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Memorialization in Germany since 1945 Memorialization in Germany since 1945 Bill Niven "Memorialization in Germany since 1945 provides a wide-ranging discussion of contemporary Germany's rich memorial landscape. It discusses the many memorials to German losses during the Second World W… OL15441317W
Beyond political correctness Beyond political correctness Christine Anton "The articles assembled in this book discuss important questions about German society and the very notion of what being German means in the age of globalization and the vanishing of nation-states in … OL15937808W
A German generation A German generation Thomas August Kohut "Germans of the generation born just before the outbreak of World War I lived through a tumultuous and dramatic century. This book tells the story of their lives and, in so doing, offers a new histor… OL15941942W
Munich 1972 Munich 1972 David Clay Large "Set against the backdrop of the turbulent late 1960s and early 1970s, this compelling book offers the first comprehensive narrative history of the 1972 Munich Olympic Games, notorious for the hostag… OL16135024W
The martial ethic in early modern Germany The martial ethic in early modern Germany B. Ann Tlusty "For German townsmen, life during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was characterized by a culture of arms, with urban citizenry representing the armed power of the state. This book investigate… OL16190501W
Exorcising Hitler Exorcising Hitler Fred Taylor Not since the end of the Roman Empire, almost fifteen hundred years earlier, is there a parallel, in Europe at least, to the fall of the German nation in 1945. Industrious and inventive, home over ce… OL16211944W
Contested commemorations Contested commemorations Benjamin Ziemann "This innovative study of remembrance in Weimar Germany analyses how experiences and memories of the Great War were transformed along political lines after 1918. Examining the symbolism, language and… OL16699931W
Weimar Germany Weimar Germany Paul Bookbinder The Weimar Republic, from 1919 to 1933, was a time of political violence, economic crisis, generational and gender tension, and cultural experiment and change. Despite these major issues, the Republi… OL17189130W
Dancing with imperialism Dancing with imperialism J. Smith,André Moncourt >This work includes the details of the guerilla’s operations, and its communiqués and texts, from 1978 up until the 1984 offensive. This was a period of regrouping and reorientation for the RAF, with… OL17549386W
Artists under Hitler Artists under Hitler Jonathan Petropoulos ""What are we to make of those cultural figures, many with significant international reputations, who tried to find accommodation with the Nazi regime?" Jonathan Petropoulos asks in this exploration … OL19662205W
Home front to battlefront Home front to battlefront Franklin L. Lavin "Carl Lavin was a high school senior in Canton, Ohio, when Pearl Harbor was attacked. In his freshman year of college, he joined the reserves, a decision that would take him with the US Army from tra… OL19671021W
Beyond Bach Beyond Bach Andrew Talle "Reverence for J.S. Bach's music and its towering presence in our cultural memory have long affected how people hear his works. In his own time, however, Bach stood as just another figure among a num… OL20059303W
Degeneration and Revolution Degeneration and Revolution Robert Heynen "In Degeneration and Revolution : Radical Cultural Politics and the Body in Weimar Germany Robert Heynen explores the impact of conceptions of degeneration, exemplified by eugenics and social hygiene… OL20231602W
Hitler's Monsters Hitler's Monsters Eric Kurlander 1 online resource (xxii, 422 pages) : OL20598021W
Armenians in Hamburg Armenians in Hamburg Caroline Thon "In Germany, the Armenian diaspora has hardly been noticed by the public or by researchers. However, it is one of the oldest disaporas in the world ... This research examines specific resources and c… OL20637116W
Target: Patton Target: Patton Robert K. Wilcox Patton was the most controversial American general in World War II-- and also one of the most successful. In 1945, he was involved in a mysterious car crash that left him partially paralyzed. Two wee… OL2171381W
A social history of the Third Reich A social history of the Third Reich Richard Grunberger 663 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : 18 cm OL2931839W
Germany after the First World War Germany after the First World War Richard Bessel This is a social history of Germany in the years following the First World War. Germany's defeat and the subsequent demobilization of her armies had enormous economic, social, and psychological conse… OL4311925W
Destined to Witness Destined to Witness Hans J. Massaquoi This is a story of the unexpected.In Destined to Witness, Hans Massaquoi has crafted a beautifully rendered memoir -- an astonishing true tale of how he came of age as a black child in Nazi Germany. … OL468217W
Inside Hitler's Germany Inside Hitler's Germany Hughes, Matthew,Matthew (Chris Mann) Hughes Germany under Nazi rule. It was hell for some. It was paradise for others. But for most of its citizens, it was simply where they lived. What was daily life like for the ordinary German during those … OL8888118W
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