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Oberammergau in the Nazi Era
The Fate of a Catholic Village in Hitler's Germany
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2010
In her study of Oberammergau, the Bavarian village famous for its decennial passion play, Helena Waddy argues against the traditional image of the village as a Nazi stronghold. She uses Oberammergau's unique history to explain why and how genuinely some villagers chose to become Nazis, while others...
Dachau and the SS
A Schooling in Violence
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Dachau and the SS studies the concentration camp guards at Dachau, the first SS concentration camp and a national 'school' of violence for its concentration camp personnel. Set up in the first months of Adolf Hitler's rule, Dachau was a bastion of the Nazi 'revolution' and a key springboard for the...
The Nightmare Dance
Guilt, Shame, Heroism and the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
Since the 1960s, the Holocaust has been presented as an aberration, confined to Germany and the Nazi leaders who held power during the twelve years after 1933. Responsibility has been heaped upon a few villains in jackboots and black uniforms, whose names have become synonymous with evil. Yet behind...
The Roots of Nazi Psychology
Hitler's Utopian Barbarism
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
" Was Hitler a moral aberration or a man of his people? This topic has been hotly argued in recent years, and now Jay Gonen brings new answers to the debate using a psychohistorical perspective, contending that Hitler reflected the psyche of many Germans of his time. Like any charismatic leader,...
Portraits of Our Past
Jews of the German Countryside
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
An absorbing look at the daily lives of rural Jews in eighteenth and nineteenth century Germany. Includes over 75 black and white illustrations, a guide for researchers, maps, and a bibliography.
Luther's Jews
A Journey into Anti-Semitism
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
If there was one person who could be said to light the touch-paper for the epochal transformation of European religion and culture that we now call the Reformation, it was Martin Luther. And Luther and his followers were to play a central role in the Protestant world that was to emerge from the Reformation...
Treitschke's Origins of Prussianism (Routledge Revivals)
The Teutonic Knights
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Heinrich Von Treitschke (1834-1896) was a prolific German historian and political writer during the nineteenth century. An ardent admirer of Prussianism, Treitschke was also deeply anti-Semitic and anti-socialist. This translation by Eden and Cedar Paul of The Origins of Prussianism, published in...
by Mary Platt Parmele
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
A fantastic and comprehensive look at the historical development of the empires of France, Germany and England, written by American author and historian Mary Platt Parmele.
by Sebastian Haffner
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2012
The Rise and Fall of Prussia by Sebastian Haffner (translated from the German by Ewald Osers; 60,000 words)
Sebastian Haffner regarded himself as “a Prussian with a British passport.” In this overview of Prussia’s 170-year history as an independent state, he depicts Prussia’s evolution...
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by Earl F. Ziemke
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Contains 72 illustrations and 42 maps of the Russian Campaign.
After the disasters of the Stalingrad Campaign in the Russian winters of 1942-3, the German Wehrmacht was on the defensive under increasing Soviet pressure; this volume sets out to show how did the Russians manage to push the formerly...
Bismarck
A Political History
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Bismarck was arguably the most important figure in nineteenth-century European history after 1815. In this biography, Edgar Feuchtwanger reassesses Bismarck's significance as a historical figure. He traces his development from a typical Junker, a reactionary and conservative, into the so-called white...
by Major Jon M. Sutterfield USAF
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Eighth Air Force (8AF) conducted the US’s first thousand-bomber raids against Germany in February 1944—recorded in history as Big Week. Until that time the USAAF was not able to concentrate such firepower on the enemy in such a short period of time. It took much effort to make Big Week “big”...
Eisenhower and Adenauer
Alliance Maintenance under Pressure, 1953–1960
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2009
In the early years of the Atlantic Alliance, no bilateral relationship was more important than that between the Federal Republic of Germany and the United States. Even so, the West German-American alliance was taxing for both sides during much of the first two decades of the Cold War. Ultimately,...
Nazi Hunger Politics
A History of Food in the Third Reich
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
During World War II, millions of Soviet soldiers in German captivity died of hunger and starvation. Their fate was not the unexpected consequence of a war that took longer than anticipated. It was the calculated strategy of a small group of economic planners around Herbert Backe, the second Reich...