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The Gestapo
The true story of the Gestapo - the Nazis' secret police force and the most feared instrument of political terror in the Third Reich.
The Proletarian Dream
The proletariat never existed—but it had a profound effect on modern German culture and society. As the most radicalized part of the industrial working class, the proletariat embodied the critique of capitalism and the promise of socialism. But as a collective imaginary, the proletariat also inspired the fantasies, desires, and attachments necessary for transforming the working class into a historical subject and an emotional community. This book reconstructs this complicated and contradictory process through the countless treatises, essays, memoirs, novels, poems, songs, plays, paintings, photographs, and films produced in the name of the proletariat. The Proletarian Dream reads these for...
Ghetto Writing
This text contains fresh articles about a much neglected genre--fiction from and about the Jewish ghetto.
Between Coercion and Private Initiative
This book explores the extent of private companies’ freedom of action during the Nazi period through six case studies of different economic sectors. Since the mid-1990s, historical research has intensively discussed the role played by private, domestic and foreign enterprises during the ‘Third Reich’. Numerous case studies suggest that even under the extreme ideological circumstances of the ‘Third Reich’, the strategic decisions of private firms followed economic criteria. In fact, the regime was especially able to control the economy successfully in those cases in which it operated with economic incentives and gave companies room for manoeuvre. This scope, however, became increasingly smaller towards the end of the war due to increasing state intervention and government control. The chapters discuss this scope of action and relate it to the National Socialist crimes. This book was originally published as a special issue of Business History.
Bosch
Bosch ist ein Unternehmen mit einer großen Geschichte. Es steht exemplarisch für wichtige Trends der Moderne, wie die Motorisierung des Verkehrs oder die Elektrifizierung des Haushalts, und zählt zu den Pionieren der Globalisierung. Sein Gründer, Robert Bosch, war ebenso bekannt für seine liberalen Ansichten wie für seine soziale Unternehmensführung. Johannes Bähr und Paul Erker legen die erste von unabhängigen Historikern geschriebene Gesamtdarstellung zur Geschichte des Unternehmens vor, die auf uneingeschränktem Zugang zu dessen Archiv beruht. Ausgehend von der Persönlichkeit des Unternehmensgründers Robert Bosch, seinen Geschäftsprinzipien und den Anfängen der Firma als Wer...
My Gaze Is Turned Inward
So a picture of Gertrud Kolmar, a gifted Jewish writer struggling to sustain her art and family, emerges from these eloquent and allusive letters. Written in the stolen moments before her day as a forced laborer in a munitions factory began, the letters tell of Kolmar's move from the family home in Finkenkrug to a three-room flat in Berlin, which she and her father must soon share with other displaced Jews. They describe her factory work as a learning experience and assert, in the face of ever worsening conditions, that true art, never dependent on comfort or peace, is "capable of triumphing over . . . time and place."
War and Childhood in the Era of the Two World Wars
This innovative book reveals children's experiences and how they became victims and actors during the twentieth century's biggest conflicts.
The Cambridge History of German Literature
This is the first book to describe German literary history up to the unification of Germany in 1990. It takes a fresh look at the main authors and movements, and also asks what Germans in a given period were actually reading and writing, what they would have seen at the local theatre or found in the local lending library; it includes, for example, discussions of literature in Latin as well as in German, eighteenth-century letters and popular novels, Nazi literature and radio plays, and modern Swiss and Austrian literature. A new prominence is given to writing by women. Contributors, all leading scholars in their field, have re-examined standard judgements in writing a history for our own times. The book is designed for the general reader as well as the advanced student: titles and quotations are translated, and there is a comprehensive bibliography.
The Russians in Germany
In 1945, when the Red Army marched in, eastern Germany was not "occupied" but "liberated." This, until the recent collapse of the Soviet Bloc, is what passed for history in the German Democratic Republic. Now, making use of newly opened archives in Russia and Germany, Norman Naimark reveals what happened during the Soviet occupation of eastern Germany from 1945 through 1949. His book offers a comprehensive look at Soviet policies in the occupied zone and their practical consequences for Germans and Russians alike--and, ultimately, for postwar Europe. In rich and lucid detail, Naimark captures the mood and the daily reality of the occupation, the chaos and contradictions of a period marked by...
