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A full century later, our picture of World War I remains one of wholesale, pointless slaughter in the trenches of the Western front. Expanding our focus to the Eastern front, as David R. Stone does ……続きを見る

Die »Firma Hamburg« in schwerer See Für die mittlerweile 350-jährige Geschichte der Handelskammer Hamburg verlief keine Zeit so folgenschwer wie die Jahre von 1932 bis 1948. Wie haben sich die wirts……続きを見る

Decades after the Holocaust, many assume that the churches in Germany resisted the Nazi regime. In fact, resistance was exceptional. The Deutsche Christen, or German Christians, a movement within Ge……続きを見る

Between 1939 and 1945 more than 17,000 Catholic German priests and seminarians were conscripted into Hitler’s Wehrmacht. Men who had devoted their lives to God found themselves advancing the cause o……続きを見る

Kein deutscher Staatsmann der vergangenen zwei Jahrhunderte wurde (und wird) von den Historikern so gegensätzlich beurteilt wie Otto von Bismarck, Preußens Ministerpräsident zwischen 1862 und 1890 u……続きを見る

Dieses eBook: "Gesammelte Schleswig-Holsteinische Sagen" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Theodor Storm (1817-1888) war ……続きを見る

32 rediscovered authentic postcards sent out from Nazi Germany unfold the dramatic fate of a German Jewish family before deportation. From the outbreak of the Second World War to the Japanese attack……続きを見る

On January 30 1933, a German-Jewish civil servant is sitting at his desk at the Baumeisterstrasse Tax Office, in central Hamburg. He has just signed a number of documents and is looking out of the w……続きを見る

The year 2014 marked the hundredth anniversary of the start of the first world war. We should know how this came about. After centuries of Imperial rule, in 1918, Kaiser Wilhelm 2nd fled into exile,……続きを見る

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Example in this ebook CHAPTER I Descent and Education At the birth of Ludwig II., enigmatic as he was unfortunate, of whom I propose to give a sketch, his grandfather, the eccentric Ludwig I., was……続きを見る

Example in this ebook 3. März 1915. Es gibt Bilder, die sich dem in Erregung schauenden Auge so glühend einprägen, daß sie, wenn man die Lider schließt, immer wieder aus der Nacht heraustreten und i……続きを見る

Am Abend des 9.November 1989 kündigte das Mitglied des SED-Politbüros Günter Schabowski die anstehende Öffnung der Mauer an. Auf die Nachfrage, wann dies vonstatten gehen solle, antwortete der überf……続きを見る

2014 ist das Karlsjahr. Im Januar 814 verstarb Karl der Große, König der Franken, König der Langobarden und west-römischer Kaiser, in seiner Aachener Pfalz "Aquispalatium", wo er die letzten 20 Jahr……続きを見る

Over the course of his long and controversial career, Joschka Fischer evolved from an archetypal 1960s radical--a firebrand street activist--into a shrewd political insider, operating at the heights……続きを見る

Combining the history of ideas, institutions, and architecture, this study shows how the museum both reflected and shaped the place of art in German culture from the late eighteenth century to the e……続きを見る

Would we comprehend the Germany of to-day, we must hold firmly in our minds an epitome of what it has been, and see vividly the devious path of its development through the ages. The German nation is……続きを見る

Enlightened Nationalism provides the first synthesis in English of Prussian political culture from the Napoleonic era to the Revolution of 1848. Matthew Levinger challenges the conventional notion t……続きを見る

Roaming the countryside in caravans, earning their living as musicians, peddlers, and fortune-tellers, the Gypsies and their elusive way of life represented an affront to Nazi ideas of social order,……続きを見る

The early sixteenth century saw a major crisis in Christian-Jewish relations: the attempt to confiscate and destroy every Jewish book in Germany. This unprecedented effort to end the practice of Jud……続きを見る

How did the affliction we now know as insanity move from a religious phenomenon to a medical one? How did social class, gender, and ethnicity affect the experience of mental trauma and the way psych……続きを見る

From the seventeenth century until the Holocaust, Germany's Jews lurched between progress and setback, between fortune and terrible misfortune. German society shunned Jews in the eighteenth century ……続きを見る

First published in Germany to popular and critical acclaim, this is a unique portrait of the life and work of Theodor Fontane, the greatest German novelist of his age, as well as a major poet and th……続きを見る

In compiling the following pages I have had access to certain sources of official information, the nature of which I am not at liberty to specify further. I have used these freely in such chapters o……続きを見る

The Routledge Handbook of German Politics and Culture offers a wide-ranging and authoritative account of Germany in the 21st century. It gathers the expertise of internationally leading scholars of ……続きを見る

Since the end of World War II, historians and psychologists have investigated the factors that motivated Germans to become Nazis before and during the war. While most studies have focused on the hig……続きを見る

Erdmann v.Frankenberg macht 1806 die Schlacht von Jena und Auerstedt mit. 1809 tritt der junge Leutnant in die „Schwarze Schar“ des Herzogs von Braunschweig ein und zieht mit ihr von Zwickau durch d……続きを見る

How does creativity thrive in the face of fascism? How can a highly artistic individual function professionally in so threatening a climate? Composers of the Nazi Era is the final book in a critical……続きを見る

Unsere Gesellschaft braucht mehr denn je positive Utopien. Anfang der 80er treffen sich Michael Ende, Hanne Tächl und Erhard Eppler im Tal der Seligen in den Albaner Bergen, nahe Rom. Zwei Tage lang……続きを見る

Vordiplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 2004 im Fachbereich Geschichte Europa - Deutschland - Nationalsozialismus, II. Weltkrieg, Note: 1,0, Universität Vechta; früher Hochschule Vechta, 11 Quellen im Literatu……続きを見る