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Founded around 1700 by a group of German Lutherans known as Pietists, the Halle Orphanage became the institutional headquarters of a universal seminar that still stands largely intact today. It was ……続きを見る

This is the first English-language study of GDR education and the first book, in any language, to trace the history of Eastern German education from 1945 through the 1990s. Rodden fully relates the ……続きを見る

Much has been written about the British aircraft of the First World War, but little has surfaced about the aircraft of the Axis powers, Germany and Austria. Here, Terry C. Treadwell tells the story ……続きを見る

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2014 im Fachbereich Gesch. Europa - Deutschland - I. Weltkrieg, Weimarer Republik, Note: 1,8, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die vor……続きを見る

In the Cold War era, sport was not just a symbol of the power and strength of a nation-state, but of certain ideological systems of politics. With the pressure for athletes to succeed at its zenith,……続きを見る

The changes that followed the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 were particularly dramatic for East Germans. With the German Democratic Republic effectively taken over by West Germany in the ……続きを見る

Can the study of folklore survive brutal wars and nationalized misappropriations? Does folklore make sense in an age of fearsome technology? These are two of several questions this book addresses wi……続きを見る

The German invasion of Russia was Hitlers biggest gamble in his quest for Lebensraum in the East and it was at Stalingrad that his gamble failed. Stalingrad is a comprehensive history of the greates……続きを見る

A timely narrative account of the biggest financial crisis in modern history and its human consequences by the author of Dresden and The Berlin Wall. 'Excellent … This is a dramatic story, well told……続きを見る

On October 10, 1941, the entire Jewish population of the Belarusian village of Krucha was rounded up and shot. While Nazi death squads routinely carried out mass executions on the Eastern Front, thi……続きを見る

Winner of the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Non-Fiction A New York Times Notable Book of 2015 A painstakingly researched, revelatory biography of Svetlana Stalin, a woman fated to live her ……続きを見る

SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2015 LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2016 A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'A superb portrait of twentieth century Germany seen through the prism of a house which……続きを見る

WINNER OF THE 2016 PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE The Second World War was a German war like no other. The Nazi regime, having started the conflict, turned it into the most horrific war in European histo……続きを見る

E. F. Benson is well known for his 'Lucia and Mapp' series but here we see a different side to his work. 'Iron Cross and Crescent' is a scholarly and well researched history of the relationship betw……続きを見る

Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur le procès de Nuremberg en moins d’une heure ! Novembre 1945. Un procès unique en son genre s’ouvre à Nuremberg. Son objectif ? Juger 24 dirigeants nazis……続きを見る

Im Jahr 2015 jährt sich das Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs zum siebzigsten Mal. Während des »Dritten Reiches« hatten die katholische Kirche und ihre Würdenträger eine ambivalente Haltung gegenüber dem ……続きを見る

Maximilian Graf von Montgelas war der entscheidende Mann hinter König Max I. Joseph. Er war der eigentliche "Motor", der aus dem alten Bayern einen modernen Staat machte. Der Aufklärer Montgelas war……続きを見る

Paul Reitter has won acclaim as both a scholar and a public critic for his writing on German Jewish culture in the twentieth century. Bambi's Jewish Roots brings together the best of Reitter's essay……続きを見る

This is the untold story of how some of Germany's top aristocrats contributed to Hitler's secret diplomacy during the Third Reich, providing a direct line to their influential contacts and relations……続きを見る

Dieses eBook: "Die kriminelle Psychose (Psichopatia criminalis)" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Die Psichopatia crimin……続きを見る

Seit mehr als 100 Jahren ist der Nahostkonflikt der Dauerkonflikt, der Nahe Osten die Krisenregion schlechthin. Und Deutschland - fast immer - mittendrin. Es begann mit der Orientreise von Kaiser Wi……続きを見る

Pope Pius XII presided over the Catholic Church during one of the most challenging moments in its history. Elected in early 1939, Pius XII spoke out against war and destruction, but his refusal to c……続きを見る

Im November 1809 verfasst die bayerische Polizei ein Schwarzbuch, in dem sie die wichtigsten Haupt- und Nebenfiguren des Tiroler Aufstandes in kurzen Charakterporträts vorstellt: "Character-Züge von……続きを見る

For the past century, politicians have claimed that "Western Civilization" epitomizes democratic values and international stability. But who is a member of "Western Civilization"? Germany, for examp……続きを見る

"This is a fascinating local story with major implications for studies of nationalism and regional identities throughout Europe more generally." ---Dennis Sweeney, University of Alberta "James Bjork……続きを見る

"Comprehensively researched, abundantly illustrated and written in accessible and engaging prose . . . With great skill, Poore weaves diverse types of evidence, including historical sources, art, li……続きを見る

"After the Nazi Racial State offers a comprehensive, persuasive, and ambitious argument in favor of making 'race' a more central analytical category for the writing of post-1945 history. This is an ……続きを見る

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Saar river valley was one of the three most productive heavy industrial regions in Germany and one of the main reference points for national……続きを見る

In Topographies of Class, Sabine Hake explores why Weimar Berlin has had such a powerful hold on the urban imagination. Approaching Weimar architectural culture from the perspective of mass discours……続きを見る

Germans have been one of the most mobile and dispersed populations on earth. Communities of German speakers, scattered around the globe, have long believed they could recreate their Heimat (homeland……続きを見る