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The Politics of Religion in Soviet-Occupied Germany
This book discusses the religious policies of the Soviet military authorities and their allies in the Socialist Unity Party in the Soviet zone, but more importantly, who devised them, how they did so, and how they attempted to implement them. In doing so, it illustrates how the Soviet authorities recreated the Soviet zone along Stalinist lines with regards to religious policy, a process which they implemented throughout all of Eastern Europe as well in East Germany. While I examine how these policies were devised, I place greater emphasis on their implementation in the Soviet zone, especially its most important province, Berlin-Brandenburg. Furthermore, this book demonstrates how the leaders...
Large Infrastructure Projects in Germany
This book presents an analysis of why some large infrastructure projects are delayed or compromised and offers important insights into the better delivery of future projects. It provides an important reaction to the ambitious €315 billion investment plan devised by the European Commission, wherein Europe's infrastructure is a key investment target. Germany is adopted as a focus, as Europe's largest economy, and a nation that has seen significant delays and tensions in the delivery of key infrastructure projects. The contributions to this volume demonstrate various patterns for infrastructure assets and illustrate how factors such as poor project governance, early planning mistakes, inappro...
Iron Kingdom
'Of the "Great Powers" that dominated Europe from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, Prussia is the only one to have vanished ... Iron Kingdom is not just good: it is everything a history book ought to be ... The nemesis of Prussia has cast such a long shadow that German historians have tiptoed around the subject. Thus it was left to an Englishman to write what is surely the best history of Prussia in any language' Sunday Telegraph
Ordinary Prussians
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Inland Waterways of Germany
This is a reference to all the navigable waterways of Germany illustrated by small scale mapping and photographs. After a general introduction to the area, details of German formalities and cruising notes, each river and canal is described in detail and supported by a table of distances indicating locks, bridges, mooring places and other features. It is the only work to cover all the German waterways in detail in a single volume. Barry Sheffield has spent five years exploring the continental waterways and this book is a result of painstaking research into the German system. With the assistance of Konrad Nussbaum, the acknowledged expert on German rivers and canals, he has produced the authoritative work on the subject.
Concentration Camps
Dan Stone presents a global history of concentration camps, and considers the importance of these institutions to modern consciousness and identity. Tracing camps from their origins in in early-twentieth century colonial warfare, he discusses their evolution throughout the last century, and the complex questions their use raises.
A History of Prussia
In little more than two centuries Prussia rose from medieval obscurity and the devastation of the Thirty Years War to become the dominant power of continental Europe. Her rulers rose from Electors to Kings, and from Kings to Emperors. It is a dramatic story, and H. W. Koch fills a major gap in English-language literature with this comprehensive account. It traces the origins and rise of the Prussian state from the thirteenth century to the causes and consequences of its incorporation into the German Empire.
Brandenburg
The story of a great city and people who lived there during exciting and dangerous times, commencing with World War I in 1914, and in the years following, until the takeover of Adolf Hitler. The joys, trials and tragedies of some of those people are portrayed in this historical novel. The interactions and conflicts between them cross lines of religion, social levels and sexual orientation. A fascinating city of dazzling elegance and decadence, Berlin is the stage on which the drama of history is played during a period of strident patriotism, wrenching sorrow, exuberant optimism, dashed hopes, terror and ultimate descent into one of history's darkest periods.
Berlin
Preußische Residenz, deutsche Hauptstadt, glanzvolle Kulturmetropole, Machtzentrale des "Dritten Reiches", Frontstadt im Kalten Krieg und schließlich wieder Hauptstadt eines vereinigten Deutschland: Bernd Stöver erzählt knapp und anschaulich, was jeder über die Geschichte Berlins wissen sollte. Während andere europäische Metropolen mit historischen Stadtkernen aufwarten, wurden in Berlin Zeugnisse früherer Epochen immer wieder zerstört. Wo sich die mittelalterlichen Kaufmannssiedlungen Berlin und Cölln befanden, lässt sich nur noch erahnen, das Schloss ist abgeräumt, und wo genau die Mauer stand, wissen selbst Berliner oft nicht mehr. Aber gerade die Leerstellen und Neuanfänge zeugen von einer bewegten Geschichte. "Wer sich für den Berlin-Besuch vorbereiten will (oder als Berliner einen prägnanten Abriss der Stadtgeschichte sucht), dem sei der schmale Band des Historikers Bernd Stöver empfohlen. Kundig, flott und doch nicht flapsig... präsentiert er die kurze, nicht mal 800-jährige Geschichte der Stadt." Daniel Friedrich Sturm, Die Welt
