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When Hitler assumed power in 1933, he and other Nazis had firm ideas on what they called a racially pure "community of the people." They quickly took steps against those whom they wanted to isolate, deport, or destroy. In these essays informed by the latest research, leading scholars offer rich histories of the people branded as "social outsiders" in Nazi Germany: Communists, Jews, "Gypsies," foreign workers, prostitutes, criminals, homosexuals, and the homeless, unemployed, and chronically ill....

This is a new edition of Volume Three of the four volume collection of documents on Nazism 1919-1945, with substantial revisions to three chapters and the inclusion of many new documents, an index and a revised bibliography. The volume contains the most systematic documentation available in English of the Nazi programmes of racial and eugenic extermination, including a case study of the occupation of Poland.

Speaking the Unspeakable in Postwar Germany is an interdisciplinary study of a diverse set of public speeches given by major literary and cultural figures in the 1950s and 1960s. Through close readings of canonical speeches by Hannah Arendt, Theodor W. Adorno, Ingeborg Bachmann, Martin Buber, Paul Celan, Uwe Johnson, Peter Szondi, and Peter Weiss, Sonja Boos demonstrates that these speakers both facilitated and subverted the construction of a public discourse about the Holocaust in postwar West...

Die Jahre 1914 bis 1918 markieren eine entscheidende Phase im Ablosungsprozess Irlands von Grossbritannien. Zentralereignis ist der Osteraufstand 1916. Die Arbeit untersucht, wie deutsche Tageszeitungen die Geschehnisse in und um Irland darstellen, welches -Irland-Bild- in der deutschen Offentlichkeit im 1. Weltkrieg entsteht. Dabei werden neben den anglo-irischen Konflikten speziell die amerikanisch-irischen und deutsch-irischen Beziehungen analysiert. Die Berichterstattung ist ausgesprochen...

In eighteenth century Germany goods were produced in manufactories as well as by independent craftsmen and artisans employed by capitalists. The manufactories using tools and manually operated machines foreshadowed in many respects the factories of the nineteenth century. State and local support for the manufactories was aimed at reducing unemployment, maintaining military strength and securing foreign currency. Although not all manufactories were successful they provided a valuable heritage of...

Werkbiographie eines der fuhrenden, jugendbewegten, antifaschistischen Katholiken und Publizisten der Weimarer Republik. Katholisch-republikanischer Antifaschismus ab 1925. Eine linke, katholische Faschismustheorie, die wahrend der Weimarer Republik erarbeitet wurde. Theologische Vorlaufer, des 2. Vatikanischen Konzils und der von diesem Konzil angestrebten Offnung der Kirche zur Welt."

Wahrend des Kulturkampfes wurde innerhalb der preussischen Regierung und Verwaltung uber die politische Angebrachtheit, das wunschenswerte Ausmass und die ausseren Modalitaten einer staatlichen Repression des Wallfahrts- und Prozessionswesens intensiv diskutiert. Das Diskussionsergebnis bestand in der Ministerialverfugung vom 26. August 1874, welche das Wallfahrts- und Prozessionswesen auf der Grundlage des preussischen Vereinsgesetzes von 1850 ausserst restriktiv reglementierte, wahrend das pre...

During the division of Germany, law became the object of ideological conflicts and the means by which the two national governments conducted their battle over political legitimacy. Legal Entanglements explores how these dynamics produced competing concepts of statehood and sovereignty, all centered on citizens and their rights. Drawing on wide-ranging archival sources, including recently declassified documents, Sebastian Gehrig traces how politicians, diplomats, judges, lawyers, activists and...

Este volumen ofrece un amplio estudio acerca de la narrativa aparecida en Alemania entre 1945 y la actualidad, cuya tematica evoca la historia mas reciente del pais germano con la intencion no solo de revisar, reelaborar o superar el pasado, sino tambien de encontrar la orientacion individual y social perdida tras los profundos cambios historicos acaecidos. Diversas son las cuestiones a las que se da respuesta: ?Que segmentos del pasado se actualizan en esa narrativa? ?Cuales quedan infrarrepres...

Award-winning journalist Isabel Vincent unravels the labyrinthine story behind the headlines by taking us through the life of survivor Renée Appel, who found refuge in Canada. With her, we come to understand what it means to wait for justice: how, on the eve of war, desperate men and women entrusted their life savings to Swiss banks; how Nazis laundered gold looted from Jewish families; how the demands of international business, Swiss bank secrecy, and greed kept the truth hidden for over half a...

A concise, accessible account of strategy and the Second World War. How the war was won . . . and lost..In 1941, the Second World War became global, when Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union; Japan attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor; and Germany declared war on the United States.In this timely book, which fills a real gap, Black engages with the strategic issues of the time - as they developed chronologically, and interacted - and relates these to subsequent debates about the choices m...