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Winner of the Lionel Trilling Award Nominated for the National Book Award “A major contribution to our understanding of some of the great themes of modern European historyーthe relations between Jew……続きを見る

For the first time in one enthralling book, here is the incredible true story of the numerous attempts to assassinate Adolf Hitler and change the course of history. Disraeli once declared that “assa……続きを見る

In February of 1945, 350 American POWs, selected because they were Jews, thought to resemble Jews or simply by malicious caprice, were transported by cattle car to Berga, a concentration camp in eas……続きを見る

The remarkable story of Josef Hartinger, the German prosecutor who risked everything to bring to justice the first killers of the Holocaust and whose efforts would play a key role in the Nuremberg t……続きを見る

Meet Frantz Schmidt: executioner, torturer and, most unusually for his times, diarist. Following in his father’s footsteps, Frantz entered the executioner’s trade as an Apprentice. 394 executions an……続きを見る

Franz Neumann's classic account of the governmental workings of Nazi Germany, first published in 1942, is reprinted in a new paperback edition with an introduction by the distinguished historian Pet……続きを見る

This book describes the assimilation and acculturation of a small minority who immigrated to the United States in the nineteenth century and again in the twentieth century. Gerhard Falk focuses on r……続きを見る

The history of the United States has been deeply determined by Germans throughout time, but hardly anyone has noticed that this was the case in the Southwest as well, known as Arizona/Sonora today, ……続きを見る

Richard Williamson’s First Steps toward Détente provides a history of negotiations conducted from 1958-1963 between the United States, its Western allies in Europe, and the Soviet Union, in order to……続きを見る

Renowned music historian Philipp Spitta has written that “of all the German musicians of the 19th century, none has exercised a greater influence over his own generation and that succeeding it than ……続きを見る

When Germany annexed colonies in Africa and the Pacific beginning in the 1880s, many German women were enthusiastic. At the same time, however, they found themselves excluded from what they saw as a……続きを見る

Over the past decade, immigration and globalization have significantly altered Europe’s cultural and ethnic landscape, foregrounding questions of national belonging. In Blood and Culture, Cynthia Mi……続きを見る

Winner of the Social Science History Association President’s Book Award East Germany was the first domino to fall when the Soviet bloc began to collapse in 1989. Its topple was so swift and unusual ……続きを見る

From the New York Times reporters who first uncovered S.S. officer Aribert Heim’s secret life in Egypt comes the never-before-told story of the most hunted Nazi war criminal in the world. Dr. Ariber……続きを見る

A Military Journal of the Wars in Germany, and the Wars in England. From the Year 1632 to the Year 1648. 続きを見る

25 Jahre nach dem Fall der Mauer wird die DDR immer noch und immer mehr verklärt. Aber war sie wirklich ein Paradies für Arbeiter und Bauern, wie ihre Apologeten heute weismachen wollen? Das Wissen ……続きを見る

Das vorliegende Werk von Willi Kollo bezieht sich auf die Aufzeichnungen des Schweizers Henri de Catt, Privatsekretär und enger Vertrauter Friedrich II., der dem Preußenkönig während des Siebenjähri……続きを見る

Schon 1950 klagte Konrad Adenauer darüber, dass eine "Fünfte Kolonne" des ostdeutschen Kommunismus in Westdeutschland aktiv sei. In den darauf folgenden vier Jahrzehnten des Kalten Krieges waren SED……続きを見る

Das Buch beleuchtet einen bisher wenig beachteten Aspekt der Basler Stadtgeschichte. Es trägt die Erkenntnisse der Armuts-forschung zu einem eindrücklichen Gesamtbild zusammen, das die grossen histo……続きを見る

Few historical changes occur literally overnight, but on 13 August 1961 eighteen million East Germans awoke to find themselves walled in by an edifice which was to become synonymous with the Cold Wa……続きを見る

When the German Democratic Republic (GDR) was founded in 1949, its leaders did not position it as a new state. Instead, they represented East German socialism as the culmination of all that was posi……続きを見る

Selling Sex in the Reich focuses on the voices and experiences of prostitutes working in the German sex trade in the first half of the twentieth century. Victoria Harris develops a nuanced picture o……続きを見る

In diesem packenden EBook zeichnet Hans-Dieter Otto ein prägnantes Bild einer Epoche, die zu den dramatischsten der deutschen Geschichte zählt. Hautnah erlebt der Leser mit, wie aus dem Hass gegen d……続きを見る

Ohne Pathos berichten 50 Zeitzeugen über die Tage und Nächte, in denen im Zweiten Weltkrieg Bomben auf Berlin fielen. Aus den individuellen Schicksalen ergibt sich ein historisches Bild der Zeit, di……続きを見る

Im Jahre 811 wurde die Eider erstmals als Grenze zwischen dem Karolingerreich und Dänemark in den Quellen genannt. Beinahe ein Jahrtausend lang stellte dieser Fluß nicht nur die physische Grenze dar……続きを見る

Dies ist das schönste Buch über die Sternstunden der Straße "Unter den Linden". Selten gelingt es wie hier, die Höhepunkte der Geschichte so lebhaft darzustellen. Walter Schimmel-Falkenau (1895 - 19……続きを見る

The Mark of Cain fleshes out a history of conversations that contributed to Germany's coming to terms with a guilty past. Katharina von Kellenbach draws on letters exchanged between clergy and Nazi ……続きを見る

Hindenburg reveals how a previously little-known general, whose career to normal retirement age had provided no real foretaste of his heroic status, became a national icon and living myth in Germany……続きを見る

In much the same way that Japan has become the focus of contemporary American discussion about industrial restructuring, Germans in the economic reform in terms of Americanism and Fordism, seeing in……続きを見る

Rising to 115 metres Berlin's Teufelsberg is not only one of Berlin's highest points, but also a place steeped in history. Berlin's university headquarters were to be based here under National Socia……続きを見る