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Book The IG Farben Building

Download or read book The IG Farben Building written by and published by Gina Kehayoff Verlag. This book was released on 2001 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A photographic portrait of the headquarters of the company IG-Farben, a presently unoccupied building, which produced Zyklon B gas and later housed the administration of the American army of occupation between 1948 and 1995. Loewy, the photographer prowled around the empty monument, guided by chance occurences and by the light to tell the story in images of a bizarre haunted castle of modern times.

Book Hell s Cartel

    Book Details:
  • Author : Diarmuid Jeffreys
  • Publisher : Metropolitan Books
  • Release : 2010-01-05
  • ISBN : 1466833297
  • Pages : 705 pages

Download or read book Hell s Cartel written by Diarmuid Jeffreys and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2010-01-05 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable rise and shameful fall of one of the twentieth century's greatest conglomerates At its peak in the 1930s, the German chemical conglomerate IG Farben was one of the most powerful corporations in the world. To this day, companies formerly part of the Farben cartel—the aspirin-maker Bayer, the graphics supplier Agfa, the plastics giant BASF—continue to play key roles in the global market. IG Farben itself, however, is remembered mostly for its infamous connections to the Nazi Party and its complicity in the atrocities of the Holocaust. After the war, Farben's leaders were tried for crimes that included mass murder and exploitation of slave labor. In Hell's Cartel, Diarmuid Jeffreys presents the first comprehensive account of IG Farben's rise and fall, tracing the enterprise from its nineteenth-century origins, when the discovery of synthetic dyes gave rise to a vibrant new industry, through the upheavals of the Great War era, and on to the company's fateful role in World War II. Drawing on extensive research and original interviews, Hell's Cartel sheds new light on the codependence of industry and the Third Reich, and offers a timely warning against the dangerous merger of politics and the pursuit of profit.

Book IG Farben

Download or read book IG Farben written by Richard Sasuly and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Axmann Conspiracy

Download or read book The Axmann Conspiracy written by Scott Andrew Selby and published by Scott Andrew Selby. This book was released on 2021-07-28 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Reads like a thriller . . . As timely as it is chilling and engrossing.”—#1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz The Axmann Conspiracy is the previously untold true story of the Nazi threat that continued in the wake of World War II, the espionage that defeated it, and two fascinating men whose lives forever altered the course of post-war Germany. A trusted member of Hitler's inner circle, Artur Axmann, the head of the Hitler Youth (Hitlerjugend), witnessed the Führer commit suicide in his Berlin bunker—but he would not let the Reich die with its leader. He led a group of Nazis, including Martin Bormann, intent on escaping the encircling Red Army. Evading capture during the Battle of Berlin, and with access to remnants of the regime’s wealth, Axmann had enough adult followers to reestablish the Nazi party in the very heart of Allied-occupied Germany. U.S. Army Counter Intelligence Corps Officer Jack Hunter was the perfect undercover operative. Fluent in German, he posed as a black marketeer to root out Nazi sympathizers and saboteurs after the war, and along with other CIC agents uncovered the extent of Axmann’s conspiracy. It threatened to bring the Nazis back into power—and the task fell to Hunter and his team to stop it.

Book PERGOLESI IN THE PENTAGON

Download or read book PERGOLESI IN THE PENTAGON written by John S. Bowman and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-07-02 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drafted into the US Army in 1954, John S. Bowman was assigned to Frankfurt, Germany, where with other young Americans he produced a comic opera by the 18th-century Italian composer, Pergolesi. Its success led the Army’s Special Services to sponsor their “company’s” tour around US bases, and then to two more productions— Mozart’s Bastien und Bastienne and Bach’s Coffee Cantata--and also to US Information Agency-sponsored performances before German audiences. Working on his memoir to recapture those adventures and to convey what millions of Americans had experienced while serving in West Germany (1945-1990), Bowman came to realize that he had been participating in the so-called cultural Cold War, so he placed his personal story into the context of the astounding amount of US government sponsored cultural activities aimed at thwarting the appeal of Soviet Communism in Europe Not intended as an exposé, it is simply the most complete account of the incredible and sometimes hilarious “arsenal” of cultural weaponry deployed in the Cold War—an account that almost all Americans will find both amusing and astonishing.

Book Military Construction Appropriations for 1967

Download or read book Military Construction Appropriations for 1967 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Baader Meinhof

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  • Author : Stefan Aust
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 0195372751
  • Pages : 489 pages

Download or read book Baader Meinhof written by Stefan Aust and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2009 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aust presents the definitive account of the RAF, capturing a highly complex story both accurately and colorfully. Much new information has surfaced since the mass suicide of the Groups' leaders in the 1980s. Some RAF members have come forward to testify in new investigations and formerly classified Stasi documents have been made public since the fall of the Berlin Wall, all contributing to a fuller picture of the RAF and the events surrounding their demise. Aust ranges from the group's creation in 1970 to their breakup in 1998, incorporating all of the new information.

Book The American Abroad

Download or read book The American Abroad written by Anna Cooper and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-03-24 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on cinema and media studies, art history, American studies, and postcolonial studies, this innovative book offers a fresh way of thinking about Hollywood film aesthetics. It explores how eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Western colonial formations of vision influenced classical Hollywood film style, and thus provides a new and unique perspective on the origins of the cinematic gaze. Classical Hollywood cinema constructs global spaces as an imaginative dreamworld, subsuming geographical and cultural differences into utopian fantasy. Yet, this characteristically Hollywoodian aesthetic has rarely been explored in detail. How are such representations constructed within film texts? Is this utopian aesthetic really as uniform and transparent as it appears? What is its relationship to the United States' status as an imperial power? In The American Abroad, Anna Cooper explores how postwar Hollywood cinema adopted elements of British and French imperial visual culture, transforming them to suit a new United Statesian context. Cooper argues that four visual discourses in particular-the sublime, the ethnographic, the picturesque, and glamour-became building blocks in the development of a new American visual language.

Book Circle Around the Sun

    Book Details:
  • Author : M. D. Johnson
  • Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
  • Release : 2021-05-03
  • ISBN : 1664169792
  • Pages : 522 pages

Download or read book Circle Around the Sun written by M. D. Johnson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2021-05-03 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the aftermath of 9/11, lecturer Emily Cowan, called back into government service, revisits her past. Gathering intelligence as her own search for ethnic identity unfolds, Emily returns to the greatest game of all, as hidden in a desolate cave in the Afghan mountains is the reason the fight against terrorism must continue. “Circle Around The Sun” marks the fictional debut of Emily Cowan, a charismatic and often highly deviant legend in the making. With biting wit, candor and firsthand knowledge of her subject, M. D. Johnson has created a spy thriller masterpiece with a brilliant cast of characters.

Book Hitler s Children

Download or read book Hitler s Children written by Jillian Becker and published by Author House. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1977 in the US and Britain to universal critical acclaim, Hitler's Children quickly became a world-wide best seller, translated into many other languages, including Japanese. It tells the story of the West German terrorists who emerged out of the 'New Left' student protest movement of the late 1960s. With bombs and bullets they started killing in the name of 'peace'. Almost all of them came from prosperous, educated families. They were 'Hitler's children' not only in that they had been born in or immediately after the Nazi period - some of their parents having been members of the Nazi party - but also because they were as fiercely against individual freedom as the Nazis were. Their declared ideology was Communism. They were beneficiaries of both American aid and the West German economic miracle. Despising their immeasurable gifts of prosperity and freedom, they 'identified' themselves with Third World victims of wars, poverty and oppression, whose plight they blamed on 'Western imperialism'. In reality, their terrorist activity was for no better cause than self-expression. Their dreams of leading a revolution were ended when one after another of them died in shoot-outs with the police, or was blown up with his own bomb, or was arrested, tried, and condemned to long terms of imprisonment. All four leaders of the Red Army Faction (dubbed 'the Baader-Meinhof gang' by journalists) committed suicide in prison.

Book Vertigo

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  • Author : Harald Jähner
  • Publisher : Basic Books
  • Release : 2024-09-03
  • ISBN : 1541606221
  • Pages : 315 pages

Download or read book Vertigo written by Harald Jähner and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2024-09-03 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic and consequential history of Germany’s short-lived experiment with democracy between the world wars, when vibrant cultural experimentation collided with political and economic turmoil Out of the ashes of the First World War, Germany launched an unprecedented political project: its first democratic government. The Weimar Republic, named for the city where it was established, endured for only fifteen years before it was toppled by the insurgent Nazi Party in 1933. In Vertigo, prizewinning historian Harald Jähner tells the Republic’s full story, capturing a nation caught in a whirlwind of uncertainty and struggling toward a better future. In the aftermath of World War I, Germany was buffeted by political partisanship, economic upheaval, and the constant threat of revolutionary violence. At the same time, many Germans embraced newly liberated lifestyles. They flouted gender norms, flooded racetracks and dance halls, and fostered a vibrant avant-garde that encompassed groundbreaking artists like filmmaker Fritz Lang, painter Wassily Kandinsky, and architect Walter Gropius. But this new Germany sparked a reactionary backlash that led to the Republic’s fall to the Nazis and, ultimately, the conflagration of World War II. Blending deeply researched political history with the firsthand experiences of everyday people, Vertigo is a vital, kaleidoscopic portrait of a pivotal moment in German history.

Book Hearings

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  • Author : United States. Congress Senate
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1966
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 2122 pages

Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress Senate and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 2122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hearings  Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Appropriations

Download or read book Hearings Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Appropriations written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Conspiracy That Will Not Die

Download or read book The Conspiracy That Will Not Die written by Sr. Robert Gates and published by ELDERBERRY PRESS, INC.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From each according to his ability To each according to his needs Is this what we want America to be? A cabal of financial interests are rapidly driving America toward totalitarianism and Communism. If we are to stop them, their conspiracy must be exposed. Currently the National Debt is over $14 trillion dollars, and it grows at over $1.5 trillion a year. The Rothschild Financial Empire is driving this country into a one-world government. The financial organizations in the U.S. that are controlled by the Rothschild Cabal consists of the Rockefeller Trust, The Ford Trust, and others. These U.S. financial Institutions supply the funds for organizations such as the Council on Foreign Relations. From this organization, other organizations have been established, such as The Trilateral Commission. Other organizations are also financed by the U.S. branches of the Rothschild Cabal such as NAACP, ACLU, The Black Panthers, etc. The main purpose of these organizations are to destroy the Constitution as written by our forefathers. The Cabal is using both the Democratic Party and Republican Party as vehicles to advance their one-world agenda. This book was written to expose this conspiracy to one and all. Robert Gates, Sr. is retired military; holds a B.S. and M.B.A. degrees with a minor in Macro-economics.

Book The Autobiographical Turn in Germanophone Documentary and Experimental Film

Download or read book The Autobiographical Turn in Germanophone Documentary and Experimental Film written by Robin Curtis and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2014 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume examine the parameters shaping the audiovisual self in the Germanophone cultural context across a variety of practices and aesthetic modes, from contemporary artists including Hito Steyerl, Ming Wong, and kate hers to Rolf Dieter Brinkmann's multimedia experiments of the 1970s, and from Helke Misselwitz's challenges to the documentary tradition in the GDR to Peter Liechti's investigations of Swiss ambivalence toward the nation's iconic landscape. The volume thus takes up a number of historically and geographically specific iterations of autobiographical discourse that in each case remain contingent on the space and time in which they are uttered.

Book Industry and Ideology

Download or read book Industry and Ideology written by Peter Hayes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-11-13 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines IG Farben Chemicals and the power of big business in the Third Reich economy.