Germany category: 4580 books
by Keeran Jacobson
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
Hamburg is the second largest city in Germany (after Berlin), the seventh - the European Union and most populated among the cities which are capitals of the Member States. In 2010 the city's population is about 1,781,741 people. Hamburg is one of the largest port cities in Europe, situated where the...
Leipzig!
One Thousand Years of German History - Bach, Luther, Faust: The City of Books and Music
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Bringing to life the stories of the ordinary and famous Leipzigers, this book takes readers through the 1,000-year-old history of the city of books and music. This book contains a rich history of Leipzig, from St. Thomas Church where Johann Sebastian Bach composed his cantatas to Martin Luther’s...
Gustav Stresemann
Weimar's Greatest Statesman
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2004
Gustav Stresemann was the exceptional political figure of his time. His early death in 1929 has long been viewed as the beginning of the end for the Weimar Republic and the opening through which Hitler was able to come to power. His career was marked by many contradictions but also a pervading loyalty...
Hitler's Generals on Trial
The Last War Crimes Tribunal at Nuremberg
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
By prosecuting war crimes, the Nuremberg trials sought to educate West Germans about their criminal past, provoke their total rejection of Nazism, and convert them to democracy. More than all of the other Nuremberg proceedings, the High Command Case against fourteen of Hitler’s generals embraced...
Constructing a German Diaspora
The "Greater German Empire", 1871-1914
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
This book takes on a global perspective to unravel the complex relationship between Imperial Germany and its diaspora. Around 1900, German-speakers living abroad were tied into global power-political aspirations. They were represented as outposts of a "Greater German Empire" whose ethnic...
Body by Weimar
Athletes, Gender, and German Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2010
See the author featured in the "New Books in History" podcast: http://newbooksinhistory.com/2011/04/01/erik-jensen-body-by-weimar-athletes-gender-and-german-modernity-oxford-up-2010/ In Body by Weimar, Erik N. Jensen shows how German athletes reshaped gender roles in the turbulent decade after World...
by Robert Forsyth
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012
For Germany, the Spanish Civil War proved a perfect testing ground for new technologies and tactics. During the war, some 19,000 German 'volunteers' formed an aviation group called the Legion Condor in support of the fascists. Originally flying He-51s, they were soon upgraded to 109s. These fighters...
by Albrecht Bartsch
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
While still a child in Germany during World War II, Al Bartsch and his family escaped the horror of the battlefield and the advancing Soviet army. Losing everything they owned, they were forced to survive in a destroyed land. Out of the ashes, however, life slowly recovered and he moved on to a new beginning...
Repentance for the Holocaust
Lessons from Jewish Thought for Confronting the German Past
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
In Repentance for the Holocaust, C. K. Martin Chung develops the biblical idea of "turning" (tshuvah) into a conceptual framework to analyze a particular area of contemporary German history, commonly referred to as Vergangenheitsbewältigung or "coming to terms with the past." Chung examines a selection...
Shepherds of the Empire
Germany's Conservative Protestant Leadership--1888-1919
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
The accomplishments of the 20th Century’s most-discussed literary superstars entered the canon of theatrical classics during the heyday of Broadway and sexual censorship in Hollywood. But the inside spin on the conflicts that pumped testosterone and venom into the collective conscious of the Entertainment...
Jews in Berlin
A Comprehensive History of Jewish Life and Jewish Culture in the German Capital Up To 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
This richly-illustrated book depicts 750 years of Jewish history as well as Jewish life in Berlin today. The Prussian capital was, for many centuries, the center of Jewish life in Germany. Its Jewish citizens strongly influenced the city’s cultural and literary life and led the way in the sciences,...
Triumph of the Will?
How Two Men Hypnotised Hitler and Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2019
This book sets out to solve one of modern history's most baffling mysteries. Before the start of World War One, Adolf Hitler was living rough on the streets of Vienna. During four years of fighting he never rose above the rank of lance corporal. His superior's did not believe he had the personality...
The Ethics of Seeing
Photography and Twentieth-Century German History
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Throughout Germany’s tumultuous twentieth century, photography was an indispensable form of documentation. Whether acting as artists, witnesses, or reformers, both professional and amateur photographers chronicled social worlds through successive periods of radical upheaval. The Ethics of Seeing...
The Triumph of the Ordinary
Depictions of Daily Life in the East German Cinema, 1949-1989
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2003
Were movies in the East Bloc propaganda or carefully veiled dissent? In the first major study in English of East German film, Joshua Feinstein argues that the answer to this question is decidedly complex.
Drawing on newly opened archives as well as interviews with East German directors, actors,...