Author : Oliver Lubrich
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 23,17 MB
Release : 2010-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0226496295
Through the eyes of foreign authors, this collection offers a new perspective on the horrifying details of German life under Nazism, in accounts as gripping and well-written as a novel, but bearing all the weight of historical witness.
Author : Julia Boyd
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 30,39 MB
Release : 2018-08-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1681778432
Travelers in the Third Reich is an extraordinary history of the rise of the Nazis based on fascinating first-hand accounts, drawing together a multitude of voices and stories, including politicians, musicians, diplomats, schoolchildren, communists, scholars, athletes, poets, fascists, artists, tourists, and even celebrities like Charles Lindbergh and Samuel Beckett. Their experiences create a remarkable three-dimensional picture of Germany under Hitler—one so palpable that the reader will feel, hear, even breathe the atmosphere.These are the accidental eyewitnesses to history. Disturbing, absurd, moving, and ranging from the deeply trivial to the deeply tragic, their tales give a fresh insight into the complexities of the Third Reich, its paradoxes, and its ultimate destruction.
Author : Christel Weiss Brandenburg
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 45,33 MB
Release : 2015-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1476606862
Decades have passed since World War II, yet the myth that all Germans were Nazi sympathizers still persists. This book follows the story of the Weiss family in East Prussia from World War I to the end of World War II. It is told from the point of view not of the victors but of the vanquished. Beginning with the good citizenship trap Hitler set for law-abiding German families, the book describes how Germany first prospered and then fell to ruin with the Third Reich. The people traded their freedoms for a national security, which quickly turned to tyranny with swift consequences for "disobedience." Like Christel's brothers (soldiers and members of Hitler's Youth), propaganda-fed children all over the Reich believed the highly idealized depiction of their roles and of their nation's victims. This fascinating and richly detailed memoir is told through the intimate narration of a woman who grew up in the midst of turmoil, experienced poverty and prejudice, witnessed the deaths of many loved ones, and was driven from her home by the Soviet Army. The combination of domestic details and vivid historical descriptions creates an unusual book as absorbing as it is educational.
Author : Misha Aster
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,73 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780889629134
This book represents the first comprehensive study of the relationship between Hitler s regime and its musical crown jewel, the Berlin Philharmonic. The Nazi s patronage afforded the Berlin Philharmonic innumerable privileges unique among German cultural institutions. The orchestra accepted these benefits with a combination of gratitude, apprehension and vindication. As the musicians attempted to balance their exceptional status with a degree of artistic and organizational autonomy, tensions between ideological principle, legal jurisdiction, personal taste, and pragmatic regulation revealed profound contradictions at the heart of the Nazi State. In terms of institutional development, the transformations of the Berlin Philharmonic between 1933 and 1945 remain the models for the orchestra s organization to the present day. Drawing together documents from orchestra, State and private archives, this book reflects the experience of a major cultural institution, at once distressingly typical of Germany s Nazi experience, and astonishingly distinct. Primary documents arranged as the book s skeletal structure open up original sources, in many cases for the first time, to further scholarly review, while offering casual readers a unique taste of the troubling, at times shocking, at others even humorous, state of normalcy in this milieu."
Author : Hilmar Hoffmann
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 20,75 MB
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 9781571811226
Seeing German film during the Third Reich as a powerful and sinister tool for both indoctrination and escapist pacification, analyses the pictorial and spoken language to identify the psychological techniques used in the various genres, including news reels, documentaries, features, and cultural films. Two chapters focus on the role of flags, and another explains the rise of Hitler. Not illustrated. No subject index. First published as Und die Fahne fuhrt uns in die Ewigkeit in 1988 by Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag in Frankfurt am Main. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Michael Burleigh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 32,66 MB
Release : 1991-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521398022
This book deals with the ideas and institutions which underpinned the Nazi regime's attempt to restructure a 'class' society along racial lines.
Author : Thomas Xavier Ferenczi
Publisher : Fonthill Media
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 18,36 MB
Release : 2021-07-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Every phase of the Third Reich s foreign policy was determined by its authoritarian leader, Adolf Hitler. Following his rise to power, his political acuity and utter lack of scruple enabled him to achieve numerous diplomatic successes against the well-intentioned but largely ineffectual Anglo-French democracies. First by duplicity, then by bluff and bluster, and finally by brinkmanship, Hitler succeeded in establishing a strengthened and united Greater Germany (Grossdeutschland) in preparation for a Second Great War. This book examines in depth the revanchist foreign policy of Hitler s Germany from 1933 to 1939: the withdrawal of Germany from the League of Nations, German rearmament, the introduction of compulsory military service and the enlargement of the German Armed Forces, the remilitarization of the Rhineland, the notorious Hossbach Conference, the Austrian Anschluss , the Munich Conference, the brazen seizures of Bohemia-Moravia and the Memel District, the Danzig crisis, the cynical brokering of the Nazi-Soviet Pact, and the German invasion of Western Poland.
Author : Alexander Nützenadel
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 12,55 MB
Release : 2020-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789204582
Work played a central role in Nazi ideology and propaganda, and even today there remain some who still emphasize the supposedly positive aspects of the regime’s labor policies, ignoring the horrific and inhumane conditions they produced. This definitive volume provides, for the first time, a systematic study of the Reich Ministry of Labor and its implementation of National Socialist work doctrine. In detailed and illuminating chapters, contributors scrutinize political maneuvering, ministerial operations, relations between party and administration, and individual officials’ actions to reveal the surprising extent to which administrative apparatuses were involved in the Nazi regime and its crimes.
Author : Martha Dodd
Publisher : New York : Harcourt, Brace
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 10,72 MB
Release : 1939
Category : Germany
ISBN :
Author : Ray R. Cowdery
Publisher :
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 49,67 MB
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Advertising
ISBN : 9780910667296
Some say it is evil, some call it militarism in print, and others love it. Most people have difficulty being neutral on the subject of German print advertising of the 1933 - 1945 period. Regardless of their point of view, almost anyone who has objectively examined the advertising art produced in Nazi Germany has been stunned by the powerful graphics. This book is about advertising. In it Ray & Josephine Cowdery do not attempt to analyze, explain, justify, endorse, condemn or specifically depict any aspect of Third Reich Germany other than print advertising. The Cowderys simply provide a never-before-seen selection of advertising art of the Third Reich extracted from a priceless private archive of ancient magazines, newspapers and books. 176 very heavily illustrated pages Over 400 period advertisements 95 advertisements in full-color Ads and subjects are fully indexed Key German words defined Complete historical introduction Reichskulturkammer explainedThe book contains advertisements that feature a wide variety of products from aircraft to lingerie, automobiles to food, edged weapons, uniforms, toys, hotels, binoculars, ships, tobacco, art supplies, pistols, cameras, flags, porcelain figurines, motorcycles, ammunition, gas generators, bicycles, theaters, rifles, books, trains, insigne, boots, tableware, busses, helmets, chemicals, beer, radios, boxing matches, military caps, goggles, cosmetics, gasoline, razor blades, tires, cough drops, nightclubs, and even funerals.
