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Terry's Pratchett's profoundly irreverent novels are consistent number one bestsellers in England, where they have catapulted him into the highest echelons of parody next to Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen. Meet Granny Weatherwax, the most highly regarded non-leader a coven of non-social witches could ever have. Generally, these loners don't get involved in anything, much less royal intrigue, but then there are those times they can't help it. As Granny Weatherwax is about to discover though, it's a lot harder to stir up trouble in the castle than some theatrical types would have you think. Even when you've got a few unexpected spells up your sleeve.
Winner of the National Jewish Book Award: “This valuable resource covers an aspect of the Holocaust rarely addressed and never in such detail.” —Library Journal This is the first volume in a monumental seven-volume encyclopedia, reflecting years of work by the Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, which will describe the universe of camps and ghettos—many thousands more than previously known—that the Nazis and their allies operated, from Norway to North Africa and from France to Russia. For the first time, a single reference work will provide detailed information on each individual site. This first volu...
Slave Labor in Nazi Concentration Camps examines the slave labor carried out by concentration camp prisoners from 1942 and the effect this had on the German wartime economy. This work goes far beyond the sociohistorical 'reconstructions' that dominate Holocaust studies - it combines cultural history with structural history, drawing relationships between social structures and individual actions. It also considers the statements of both perpetrators and victims, and takes the biographical approach as the only possible way to confront the destruction of the individual in the camps after the fact. The first chapter presents a comparative analysis of slave labor across the different concentration...
Ludwig Bitter aus Ibbenbüren - ein Wahrheitssucher, wenn nicht Wahrheitsfanatiker. Zeit seines kurzen Lebens rang er um die Lösung der sozialen Frage, die Durchsetzung der Interessen der arbeitenden Bevölkerung.. Ebenso wichtig war ihm das Streben nach einem globalen Frieden nach den Schrecken des Ersten Weltkriegs, die Solidarität mit den unterdrückten Völkern Asiens, Afrikas und Lateinamerikas. Schon als Schüler, dann als Student eckte er an. Die Mehrheit der Akademikerschicht, zu der er gehörte, suchte ihr Heil bei den Rechtsextremen oder blieb politisch desinteressiert. Bitter war 1929 Mitbegründer des Freien Sozialistischen Studentenbundes Münster und Agitator der münstersche...
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Created by the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the monumental 7-volume encyclopaedia that the present work inaugurates will make available - in one place for the first time - detailed information about the universe of camps, sub-camps, and ghettos established and operated by the Nazis - altogether some 20,000 sites, from Norway to North Africa and from France to Russia. This volume covers three groups of camps: the early camps established in the first year of Hitler's rule, the major concentration camps with their constellations of sub-camps that operated under the control of the SS-Business Administration Main Office, and youth camps. Overview essays precede entries on individual camps and sub-camps. Each entry provides basic information about the purpose of the site; the prisoners, guards, working and living conditions; and key events in its history. Material drawn from personal testimonies helps convey the character of each site, while source citations for each entry provide a path to additional information.
The introduction to the first part of this volume, "Flossenbürg - Stammlager" (pp. 17-66), by Jörg Skriebeleit, describes the construction and functioning of the camp at Flossenbürg. Pp. 67-288 describe its satellite camps, each entry by a different author. The introduction to the second part, "Mauthausen - Stammlager" (pp. 293-346), by Florian Freund and Bertrand Perz, traces the history of the camp at Mauthausen. Pp. 347-470 present its satellite camps. The introduction to the third part, "Ravensbrück - Stammlager" (pp. 473-520), by Annette Leo, discusses the camp for women in Ravensbrück. Pp. 521-607 describe its satellite camps. Throughout the book, Jews are mentioned sporadically.
Es mag zunächst überraschen, dass die Zukunft Bestandteil fast aller Geschichtsbücher für die Klasse 10 ist, die zwischen 1950 und 1995 in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und der DDR erschienen sind. Hierbei handelt es sich um thematisch wie narrativ auffällige Elemente der Darstellungstexte. Doch wie konnten die Zukunftsnarrationen Eingang in das Geschichtsbuch finden? Auf breiter Quellenbasis untersucht die Autorin die verschiedenen Elemente und Akteure des Produktionsprozesses von Schulbüchern: Das Verfassen der Darstellungstexte durch die Schulbuchautoren sowie die Korrekturen seitens der Herausgeber und Verlagsredakteure schließt die Analyse ebenso ein wie die Gutachten und Zulass...
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