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Book The Splendid Blond Beast

Download or read book The Splendid Blond Beast written by Christopher Simpson and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a National Jewish Book Award–winning author: The “revelatory and shocking” investigation into the CIA’s liberation of Nazi war criminals (Kirkus Reviews). How did Gen, Karl Wolff, one of the highest-ranking members of the Nazi Party’s Waffen-SS, who personally oversaw the deportation of three hundred thousand Jews to the Treblinka extermination camps, escape prosecution at the Nuremberg trials? As revealed in this groundbreaking investigation—culled from recently uncovered archival documents—the answer lies within the US government, which buried reports on the Final Solution and was complicit in the recruitment of Nazi war criminals, all to protect the world economy. Among the key players was CIA director Allen Dulles, who was not only instrumental in Wolff’s exoneration but also responsible for installing former slave-labor specialists into positions of power in postwar Germany. In this damning exposé of American government malfeasance, author Christopher Simpson traces the roots of mass murder as an instrument of financial gain and state power, from the Armenian genocide during World War I to Hitler’s Holocaust through the practice of genocide today. Detailing how the existing structures of international law and commerce have encouraged mass killings, corporate looting, and profiteering at the expense of innocent victims, The Splendid Blond Beast is a disturbing and profound book about the success of evil in our time. The award-winning author of Blowback and Science of Coercion, Simpson also served as research director for Marcel Ophüls’s Oscar-winning documentary, Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie.

Book A History of Corporate Governance around the World

Download or read book A History of Corporate Governance around the World written by Randall K. Morck and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many Americans, capitalism is a dynamic engine of prosperity that rewards the bold, the daring, and the hardworking. But to many outside the United States, capitalism seems like an initiative that serves only to concentrate power and wealth in the hands of a few hereditary oligarchies. As A History of Corporate Governance around the World shows, neither conception is wrong. In this volume, some of the brightest minds in the field of economics present new empirical research that suggests that each side of the debate has something to offer the other. Free enterprise and well-developed financial systems are proven to produce growth in those countries that have them. But research also suggests that in some other capitalist countries, arrangements truly do concentrate corporate ownership in the hands of a few wealthy families. A History of Corporate Governance around the World provides historical studies of the patterns of corporate governance in several countries-including the large industrial economies of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States; larger developing economies like China and India; and alternative models like those of the Netherlands and Sweden.

Book Solvay

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kenneth Bertrams
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2013-01-03
  • ISBN : 1107311071
  • Pages : 649 pages

Download or read book Solvay written by Kenneth Bertrams and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-03 with total page 649 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ernest Solvay, philanthropist and organizer of the world-famous Solvay conferences on physics, discovered a profitable way of making soda ash in 1861. Together with a handful of associates, he laid the foundations of the Solvay company, which successfully branched out into other chemicals, plastics and pharmaceuticals. Since its emergence in 1863, Solvay has maintained world leadership in the production of soda ash. This is the first scholarly book on the history of the Solvay company, which was one of the earliest chemical multinationals and today is among the world's twenty largest chemical companies. It is also one of the largest companies in the field to preserve its family character. The authors analyze the company's 150-year history (1863–2013) from economic, political and social perspectives, showing the enormous impact geopolitical events had on the company and the recent consequences of global competition.

Book German and Japanese Business in the Boom Years

Download or read book German and Japanese Business in the Boom Years written by Matthias Kipping and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-07-31 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume examines the American influence on West German and Japanese industry from the 1950s to the 1970s, providing a valuable contribution to the debate on 'Americanization' from a historical and comparative perspective. Individual contributions provide an in-depth analysis of the adoption and modification of management and technological issues from the US in West Germany and Japan at the micro-economic level.

Book West German Industry and the Challenge of the Nazi Past

Download or read book West German Industry and the Challenge of the Nazi Past written by S. Jonathan Wiesen and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2004-02-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking study, S. Jonathan Wiesen explores how West German business leaders remade and marketed their public image in the aftermath of World War II and the Holocaust. He challenges assumptions that West Germans - and industrialists in particular - were silent about the recent past during the years of denazification and reconstruction, revealing how German business leaders attempted to absolve themselves of responsibility for Nazi crimes while recasting themselves as socially and culturally engaged public figures. Through case studies of individual firms such as Siemens and Krupp, Wiesen depicts corporate publicity as a telling example of postwar selective memory.

Book Annual Economic Review

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  • Author : United States. Office of the US High Commissioner for Germany. Office of Economic Affairs
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1951
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 164 pages

Download or read book Annual Economic Review written by United States. Office of the US High Commissioner for Germany. Office of Economic Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Allied High Commission for Germany

Download or read book The Allied High Commission for Germany written by Elmer Plischke and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book OMGUS  Series

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  • Author : Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : U.S. Zone). Office of Military Government
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1946-11
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 366 pages

Download or read book OMGUS Series written by Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : U.S. Zone). Office of Military Government and published by . This book was released on 1946-11 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Information Bulletin

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  • Author : United States. Office of the US High Commissioner for Germany
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1949
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1230 pages

Download or read book Information Bulletin written by United States. Office of the US High Commissioner for Germany and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 1230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Information Bulletin

Download or read book Information Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1950-12 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book German History in Marxist Perspective

Download or read book German History in Marxist Perspective written by Andreas Dorpalen and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andreas Dorpalen's German History in Marxist Perspective: The East German Approach is the most comprehensive study of historical scholarship in the former German Democratic Republic to have appeared in any language. His purpose is to analyze the way in which GDR historians, guided by the theoretical presuppositions of Marxist-Leninist ideology, have interpreted the German national past from the early Middle Ages to the present. To accomplish his task, Dorpalen examined the mass of writing produced by historians of the GDR from the time the historical profession was reestablished in 1945. He thereby provides readers with access to historical literature that up to now has been largely ignored by English-speaking scholars.

Book Reappraisals in History  New Views on History and Society in Early Modern Europe

Download or read book Reappraisals in History New Views on History and Society in Early Modern Europe written by J.H. Hexter and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Third Reich

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  • Author : David G. Williamson
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2013-11-04
  • ISBN : 1317862465
  • Pages : 261 pages

Download or read book The Third Reich written by David G. Williamson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-04 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since publication of the first edition in 1982, David Williamson's The Third Reich has become established as one of the most successful books in the Seminar Studies in History series. The author draws on up-to-date scholarship to guide students through the maze of historical controversies concerning the Third Reich and to offer a comprehensive analysis of the key issues of the period. In a clear and accessible manner, the new edition provides chapters that: introduce readers to the historiography of the Third Reich analyse the reasons for Hitler's rise to power look at how the Nazi regime consolidated it's grip on power during the period March 1933- August 1934 explain how Nazi Germany was governed and discuss to what extent Hitler can be viewed as a 'weak dictator' analyse Hitler's economic, foreign and social policies in both war and peace up to 1945, as well as the development of Nazi racial and eugenic policies. The analysis of these themes is backed up with an increased selection of documents, which enable students to discuss the key issues more fully. Providing a concise but comprehensive account of the origins, course and downfall of the Third Reich, this new edition of an already classic text will be an invaluable introduction to the subject for students.

Book German big business and the rise of Hitler

Download or read book German big business and the rise of Hitler written by Henry Ashby Turner and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Opting for Oil

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  • Author : Raymond G. Stokes
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 1994-01-28
  • ISBN : 0521451248
  • Pages : 277 pages

Download or read book Opting for Oil written by Raymond G. Stokes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-01-28 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of how the West German chemical industry regained and then retained a competitive position in world markets from 1945-61.