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Complicated complicity: European collaboration with Nazi Germany during W…

by Jakovina, Tvrtko, Ungváry, Krisztián, Motta, Giuseppe, Lehnstaedt, Stephan, Clara, Fernando, Schoeps, Julius H., (Julius Hans), Tauber, Joachim, Glöckner, Olaf, Arens, Meinolf, Bitunjac, Martina, Capuzzo, Ester, Dencik, Lars, Horváth, Franz Sz, Kakasheva, Katerina, Klarsfeld, Serge, Opfer-Klinger, Björn, Sommella, Valentina, Szakál, Imre, Vagnini, Alessandro, Zelepos, Ioannis

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Complicated Complicity is about the forms taken, motives and spectrum of actions of European collaboration with the Nazis. State authorities, local military organizations and individual players in different countries and areas including France, Scandinavia, Lithuania, Poland, Uk…

War through Italian eyes: fighting for Mussolini, 1940-1943

by Henry, Alexander

fromRoutledge studies in Second World War history

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"There is a popular notion that the Italian armed forces of the Second World War were an inferior fighting force. Despite the vast numbers taken prisoner, detailed studies of the experiences of these soldiers remain relatively uncommon and the value of this group to furthering o…

New Lefts: The Making of a Radical Tradition

by Renaud, Terence

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A groundbreaking history of Europe's "new lefts" from the antifascist 1920s to the anti-establishment 1960sIn the 1960s, the radical youth of Western Europe's New Left rebelled against the democratic welfare state and their parents' antiquated politics of reform. It was not the …

Bestsellers of the Third Reich: readers, writers and the politics of literature

by Adam, Christian

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Despite the displacement of countless authors, frequent bans of specific titles, and high-profile book burnings, the German book industry boomed during the Nazi period. Notwithstanding the millions of copies of Mein Kampf that were sold, the era's most popular books were diverse…

Bestsellers of the Third Reich: readers, writers and the politics of literature

by Adam, Christian

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"Despite the displacement of countless authors, frequent bans of specific titles, and high-profile book burnings, the German book industry boomed during the Nazi period. Notwithstanding the millions of copies of Mein Kampf that were sold, the era's most popular books were divers…

Walking in Berlin: a flaneur in the capital

by Hessel, Franz, Benjamin, Walter

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The first English translation of a lost classic that reinvents the flaneur in Berlin.

Russia in the German global imaginary: imperial visions et utopian desires ; 1905-1941

by Casteel, James E.

fromPitt series in Russian and East European studies

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"This book traces transformations in German views of Russia in the first half of the twentieth century, leading up to the disastrous German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. Casteel shows how Russia figured in the imperial visions and utopian desires of a variety of Germans,…

Russia in the German global imaginary: imperial visions and utopian desires, 1905-1941

by Casteel, James E.

fromPitt series in Russian and East European studies

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Part I. Nationhood and Imperial Rivalry through World War I -- Suffering and Salvation : Intellectual and Cultural Origins -- Locating Russia in a World of Nations and Empires : Nineteenth-Century Intellectual Discourse -- "America" in Asia : Siberia and German Experts on Russia…

Hitler and Nazi Germany: a history

by Spielvogel, Jackson J., Redles, David

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"Hitler and Nazi Germany: A History is a brief but comprehensive survey of the Third Reich based on current research findings that provides a balanced approach to the study of Hitler's role in the history of the Third Reich. Fully updated, the book ensures that students gain a c…

A question of priorities: democratic reforms and economic recovery in postw…

by Boehling, Rebecca L.

fromMonographs in German history

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Over the last few years, there has been a noticeable increase in studies on the postwar period of Germany, reflecting the crucial importance of these years for an understanding of the developments in the two Germanys. With her study of U.S. occupation policy and its effects on G…

Stormtroopers: a new history of Hitler's Brownshirts

by Siemens, Daniel

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"Germany's Stormtroopers engaged in a vicious siege of violence that propelled the National Socialists to power in the 1930s. Known also as the SA or Brownshirts, these "ordinary" men waged a loosely structured campaign of intimidation and savagery across the nation from the 192…

"In 1941, as Nazi Germany began its disastrous campaign against the Soviet Union, Hitler's other campaign, to exterminate European Jewry, was also commencing in earnest. What began with organized executions carried out by the Einzatsgruppen evolved into systematic genocide, reac…