Germany category: 4580 books
No Ordinary Men
Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Hans von Dohnanyi, Resisters Against Hitler in Church and State
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
During the twelve years of Hitler’s Third Reich, very few Germans took the risk of actively opposing his tyranny and terror, and fewer still did so to protect the sanctity of law and faith. In No Ordinary Men, Elisabeth Sifton and Fritz Stern focus on two remarkable, courageous men who did—the...
Why the Germans? Why the Jews?
Envy, Race Hatred, and the Prehistory of the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
A provocative and insightful analysis that sheds new light on one of the most puzzling and historically unsettling conundrums
Why the Germans? Why the Jews? Countless historians have grappled with these questions, but few have come up with answers as original and insightful as those of maverick...
The German Puzzle
My Search for the Missing Pieces
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
More Americans claim ancestry from Germany than from any other nation. We speak a Germanic language, and from fairy tales to Freud, were surrounded by German influences. Yet America has lost touch with its German heritage. We simply cant fathom how the land of Beethoven and Goethe could have been...
Speer
Hitler's Architect
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2015
In his best-selling autobiography, Albert Speer, Minister of Armaments and chief architect of Nazi Germany, repeatedly insisted he knew nothing of the genocidal crimes of Hitler’s Third Reich. In this revealing new biography, author Martin Kitchen disputes Speer’s lifelong assertions of ignorance...
Weimar
From Enlightenment to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2014
Historian Michael H. Kater chronicles the rise and fall of one of Germany’s most iconic cities in this fascinating and surprisingly provocative history of Weimar. Weimar was a center of the arts during the Enlightenment and hence the cradle of German culture in modern times. Goethe and Schiller made...
School for Barbarians
Education Under the Nazis
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
Published in 1938, when Nazi power was approaching its zenith, this well-documented indictment reveals the systematic brainwashing of Germany's youth. The Nazi program prepared for its future with a fanatical focus on national preeminence and warlike readiness that dominated every department and phase...
by Heinrich Fraenkel
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
The extent to which the Nazi regime was truly representative of the German people was a key issue for external commentators. First published in 1940, The German People versus Hitler sets out to prove that the identification of ‘Germany and the Third Reich, Germanism and Nazism, the German people...
by Summary Station
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
Summary ofThe Nazi Officer’s WifeFrom Edith Hahn BeerSummary StationThis book begins with a preface that explains that the story is a true one. Edith Hahn Beer fled from the Gestapo by living under a false identity in Nazi Germany. In 1997, she sold her archive of wartime documents,...
The Career of an Eighteenth-Century Kapellmeister
The Life and Music of Antonio Rosetti
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Today the classical style is defined by the music of a handful of composers, Haydn and Mozart being the most prominent. As a result, the accomplishments of these masters have all but eclipsed the music of most of their contemporaries. In this book, Sterling Murray examines one of the most talented...
Composers of the Nazi Era
Eight Portraits
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 1999
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 critically acclaimed trilogy that includes Different Drummers (OUP 1992) and The Twisted Muse (OUP 1997), which...
by W.G. Sebald
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2003
W.G. Sebald completed this extraordinary and important -- and already controversial -- book before his untimely death in December 2001.
On the Natural History of Destruction is W.G. Sebald’s harrowing and precise investigation of one of the least examined “silences” of our time. In it,...
Not I
Memoirs of a German Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
A portrait of an intellectually rigorous German household opposed to the Nazis and how its members suffered for their political stance
Few writers have deepened our understanding of the Third Reich as much as German historian, biographer, journalist, and critic Joachim Fest. His biography of...
The Nazis and the Occult
The Dark Forces Unleashed by the Third Reich
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2007
Why did the country which produced Goethe, Beethoven, Bach, Schiller, Einstein, Kant and Hegel allow itself to be led to the precipice of self-destruction by a ragged collective of criminals, misfits, sadists and petty bureaucrats?Featuring many rare archive photographs, The Nazis and the Occult reveals...
by Major Paul A. Braunbeck Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
“Before the war, and still more during the conquest of the West, Hitler came to appear a gigantic figure, combining the strategy of a Napoleon with the cunning of a Machiavelli and the fanatical fervour of a Mohomet. After his first check in Russia, his figure began to shrink, and towards the end...