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Weikart reveals the startling and fascinating truth about the most hated man of the 20th century: Adolf Hitler was a pantheist who believed nature was God. In Hitler's Religion, Weikart explains how the laws of nature became Hitler's only moral guide - how he became convinced he would serve God by annihilating supposedly "inferior" human beings and promoting the welfare and reproduction of the allegedly superior Aryansin accordance with racist forms of Darwinism prevalent at the time.

'A lyrical, fascinating, important book. More than just a family story, it is an essay on belonging, denying, pretending, self-deception and, at least for the main characters, survival.' Literary Review 'Simon May's remarkable How to Be a Refugee is a memoir of family secrets with a ruminative...

"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 owners. While...

This is the real story of Patton, known affectionately as "The Old Man" and "Old Blood and Guts" by his troops. Told first hand by generals and comrades who fought side by side with him in all of his campaigns, from World War l to World War II and the famous "Battle of the Bulge".

A special contribution in included from Mrs. Patton, as well as "A Study Guide for Harvard" that contains additional biographical information, facts, famous Patton quotes, and Patton's complete legacy.

In A Brief History of Germany, Jeremy Black questions how the Germany we know today came to be, chronicling the events that shaped its past, present and future in a fascinating new way. From the fall of Rome in the 1500s to the enlightenment in the 1700s, from World War I and World War II to Germany post-unification, Black's writing will unlock the places and people that formed Germany and enrich your visit with stories of its society and culture.

With Germany in the World, award-winning historian David Blackbourn radically revises conventional narratives of German history, demonstrating the existence of a distinctly German presence in the world centuries before its unification—and revealing a national identity far more complicated than previously imagined.

In 1941, the Second World War became global, when Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union, Japan attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor and Germany declared war on the United States. In this timely book, which fills a real gap, Black engages with the strategic issues of the time - as they developed chronologically and interacted - and relates these to subsequent debates about the choices made, revealing their continued political resonances.

Vom Sturz Bismarcks, von Wilhelm II. mit seiner Schlachtflotte als Lieblingsspielzeug über Deutschlands zunehmende Isolation im europäischen Bündnisgefüge bis hin zur 'Dauerkrise' vor dem Ausbruch des ersten Weltkriegs: Kenntnisreich und spannend erzählt und kommentiert Golo Mann die Jahre 1888 bis 1914 mit ihren Akteuren und Geschehnissen.

For 28 years, the Berlin Wall was a symbol of communist oppression and tyranny. The barricade was built in August 1961 to keep East German citizens from defecting to West Germany. This is the story of an oppressive symbol — a wall erected to form a prison for those within its border — but it is also the story of triumph over tyranny when finally, 28 years after it was first built, the Berlin Wall came tumbling down in 1989.

During World War II many escape-line organizations contributed to the Allied cause by funneling hundreds of servicemen out of occupied Europe. As the Germans tightened their noose, the risk of discovery only grew for the servicemen who needed safe passage across the Pyrenees. In early 1944 two important escape-line organizations operated in southwestern France, handing over many fugitives to French passeur Jean-Louis Bazerque. Along with several of his successful missions, his only failure as a passeur is recounted in gripping detail in So Close to Freedom.

When the Great War broke out in August 1914, Thomas Mann, like so many people on both sides of the conflict, was exhilarated. Finally, the era of decadence that he had anatomized in Death in Venice had come to an end; finally, there was a cause worth fighting and even dying for, or, at least when it came to Mann himself, writing about. Mann immediately picked up his pen to compose a paean to the German cause. Soon after, his elder brother and lifelong rival, the novelist Heinrich Mann, responded with a no less determined denunciation.

Avvalendosi di tecnologie all'avanguardia, nuovi documenti e sofisticate tecniche investigative, un team internazionale ha fatto luce su uno dei grandi misteri irrisolti della Seconda guerra mondiale. Più di trenta milioni di persone in tutto il mondo hanno letto il Diario di Anne Frank, la tredicenne ebrea che affidò alle pagine di tre quaderni la storia dei due anni trascorsi nascosta con la famiglia e altre quattro persone nella casa segreta ricavata nel retro di un edificio di Amsterdam, fino a quando i nazisti non li arrestarono.

On September 5, 1972, eight Palestinian terrorists belonging to the Black September faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) entered the Olympic Village in Munich, West Germany, and took 11 Israeli athletes and team members hostage. After a lengthy standoff and a bungled rescue operation, all 11 were killed. While today, Israel is one of the most divisive political subjects across the world, the Munich Massacre and the Israeli operations in response all came about entirely because of the emotional power inherent in the Israeli-Arab conflict.

This audiobook will take you on a thrilling ride through history, starting with the modest origins of Prussia and its Hohenzollern dynasty. You will be amazed at how they traversed the historical barbwire of late medieval times, unwillingly entangled in wars with greater powers and religious reformation. You will learn of their struggles against the Habsburgs and Austria, France and Napoleon, and many other adversaries in the countless wars in which the Prussians found themselves - wars which weren’t always won by them.

Fortællingen om Weimarrepublikkens fald og Hitlers vej til magten. Weimarrepublikken bliver en turbulent og kaotisk tid. I et Tyskland, der skal på fode igen efter Første Verdenskrigs nederlag, opstår et inferno af politiske kampe og fraktioner. Fra kejsertro til konservative og socialdemokrater til ekstremister på både venstre-og højrefløjen - herunder nationalsocialisterne, med Hitler i spidsen. Bogen dykker ned i et af den moderne histories afgørende vendepunkter: Weimarrepublikkens fald og Hitlers vej til magten - fortalt gennem ti uger fra november 1932.

Schonungslos und selbstkritisch erzählt der Schriftsteller Erich Loest aus seinem Leben. 1926 im sächsischen Mittweida geboren, kam Loest über die Hitlerjugend zur NSDAP und nahm als junger Soldat, als sogenannter "Werwolf", am Zweiten Weltkrieg teil. 1947 trat er begeistert in die SED ein, wurde aber zehn Jahre später wegen angeblicher "konterrevolutionärer Gruppenbildung" zu siebeneinhalb Jahren Haft verurteilt. Mit seiner Entlassung endet diese Autobiografie. Gelesen von Kurt Böwe ist "Durch die Erde ein Riss" eine beeindruckende literarische Chronik deutscher Zeitgeschichte.

Das Ende des nationalsozialistischen Deutschen Reichs scheint klar verortet: Am 7. bzw. 9. Mai wird die bedingungslose Kapitulation der deutschen Wehrmacht unterzeichnet. Damit war zwar der Krieg zu Ende, noch nicht aber waren Wehrmacht und "Drittes Reich" endgültig untergegangen. Nicht jeder bekam sogleich mit oder wollte mitbekommen, dass alles zu Ende war. Manche kämpften weiter, Hinrichtungen von "Deserteuren" gab es noch massenhaft. Manche versuchten sich abzusetzen, begingen Selbstmord oder gerierten sich als Unbeteiligte wie Albert Speer.

Prostitutes and animals could no longer satisfy Peter Kürten’s sexual deviancy. During a burglary of a local tavern, he stumbled upon a nine-year-old girl asleep in her bed. He strangled her, slashed her throat with a pocket knife, and orgasmed upon hearing her blood drip to the floor. His crimes were halted by World War I and an eight-year prison sentence but he unleashed his urges with a spate of brutal murders in 1929 earning him the nickname "The Düsseldorf Monster."

'Sebestyen reminds us once again why he is one of the best historians writing today' ANDREW ROBERTS, author of Churchill: Walking with Destiny In the years after the First World War, Berlin was - as Vladimir Nabokov described it - a place 'of dangerous glamour and worldliness, of tawdry cynicism...

Sie alle prägten die deutsche Geschichte: Kaiser wie Otto I. , Karl der Große oder Wilhelm II., Wissenschaftler wie Albert Einstein...