In the waning days and immediate aftermath of World War II, Nazi diplomats and spies based in Spain decided to stay rather than return to a defeated Germany. The decidedly pro-German dictatorship of General Francisco Franco gave them refuge and welcomed other officials and agent…
This book is the first comprehensive survey of women in the Weimar Republic, exploring the diversity and multiplicity of women's experiences in the economy, politics and society. Taking the First World War as a starting point, this book explores the great changes in the lives, e…
Cinema and the Swastika is the very first publication to bring together comparative research on the international expansion of the Third Reich cinema. This volume investigates various attempts to economically, politically and culturally infiltrate the film industries of 20 count…
"Rich in implications for our present era of media change, The Promise of Cinema offers a compelling new vision of film theory. The volume conceives of "theory" not as a fixed body of canonical texts, but as a dynamic set of reflections on the very idea of cinema and the possibi…
Den tyske "Kriegsmarine" var den sidste af de store europæiske flådemagter, der introducerede anvendelsen af et frømandskorps eller som de selv kaldte det, ultra lette flådestyrker. K-verband dækkede fra 1944 over følgende våbensystemer: Dværg-ubåde, en-mands torpedoer, motorbåd…
This title tells the story of William Ash, an American flier brought up in Depression-hit Texas, who after being shot down in his spitfire over France in early 1942 spent the rest of the war defying the Nazis by striving to escape from every prisoner of war camp in which he was …
A history of the German-American Bund traces the efforts of Fritz Kuhn and his followers to overthrow the U.S. government with a fascist dictatorship, tracing their private and public meetings, the development of their own version of the SS and Hitler Youth and the politicians, …
Covering the neighborhoods of Mitte, Prenzlauer Berg, Friedrichshain, Charlottenburg & Schoneberg, Kreuzberg, and Neukolln, Moon's Berlin City Walks will show you the best of Berlin on foot
"Jews of Eastern Europe have immigrated in large numbers to countries like Israel, the United States, and Germany. This migration across international borders has created challenges for Russian-speaking Jews as they forge their cultural, national, and ethnic identities. Gitelman…