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81) Heinrich Himmler
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"In this, the first-ever comprehensive biography of the Reichsführer-SS, leading German historian Peter Longerich puts every aspect of Himmler's life under the microscope. Masterfully interweaving the story of Himmler's personal life and political career with the wider history of the Nazi dictatorship, Longerich shows how skillfully he exploited and manipulated his disparate roles in the pursuit of his far-reaching and grandiose objectives. In the...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A new biography of Albert Speer, Hitler’s chief architect and trusted confidant, reveals the subject’s deeper involvement in Nazi atrocities "Kitchen, the author of a dozen works on twentieth-century Germany, comprehensively disassembles Speer's alibis and excuses. . . . His mastery of the revisionist evidence against Speer is complete."—John Fund, National Review Online "Brilliant and devastating. . . . Kitchen lays out a case so airtight...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"An enthralling story of one family's extraordinary courage and resistance amidst the horrors of war from the New York Times bestselling author of The Secret Rooms. As war swept across Europe in 1940, the idyllic life of Fey von Hassell seemed a world away from the conflict. The daughter of Ulrich von Hassell, Hitler's Ambassador to Italy, her marriage to Italian aristocrat Detalmo Pirzio-Biroli brought with it a castle and an estate in the north...
84) Never look away
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Deutsch
Description
German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR-regime.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The idea that historical events, catastrophes in particular, didn't happen on their own but were driven by the hidden machinations of malign influences has deep roots. The appeal is clear: we can ascribe these events not to human shortsightedness or frailty, or to the contingencies of fate and circumstance, but to unseen forces. Conspiracy theories and paranoia go hand in hand. Something, or someone, is trying to control our lives and to regain that...
Series
Publisher
Digiview Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Prelude to War: began as a training video for U.S. Troops compares the "free" world to the "slave" world--the dictatorships of Germany, Italy, and Japan. Used widely as a propaganda piece, the film endures as a study of how governments survive to justify wars to those who fight them.
The Nazi strike: Capra's documentary depicts Germany's diplomatic and military betrayals leading up to the 1939 invasion of Poland and the events that finally led France...
Publisher
Synapse Films
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Deutsch
Description
This film, commissioned by Adolf Hitler to record the 1934Nazi party rally in Nuremberg, is the "most powerful pieceof propaganda ever produced." Included are many scenes of gatherings, marches, and parades. The viewer will also hear speeches given by Hitler, Goering, Goebbels, and Hess as well as samples of monumental architecture designed by Albert Speer .
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Berlin, November 1937. In a secret meeting with his top advisors, Adolf Hitler proclaims the urgent necessity for a war of aggression in Europe. Some conservatives are unnerved by this grandiose plan, but they are soon silenced, setting in motion events that will lead to the most calamitous war in history. Benjamin Carter Hett, the author of The Death of Democracy, his acclaimed history of the fall of the Weimar Republic, takes us from Berlin to...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Agent Garbo" tells the astonishing story of a self-made secret agent who matched wits with the best minds of the Third Reich -- and won. Juan Pujol was a nobody, a Barcelona poultry farmer determined to oppose the Nazis. Using only his gift for daring falsehoods, Pujol became Germany's most valued agent -- or double agent: it took four tries before the British believed he was really on the Allies' side. In the guise of Garbo, Pujol turned in a masterpiece...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"He was called the Hangman of the Gestapo, the "butcher of Prague," with a reputation as a ruthlessly efficient killer. He was the head of the SS, and the Gestapo, second in command to Heinrich Himmler. His orders set in motion the Kristallnacht pogrom of 1938 and, as the lead planner of Hitler's Final Solution, he chaired the Wannsee Conference, at which details of the murder of millions of Jews across Nazi-occupied Europe were toasted with cognac....
Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The scale and depth of Nazi brutality seem to defy understanding. What could drive people to fight, kill, and destroy with such ruthless ambition? Johann Chapoutot says we need to understand better how the Nazis explained it themselves, and in particularhow steeped they were in the idea that history gave them no choice: it was either kill or die.--
"Winner of the Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research The scale and the depth...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"The dramatic story of the Third Reich--how Adolf Hitler and a core group of Nazis rose to power and plunged the world into a horrific war, perpetrating the genocidal Holocaust while sacrificing the lives of millions of ordinary Germans. In The Third Reich, Thomas Childers shows how the young Hitler became passionately political and anti-Semitic as he lived on the margins of society. Fueled by outrage at the punitive terms of the Versailles Treaty...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
From the publisher. In the seventy years since the demise of the Third Reich, there has been a significant transformation in the ways in which the modern world understands Nazism. In this brilliant and eye-opening collection, Richard J. Evans, the acclaimed author of the Third Reich trilogy, offers a critical commentary on that transformation, exploring how major changes in perspective have informed research and writing on the Third Reich in recent...
Publisher
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Translation of a chart distributed by the Nazi regime to inform the public of the complicated racial and legal distinctions between "full Jews" and first- and second-class "mixed breeds" (Mischlinge), enacted in 1935 as part of what were known as the Nuremberg racial laws"--Publisher.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Hitler offers a deeply learned and radically revisionist biography, arguing that the dictator's main strategic enemy, from the start of his political career in the 1920s, was not communism or the Soviet Union, but capitalism and the United States. Whereas most historians have argued that Hitler underestimated the American threat, Simms shows that Hitler embarked on a preemptive war with the United States precisely because he considered it such a potent...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The Second Volume of a new chronicle of the Third Reich under Hitler's hand, ending with his death and Germany's disastrous defeat. In The Hitler Years: Disaster 1940-1945, Frank McDonough completes his brilliant two-volume history of Germany under Hitler’s Third Reich. At the beginning of 1940, Germany was at the pinnacle of its power. By May 1945, Hitler was dead and Germany had suffered a disastrous defeat. Hitler had failed to achieve his...
Author
Publisher
Norton
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
The first in a two-volume biography of Adolf Hitler written by an English historian traces Hitler's rise from a shelter for needy children in Austria to dictatorship over Germany and the beginning of his persecution of the Jews.
Hailed as the most compelling biography of the German dictator yet written, Ian Kershaw's Hitler brings us closer than ever before to the heart of its subject's immense darkness. From his illegitimate birth in a small Austrian...
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