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This is the untold story of how some of Germany's top aristocrats contributed to Hitler's secret diplomacy during the Third Reich, providing a direct line to their influential contacts and relations across Europe -- especially in Britain, where their contacts included...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-07-23
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Das Buch berichtet über politisches Geschehen vom Siebenjährigen Krieg bis zur Demagogenverfolgung durch Preußen. Basis hierzu ist die hoch informative Autobiographie des gebürtigen Bonners Joseph Wurzer (1770–1860) sowie die seines Sohns Ferdinand Alexander Wurzer...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-06-30
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Hans-Carl von Schlick war bis 1918 Seeoffizier der Kaiserlichen Marine. Als Kommandant des Schlachtschiffes Derfflinger erlebte er die November-Revolution. In der Weimarer Republik ging er in die Privatwirtschaft. 1928 wurde er arbeitslos und verlor in der...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-04-20
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Der Sammelband gibt eine Antwort auf die in Politik und Wissenschaft verbreitete Totalitarismustheorie, die den deutsch-sowjetischen Nichtangriffsvertrag vom 23.8.1939 als Verständigung zweier wesensverwandter Diktaturen über die Aufteilung Europas und der Welt...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-03-09
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When Martin Luther mounted his challenge to the Catholic Church, reform stimulated a range of responses, including radical solutions such as those proposed by theologians of the Anabaptist movement. But how did ordinary Anabaptists, men and women, grapple with the...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-03-05
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Dachau and the SS studies the concentration camp guards at Dachau, the first SS concentration camp and a national 'school' of violence for its concentration camp personnel. Set up in the first months of Adolf Hitler's rule,Dachau was a bastion of the Nazi 'revolution'...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-01-29
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Mapping the Germans explores the development of statistical science and cartography in Germany between the beginning of the nineteenth century and the start of World War One, examining their impact on the German national identity. It asks how spatially-specific...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-01-22
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While the fate of minorities under Nazism is well known, the earlier expulsions of Germany's unwanted residents are less well understood. Against a backdrop of raging public debate, and numerous claims of a 'state of exception', tens of thousands of vulnerable people...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-01-08
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The changes that followed the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 were particularly dramatic for East Germans. With the German Democratic Republic effectively taken over by West Germany in the reunification process, nothing in their lives was immune from change and...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-10-09
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States of Division analyses the division of Germany and the development of the Iron Curtain during the four and a half decades of the Cold War. The centerpiece of this global fault-line was the thousand-mile-long border dividing Germany into West and East. This long...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-10-09
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The changes that followed the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 were particularly dramatic for East Germans. With the German Democratic Republic effectively taken over by West Germany in the reunification process, nothing in their lives was immune from change and...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-10-09
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Follow Peter Millar on a journey in the heart of Cold War Europe, from the carousing bars of 1970s Fleet Street to the East Berlin corner pub with its eclectic cast of characters who embodied the reality of living on the wrong side of the wall.
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Arcadia Books
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2014-05-14
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When the Nazis seized power in Germany in 1933 they promised to create a new, harmonious society under the leadership of the Führer, Adolf Hitler. The concept of Volksgemeinschaft - 'the people's community' - enshrined the Nazis' vision of society'; a society based on...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-05-08
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Women and the Counter-Reformation in Early Modern Münster examines how women from different social backgrounds encountered the Counter-Reformation. The focus is on Münster, a city in the north of Germany, which was exposed to powerful Protestant influences which...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-03-27
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Das Buch vermittelt ein umfassendes Bild von den ebenso aufwendigen wie glanzvollen Krönungszeremonien Josephs II. zum Römischen König. Dabei kommt nicht nur die Vergangenheit zur Sprache, sehr wohl wird auch der Gegenwartsbezug hergestellt. Zahlreiche Darstellungen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-03-19
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At the end of the First World War, Germany appeared to have lost everything: the lives of millions of soldiers and civilians, control over borderland territories, and, above all, a sense of national self-worth in the international political arena. But it also lost...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-03-06
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The German 'Blitz' that followed the Battle of Britain killed tens of thousands and laid waste to large areas of many British cities. And although the destruction of 1940-1 was never repeated on the same scale, fears that Hitler possessed a secret weapon of mass...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-02-06
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The German 'Blitz' that followed the Battle of Britain killed tens of thousands and laid waste to large areas of many British cities. And although the destruction of 1940-1 was never repeated on the same scale, fears that Hitler possessed a secret weapon of mass...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-02-06
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Die Napoleonischen Kriege von 1805 bis 1814 stellten die Menschen in Deutschland nicht nur aufgrund von Kriegsbelastungen, sondern auch hinsichtlich gesellschaftlicher, politischer und wirtschaftlicher Veränderungen vor neue Herausforderungen. Das Buch untersucht diese...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-15
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The Aesthetics of Loss is a cultural history of German women's art of the First World War that locates the artists' rich visual testimony in the context of the civilian experience of war and wartime loss. Drawing on a fascinating body of visual sources produced...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-09-19
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