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"The first major history of Germany in a generation, a work that presents a five-hundred-year narrative that challenges our traditional perceptions of Germany's conflicted past. An epic in the tradition of Jonathan Spence's The Search for Modern China and Jill Lepore's These Truths, Helmut Walser Smith's sterling work promises to redefine our perception of German history. For nearly a century, conventional historians have depicted Germany as a rabidly...

"The most savagely subversive film by the iconoclastic auteur Luchino Visconti employs the mechanics of deliriously stylized melodrama to portray Nazism's total corruption of the soul. In the wake of Hitler's ascent to power, the wealthy industrialist von Essenbeck family and their associates--including the scheming social climber Friedrich (Dirk Bogarde), the conniving matriarch Sophie (Ingrid Thulin), and the cruelly deviant heir Martin (Helmut...

The war is just beginning and France has not yet surrendered to the Germans. A French vessel picks up five semi-conscious men in a canoe. All ex-convicts, they have escaped from Devil's Island to do their bit for France. The tensions aboard the Marseille-bound ship slowly build to a shattering clash of wills between the men and the ship's Nazi sympathizer.

"The horrors of the Nazi regime and the Holocaust still present some of the most disturbing questions in modern history: Why did Hitler's party appeal to millions of Germans, and how entrenched was anti-Semitism among the population? How could anyone claim, after the war, that the genocide of Europe's Jews was a secret? Did ordinary non-Jewish Germans live in fear of the Nazi state? In this unprecedented firsthand analysis of daily life as experienced...

On May 13, 1939, the luxury liner SS St. Louis sailed away from Hamburg, Germany, bound for Havana, Cuba. On board were more than 900 Jewish refugees fleeing persecution in Nazi Germany. But an indifferent world conspired against them. After being denied landing rights in Havana, the refugees were turned away by the United States and Canada and forced to sail back to Europe, where the gathering storm of the Holocaust awaited them. Two of those refugees...

"Humorous, approachable guide for aspiring backpackers, part critique of modern backpacking culture and part how-to guide"--

Documents events that took place in 1939 the small Prussian village of Rhina, where Jews were beaten and endured the burning of their synagogue and the destruction of their property before they expelled. Includes interviews with people who lived in the village during the time in question including German Christians who explore the question of responsibility for the heinous acts and surviving Jews who describe how an atmosphere of hatred and racism...

"Architecture in Pen and Ink is a magnificently illustrated compendium of drawings by world-renowned masters of architecture and design. Filled not only with one-of-a-kind illustrations, but also with helpful techniques, this "dream book" constitutes a treasure trove of ideas and inspiration for your own work. Among its features: a wide range of drawings - from rough freehand idea sketches to fully rendered presentation drawings; easily learned techniques...