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Death in Berlin traces rituals and perceptions surrounding death from the Weimar Republic to the building of the Berlin Wall.
Author : Monica Black
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 28,36 MB
Release : 2010-05-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0521118514
Death in Berlin traces rituals and perceptions surrounding death from the Weimar Republic to the building of the Berlin Wall.
Author : Eugene Davidson
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 32,96 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826212498
Of the thousands packed in trains and transported from Viseu to Auschwitz, just a small group survived to see liberation. Among the survivors were Tessler, his father, and two of his brothers. This is their amazing story as Hasidic Jews caught in the chaos and terror of the Holocaust. Tessler's upbringing had emphasized community and family devotion --
Author : Michael Burleigh
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 35,39 MB
Release : 1994-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521477697
The first full-scale study in English of the Nazis' so-called 'euthanasia' programme in which over 200,000 people perished.
Author : Peter Fritzsche
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 38,26 MB
Release : 2009-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0674254015
On January 30, 1933, hearing about the celebrations for Hitler’s assumption of power, Erich Ebermayer remarked bitterly in his diary, “We are the losers, definitely the losers.” Learning of the Nuremberg Laws in 1935, which made Jews non-citizens, he raged, “hate is sown a million-fold.” Yet in March 1938, he wept for joy at the Anschluss with Austria: “Not to want it just because it has been achieved by Hitler would be folly.” In a masterful work, Peter Fritzsche deciphers the puzzle of Nazism’s ideological grip. Its basic appeal lay in the Volksgemeinschaft—a “people’s community” that appealed to Germans to be part of a great project to redress the wrongs of the Versailles treaty, make the country strong and vital, and rid the body politic of unhealthy elements. The goal was to create a new national and racial self-consciousness among Germans. For Germany to live, others—especially Jews—had to die. Diaries and letters reveal Germans’ fears, desires, and reservations, while showing how Nazi concepts saturated everyday life. Fritzsche examines the efforts of Germans to adjust to new racial identities, to believe in the necessity of war, to accept the dynamic of unconditional destruction—in short, to become Nazis. Powerful and provocative, Life and Death in the Third Reich is a chilling portrait of how ideology takes hold.
Author : Eugene Davidson
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Page : pages
File Size : 34,84 MB
Release : 1961
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Page : pages
File Size : 50,34 MB
Release : 1959
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Author : Peter Fritzsche
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 11,99 MB
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0674033744
Fritzsche deciphers the puzzle of Nazism's ideological grip. Its basic appeal lay in the Volksgemeinschaft - a "people’s community" that appealed to Germans to be part of a great project to redress the wrongs of the Versailles treaty, make the country strong and vital, and rid the body politic of unhealthy elements. Diaries and letters reveal Germans' fears, desires, and reservations, while showing how Nazi concepts saturated everyday life.
Author : Alon Confino
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,78 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781845453978
"This volume explores the tension between mass death and individual loss by linking long-term patterns of mourning, burial, and grief with the short-term cataclysmic violence unleashed by two world wars. How various "cultures of death" shaped the broader historical relationship between the living and the dead in modern Germany is the main concern of this book. It contributes to a history of death in Germany that does not begin and end with the Third Reich."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Eugene Davidson
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Page : 422 pages
File Size : 12,14 MB
Release : 1960
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Author : Benjamin Carter Hett
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,91 MB
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1250162513
A riveting account of how the Nazi Party came to power and how the failures of the Weimar Republic and the shortsightedness of German politicians allowed it to happen. Why did democracy fall apart so quickly and completely in Germany in the 1930s? How did a democratic government allow Adolf Hitler to seize power? In The Death of Democracy, Benjamin Carter Hett answers these questions, and the story he tells has disturbing resonances for our own time. To say that Hitler was elected is too simple. He would never have come to power if Germany’s leading politicians had not responded to a spate of populist insurgencies by trying to co-opt him, a strategy that backed them into a corner from which the only way out was to bring the Nazis in. Hett lays bare the misguided confidence of conservative politicians who believed that Hitler and his followers would willingly support them, not recognizing that their efforts to use the Nazis actually played into Hitler’s hands. They had willingly given him the tools to turn Germany into a vicious dictatorship. Benjamin Carter Hett is a leading scholar of twentieth-century Germany and a gifted storyteller whose portraits of these feckless politicians show how fragile democracy can be when those in power do not respect it. He offers a powerful lesson for today, when democracy once again finds itself embattled and the siren song of strongmen sounds ever louder.