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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America's first ambassador to Hitler's Germany in a year that proved to be a turning point in history. A mild-mannered professor from Chicago, Dodd brings along his wife, son, and flamboyant daughter, Martha. At first, Martha is entranced by the parties and pomp, and the handsome young men of the Third Reich with their infectious enthusiasm for restoring Germany to a position of world...
Author
Series
Studies in German history volume Volume 18
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
7) Irmina
Author
Publisher
SelfMadeHero
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In the mid-1930s, Irmina, an ambitious young German, moves to London. At a cocktail party, she meets Howard Green, one of the first black students at Oxford, who, like Irmina, is working towards an independent existence. However, their relationship comes to an abrupt end when Irmina, constrained by the political situation in Hitler's Germany, is forced to return home. As war approaches and her contact with Howard is broken, it becomes clear to Irmina...
Publisher
[Echo Bridge]
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The events of Hitler's climb to power tell only part of the story. Neither Adolf Hitler nor the Germany of 1939 exploded onto the world stage fully formed. Both evolved. Both were running from failures in their past. Both were looking for someone to blame. Together they entered into a macabre dance to find security and a stronger identity. Whipped into a frenzied fear inflamed by the "Hitler-roar", Germany happily surrendered its voice to one man....
10) Final account
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Deutsch
Description
Presents interviews with living witnesses to Hitler's Third Reich, raising questions about national identity and complicity among Germany's civilian population.
An urgent portrait of the last living generation of everyday people to participate in Adolf Hitler's Third Reich. Over a decade in the making, the film raises vital, timely questions about authority, conformity, complicity and perpetration, national identity, and responsibility, as men and...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"A riveting account of how the Nazi Party came to power and how the failures of the Weimar Republic and the shortsightedness of German politicians allowed it to happen. Why did democracy fall apart so quickly and completely in Germany in the 1930s? How did a democratic government allow Adolf Hitler to seize power? In [this book], Benjamin Carter Hett answers these questions, and the story he tells has disturbing resonances for our own time. To say...
14) Wehrmachtjustiz an der "Heimatfront": die Militärgerichte des Ersatzheeres im Zweiten Weltkrieg
Author
Series
Studien zur Zeitgeschichte) volume Band 91
Publisher
De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Deutsch
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Documents the radical transformation of Germany under Nazi rule, exploring how virtually every area of life was reordered to comply with the regime's preparations for war, and describes the increasing brutality towards marginalized groups.
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Nazism triumphed in Germany during the high era of Jim Crow laws in the United States. Did the American regime of racial oppression in any way inspire the Nazis? The unsettling answer is yes. In Hitler's American Model, James Whitman presents a detailed investigation of the American impact on the notorious Nuremberg Laws, the centerpiece anti-Jewish legislation of the Nazi regime. Contrary to those who have insisted that there was no meaningful connection...
