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Book Germany On Their Minds

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  • Author : Anne C. Schenderlein
  • Publisher : Berghahn Books
  • Release : 2019-10-03
  • ISBN : 1789200059
  • Pages : 254 pages

Download or read book Germany On Their Minds written by Anne C. Schenderlein and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2019-10-03 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the 1930s and early 1940s, approximately ninety thousand German Jews fled their homeland and settled in the United States, prior to that nation closing its borders to Jewish refugees. And even though many of them wanted little to do with Germany, the circumstances of the Second World War and the postwar era meant that engagement of some kind was unavoidable—whether direct or indirect, initiated within the community itself or by political actors and the broader German public. This book carefully traces these entangled histories on both sides of the Atlantic, demonstrating the remarkable extent to which German Jews and their former fellow citizens helped to shape developments from the Allied war effort to the course of West German democratization.

Book Containing Germany

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  • Author : S. Mawby
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 1999-06-03
  • ISBN : 0333984226
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book Containing Germany written by S. Mawby and published by Springer. This book was released on 1999-06-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a radical reappraisal of British policy towards West German rearmament until the Federal Republic's incorporation into NATO and contains a series of major new theses on British attitudes towards European integration, Anglo-Soviet relations and the 'Special Relationship'. It places policy in the context of Anglo-German distrust, American demands for a German contribution and British fears of antagonising the Soviets. It clarifies numerous controversial issues by demonstrating British willingness to compromise with the Soviets over German unification, the British military's desire to reduce the continental commitment and Eden's enthusiasm for a European Army.

Book Belonging

Download or read book Belonging written by Nora Krug and published by Scribner. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award * Silver Medal Society of Illustrators * * Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, Comics Beat, The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Kirkus Reviews, and Library Journal This “ingenious reckoning with the past” (The New York Times), by award-winning artist Nora Krug investigates the hidden truths of her family’s wartime history in Nazi Germany. Nora Krug was born decades after the fall of the Nazi regime, but the Second World War cast a long shadow over her childhood and youth in the city of Karlsruhe, Germany. Yet she knew little about her own family’s involvement; though all four grandparents lived through the war, they never spoke of it. After twelve years in the US, Krug realizes that living abroad has only intensified her need to ask the questions she didn’t dare to as a child. Returning to Germany, she visits archives, conducts research, and interviews family members, uncovering in the process the stories of her maternal grandfather, a driving teacher in Karlsruhe during the war, and her father’s brother Franz-Karl, who died as a teenage SS soldier. In this extraordinary quest, “Krug erases the boundaries between comics, scrapbooking, and collage as she endeavors to make sense of 20th-century history, the Holocaust, her German heritage, and her family's place in it all” (The Boston Globe). A highly inventive, “thoughtful, engrossing” (Minneapolis Star-Tribune) graphic memoir, Belonging “packs the power of Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home and David Small’s Stitches” (NPR.org).

Book The War with Germany

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  • Author : Leonard P. Ayres
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2009-12-27
  • ISBN : 9781449995034
  • Pages : 156 pages

Download or read book The War with Germany written by Leonard P. Ayres and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2009-12-27 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reprint of the book first published in 1919. A statistical summary of the First World War.

Book Containing Germany

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  • Author : Spencer Mawby
  • Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
  • Release : 1999-08-14
  • ISBN : 9780312219147
  • Pages : 258 pages

Download or read book Containing Germany written by Spencer Mawby and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1999-08-14 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing Germany presents a radical reappraisal of British policy towards West German rearmament until the Federal Republic's incorporation into NATO, and it contains a series of major new theses on British attitudes towards European integration, Anglo-Soviet relations and the "Special Relationship." It places policy in the context of Anglo-German distrust, American demands for a German contribution, and British fears of antagonizing with the Soviets over German unification.

Book What to Do with Germany

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  • Author : Louis Nizer
  • Publisher : Franklin Classics Trade Press
  • Release : 2018-11-10
  • ISBN : 9780353057470
  • Pages : 228 pages

Download or read book What to Do with Germany written by Louis Nizer and published by Franklin Classics Trade Press. This book was released on 2018-11-10 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Inside the Third Reich

Download or read book Inside the Third Reich written by Albert Speer and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'INSIDE THE THIRD REICH is not only the most significant personal German account to come out of the war but the most revealing document on the Hitler phenomenon yet written. It takes the reader inside Nazi Germany on four different levels: Hitler's inner circle, National Socialism as a whole, the area of wartime production and the inner struggle of Albert Speer. The author does not try to make excuses, even by implication, and is unrelenting toward himself and his associates... Speer's full-length portrait of Hitler has unnerving reality. The Fuhrer emerges as neither an incompetent nor a carpet-gnawing madman but as an evil genius of warped conceits endowed with an ineffable personal magic' NEW YORK TIMES

Book Hitler s American Friends

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  • Author : Bradley W. Hart
  • Publisher : Thomas Dunne Books
  • Release : 2018-10-02
  • ISBN : 1250148960
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book Hitler s American Friends written by Bradley W. Hart and published by Thomas Dunne Books. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book examining the strange terrain of Nazi sympathizers, nonintervention campaigners and other voices in America who advocated on behalf of Nazi Germany in the years before World War II. Americans who remember World War II reminisce about how it brought the country together. The less popular truth behind this warm nostalgia: until the attack on Pearl Harbor, America was deeply, dangerously divided. Bradley W. Hart's Hitler's American Friends exposes the homegrown antagonists who sought to protect and promote Hitler, leave Europeans (and especially European Jews) to fend for themselves, and elevate the Nazi regime. Some of these friends were Americans of German heritage who joined the Bund, whose leadership dreamed of installing a stateside Führer. Some were as bizarre and hair-raising as the Silver Shirt Legion, run by an eccentric who claimed that Hitler fulfilled a religious prophesy. Some were Midwestern Catholics like Father Charles Coughlin, an early right-wing radio star who broadcast anti-Semitic tirades. They were even members of Congress who used their franking privilege—sending mail at cost to American taxpayers—to distribute German propaganda. And celebrity pilot Charles Lindbergh ended up speaking for them all at the America First Committee. We try to tell ourselves it couldn't happen here, but Americans are not immune to the lure of fascism. Hitler's American Friends is a powerful look at how the forces of evil manipulate ordinary people, how we stepped back from the ledge, and the disturbing ease with which we could return to it.

Book  Non Germans  Under the Third Reich

Download or read book Non Germans Under the Third Reich written by Diemut Majer and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 1626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Indispensable to any student of the New Order in Europe between 1939 and 1945." -- English Historical Review

Book Germany

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  • Author : Sarah Tieck
  • Publisher : ABDO
  • Release : 2014-09-01
  • ISBN : 161783811X
  • Pages : 42 pages

Download or read book Germany written by Sarah Tieck and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Informative, easy-to-read text and oversized scenic photos draw in readers as they journey through Germany ? home of the majestic Bavarian Alps, the famed Black Forest, and the iconic Brandenburg Gate and Neuschwanstein Castle. Readers will learn about Germany?s history, government, major cities, land features, natural resources, culture, and more! Maps, a timeline with photos, fun facts, and pronunciation guides aid readers. The book closes with a facts page including Germany?s population and total area, as well as images of the German flag and currency. Students will find valuable report information while exploring Germany! Table of contents, glossary, and index included. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Big Buddy BOOKS is an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company.

Book What to Do with Germany  Classic Reprint

Download or read book What to Do with Germany Classic Reprint written by Louis Nizer and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-03 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from What to Do With Germany About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Treaty of Peace with Germany

Download or read book Treaty of Peace with Germany written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Treaty of Peace with Germany

Download or read book Treaty of Peace with Germany written by United States and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text of the treaty between the United States and Germany officially ending the First World War.

Book Treaty of Commerce and Consular Rights with Germany

Download or read book Treaty of Commerce and Consular Rights with Germany written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Treaty of Peace with Germany  Hearings     July 31   Sept  12  1919

Download or read book Treaty of Peace with Germany Hearings July 31 Sept 12 1919 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Islam and Nazi Germany   s War

Download or read book Islam and Nazi Germany s War written by David Motadel and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-30 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Ernst Fraenkel Prize, Wiener Holocaust Library An Open Letters Monthly Best History Book of the Year A New York Post “Must-Read” In the most crucial phase of the Second World War, German troops confronted the Allies across lands largely populated by Muslims. Nazi officials saw Islam as a powerful force with the same enemies as Germany: the British Empire, the Soviet Union, and the Jews. Islam and Nazi Germany’s War is the first comprehensive account of Berlin’s remarkably ambitious attempts to build an alliance with the Islamic world. “Motadel describes the Mufti’s Nazi dealings vividly...Impeccably researched and clearly written, [his] book will transform our understanding of the Nazi policies that were, Motadel writes, some ‘of the most vigorous attempts to politicize and instrumentalize Islam in modern history.’” —Dominic Green, Wall Street Journal “Motadel’s treatment of an unsavory segment of modern Muslim history is as revealing as it is nuanced. Its strength lies not just in its erudite account of the Nazi perception of Islam but also in illustrating how the Allies used exactly the same tactics to rally Muslims against Hitler. With the specter of Isis haunting the world, it contains lessons from history we all need to learn.” —Ziauddin Sardar, The Independent

Book The Seduction of Culture in German History

Download or read book The Seduction of Culture in German History written by Wolf Lepenies and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-10 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Allied bombing of Germany, Hitler was more distressed by the loss of cultural treasures than by the leveling of homes. Remarkably, his propagandists broadcast this fact, convinced that it would reveal not his callousness but his sensitivity: the destruction had failed to crush his artist's spirit. It is impossible to begin to make sense of this thinking without understanding what Wolf Lepenies calls The Seduction of Culture in German History. This fascinating and unusual book tells the story of an arguably catastrophic German habit--that of valuing cultural achievement above all else and envisioning it as a noble substitute for politics. Lepenies examines how this tendency has affected German history from the late eighteenth century to today. He argues that the German preference for art over politics is essential to understanding the peculiar nature of Nazism, including its aesthetic appeal to many Germans (and others) and the fact that Hitler and many in his circle were failed artists and intellectuals who seem to have practiced their politics as a substitute form of art. In a series of historical, intellectual, literary, and artistic vignettes told in an essayistic style full of compelling aphorisms, this wide-ranging book pays special attention to Goethe and Thomas Mann, and also contains brilliant discussions of such diverse figures as Novalis, Walt Whitman, Leo Strauss, and Allan Bloom. The Seduction of Culture in German History is concerned not only with Germany, but with how the German obsession with culture, sense of cultural superiority, and scorn of politics have affected its relations with other countries, France and the United States in particular.