Germany category: 4580 books
The Kaiser's Army
The Politics of Military Technology in Germany during the Machine Age, 1870-1918
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2004
This volume covers a fascinating period in the history of the German army, a time in which machine guns, airplanes, and weapons of mass destruction were first developed and used. Eric Brose traces the industrial development of machinery and its application to infantry, cavalry, and artillery tactics....
Arminius the Liberator
Myth and Ideology
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Arminius the Liberator deals with the complex modern reception of Arminius the Cheruscan, commonly called Hermann. Arminius inflicted one of their most devastating defeats on the Romans in the year 9 A.D. by annihilating three legions under the command of Quintilius Varus in the Battle of the Teutoburg...
Jewish Bamberg
A Walking Tour through the Town
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
A journey of learning about Jewish life in Bamberg/Germany through many centuries till today.A guide to the Jewish sites in the city as well as to the former Jewish Displaced Persons Camp and to the cemetery in 11 Stops.An information on the time span in which Jews lived in Bamberg, from the year 1100...
Paper Memory
A Sixteenth-Century Townsman Writes His World
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
Paper Memory tells of one man’s mission to preserve for posterity the memory of everyday life in sixteenth-century Germany. Lundin takes us inside the mind of an undistinguished German burgher, Hermann Weinsberg, whose early-modern writings sought to make sense of changes that were unsettling the foundations of his world.
Beheaded by Hitler: Cruelty of the Nazis, Judicial Terror and Civilian Executions 1933-1945
Cruelty of the Nazis, Judicial Terror and Civilian Executions 1933-1945
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
From 1933 during the Nazi era when Hitler refashioned the German judicial system in line with his oppressive regime, many crimes became capital offences which led to a drastic increase in the number of executions. In 1936, the Reich Minister of Justice, Franz Gurtner, acting upon Hitler’s direction,...
The Canaris Conspiracy
The Secret Resistance to Hitler in the German Army
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
July 20, 1944. Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg carried a time bomb in a briefcase into a conference with Adolf Hitler. After wedging the briefcase directly in front of Hitler under a table, Stauffenberg took his leave. Only ill luck and divine providence could have caused what happened next; a junior...
The Thanks of the Fatherland
German Veterans After the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
An account of the problems facing German veterans after WWII and the ways in which they were addressed in the decade following Germany's defeat. The primary focus is on the major pieces of veterans' legislation passed in the early years of the German Federal Republic. Historical context is provided...
by R. J. Overy
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 1995
War and Economy in the Third Reich examines the nature of the German economy in the 1930s and the Second World War. Richard Overy's essays, collected here for the first time with a substantial new introduction, explore the tension between Hitler's vision of an armed economy and the reality of German...
by Mary Fulbrook
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2008
What was life really like for East Germans, effectively imprisoned behind the Iron Curtain? The headline stories of Cold War spies and surveillance by the secret police, of political repression and corruption, do not tell the whole story. After the unification of Germany in 1990 many East Germans remembered...
Behind the Berlin Wall
East Germany and the Frontiers of Power
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2009
Few historical changes occur literally overnight, but on 13 August 1961 eighteen million East Germans awoke to find themselves walled in by an edifice which was to become synonymous with the Cold War: the Berlin Wall. This new history rejects traditional, top-down approaches to Cold War politics,...
by Eric Langenbacher, David P. Conradt
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2017
This thoroughly revised and updated edition of The German Polity provides a comprehensive introduction to contemporary Germany, one of the world’s leading economic and political powers. Looking back, Eric Langenbacher and David P. Conradt trace the country’s transformation since the seminal turning...
by Donna Harsch
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
German Social Democracy and the Rise of Nazism explores the failure of Germany's largest political party to stave off the Nazi threat to the Weimar republic. In 1928 members of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) were elected to the chancellorship and thousands of state and municipal offices. But despite...
Dictatorship as Experience
Towards a Socio-Cultural History of the GDR
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1999
A decade after the collapse of communism, this volume presents a historical reflection on the perplexing nature of the East German dictatorship. In contrast to most political rhetoric, it seeks to establish a middle ground between totalitarianism theory, stressing the repressive features of the SED-regime,...
Coping with the Nazi Past
West German Debates on Nazism and Generational Conflict, 1955-1975
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
Published in Association with the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C.
Based on careful, intensive research in primary sources, many of these essays break new ground in our understanding of a crucial and tumultuous period. The contributors, drawn from both sides of the Atlantic, offer...