Nein Standing Up To Hitler 1935 1944

Author : Paddy Ashdown
Publisher : William Collins
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0008257078

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Nein! by Paddy Ashdown Pdf

From bestselling and prize-winning author Paddy Ashdown, a revelatory new history of German opposition to Hitler. 'Ashdown has a great gift for narrative history. He unearths little known stories and places them in context with great dexterity. His new book throws fresh and important light on a crucial topic.' JONATHAN DIMBLEBY In his last days, Adolf Hitler raged in his bunker that he had been betrayed by his own people, defeated from the inside. In part, he was right. By 1945, his armies were being crushed on all fronts, his regime collapsing with many fleeing retribution for their crimes. Yet, even before the war started, there were Germans very high in Hitler's command committed to bringing about his death and defeat. Paddy Ashdown tells, for the first time, the story of those at the very top of Hitler's Germany who tried first to prevent the Second World War and then to deny Hitler victory. Based on newly released files, the repeated attempts of the plotters to warn the Allies about Hitler's plans are revealed. What is revealed is that the anti-Hitler bomb plots, which have received so much attention are, in fact only a small part of a much wider story; one in which those at the highest levels of the German state used every means possible - conspiracy, assassination, espionage - to ensure that, for the sake of the long-term reputation of their country and the survival of liberal and democratic values, Hitler could not be allowed to win the war. It is a matter of record that the European Union we have today and the nature and central position of Germany within it, is, in very large measure, the future envisaged by the plotters and for which they gave their lives.

Author : Helga M Griffin
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781760464271

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At Home in Exile by Helga M Griffin Pdf

This is a story of a girl’s construction of her identity, and of her family’s search for a place in the world, for the Heimat that is so resonant for those of German background. We follow Helga through an adventurous childhood in Iran, whose vast open spaces her mother called ‘my spiritual home’. Her engineer father worked on a grand scale, designing and laying roads and railways, and tunnelling through mountain ranges. Then came the invasions of World War II, and the family, half-German, half-Austrian, found themselves on a long voyage to Australia, designated enemy aliens. They were interned for nearly five years in the dusty Victorian countryside. On their release at the end of the War, stranded in Melbourne, they sought another home. The children were dispatched to convents, and at the Academy of Mary Immaculate, Helga found a temporary homeland, in faith. Everyday life in the Australia of the late 1940s and early 1950s is freshly seen by this feisty, loving migrant family. Through their eyes, we encounter a strange place, Australia, as if for the first time. Helga’s development from a thoughtful, sensitive child to a self-possessed young woman, wrestling with her faith and with how to live a decent life, is vividly recounted.

Author : Helen Fry
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300255928

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MI9 by Helen Fry Pdf

A thrilling history of MI9—the WWII organization that engineered the escape of Allied forces from behind enemy lines When Allied fighters were trapped behind enemy lines, one branch of military intelligence helped them escape: MI9. The organization set up clandestine routes that zig-zagged across Nazi-occupied Europe, enabling soldiers and airmen to make their way home. Secret agents and resistance fighters risked their lives and those of their families to hide the men. Drawing on declassified files and eye-witness testimonies from across Europe and the United States, Helen Fry provides a significant reassessment of MI9’s wartime role. Central to its success were figures such as Airey Neave, Jimmy Langley, Sam Derry, and Mary Lindell—one of only a few women parachuted into enemy territory for MI9. This astonishing account combines escape and evasion tales with the previously untold stories behind the establishment of MI9—and reveals how the organization saved thousands of lives.

Author : Paddy Ashdown
Publisher : Allan Lane
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015054248144

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The Ashdown Diaries: 1988-1997 by Paddy Ashdown Pdf

This volume of Paddy Ashdown's diary is a first-hand account of the efforts to build a centre-left strategy for defeating the Conservatives, gives insight into the management and structure of a modern political party, and also includes Ashdown's daily record.

Author : Inge Scholl
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1983-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780819560865

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The White Rose by Inge Scholl Pdf

A unique study of the WW2 culture of Germany.

Author : Adolf Hitler,Max Domarus
Publisher : Bolchazy Carducci Pub
Page : 958 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Germany
ISBN : 0865162301

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Speeches and Proclamations, 1932-1945: The years 1939 to 1940 by Adolf Hitler,Max Domarus Pdf

Annotation In 1932, when Hitler became the most important political figure in Germany, Dr. Domarus began to collect his public statements, speeches, interviews, and letters, being conscious of their eventual documentary value. Friends at home and abroad persuaded him to make comments on this unique collection and publish it in its entirety.

Author : Jürgen Backhaus,Wolfgang Drechsler
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2006-10-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780387329802

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Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) by Jürgen Backhaus,Wolfgang Drechsler Pdf

Friedrich Nietzsche’s influence on the development of modern social sciences has not been well documented. This volume reconsiders some of Nietzsche’s writings on economics and the science of state, pioneering a line of research up to now unavailable in English. The authors intend to provoke conversation and inspire research on the role that this much misunderstood philosopher and cultural critic has played – or should play – in the history of economics.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786469666

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New Images of Nazi Germany by Anonim Pdf

With its battlefields paved over and its bunkers crumbled, the Third Reich of Nazi Germany nevertheless lives on in countless photographs that record an era of extraordinary brutality. This collection of more than 500 photographs taken by amateurs and professional propagandists provides a panoramic overview of Nazi Germany, offering intimate glimpses into living rooms and killing grounds, kitchens and concentration camps, movie theaters and battle fronts. The explanatory text explores the context of the images. Together, these photographs, most never before seen, create a time capsule, capturing the faces of Hitler's soldier's as well as those who suffered under the Nazi onslaught on humanity.

Author : J. Lyons
Publisher : Springer
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137376800

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America in the British Imagination by J. Lyons Pdf

How was American culture disseminated into Britain? Why did many British citizens embrace American customs? And what picture did they form of American society and politics? This engaging and wide-ranging history explores these and other questions about the U.S.'s cultural and political influence on British society in the post-World War II period.

Author : Wm. K. Pfeiler,William Karl Pfeiler
Publisher : Lincoln, U. of Nebraska P
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : UCAL:B3438119

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German Literature in Exile by Wm. K. Pfeiler,William Karl Pfeiler Pdf

Author : Andreas Agocs
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1108707696

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Antifascist Humanism and the Politics of Cultural Renewal in Germany by Andreas Agocs Pdf

Antifascism is usually described as either a political ideology of activists and intellectuals confronting the dictatorships of Hitler and Mussolini, or as a cynical tool that justified the Stalinist expansion of communism in Europe. Andreas Agocs widens our understanding of antifascism by placing it in the context of twentieth-century movements of 'cultural renewal'. He explores the concept of 'antifascist humanism', the attempt by communist and liberal intellectuals and artists to heal the divisions of Nazism by reviving the 'other Germany' of classical Weimar. This project took intellectual shape in German exile communities in Europe and Latin America during World War II and found its institutional embodiment in the Cultural League for Democratic Renewal in Soviet-occupied Berlin in 1945. During the emerging Cold War, antifascist humanism's uneasy blend of twentieth-century mass politics and cultural nationalism became the focal point of new divisions in occupied Germany and the early German Democratic Republic. This study traces German traditions of cultural renewal from their beginnings in antifascist activism to their failure in the emerging Cold War.

Author : Annette Dumbach,Jud Newborn
Publisher : Oneworld Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-11
Category : History
ISBN : 086154675X

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Sophie Scholl and the White Rose by Annette Dumbach,Jud Newborn Pdf

A special 80th anniversary edition of this much-acclaimed title, to commemorate the extraordinary events of 1943 A SPECIAL ANNIVERSARY EDITION TO COMMEMORATE 80 YEARS SINCE THE EXTRAORDINARY EVENTS OF 1943 Sophie Scholl and the White Rose tells the gripping true story of five Munich university students who set up an underground resistance movement in World War II. The thrilling story of their courage and defiance, brought to life in the Oscar-nominated film Sophie Scholl - The Final Days, is beautifully told in this special 80th anniversary edition of Annette Dumbach & Jud Newborn's critically acclaimed work. Acclaim for Sophie Scholl and the White Rose: 'The animated narrative reads like a suspense novel.' New York Times 'Powerful and compelling... Among the indispensable literature of modern political culture.' Hans-Wolf von Wietersheim, Das Parlament 'A dramatic story of courage during the darkest period of the 20th Century... And it's a story with new chapters unfolding. This book is a fundamental resource and a memorable read.' Toby Axelrod, author and reporter

Author : Kirk Wetters
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810129764

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Demonic History by Kirk Wetters Pdf

In this ambitious book, Kirk Wetters traces the genealogy of the demonic in German literature from its imbrications in Goethe to its varying legacies in the work of essential authors, both canonical and less well known, such as Gundolf, Spengler, Benjamin, Lukács, and Doderer. Wetters focuses especially on the philological and metaphorological resonances of the demonic from its core formations through its appropriations in the tumultuous twentieth century. Propelled by equal parts theoretical and historical acumen, Wetters explores the ways in which the question of the demonic has been employed to multiple theoretical, literary, and historico-political ends. He thereby produces an intellectual history that will be consequential both to scholars of German literature and to comparatists.

Author : Hannah Höch,Peter W. Boswell,Maria Martha Makela,Carolyn Lanchner,Kristin Makholm
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Dadaism
ISBN : UOM:39015039896363

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The Photomontages of Hannah Höch by Hannah Höch,Peter W. Boswell,Maria Martha Makela,Carolyn Lanchner,Kristin Makholm Pdf

Here, in the first comprehensive survey of her work by an American museum, authors Peter Boswell, Maria Makela, and Carolyn Lanchner survey the full scope of Hoch's half-century of experimentation in photomontage - from her politically charged early works and intimate psychological portraits of the Weimar era to her later forays into surrealism and abstraction.

Author : Paddy Ashdown
Publisher : 4th Estate, Limited
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015018480544

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Citizen's Britain by Paddy Ashdown Pdf

In this book, the leader of the Social and Liberal Democrats Party looks at the challenges which face Britain and the world in the next decade and proposes a framework for the new shape of progressive politics in the post Thatcher era.