A Red Guard Before Munich

Author : Erich Wollenberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798510675221

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A Red Guard Before Munich by Erich Wollenberg Pdf

More than ten thousand men marched through the streets of Munich on April 22, 1919. They were members of Germany's first Red Army, recruited to defend the Bavarian Soviet Republic, under the command of Rudolf Egelhofer, a former sailor in the German Imperial Navy and barely 24 years old. Erich Wollenberg commanded the Red Army Group North (Dachau) infantry as it faced the advancing White Guard composed of Freikorps, backed by the Hoffmann government in Bamberg. It is a story of heroism and betrayal, as the Soviet Republic and the Red Army were crushed in just two weeks. Bonus material includes short biographical details about Wollenberg and Egelhofer, an essay on the Wollenberg-Hoelz "conspiracy" and Stalin's anti-German purge, and the courtroom speech of the leader of the Communist government in Munich, Eugen Leviné.

Author : Eliza Ablovatski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521768306

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Revolution and Political Violence in Central Europe by Eliza Ablovatski Pdf

Examines how narratives of the 1919 Central European revolutions promoted a violent counterrevolutionary culture in interwar Germany and Hungary.

Author : David Luhrssen
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9781597978583

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Hammer of the Gods by David Luhrssen Pdf

Public interest in Adolf Hitler and all aspects of the Third Reich continues to grow as new generations ponder the moral questions surrounding Nazi Germany and its historical legacy. One aspect of Nazism that has not received sufficient attention from historians of the Third Reich is the doctrine's origins in the Thule Society and its covert activities. A Munich occult group with a political agenda, the Thule Society was led by Rudolf von Sebottendorff, a German commoner who had been adopted by nobility during a sojourn in the Ottoman Empire. After returning to Europe, Sebottendorff embraced a form of theosophy that stressed the racial superiority of Aryans. The Thule Society attempted to establish an anti-Semitic, working-class front for disseminating its esoteric ideas and founded the German Workers' Party, which Hitler would later transform into the National Socialist German Workers' (Nazi) Party. Several of the society's members eventually assumed prestigious posts in the Third Reich. David Luhrssen has written the first comprehensive study of the society's activities, its cultural roots, and its postwar ramifications in a historical-critical context. Both general readers and academics concerned with European cultural and intellectual history will find that Hammer of the Gods opens new perspectives on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Europe.

Author : Helena Waddy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199707799

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Oberammergau in the Nazi Era by Helena Waddy Pdf

In her study of Oberammergau, the Bavarian village famous for its decennial passion play, Helena Waddy argues against the traditional image of the village as a Nazi stronghold. She uses Oberammergau's unique history to explain why and how genuinely some villagers chose to become Nazis, while others rejected Party membership and defended their Catholic lifestyle. She explores the reasons for which both local Nazis and their opponents fought to protect the village's cherished identity against the Third Reich's many intrusive demands. She also shows that the play mirrored the Gospel-based anti-Semitism endemic to Western culture.

Author : Allan Mitchell
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9781466962934

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Socialism and the Emergence of the Welfare State by Allan Mitchell Pdf

To counter allegations that the United States is being led down a socialist path to a European-style welfare state, this concise account reviews the varieties of European socialism and the benefits of welfare reform that have characterized Germany, France, Britain, and Sweden. Which future is in store for America is left an open question.

Author : Alex Burkhardt
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781527540286

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Democrats into Nazis by Alex Burkhardt Pdf

How did millions of middle-class Germans come to support extreme nationalist and anti-democratic groups during the Weimar Republic? This troubling and pointedly argued book addresses this question through a targeted case study of Hof, a small Bavarian town, in the five years after the First World War. During this tumultuous period, a series of devastating crises and violent confrontations discredited the representatives of democratic liberalism and handed the initiative to a reinvigorated radical Right. Crucially, these crises were understood by Hof’s inhabitants as part of a broader “European Civil War” unleashed by the Russian Revolution and Treaty of Versailles. This detailed and disturbing study will be read with profit by students and scholars of modern history who seek new insights into the rise of the Nazis, and into the processes of popular radicalisation that did so much to bring about the destruction of the Weimar Republic.

Author : Ernst Toller
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781447499237

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I Was a German - The Autobiography of Ernst Toller by Ernst Toller Pdf

This is the fascinating autobiography of Ernst Toller. Ernst Toller (1893 – 1939) was a German left-wing playwright, best known for his expressionist plays. He also famously served for six days in 1919 as the President of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republic, later being imprisoned for his actions. This volume is highly recommended for those with an interest in twentieth-century European history. Contents include: “Childhood”, “A Student in France”, “War”, “At the Front”, “An Attempt to Forget Revolt”, “Strike”, “The Military Prison”, “The Lunatic Asylum”, “Revolution”, “The Bavarian Soviet Republic”, etc. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.

Author : Christopher Dillon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192513342

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Dachau and the SS by Christopher Dillon Pdf

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' and a key springboard for the ascent of Heinrich Himmler and the SS to control of the Third Reich's terror and policing apparatus. Throughout the pre-war era of Nazi Germany, Dachau functioned as an academy of violence where concentration camp personnel were schooled in steely resolution and the techniques of terror. An international symbol of Nazi depredation, Dachau was the cradle of a new and terrible spirit of destruction. Combining extensive new research into the pre-war history of Dachau with theoretical insights from studies of perpetrator violence, this book offers the first systematic study of the 'Dachau School'. It explores the backgrounds and socialization of thousands of often very young SS men in the camp and critiques the assumption that violence was an outcome of personal or ideological pathologies. Christopher Dillon analyses recruitment to the Dachau SS and evaluates the contribution of ideology, training, social psychology and masculine ideals to the conduct and subsequent careers of concentration camp guards. Graduates of the Dachau School would go on to play a central role in the wartime criminality of the Third Reich, particularly at Auschwitz. Dachau and the SS makes an original contribution to scholarship on the pre-history of the Holocaust and the institutional organisation of violence.

Author : Micheal Clodfelter
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 824 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476625850

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Warfare and Armed Conflicts by Micheal Clodfelter Pdf

In its revised and updated fourth edition, this exhaustive encyclopedia provides a record of casualties of war from the last five centuries through 2015, with new statistical and analytical information. Figures include casualties from global terrorism, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the fight against the Islamic State. New entries cover an additional 20 armed conflicts between 1492 and 2007 not included in previous editions. Arranged roughly by century and subdivided by world region, chronological entries include the name and dates of the conflict, precursor events, strategies and details, the outcome and its aftermath.

Author : David Runciman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009-02-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400827121

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The Politics of Good Intentions by David Runciman Pdf

Tony Blair has often said that he wishes history to judge the great political controversies of the early twenty-first century--above all, the actions he has undertaken in alliance with George W. Bush. This book is the first attempt to fulfill that wish, using the long history of the modern state to put the events of recent years--the war on terror, the war in Iraq, the falling out between Europe and the United States--in their proper perspective. It also dissects the way that politicians like Blair and Bush have used and abused history to justify the new world order they are creating. Many books about international politics since 9/11 contend that either everything changed or nothing changed on that fateful day. This book identifies what is new about contemporary politics but also how what is new has been exploited in ways that are all too familiar. It compares recent political events with other crises in the history of modern politics--political and intellectual, ranging from seventeenth-century England to Weimar Germany--to argue that the risks of the present crisis have been exaggerated, manipulated, and misunderstood. David Runciman argues that there are three kinds of time at work in contemporary politics: news time, election time, and historical time. It is all too easy to get caught up in news time and election time, he writes. This book is about viewing the threats and challenges we face in real historical time.

Author : Ute Planert,James Retallack
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107165748

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Decades of Reconstruction by Ute Planert,James Retallack Pdf

International scholars review decades of postwar reconstruction in international comparison from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, demonstrating how foreign domestic policy cannot be separated.

Author : United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces. General Staff, G-2
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1436 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1918
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : UOM:39015084513970

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Press Review by United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces. General Staff, G-2 Pdf

Author : Albert E. Gurganus
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781640140158

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Kurt Eisner by Albert E. Gurganus Pdf

The first comprehensive biography in English of the leader of the Bavarian Revolution and Republic of 1918/19, the first Jewish head of a European state and a man who embraced and embodied modernity.

Author : Nigel Jones
Publisher : Robinson
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472103857

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A Brief History of the Birth of the Nazis by Nigel Jones Pdf

The birth pangs of Nazism grew out of the death agony of the Kaiser's Germany. Defeat in World War I and a narrow escape from Communist revolution brought not peace but five chaotic years (1918-1923) of civil war, assassination, plots, putsches and murderous mayhem to Germany. The savage world of the trenches came home with the men who refused to admit defeat and 'who could not get the war out of their system'. It was an atmosphere in which civilised values withered, and violent extremism flourished. In this chronicle of the paramilitary Freikorps - the freebooting armies that crushed the Red revolution, then themselves attempted to take over by armed force - historian and biographer Nigel Jones draws on little-known archives in Germany and Britain to paint a portrait of a state torn between revolution and counter revolution. Astonishingly, this is the first in-depth study of the Freikorps to appear in English for 50 years. Yet the figures who flit through its shadowy world - men like Röhm, Goering and Hitler himself - were to become frighteningly familiar just ten years after the turmoil that gave Nazism its fatal chance.

Author : Ian Kershaw
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 880 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2001-10-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780141925790

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Hitler 1889-1936 by Ian Kershaw Pdf

Ian Kershaw's HITLER allows us to come closer than ever before to a serious understanding of the man and of the catastrophic sequence of events which allowed a bizarre misfit to climb from a Viennese dosshouse to leadership of one of Europe's most sophisticated countries. With extraordinary skill and vividness, drawing on a huge range of sources, Kershaw recreates the world which first thwarted and then nurtured the young Hitler. As his seemingly pitiful fantasy of being Germany's saviour attracted more and more support, Kershaw brilliantly conveys why so many Germans adored Hitler, connived with him or felt powerless to resist him.