CK - Holocaust 4

Arnold Schück, Sohn einer deutsch-jüdischen Prager Industriellenfamilie, lebte von 1897 bis 1974. Seine ganz privaten, persönlichen Erlebnisse umfassen somit die Spanne eines Dreiviertels des 20. Ja……続きを見る

Berlin 1939. Immer enger zieht sich die Schlinge des national sozialistischen Regimes um die wenigen noch in Deutschland lebenden Juden. Nachdem Rebekka und Aaron Schimmel die letzte Gelegenheit zur……続きを見る

‘Taylor has done us a great service in making the personal stories of what it was actually like to live through the most crucial year of the twentieth century vivid, compelling and salutary.’ - Rola……続きを見る

On a winter's day in 1943, 21-year-old Latvian Mischka Danos chanced on a terrible sight - a pit filled with the bodies of Jews killed by the occupying Germans. In order to escape conscription to th……続きを見る

The Western world's responses to genocide have been slow, unwieldly and sometimes unfit for purpose. So argues David Patrick in this essential new contribution to the aid and intervention debate. Wh……続きを見る

The remarkable memoir of Zuzana Ružicková, Holocaust survivor and world-famous harpsichordist. Zuzana Ružicková grew up in 1930s Czechoslovakia dreaming of two things: Johann Sebastian Bach and the ……続きを見る

In Repentance for the Holocaust, C. K. Martin Chung develops the biblical idea of "turning" (tshuvah) into a conceptual framework to analyze a particular area of contemporary German history, commonl……続きを見る

The hero of this book was not a saint, nor even a tzadik - the nearest Jewish equivalent - but he was a hero. Someone who risked his own life to make a difference to the life of another. Were his mo……続きを見る

Most early Western perceptions of the Holocaust were based on newsreels filmed during the Allied liberation of Germany in 1945. Little, however, was reported of the initial wave of material from Sov……続きを見る

Die Arbeit an der TV-Dokumentation führt die ORF-Journalistinnen in die ehemaligen Konzentrationslager Mauthausen und Auschwitz, nach Israel und Hamburg. Ihr Buch vereint tagebuchartige Schilderunge……続きを見る

How does a society reconcile itself in a post-genocide era? How can generations of those whose families were victims and victimizers break the cycle of hate, mistrust, shame, and guilt that characte……続きを見る

In 1945, after his capture at the end of the Second World War, Hermann Gög arrived at an American-run detention center in war-torn Luxembourg, accompanied by sixteen suitcases and a red hatbox. The……続きを見る

Of the countless stories of resistance, ingenuity, and personal risk to emerge in the years following the Holocaust, among the most remarkable, yet largely overlooked, are those of the hundreds of J……続きを見る

Documents the first-hand experiences in the Holocaust of the Sephardim from Greece, the Balkans, North Africa, Libya, Cos, and Rhodes The Sephardim suffered devastation during the Holocaust, but thi……続きを見る

The Nazi Census documents the origins of the census in modern Germany, along with the parallel development of IBM machines that helped first collect data on Germans, then specifically on Jews and ot……続きを見る

A concise, accessible account of strategy and the Second World War. How the war was won . . . and lost.. In 1941, the Second World War became global, when Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union; Jap……続きを見る

IBM and the Holocaust is the award-winning, New York Times bestselling shocker--a million copies in print--detailing IBM's conscious co-planning and co-organizing of the Holocaust for the Nazis, all……続きを見る

The remarkable life story of Mitka Kalinski, who survived seven years of enslavementーwhile still a childーto a Nazi officer during and after World War II Mitka Kalinski had never revealed his past ……続きを見る

Enduring Entanglements: The Third Reich’s Insidious Impact on America" is the first comprehensive resource edition that examines the myriad of ways the Third Reich has impacted the United States fro……続きを見る

Przegląd najważniejszych wydarzeń II wojny światowej. Druga wojna światowa wybuchła 1 września 1939 r. Już od pierwszych strzałów wiadomo było, że konflikt ten narzuci niespotykane wcześniej tempo d……続きを見る

Una historia concisa de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. La Segunda Guerra Mundial empezó el 1 de septiembre de 1939 y, desde sus primeros disparos, dictó el tempo de esta nueva y modernizada manera de ha……続きを見る

Przegląd najważniejszych wydarzeń II wojny światowej. Druga wojna światowa wybuchła 1 września 1939 r. Już od pierwszych strzałów wiadomo było, że konflikt ten narzuci niespotykane wcześniej tempo d……続きを見る

Una historia concisa de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. La Segunda Guerra Mundial empezó el 1 de septiembre de 1939 y, desde sus primeros disparos, dictó el tempo de esta nueva y modernizada manera de ha……続きを見る

**The Sunday Times-bestselling author of Dresden returns with a monumental biography of the city that defined the twentieth century - Berlin Throughout the twentieth century, Berlin stood at the cen……続きを見る

In the name of humanity. That was the explanation of Dr. Claus Karl Schilling for the execution of malaria experiments upon 1,200 inmates of the Dachau concentration camp during the Second World War……続きを見る

'Magisterial . . . [a] fine, balanced and superb account. It deserves to be read for many years to come.' TELEGRAPH March 1945. Allied troops are poised to cross the Rhine and sweep on into Germany.……続きを見る

Em setembro de 1940, Witold Pilecki, um combatente da Resistência polonesa, se ofereceu para uma missão audaciosa: assumir uma identidade falsa, ser intencionalmente capturado e enviado a um campo d……続きを見る

Although George Bernard Shaw quipped that "the Germans lack talent for two things: revolution and crime novels," there is a long tradition of German crime fiction; it simply hasn't aligned itself wi……続きを見る

New essays by leading scholars examining today's vibrant and innovative German crime fiction, along with its historical background. Although George Bernard Shaw quipped that "the Germans lack talent……続きを見る

How did the academy react to the rise, dominance, and ultimate fall of Germany's Third Reich? Did German professors of the humanities have to tell themselves lies about their regime's activities or ……続きを見る