Germany in American Eyes
Author : Norbert Muhlen
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Page : 52 pages
File Size : 29,36 MB
Release : 1959
Category : Germany
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Author : Norbert Muhlen
Publisher :
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 29,36 MB
Release : 1959
Category : Germany
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Author : Arthur Feiler
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Page : 316 pages
File Size : 12,96 MB
Release : 1928
Category : United States
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Author : Cora Sol Goldstein
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 11,39 MB
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0226301710
Shedding new light on the American campaign to democratize Western Germany after World War II, Capturing the German Eye uncovers the importance of cultural policy and visual propaganda to the U.S. occupation. Cora Sol Goldstein skillfully evokes Germany’s political climate between 1945 and 1949, adding an unexpected dimension to the confrontation between the United States and the USSR. During this period, the American occupiers actively vied with their Soviet counterparts for control of Germany’s visual culture, deploying film, photography, and the fine arts while censoring images that contradicted their political messages. Goldstein reveals how this U.S. cultural policy in Germany was shaped by three major factors: competition with the USSR, fear of alienating German citizens, and American domestic politics. Explaining how the Americans used images to discredit the Nazis and, later, the Communists, she illuminates the instrumental role of visual culture in the struggle to capture German hearts and minds at the advent of the cold war.
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Page : 56 pages
File Size : 47,96 MB
Release : 1967
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Author : Heinz-Dietrich Fischer
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 20,40 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3643107196
During the more than 90 years of the Pulitzer Prizes, quite a number of awards went to articles, cartoons and books dealing with Germany. For the first time, this volume not only presents prize-winning material of that kind but also mentions the circumstances of the various prize-givings and adds details about the winners. The confidential jury reports give some background information about the decision-making processes. All sources come exclusively from the Pulitzer Prize Collection at Columbia University, New York.
Author : Cord Jakobeit
Publisher : Nova Biomedical Books
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 47,88 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781560722618
United States & German-American Relations Through German Eyes
Author : Brendan Simms
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 48,97 MB
Release : 2021-11-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1541619080
A riveting account of the five most crucial days in twentieth-century diplomatic history: from Pearl Harbor to Hitler’s declaration of war on the United States By early December 1941, war had changed much of the world beyond recognition. Nazi Germany occupied most of the European continent, while in Asia, the Second Sino-Japanese War had turned China into a battleground. But these conflicts were not yet inextricably linked—and the United States remained at peace. Hitler’s American Gamble recounts the five days that upended everything: December 7 to 11. Tracing developments in real time and backed by deep archival research, historians Brendan Simms and Charlie Laderman show how Hitler’s intervention was not the inexplicable decision of a man so bloodthirsty that he forgot all strategy, but a calculated risk that can only be understood in a truly global context. This book reveals how December 11, not Pearl Harbor, was the real watershed that created a world war and transformed international history.
Author : M. Ann Joachim
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Page : 318 pages
File Size : 30,56 MB
Release : 1933
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Author : James Q. Whitman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 30,77 MB
Release : 2017-02-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1400884632
How American race law provided a blueprint for Nazi Germany Nazism triumphed in Germany during the high era of Jim Crow laws in the United States. Did the American regime of racial oppression in any way inspire the Nazis? The unsettling answer is yes. In Hitler's American Model, James Whitman presents a detailed investigation of the American impact on the notorious Nuremberg Laws, the centerpiece anti-Jewish legislation of the Nazi regime. Contrary to those who have insisted that there was no meaningful connection between American and German racial repression, Whitman demonstrates that the Nazis took a real, sustained, significant, and revealing interest in American race policies. As Whitman shows, the Nuremberg Laws were crafted in an atmosphere of considerable attention to the precedents American race laws had to offer. German praise for American practices, already found in Hitler's Mein Kampf, was continuous throughout the early 1930s, and the most radical Nazi lawyers were eager advocates of the use of American models. But while Jim Crow segregation was one aspect of American law that appealed to Nazi radicals, it was not the most consequential one. Rather, both American citizenship and antimiscegenation laws proved directly relevant to the two principal Nuremberg Laws—the Citizenship Law and the Blood Law. Whitman looks at the ultimate, ugly irony that when Nazis rejected American practices, it was sometimes not because they found them too enlightened, but too harsh. Indelibly linking American race laws to the shaping of Nazi policies in Germany, Hitler's American Model upends understandings of America's influence on racist practices in the wider world.
Author : John C. McManus
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 39,97 MB
Release : 2015-11-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1421417669
The life-altering experiences of the American soldiers who liberated three Nazi concentration camps. On April 4, 1945, United States Army units from the 89th Infantry Division and the 4th Armored Division seized Ohrdruf, the first of many Nazi concentration camps to be liberated in Germany. In the weeks that followed, as more camps were discovered, thousands of soldiers came face to face with the monstrous reality of Hitler’s Germany. These men discovered the very depths of human-imposed cruelty and depravity: railroad cars stacked with emaciated, lifeless bodies; ovens full of incinerated human remains; warehouses filled with stolen shoes, clothes, luggage, and even eyeglasses; prison yards littered with implements of torture and dead bodies; and—perhaps most disturbing of all—the half-dead survivors of the camps. For the American soldiers of all ranks who witnessed such powerful evidence of Nazi crimes, the experience was life altering. Almost all were haunted for the rest of their lives by what they had seen, horrified that humans from ostensibly civilized societies were capable of such crimes. Military historian John C. McManus sheds new light on this often-overlooked aspect of the Holocaust. Drawing on a rich blend of archival sources and thousands of firsthand accounts—including unit journals, interviews, oral histories, memoirs, diaries, letters, and published recollections—Hell Before Their Very Eyes focuses on the experiences of the soldiers who liberated Ohrdruf, Buchenwald, and Dachau and their determination to bear witness to this horrific history.