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On the murderous road to "racial purity" Hitler encountered unexpected detours, largely due to his own crazed views and inconsistent policies regarding Jewish identity. After centuries of Jewish assimilation and intermarriage in German society, he discovered that eliminating Jews from the rest of the population was more difficult than he'd anticipated. As Bryan Rigg shows in this provocative new study, nowhere was that heinous process more fraught with contradiction and confusion than in the German military. Contrary to conventional views, Rigg reveals that a startlingly large number of German military men were classified by the Nazis as Jews or "partial-Jews" (Mischlinge), in the wake of ra...
Der Maler und Zeichner Helmut Meyer-Weingarten (1911-1994) zählt zu den Künstlern der sog. "verschollenen Generation". An der Vorgängerinstitution der Karlsruher Kunstakademie bei August Babberger und Karl Hubbuch ausgebildet, wurde seine Karriere durch Nationalsozialismus und Zweiten Weltkrieg unterbrochen. Nach dem Krieg versuchte er, an die sog. Moderne anzuknüpfen. Er malte nicht nur gegenständlich-figurativ, sondern auch abstrakt - und dies bis zu seinem Lebensende. Dabei hellte sich seine Malpalette immer mehr auf. Die zunächst gedämpfte Farbigkeit wandelte sich zu expressiver, leuchtender Intensität. 0Exhibition: EnBW, Karlsruhe, Germany (-29.1.2012).0.
In this comprehensive study of the Swiss Reformation, Gordon examines the event in the context of the history of the Swiss Federation. The Reformation is presented as a narrative of events followed by an examination of various key themes surrounding the event.
Questioning our conflicting views of the role of animals.
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Scientists have long speculated on the impact of extreme natural catastrophes on human societies. Archeology and Volcanism in Central America provides dramatic evidence of the effects of several volcanic disasters on a major civilization of the Western Hemisphere, that of the Maya. During the past 2,000 years, four volcanic eruptions have taken place in the Zapotitán Valley of southern El Salvador. One, the devastating eruption of Ilopango around A.D. 300, forced a major migration, pushing the Mayan people north to the Yucatán Peninsula. Although later eruptions did not have long-range implications for cultural change, one of the subsequent eruptions preserved the Cerén site—a Mesoameri...