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Described by Brecht as 'a gangster play that would recall certain events familiar to us all', Arturo Ui is a witty and savage satire of the rise of Hitler - recast by Brecht into a small-time Chicag……続きを見る

Introduction by Andrew Solomon As a young girl growing up in the ’40s on a vast estate near Munich, Trixi Ost lives a life that is charmed by talent and privilege yet scarred by turbulent times. She……続きを見る

Red Saxony throws new light on the reciprocal relationship between political modernization and authoritarianism in Germany over the span of six decades. Election battles were fought so fiercely in I……続きを見る

Beyond Berlin breaks new ground in the ongoing effort to understand how memorials, buildings, and other spaces have figured in Germany's confrontation with its Nazi past. The contributors challenge ……続きを見る

In this issue: The Flemish Legion, Felix Steiner and the European Volunteers, The Wiking and the battles in the Izyum area, July 1943, SS-Unterscharführer Max Rudolf Pesarra, The Italian SS Legion a……続きを見る

The cultural milieu in the “Age of Goethe” of eighteenth-century Germany is given fresh context in this art historical study of the noted writers’ patroness: Anna Amalia, Duchess of Weimar-Sachsen-E……続きを見る

“Gripping. . . . splendid history. A brilliantly clear and accessible account of the war in all its theaters. Roberts’s prose is unerringly precise and strikingly vivid. It is hard to imagine a bett……続きを見る

Homeopathy was founded in 1796 by the German physician Samuel Hahnemann who ardently proposed that "like cures like," counter to the conventional treatment of prescribing drugs that have the opposit……続きを見る

Contrary to the historiographical commonplace “no Reformation without print” Cultures of Communication examines media in the early modern world through the lens of the period’s religious history. Lo……続きを見る

What was the experience of war for a child in bombed and ravaged Germany? In this memoir, the voice of innocence is heard. “This is great stuff,” exclaims Stephen E. Ambrose. “I love this book.” In ……続きを見る

Rudolf Stratzs Buch "Madlene" ist ein fesselnder historischer Roman, der die Leser in das Berlin des 18. Jahrhunderts entführt. Mit einem präzisen und dennoch mitreißenden Schreibstil gelingt es Str……続きを見る

As senior correspondent for Reuters in Munich from 1936-1941, American Ernest Pope saw the cruel and outrageous behavior of Nazis in their native habitat. In Munich they ran wild, let their hair dow……続きを見る

Phyllis Ursula James. Nora O’Mara. Róisín Ní Mheara. Like her name, the life of Rosaleen James changed many times as she followed a convoluted path from abandoned child, to foster daughter of an ari……続きを見る

It's hard to imagine an issue or image more riveting than Black Germans during the Third Reich. Yet accounts of their lives are virtually nonexistent, despite the fact that they lived through a regi……続きを見る

Dieses eBook: "Erinnerungen einer alten Schwarzwälderin (Heimatroman)" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Heinrich Hansjak……続きを見る

What Hitler Knew is a fascinating study of how the climate of fear in Nazi Germany affected Hitler's advisers and shaped the decision making process. It explores the key foreign policy decisions fro……続きを見る

This biography of Lise Meitner (1878-1968), the Austrian Jewish female physicist at the heart of the discovery of nuclear fission, also looks at major developments in physics during her life. Meitne……続きを見る

The Trial of Tempel Anneke examines documents from an early modern European witchcraft trial with the pedagogical goal of allowing students to interact directly with primary sources. A brief histori……続きを見る

Hanging his head, Earl used his pocket knife to open the letter. The first line proclaimed his fate, “Order to Report for Induction”. The letter went on to advise that the President of the United St……続きを見る

In the spring of 1945, as the German army fell in defeat and the world first learned of the unspeakable crimes of the Holocaust, few would have expected that, only half a century later, the Germans ……続きを見る

Der historische Roman 'Der Bildschnitzer von Würzburg' von August Sperl entführt den Leser in das mittelalterliche Würzburg des 15. Jahrhunderts. Mit einem prägnanten und detailreichen Schreibstil t……続きを見る

In 'Madam Bäuerin' führt Lena Christ die Leser in die ländliche Welt des späten 19. Jahrhunderts ein, in der die titelgebende Protagonistin unerwartet in die Rolle einer mächtigen Bäuerin schlüpft. ……続きを見る

August Sperl's historischer Roman 'Hans Georg Portner' entführt den Leser in das Deutschland des 18. Jahrhunderts. Mit einer meisterhaften Mischung aus Fakten und Fiktion erzählt Sperl die Geschicht……続きを見る

In 'Die Perle der Königin', einem aufregenden Detektiv-Abenteuer von Walther Kabel, wird der Leser in die mysteriöse Welt von Verbrechen, Intrigen und Geheimnissen eingeführt. Der Roman ist in einem……続きを見る

During World War I and II, modern states for the first time experimented with feeding--and starving--entire populations. Within the new globalizing economy, food became intimately intertwined with w……続きを見る

Was Hitler A Riddle? is the first comparative study of how British, French, and American diplomats serving in Germany assessed Hitler and the Nazi movement. These assessments provided the government……続きを見る

In the early decades of the twentieth century, two intertwined changes began to shape the direction of German society. The baptism of the German film industry took place amid post-World War I condit……続きを見る

This groundbreaking book explores the treatment of the millions of refugees and tens of thousands of spies that flooded Germany after World War II. Drawing on newly declassified espionage files, Kei……続きを見る

This book explores the unique phenomenon of Christian engagement with Yiddish language and literature from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the late eighteenth century. By exploring the mot……続きを見る

The most prominent story of nineteenth-century German and French Jewry has focused on Jewish adoption of liberal middle-class values. The Modernity of Others points to an equally powerful but largel……続きを見る