focus on the Schaalsee lake in northern Germany, once...
Cover of German Phrasebook with Audio Lessons
by Lukas Schneider
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018

Planning a trip to Germany? Got a smartphone or a tab? Got 5 minutes a day? That’s all you need, if you want to learn some essential German phrases. This German phrase book covers a wide range of topics in everyday situations. Its extensive list ranges from shopping, socializing, doing business...
Cover of The Story of Germany
by Henrietta Marshall
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2018

In the dim days of very long ago there was a country called Fensalir. It was a low-lying country of rich green meadows and fair cornfields. Beside the slow-flowing streams trees drooped their branches laden with wondrous fruit. Upon the endless meadows countless herds of cattle browsed. It was a rich...
Cover of State and Minorities in Communist East Germany
by Mike Dennis, Norman LaPorte
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011

Based on interviews and the voluminous materials in the archives of the SED, the Stasi and central and regional authorities, this volume focuses on several contrasting minorities (Jehovah’s Witnesses, Jews, ‘guest’ workers from Vietnam and Mozambique, football fans, punks, and skinheads) and...
Cover of LIVING IN INTERESTING TIMES: A MEMOIR
by Gabriele Neuhäuser Scott
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015

A memoir beginning with a precocious child growing up in a prosperous, assimilated German-Jewish family in Berlin, and a Germany roiled by war, the Great Depression, and the growth of anti-Semitism and National Socialism. To obtain her PhD in Zoology from Berlin University, the author learned Turkish...
Cover of Infanticide and Abortion in Early Modern Germany
by Margaret Brannan Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016

This book is the first work to look at the full range of three centuries of the early modern period in regards to infanticide and abortion, a period in which both practices were regarded equally as criminal acts. Faced with dire consequences if they were found pregnant or if they bore illegitimate...
Cover of Germany before the war
by Eugène-Napoléon Beyens
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015

Cover of Munich, Germany Travel Guide - Sightseeing, Hotel, Restaurant & Shopping Highlights (Illustrated)
by Karen Paterson
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015

A lively mix of the rustic and the modern, confident Munich has its share of  exclusive fashion shops, historic buildings and beer halls. With 1.3 million locals (Münchners), this third-largest German city will certainly keep travelers entertained.  Come for the annual Oktoberfest or...
Cover of Do you agree with the view that the problem with the peace treaties of 1919/1920 was that they were too lenient towards the vanquished powers?
by Murray Baird
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012

Essay from the year 2002 in the subject History Europe - Germany - World War I, Weimar Republic, grade: 1B, University of Stirling, course: Modern European History 1919 - 1991, language: English, abstract: The deliberations of the peacemakers between 1919 and 1920 failed to establish an enduring peace...
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Struck Down, but Not Destroyed

The Salvation Army during the Third Reich and subsequent years

by Willi Kothe, David Dalziel
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017

When the National Socialist ideology took its grip of Germany in the 1920s and 30s, by no means everyone was seduced by its appeal. The ministry of The Salvation Army had to find ways of surviving and serving people in Jesus’ name while being restricted and severely affected by the horrors of the...
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Wall Flower

A Life on the German Border

by Rita Kuczynski
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015

In August 1961, seventeen-year-old Rita Kuczynski was living with her grandmother and studying piano at a conservatory in West Berlin. Caught in East Berlin by the rise of the Berlin Wall while on a summer visit to her parents, she found herself trapped behind the Iron Curtain for the next twenty-eight...
Cover of Divided Village: The Cold War in the German Borderlands
by Jason B. Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017

In 1983, then-US Vice President George H.W. Bush delivered a speech in London. He had just been in West Berlin and spoke about his first visit to the Berlin Wall. Bush then went on to describe another German wall he saw after Berlin: "if anything, that wall was an even greater obscenity than...
Cover of Museums in the German Art World

Museums in the German Art World

From the End of the Old Regime to the Rise of Modernism

by James J. Sheehan
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2000

Combining the history of ideas, institutions, and architecture, this study shows how the museum both reflected and shaped the place of art in German culture from the late eighteenth century to the early twentieth century. On a broader level, it illuminates the origin and character of the museum's...
Cover of In the Children’s Best Interests

In the Children’s Best Interests

Unaccompanied Children in American-Occupied Germany, 1945-1952

by Lynne Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017

Among the hundreds of thousands of displaced persons in Germany at the end of World War II, approximately 40,000 were unaccompanied children. These children, of every age and nationality, were without parents or legal guardians and many were without clear identities.  This situation posed serious...
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