My Memories Of Berlin

Author : Herbert R. Vogt
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008-02-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781469183626

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My Memories of Berlin by Herbert R. Vogt Pdf

A vivid description of the authors first seventeen years of life encompassing Hitlers twelve-year regime. His Hitler Youth experience is typical for the average German boy of that time. His personal endurances are blended in with reports from the battlefield and the home front. Some of the Hitler Youth were chosen to be indoctrinated in the regimes elite schools and lived a privileged life of state-sponsored higher education. As war brings more hardships and the nation finds itself defeated and exposed to Soviet barbarism, the Hitler Youth force keeps on fighting with tenacious fanaticism to self destruction. Those of them that survived the war felt utterly betrayed and disillusioned. Their fallen comrades being Hitlers Last Victims.

Author : Herbert R. Vogt
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2008-02-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1469183625

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My Memories of Berlin by Herbert R. Vogt Pdf

A vivid description of the authors first seventeen years of life encompassing Hitlers twelve-year regime. His Hitler Youth experience is typical for the average German boy of that time. His personal endurances are blended in with reports from the battlefield and the home front. Some of the Hitler Youth were chosen to be indoctrinated in the regimes elite schools and lived a privileged life of state-sponsored higher education. As war brings more hardships and the nation finds itself defeated and exposed to Soviet barbarism, the Hitler Youth force keeps on fighting with tenacious fanaticism to self destruction. Those of them that survived the war felt utterly betrayed and disillusioned. Their fallen comrades being Hitlers Last Victims.

Author : Jennifer A. Jordan
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 080475277X

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Structures of Memory by Jennifer A. Jordan Pdf

Structures of Memory turns to the landscape of contemporary Berlin, particularly places marked by the presence of the Nazi regime, in order to understand how some places of great cruelty or great heroism are forgotten by all but eyewitnesses, while others become the site of public ceremonies, museums, or commemorative monuments.

Author : Simon Ward
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9089648534

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Urban Memory and Visual Culture in Berlin by Simon Ward Pdf

As sites of turbulence and transformation, cities are machines for forgetting. And yet archiving and exhibiting the presence of the past remains a key cultural, political and economic activity in many urban environments. This book takes the example of Berlin over the past four decades to chart how the memory culture of the city has responded to the challenges and transformations thrown up by the changing political, social and economic organization of the built environment. The book focuses on the visual culture of the city (architecture, memorials, photography and film). It argues that the recovery of the experience of time is central to the practices of an emergent memory culture in a contemporary 'overexposed' city, whose spatial and temporal boundaries have long since disintegrated.

Author : Victoria Bishop Kendzia
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 1789208440

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Visitors to the House of Memory by Victoria Bishop Kendzia Pdf

As one of the most visited museums in Germany’s capital city, the Jewish Museum Berlin is a key site for understanding not only German-Jewish history, but also German identity in an era of unprecedented ethnic and religious diversity. Visitors to the House of Memory is an intimate exploration of how young Berliners experience the Museum. How do modern students relate to the museum’s evocative architecture, its cultural-political context, and its narrative of Jewish history? By accompanying a range of high school history students before, during, and after their visits to the museum, this book offers an illuminating exploration of political education, affect, remembrance, and belonging.

Author : Karin Bauer,Jennifer Ruth Hosek
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785337215

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Cultural Topographies of the New Berlin by Karin Bauer,Jennifer Ruth Hosek Pdf

Since Unification and the end of the Cold War, Berlin has witnessed a series of uncommonly intense social, political, and cultural transformations. While positioning itself as a creative center populated by young and cosmopolitan global citizens, the “New Berlin” is at the same time a rich site of historical memory, defined inescapably by its past even as it articulates German and European hopes for the future. Cultural Topographies of the New Berlin presents a fascinating cross-section of life in Germany’s largest city, revealing the complex ways in which globalization, ethnicity, economics, memory, and national identity inflect how its urban spaces are inhabited and depicted.

Author : Bern Brent
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Germans
ISBN : 0646393693

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My Berlin Suitcase by Bern Brent Pdf

Author : Marianne Buchwalter
Publisher : Premiere Editions International
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0963381849

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Memories of a Berlin Childhood by Marianne Buchwalter Pdf

Recounts the author's experiences growing up in a prosperous Jewish family in Berlin in the 1930s

Author : Carol Anne Costabile-Heming,Rachel J. Halverson,Kristie A. Foell
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : 3110177234

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Berlin by Carol Anne Costabile-Heming,Rachel J. Halverson,Kristie A. Foell Pdf

The sudden fall of the Berlin Wall is one of the defining images of the late twentieth century. The subsequent unification of Germany and the decision to return Berlin to its status as capital has made the constant changes within the city a matter of public interest. It also offered Berlin the opportunity to create a new image for itself, one that can serve as a counterbalance to the politically charged recent history of Berlin as the capital of Nazi Germany and former East Berlin as the capital of the German Democratic Republic. Poised between capitalist Western Europe and the former communist powers in Eastern Europe, Berlin occupies a fascinating geopolitical space. This anthology presents a unique glimpse into the various constituencies that make up Berlin and that impact the city's challenges and promises.

Author : Ingrid Schliebusch
Publisher : novum publishing
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781642685763

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Valhalla – Memories from the world in between! by Ingrid Schliebusch Pdf

Valhalla" refers to an intermediate world from which the memories of people born in Romania and Berlin in the 1920s and who lived through the Second World War are transmitted. In the book "Valhalla", their memories are brought back to earthly life in order to resolve the suffering and pain that we are all connected to. The effects of the Second World War on the post-war period and into the 1990s of reunified Germany become a living reality through the events, thoughts and feelings described.

Author : James Furner
Publisher : Arena books
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0954316177

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The Girl from East Berlin by James Furner Pdf

This is a realistic drama set in Berlin immediately prior to the building of the Wall--a poignant story of true love intercepted by the political conflict and intrigues of the East-West power blocs.

Author : Scott Andrew Selby
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-07
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781101606391

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A Serial Killer in Nazi Berlin by Scott Andrew Selby Pdf

As the Nazi war machine caused death and destruction throughout Europe, one man in the Fatherland began his own reign of terror. This is the true story of the pursuit and capture of a serial killer in the heart of the Third Reich. For all appearances, Paul Ogorzow was a model German. An employed family man, party member, and sergeant in the infamous Brownshirts, he had worked his way up in the Berlin railroad from a manual laborer laying track to assistant signalman. But he also had a secret need to harass and frighten women. Then he was given a gift from the Nazi high command. Due to Allied bombing raids, a total blackout was instituted throughout Berlin, including on the commuter trains—trains often used by women riding home alone from the factories. Under cover of darkness and with a helpless flock of victims to choose from, Ogorzow’s depredations grew more and more horrific. He escalated from simply frightening women to physically attacking them, eventually raping and murdering them. Beginning in September 1940, he started casually tossing their bodies off the moving train. Though the Nazi party tried to censor news of the attacks, the women of Berlin soon lived in a state of constant fear. It was up to Wilhelm Lüdtke, head of the Berlin police’s serious crimes division, to hunt down the madman in their midst. For the first time, the gripping full story of Ogorzow’s killing spree and Lüdtke’s relentless pursuit is told in dramatic detail. From the Hardcover edition.

Author : Neil MacGregor
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780241008348

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Germany by Neil MacGregor Pdf

From Neil MacGregor, the author of A History of the World in 100 Objects, this is a view of Germany like no other Today, as the dominant economic force in Europe, Germany looms as large as ever over world affairs. But how much do we really understand about it, and how do its people understand themselves? In this enthralling new book, Neil MacGregor guides us through the complex history, culture and identity of this most mercurial of countries by telling the stories behind 30 objects in his uniquely magical way. Beginning with the fifteenth-century invention of the Gutenberg press, MacGregor ventures beyond the usual sticking point of the Second World War to get to the heart of a nation that has given us Luther and Hitler, the Beetle and Brecht - and remade our world again and again. This is a view of Germany like no other. Neil MacGregor has been Director of the British Museum since August 2002. He was Director of the National Gallery in London from 1987 to 2002. His celebrated books include A History of the World in 100 Objects, now translated into more than a dozen languages and one of the top-selling titles ever published by Penguin Press, and Shakespeare's Restless World.

Author : Franz Hessel
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780262539661

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Walking in Berlin by Franz Hessel Pdf

The first English translation of a lost classic that reinvents the flaneur in Berlin. Franz Hessel (1880–1941), a German-born writer, grew up in Berlin, studied in Munich, and then lived in Paris, where he moved in artistic and literary circles. His relationship with the fashion journalist Helen Grund was the inspiration for Henri-Pierre Roche's novel Jules et Jim (made into a celebrated 1962 film by Francois Truffaut). In collaboration with Walter Benjamin, Hessel reinvented the Parisian figure of the flaneur. This 1929 book—here in its first English translation—offers Hessel's version of a flaneur in Berlin. In Walking in Berlin, Hessel captures the rhythm of Weimar-era Berlin, recording the seismic shifts in German culture. Nearly all of the essays take the form of a walk or outing, focusing on either a theme or part of the city, and many end at a theater, cinema, or club. Hessel deftly weaves the past with the present, walking through the city's history as well as its neighborhoods. Even today, his walks in the city, from the Alexanderplatz to Kreuzberg, can guide would-be flaneurs. Walking in Berlin is a lost classic, known mainly because of Hessel's connection to Benjamin but now introduced to readers of English. Walking in Berlin was a central model for Benjamin's Arcades Project and remains a classic of “walking literature” that ranges from Surrealist perambulation to Situationist “psychogeography.” This MIT Press edition includes the complete text in translation as well as Benjamin's essay on Walking in Berlin, originally written as a review of the book's original edition. “An absolutely epic book, a walking remembrance.” —Walter Benjamin

Author : Rory MacLean
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780297868835

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Berlin by Rory MacLean Pdf

The first single-volume biography of Berlin, one of the world's great cities - told via twenty-one portraits, from medieval times to the twenty-first century. A city devastated by Allied bombs, divided by a Wall, then reunited and reborn, Berlin today resonates with the echo of lives lived, dreams realised and evils executed. No other city has repeatedly been so powerful and fallen so low. And few other cities have been so shaped and defined by individual imaginations. Through vivid portraits spanning five centuries, Rory MacLean reveals the varied and rich history of Berlin, from its brightest to its darkest moments. We encounter an ambitious prostitute refashioning herself as a princess, a Scottish mercenary fighting for the Prussian Army, Marlene Dietrich flaunting her sexuality and Hitler fantasising about the mega-city Germania. The result is a uniquely imaginative biography of one of the world's most volatile yet creative cities.