Germany category: 4580 books
by Annette Dumbach, Jud Newborn
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
This is the gripping story of the five Munich university students who set up an underground resistance movement in World War II, featured in the award-winning Oscar-nominated film, Sophie Scholl - The Final Days. Republished in 2018 to commemorate the 75 years since their arrest and execution.
The Pity of It All
A Portrait of the German-Jewish Epoch, 1743-1933
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
From an acclaimed historian and social critic, a passionate and poignant history of German Jews from the mid-eighteenth century to the eve of the Third Reich
As it's usually told, the story of the German Jews starts at the end, with their tragic demise in Hitler's Third Reich. Now, in this...
by Helmut Walser Smith
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2003
One of the most dramatic explorations of a German town in the grip of anti-Semitic passion ever written.
In 1900, in a small Prussian town, a young boy was found murdered, his body dismembered, the blood drained from his limbs. The Christians of the town quickly rose up in violent riots to...
by Timothy W. Ryback
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2008
A Washington Post Notable Book
With a new chapter on eugenicist Madison Grant’s The Passing of the Great Race
In this brilliant and original exploration of some of the formative influences in Adolf Hitler’s life, Timothy Ryback examines the books that shaped the man and his thinking.
Hitler...
The Book Thieves
The Nazi Looting of Europe's Libraries and the Race to Return a Literary Inheritance
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
**"A most valuable book." —Christian Science Monitor
For readers of The Monuments Men and The Hare with Amber Eyes, the story of the Nazis' systematic pillaging of Europe's libraries, and the small team of heroic librarians now working to return the stolen books to their rightful...
The Habsburgs
Dynasty, Culture and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
The death of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in 1914 not only sparked the beginning of World War I—it also initiated the beginning of the end of the six-hundred-year-old Habsburg dynasty, which fell apart when the war ended, changing Europe forever. But how did the Habsburgs come to play such...
by David Clay Large
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
In the political history of the past century, no city has played a more prominent-though often disastrous-role than Berlin. At the same time, Berlin has also been a dynamic center of artistic and intellectual innovation. If Paris was the "Capital of the Nineteenth Century," Berlin was to...
The Private Heinrich Himmler
Letters of a Mass Murderer
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
At the end of World War II, it was assumed that the letters of Heinrich Himmler were lost. Yet sixty years after Himmler's capture by British troops and subsequent suicide, the letters mysteriously turned up in Tel Aviv and, in early 2014, excerpts were published for the first time by the Israeli...
The Gestapo
The Myth and Reality of Hitler's Secret Police
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
A new, comprehensive exploration of the Gestapo from a renowned historian of the Third Reich.
Drawing on a detailed examination of previously unpublished Gestapo case files this book relates the fascinating, vivid and disturbing accounts of a cross-section of ordinary and extraordinary people...
Ordinary Men
Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Christopher R. Browning’s shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jews—now with a new afterword and additional photographs.
Ordinary Men is the true story of Reserve Police Battalion 101 of the German Order...
The People's Car
a global history of the Volkswagen Beetle
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Bernhard Rieger reveals how a car commissioned by Hitler and designed by Ferdinand Porsche became a global commodity on a par with Coca-Cola. The Beetle's success hinged on its uncanny ability to capture the imaginations of executives, engineers, advertisers, car collectors, suburbanites, hippies, and everyday drivers aross nations and cultures.
by Gerd Höfchen
Language: German
Release Date: August 25, 2017
Language: German
Release Date: August 25, 2017
Der Eisenbahnbauingenieur Johannes Schaller erhält nach fünfzig Jahren die Einladung zum Klassentreffen seiner Schulabgangsklasse. Er sagt sein Erscheinen zu in der Erwartung, seine Jugendliebe Marion, mit der er zu den Sternen fliegen wollte, wiederzutreffen. In seiner Erinnerung begegnet er noch...
The Nuremberg Trials
The Nazis and Their Crimes Against Humanity [Fully Illustrated]
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
The Nazis were a vile collection of criminals, thugs, misfits, sadists, and petty bureaucrats bound together only by their philosophy of hate and their love of plunder. The stronger their stranglehold on power, the more monstrous their crimes. But when Hitler's 'thousand-year Reich' collapsed after twelve...
The Hindenburg
a ship of dreams
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2012
75 years ago, the explosion at Lakehurst marked a dramatic end to the Golden Days of Lighter-than-Air. The crash of LZ-129 “Hindenburg” was the first disaster to be documented in pictures (one photographer even had Kodak color slide film, which had been developed one year prior), filmed by several...