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In August 1978, the Iron Curtain still hung heavily across Europe. To escape from oppressive East Berlin, an East German couple, Hans Detlef Alexander Tiede and Ingrid Ruske, hijacked a Polish airliner and diverted it to the American sector of West Berlin. Along with the couple, several passengers spontaneously defected to the West, and were welcomed by US officials. But within hours, Communist officials reminded the West of the anti-hijacking agreements...
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Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre la batalla de Kursk, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.
En tan solo 50 minutos, usted podrá:
• Descubrir las causas que provocan la batalla de Kursk y el contexto en el que se enmarca, en plena Segunda Guerra Mundial, tras la victoria de la URSS en Stalingrado
• Entender el papel de los principales actores de la batalla y cómo sus decisiones...
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An award-winning author details how more than two million Jews were murdered by the Nazis and their allies-for all the world to see and helped by neighbors.
After ten years of research and interviews with more than 5,700 neighbors to the murdered Jews and visits to more than 2,700 extermination sites, many of them unmarked, one key finding: Genocide does not happen without the neighbors. The neighbors are instrumental to the crime.
In his National...
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Coco Schumann's career as a jazz and swing musician spans more than seventy years and is replete with honors. But for decades Schumann bore his wartime experiences as a Holocaust survivor in silence, with only the pleasure of composing music and performing for live audiences to ease the burden of his most haunting memories. In his memoir, Schumann recounts the vibrant underground club scenes of Berlin in the years surrounding World War II as well...
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Did Hitler-code name "Grey Wolf"-really die in 1945? Gripping new evidence shows what could have happened. The basis for the titular documentary.
When Truman asked Stalin in 1945 whether Hitler was dead, Stalin replied bluntly, "No." As late as 1952, Eisenhower declared: "We have been unable to unearth one bit of tangible evidence of Hitler's death." What really happened?
Simon Dunstan and Gerrard Williams have compiled extensive evidence-some...
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Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the events of the Battle of Kursk in next to no time with this concise guide.
50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the Battle of Kursk. After a crushing defeat at Stalingrad, Hitler needed more than ever to lead an attack that would reassure the German people and restore his prestige. To do this, he launched a new offensive against the Soviets near Kursk, but this too proved disastrous...
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The groundbreaking expose of an international conspiracy to protect Nazi war criminals-now with new material and an introduction by Phillip Sands.
As Russian forces closed in on Berlin, and Hitler's premiership drew to a close, many Nazi officials fled Germany. In this startling, meticulously researched account, acclaimed journalist Uki Goni unravels the complex international network that led them to Argentina. Goni demonstrates how numerous...
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The Austromarxist era of the 1920s was a unique chapter in socialist history. Trying to carve out a road between reformism and Bolshevism, the Austromarxists embarked on an ambitious journey towards a socialist oasis in the midst of capitalism. Their showpiece, the legendary "Red Vienna," has worked as a model for socialist urban planning ever since.
At the heart of the Austromarxist experiment was the conviction that a socialist revolution had to...
2229) The honor of spies
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August 6, 1943: In his brief career in the Office of Strategic Services, twenty-four-year-old Cletus Frade has already been involved in a lot of unusual situations, but nothing like the one he's in now, standing with a German lieutenant colonel named Wilhelm Frogger in a Mississippi prisoner-of-war detention facility. Frade's job? To help Frogger escape so the OSS can use Frogger's knowledge and connections to kill Adolf Hitler.
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Frank Blaichman was sixteen years old when the war broke out. In 1942, the killings began in Poland. With his family and friends decimated by the roundups, Blaichman decided that he would rather die fighting; he set off for the forest to find the underground bunkers of Jews who had already escaped. Together they formed a partisan force dedicated to fighting the Germans. This is a harrowing, utterly moving memoir of a young Polish Jew who chose not...
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Franz Neumann (1900-1954) was a labor lawyer and political activist in Germany before the Nazi period, and was a professor of political science at Columbia University after his work in the OSS and at the Nuremberg Trials. Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979) was a philosopher who made important contributions to the Frankfurt School critical theory of society. He taught at Brandeis and San Diego universities after his work in the OSS. Otto Kirchheimer (1905-1965)...
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An acclaimed historian of twentieth century Germany provides a vivid account of Hitler's rise to power and its intimate connection to the Bavarian capital.
The immediate aftermath of the Great War and the Versailles Treaty created a perfect storm of economic, social, political and cultural factors which facilitated the rapid rise of Adolf Hitler's political career and the birth of the National Socialist German Worker's Party. The breeding ground...
2233) Albert Einstein
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You may already know that Albert Einstein was a scientist, but did you know he never wore socks? Or that he had a violin named Lina? This graphic retelling of Albert's story gives children a visual snapshot of his life and the world he grew up in, while educating them on everything from how gravity works to the importance of creative thinking.
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Mass Violence in Nazi-Occupied Europe argues for a more comprehensive understanding of what constitutes Nazi violence and who was affected by this violence. The works gathered consider sexual violence, food depravation, and forced labor as aspects of Nazi aggression. Contributors focus in particular on the Holocaust, the persecution of the Sinti and Roma, the eradication of "useless eaters" (psychiatric patients and Soviet prisoners of war), and...
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Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the history of the Berlin Wall in next to no time with this concise guide.
50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
When the Berlin Wall was built unexpectedly in 1961, it divided the city for 28 years, separating families and friends for almost three decades. The Wall was a symbol of the divisions in Germany and Europe that followed the Second World War...
2236) Forging Global Fordism: Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and the Contest over the Industrial Order
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A new global history of Fordism from the Great Depression to the postwar era
As the United States rose to ascendancy in the first decades of the twentieth century, observers abroad associated American economic power most directly with its burgeoning automobile industry. In the 1930s, in a bid to emulate and challenge America, engineers from across the world flocked to Detroit. Chief among them were Nazi and Soviet specialists who sought to study,...
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Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre la caída del muro de Berlín, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.
En tan solo 50 minutos, usted podrá:
• Profundizar en el contexto en el que se enmarca la caída del muro de Berlín, en plena Guerra Fría y división de los bloques Occidental y Oriental
• Descubrir las vidas de los personajes que tuvieron más relevancia para el acontecimiento
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Découvrez enfin tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur la chute du mur de Berlin en moins d'une heure !
9 novembre 1989. Après plus de 28 ans, le mur séparant Berlin-Ouest, démocratie à l'occidentale, et Berlin-Est, bastion de l'URSS, tombe enfin. Marquant la fin d'une guerre froide qui aura divisé le monde au lendemain de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, la chute du mur de Berlin annonce celle de tout un régime. Bientt, les pays-satellites de l'URSS reprendront,...
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Following in the wake of the carnage reaped across Europe by World War I, German workers undertook a struggle that would prove decisive in determining the course of the entire twentieth century. In 1923, the fledgling Comintern (The Communist International) dispatched Victor Serge, with his peerless journalistic skills, to Berlin to expedite the German Revolution and write these moving reports from the battlefront.
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Of American and German parentage, Ernst Hanfstaengl graduated from Harvard and ran the family business in New York for a dozen years before returning to Germany in 1921. By chance he heard a then little-known Adolf Hitler speaking in a Munich beer hall and, mesmerized by his extraordinary oratorical power, was convinced the man would someday come to power. As Hitler's fanatical theories and ideas hardened, however, he surrounded himself with rabid...
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