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13 produkter
Hitler's First Hundred Days
When Germans Embraced the Third Reich
E-bok, 2021
265 kr
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The story of how Germans came to embrace the Third Reich.Germany in early 1933 was a country ravaged by years of economic depression and increasingly polarized between the extremes of left and right. Over the spring of that year, Germany was transformed from a republic, albeit a seriously faltering …
Hitler's First Hundred Days
When Germans Embraced the Third Reich
Inbunden, 2021
389 kr
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The story of how Germans came to embrace the Third Reich.Germany in early 1933 was a country ravaged by years of economic depression and increasingly polarized between the extremes of left and right. Over the spring of that year, Germany was transformed from a republic, albeit a seriously faltering …
Work of Memory
New Directions in the Study of German Society and Culture
Av Alon Confino, Peter Fritzsche
Inbunden, 2002
485 kr
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Coming to terms with a troubled past is the mark of the modern condition. But how does memory operate? This powerful collection of original essays probes this question by focusing on Germany, where historical trauma and political turbulence over the past century have deeply scarred modern memory …
Iron Wind
Europe Under Hitler
Inbunden, 2016
286 kr
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World War II reached into the homes and lives of ordinary people in an unprecedented way. Civilian men, women, and children made up the vast majority of those killed by the war, and the conflict displaced millions more. On Europe's home fronts, the war brought the German blitzkrieg, followed by …
Life and Death in the Third Reich
Häftad, 2009
244 kr
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On January 30, 1933, hearing about the celebrations for Hitler’s assumption of power, Erich Ebermayer remarked bitterly in his diary, “We are the losers, definitely the losers.” Learning of the Nuremberg Laws in 1935, which made Jews non-citizens, he raged, “hate is sown a million-fold.” Yet in …
Stranded in the Present
Modern Time and the Melancholy of History
Häftad, 2010
288 kr
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In this inventive book, Peter Fritzsche explores how Europeans and Americans saw themselves in the drama of history, how they took possession of a past thought to be slipping away, and how they generated countless stories about the sorrowful, eventful paths they chose to follow. In the aftermath of …
Turbulent World of Franz Göll
An Ordinary Berliner Writes the Twentieth Century
Inbunden, 2011
444 kr
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Franz Göll was a thoroughly typical Berliner. He worked as a clerk, sometimes as a postal employee, night watchman, or publisher's assistant. He enjoyed the movies, ate spice cake, wore a fedora, tamed sparrows, and drank beer or schnapps. He lived his entire life in a two-room apartment in Rote …
Germans into Nazis
Häftad, 1999
287 kr
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Why did ordinary Germans vote for Hitler? In this dramatically plotted book, organized around crucial turning points in 1914, 1918, and 1933, Peter Fritzsche explains why the Nazis were so popular and what was behind the political choice made by the German people.Rejecting the view that Germans …
Nation of Fliers
German Aviation and the Popular Imagination
Häftad, 1994
326 kr
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From huge, fragile airships hanging in the sky to dashing young war pilots obsessed with death and destruction, this text describes Germany’s perilous romance with aviation, covering the bright idealism of flight and its darker service in total war.
Reading Berlin 1900
Häftad, 1998
496 kr
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The great cities at the turn of the century were mediated by words--newspapers, advertisements, signs, and schedules--by which the inhabitants lived, dreamed, and imagined their surroundings. In this original study of the classic text of urban modernism--the newspaper page--Peter Fritzsche analyzes …
1942
When World War II Engulfed the Globe
Inbunden, 2025
342 kr
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A penetrating history of the year World War II became a global conflict and humankind confronted both destruction and deliverance on a planetary scaleBy the end of the Second World War, more than seventy million people across the globe had been killed, most of them civilians. Cities from Warsaw to …
Iron Wind
Europe Under Hitler
Häftad, 2018
197 kr
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'A profoundly significant exploration of how Europeans--both Germans and those under German occupation--struggled to make sense of the conflict.' - Richard Overy, Wall Street JournalIn An Iron Wind, historian Peter Fritzsche draws on first-person accounts to show how civilians in occupied Europe …
