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"Army Criminal Investigation Agents Scott Brodie and Maggie Taylor have been separated for five months following their last assignment, a dangerous mission in Venezuela to locate and detain an infamous Army deserter. Now, in Berlin, they are reunited and tasked with investigating the murder of one of their own: CID Special Agent Harry Vance of the 5th MP Battalion, an accomplished counterterrorism agent who had been stationed in western Germany, and...
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Adapted from Sandra Schulberg's monograph, Filmmakers for the Prosecution retraces the hunt for film evidence that could convict the Nazis at the Nuremberg Trial. The searchers were two sons of Hollywood brothers Budd and Stuart Schulberg serving under the command of OSS film chief John Ford. The motion pictures they presented in the courtroom became part of the official record and shape our understanding of the Holocaust to this day. Seventy-five...
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"From Peter Wohlleben, the New York Times-bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees, and his wife, Miriam, comes an inspired, practical memoir of creating a sustainable homestead amongst the trees. Called "a veritable tree whisperer" by the Wall Street Journal, Peter Wohlleben is known across the world for his illuminating books about forests and how to help them thrive. Now, the German forester invites readers into his home for the first time...
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In 1945, Germany lay in ruins, morally and materially. Its citizens stood condemned by history, responsible for a horrifying genocide and war of extermination. But by the end of Angela Merkel's tenure in 2021, Germany appeared to be the moral voice of Europe, welcoming more than one million refugees, holding together the tenuous threads of the European Union, and making military restraint the center of its foreign policy. Frank Trentmann paints a...
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American judge Dan Haywood presides over the trial of four German jurists accused of "legalizing" Nazi atrocities. As graphic accounts of sterilization and murder unfold in the courtroom, mounting political pressure for leniency forces Haywood to make the most harrowing and difficult decision of his career.
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Ten years after college, our Pitch Perfect hero Bumper Allen lives a boring existence working as a security guard for his alma mater and singing a capella as a hobby with the less-than-eager Tonehangers. But after a surprise phone call from an old acquaintance, Pieter, Bumper is convinced he can make his musical dreams of becoming a pop star come true by dropping everything and moving to Berlin. With the help of an entourage of German collaborators,...
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In this emotional WWII novel, Anna Dankova has done everything possible to keep her daughter, Ema, safe. But when Ema is ripped from her mothers arms by the dreaded Brown Sisters, nurses who were dedicated to Hitlers cause, the former actress goes undercover as a devoted German subject eager to prove her worth to the Reich in order to save her daughter. But getting close to Ema is one thing. Convincing her that the Germans are lying when they claim...
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It is the early 1930s, and Europe is holding its breath. As Hitler's grip on power tightens, preparations are being made for the Berlin Olympics. Leni Riefenstahl is the pioneering, sexually liberated star film-maker of the Third Reich. She has been chosen by Hitler to capture the Olympics on celluloid but is about to find that even his closest friends have much to fear. Kim Newlands is the English athlete 'sponsored' by the Blackshirts and devoted...
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"A granddaughter explores the story of her Ukrainian grandmother's survival of Hitler's forced labor camps. Irina Nikifortchuk was 19 years old and a Ukrainian schoolteacher when she was abducted to be a forced laborer in the Leica camera factory in Nazi Germany. Eventually pulled from the camp hospital to work as a domestic in the Leica owners' household, Irina survived the war and eventually found her way to Canada. Decades later Sasha Colby, Irina's...
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"A story of love, incredible bravery and self-sacrifice . . . brilliantly told."-Antony Beevor, New York Times best-selling author of The Fall of Berlin 1945, The Second World War, and D-Day
"A taut, absorbing tale of anti-Nazi resistance."-Kirkus Reviews
Harro Schulze-Boysen already had shed blood in the fight against Nazism by the time he and Libertas Haas-Heye began their whirlwind romance. She joined the cause, and soon the two...
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Seit dem "Fall Daschner" ist die Diskussion über die Folter neu entbrannt. Ein Blick in die Geschichte macht den Prozess ihrer Umwertung deutlich: Von der gesetzlich geregelten Befragungstechnik im ausgehenden Mittelalter über den Versuch der Abschaffung und ihr vielfältiges Weiterleben bis ins 20.Jahrhundert. Was von den Nationalsozialisten wieder massiv eingesetzt und in der SBZ/DDR mit anderen Mitteln weiter praktiziert wurde, gilt heute manchem...
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Robert Moeller investigates the German peasantry's rejection of the Weimar Republic in the 1920s and provides a new interpretation of Catholic peasant conservatism in western Germany. According to Moeller, rural support for conservative political solutions to the troubled Weimar Republic was the result of a series of severe economic jolts that began in 1914 and continued unabated until 1933. During the late nineteenth century, peasant farmers in...
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With Germany prior to the dissolution of the Roman power, the present compendium has no concern: the history of that period is, or ought to be, familiar to every reader. Our object is to contemplate that celebrated country as an Empire; but as its establishment must be traced to an era considerably anterior, a few pages by way of introduction may properly open the main subject...
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Winter 1988, ein Jahr vor dem Fall der Mauer: Die in West-Berlin lebende Amerikanerin Julia McCandle lernt auf der Transitstrecke den Journalisten Jonas Maler kennen. Für beide ist es die große Liebe, doch die Stasi sieht in der Verbindung eine konspirative Verschwörung. Mit allen Mitteln der "Zersetzung" soll verhindert werden, dass Jonas und Julia sich weiterhin treffen: Einschüchterung, offene Beschattung, Reise- und Berufsverbot und nicht...
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Lumans studies the relations between Nazi Germany and the German minority populations of other European countries, examining these ties within the context of Hitler's foreign policy and the racial policies of SS Chief Heinrich Himmler. He shows how the Reich's racial and political interests in these German minorities between 1933 and 1945 helped determine its behavior toward neighboring states.Originally published in 1993. A UNC Press Enduring Edition...
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Over the course of the twentieth century, Germans have venerated and maintained a variety of historical buildings--from medieval fortresses and cathedrals to urban districts and nineteenth-century working-class housing. But the practice of historic preservation has sometimes proven controversial, as different groups of Germans have sought to use historical architecture to represent competing versions of their nation's history.Transient Pasts is the...
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Lübecks Zauber ist oft beschrieben worden. Klaus Ungerer wuchs mittendrin auf, zwischen uralten Backsteinhäuschen, im Schatten der riesigen Kirchtürme. Vom Travemünder Strand aus führt er uns tief in die Geschichte der Ostseestadt – und in seine eigene. Er erzählt von seiner Lehrerin Frau Bolm, die aus Kindern stolze Hanseaten machte, von seiner Großmutter, die ihm die abgestürzten Kirchturmglocken aus der Bombennacht 1942 zeigte, vom zerschlagenen...
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"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1997" Suzanne L. Marchand is Associate Professor of History at Louisiana State University. She is the author of numerous essays on the history of anthropology, archaeology, and classical scholarship in Germany and Austria and is the coauthor of the world history textbook Worlds Together, Worlds Apart (W. W. Norton).
Since the publication of Eliza May Butler's Tyranny of Greece over Germany in 1935,...
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