Germany category: 4580 books
All or Nothing
The Axis and the Holocaust 1941-43
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
German and Italian fascist armies in the Second World War treated the Jews quite differently. Jews who fell into the hands of the German army ended up in concentration camps; none of those taken by the Italians suffered the same fate. Yet the protectors of the Jews were no philo-Semites, nor were...
Political Epistemics
The Secret Police, the Opposition, and the End of East German Socialism
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
What does the durability of political institutions have to do with how actors form knowledge about them? Andreas Glaeser investigates this question in the context of a fascinating historical case: socialist East Germany’s unexpected self-dissolution in 1989. His analysis builds on extensive in-depth...
The Arms of Krupp
The Rise and Fall of the Industrial Dynasty That Armed Germany at War
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
The Krupp family were the premier German arms manufacturers from the middle of the 19th century until the end of World War II, producing artillery pieces and submarines that set the standard for effectiveness. This book relates the history of this influential company.
by David Schoenbaum
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2012
The author attempts to analyze Hitler's appeal to German farmers, workers, businessmen, industrialists, women and youth. Beginning with Germany's social situation after World War I, he demonstrates how Hitler improvised a programme that claimed to offer a classless society.
Rethinking the Weimar Republic
Authority and Authoritarianism, 1916-1936
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
"McElligott's impressive mastery of an enormous body of research guides him on a distinctive path through the dense thickets of Weimar historiography to a provocative new interpretation of the nature of authority in Germany's first democracy.†? Sir Ian Kershaw, Emeritus Professor of Modern...
by Götz Aly
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2020
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2020
From the award-winning historian of the Holocaust, the first book to move beyond Germany’s singular crime to the collaboration of Europe as a whole.
The Holocaust was perpetrated by the Germans, but it would not have been possible without the assistance of thousands of helpers in other countries:...
Himmler's Auxiliaries
The Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle and the German National Minorities of Europe, 1933-1945
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Lumans studies the relations between Nazi Germany and the German minority populations of other European countries, examining these ties within the context of Hitler's foreign policy and the racial policies of SS Chief Heinrich Himmler. He shows how the Reich's racial and political interests in these...
Hitler's Children
The Hitler Youth and the SS
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Eighty-two percent of German boys and girls between the ages of ten and eighteen belonged to Hitlerjugend--Hitler Youth--or one of its affiliates by the time membership became fully compulsory in 1939. These adolescents were recognized by the SS, an exclusive cadre of Nazi zealots, as a source of...
Nazi Foreign Policy, 1933-1941
The Road to Global War
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
How did the Second World War come about? Nazi Foreign Policy, 1933-1941 provides lucid answers to this complex question. Focusing on the different regions of Nazi policy such as Italy, France and Britain, Christian Leitz explores the diplomatic and political developments that led to the outbreak of...
Germans into Jews
Remaking the Jewish Social Body in the Weimar Republic
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2009
Germans into Jews turns to an often overlooked and misunderstood period of German and Jewish history—the years between the world wars. It has been assumed that the Jewish community in Germany was in decline during the Weimar Republic. But, Sharon Gillerman demonstrates that Weimar Jews sought to...
A Nazi Past
Recasting German Identity in Postwar Europe
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
Since the end of World War II, historians and psychologists have investigated the factors that motivated Germans to become Nazis before and during the war. While most studies have focused on the high-level figures who were tried at Nuremberg, much less is known about the hundreds of SS members, party...
A Most Dangerous Book
Tacitus's Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
The riveting story of the Germania and its incarnations and exploitations through the ages.
The pope wanted it, Montesquieu used it, and the Nazis pilfered an Italian noble's villa to get it: the Germania, by the Roman historian Tacitus, took on a life of its own as both an object and an ideology....
by Peter Weidhaas, Carolyn Gossage, Wendy A. Wright
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2007
A colourful and revealing look at more than 500 years of commerce conducted at the renowned Frankfurt Book Fair, from its beginnings in the Middle Ages. Even then, in spite of internal strife and religious upheaval, books were becoming increasingly accessible to those who found their way to Frankfurt...
Wild Socialism
Workers Councils in Revolutionary Berlin, 1918-21
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Wild Socialism examines the rise, development, and decline of revolutionary councils of industrial workers in Berlin at the end of the First World War. This popular movement spread throughout Germany, and was without precedent in either the theory or practice of the Social Democratic party and the...