Surviving The Swastika

Author : Kristie Macrakis
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Germany
ISBN : 9780195070101

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Surviving the Swastika by Kristie Macrakis Pdf

A study of the Kaiser Wilhelm Gesellschaft in the Nazi period. Ch. 3 (p. 51-72), "From Accommodation to Passive Opposition, 1933-35," discusses the dismissal of Jews from the various institutes. Max Planck tried to protect his Jewish colleagues from the Nazi authorities, but in vain. The only act of resistance undertaken by the scientists was the Fritz Haber Memorial Ceremony in 1935 (Haber, a Jewish scientist, died in Switzerland in 1934); the Nazis reluctantly allowed it to be held.

Author : Frieda E. Roos-van Hessen
Publisher : Harvest Day Books
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2006-10-01
Category : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
ISBN : 0974134589

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Life in the Shadow of the Swastika by Frieda E. Roos-van Hessen Pdf

Author : Victor Breitburg with Joseph G. Krygier
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780578090979

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A Rage To Live: Surviving The Holocaust So Hitler Would Not Win by Victor Breitburg with Joseph G. Krygier Pdf

Victor Breitburg is a survivor of the Lódz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Rhemsdorf and Theresienstadt concentration camps. He was liberated with a group known as "The Boys". Their experiences have been documented in Sir Martin Gilbert's book, The Boys: Triumph Over Adversity. Victor's journey from Lódz, to the camps in Europe, to England, Scotland and the United States and his new life in America is the story told in this volume.

Author : Jeffrey Richelson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 732 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2007-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393329827

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Spying on the Bomb: American Nuclear Intelligence from Nazi Germany to Iran and North Korea by Jeffrey Richelson Pdf

'Spying on the Bomb' focuses on the past & present nuclear activities of various countries, intermingling what the US believed was happening with accounts of what actually occurred in each country's laboratories, test sites and decision-making councils.

Author : Walter E. Grunden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015060866350

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Secret Weapons and World War II by Walter E. Grunden Pdf

While previous writers have focused primarily on strategic, military, and intelligence factors, Walter Grunden underscores the dramatic scientific and technological disparities that left Japan vunerable and ultimately led to its defeat in World War II.

Author : David Conley Nelson
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806149752

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Moroni and the Swastika by David Conley Nelson Pdf

A page-turning historical narrative, this book is the first full account of how Mormons avoided Nazi persecution through skilled collaboration with Hitler’s regime, and then eschewed postwar shame by constructing an alternative history of wartime suffering and resistance.

Author : Brandon R. Brown
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780190219475

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Planck by Brandon R. Brown Pdf

Brown interweaves the voices and writings of Planck, his family, and his contemporaries--with many passages appearing in English for the first time--to create a portrait of a groundbreaking physicist working in the midst of war. Planck spent much of his adult life grappling with the identity crisis of being an influential German with ideas that ran counter to his government. During the later part of his life, he survived bombings and battlefields, surgeries and blood transfusions, all the while performing his influential work amidst a violent and crumbling Nazi bureaucracy. When his son was accused of treason related to a bombing, Planck tried to use his standing as a German 'national treasure,' and wrote direct letters to Hitler to spare his son's life. Brown tells the story of Planck's friendship with the far more outspoken Albert Einstein, and shows how his work fits within the explosion of technology and science that occurred during his life.

Author : Douglas M. O'Reagan
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421439846

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Taking Nazi Technology by Douglas M. O'Reagan Pdf

He argues that these programs did far more than spread German industrial science: they forced businessmen and policymakers around the world to rethink how science and technology fit into diplomacy, business, and society itself.

Author : Larry Verstraete
Publisher : Sleeping Bear Press
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-02
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781410310040

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Surviving the Hindenburg by Larry Verstraete Pdf

On May 6, 1937, the giant German airship the Hindenburg was destroyed by fire as it attempted to land at Lakehurst Naval Base in New Jersey. Of the 93 people on board, a remarkable 62 survived, including Werner Franz, the ship's 14-year-old cabin boy. In Surviving the Hindenburg, writer Larry Verstraete recounts young Werner's story of the airship's final voyage. Through Werner's memories young readers will explore the inner workings of the giant airship, marvel at the breathtaking vistas from its observation windows, and hold their breath during Werner's terrifying escape from the fiery devastation. "My mind didn't start working again until I was on the ground," Werner said later. "Then I started running." Captured in detailed, dramatic artwork, the story of the doomed airship comes alive for readers and history buffs of all ages. Larry Verstraete's book, S is for Scientists: A Discovery Alphabet, was named a 2011 Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students by the National Science Teachers Association. He lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba. David Geister's work has been featured in The History Channel Magazine. His books include B is for Battle Cry: A Civil War Alphabet. He lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Author : Pamela E. Swett
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804788830

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Selling under the Swastika by Pamela E. Swett Pdf

Selling under the Swastika is the first in-depth study of commercial advertising in the Third Reich. While scholars have focused extensively on the political propaganda that infused daily life in Nazi Germany, they have paid little attention to the role played by commercial ads and sales culture in legitimizing and stabilizing the regime. Historian Pamela Swett explores the extent of the transformation of the German ads industry from the internationally infused republican era that preceded 1933 through the relative calm of the mid-1930s and into the war years. She argues that advertisements helped to normalize the concept of a "racial community," and that individual consumption played a larger role in the Nazi worldview than is often assumed. Furthermore, Selling under the Swastika demonstrates that commercial actors at all levels, from traveling sales representatives to company executives and ad designers, enjoyed relative independence as they sought to enhance their professional status and boost profits through the manipulation of National Socialist messages.

Author : Kevin E. Simpson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 1538138697

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Soccer Under the Swastika by Kevin E. Simpson Pdf

This book reveals the surprising role soccer played during World War II. It uncovers many survivor testimonies and old accounts of wartime players, revealing hidden stories of soccer in almost every Nazi concentration camp. To these prisoners, soccer was a glimmer of joy amid hunger and torture, and a show of resistance against the Nazi regime.

Author : Gesine Gerhard
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781442227255

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Nazi Hunger Politics by Gesine Gerhard Pdf

During World War II, millions of Soviet soldiers in German captivity died of hunger and starvation. Their fate was not the unexpected consequence of a war that took longer than anticipated. It was the calculated strategy of a small group of economic planners around Herbert Backe, the second Reich Minister for Food and Agriculture. The mass murder of Soviet soldiers and civilians by Nazi food policy has not yet received much attention, but this book is about to change that. Food played a central political role for the Nazi regime and served as the foundation of a racial ideology that justified the murder of millions of Jews, prisoners of war, and Slavs. This book is the first to vividly and comprehensively address the topic of food during the Third Reich. It examines the economics of food production and consumption in Nazi Germany, as well as its use as a justification for war and as a tool for genocide. Offering another perspective on the Nazi regime’s desire for domination, Gesine Gerhard sheds light on an often-overlooked part of their scheme and brings into focus the very important role food played in the course of the Second World War.

Author : Vladislav Zubok
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789633861301

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Totalitarian Societies and Democratic Transition by Vladislav Zubok Pdf

This book is a tribute to the memory of Victor Zaslavsky (1937?2009), sociologist, ‚migr‚ from the Soviet Union, Canadian citizen, public intellectual, and keen observer of Eastern Europe.In seventeen essaysleading European, American and Russian scholars discuss the theory and the history of totalitarian society with a comparative approach. They revisit and reassess what Zaslavsky considered the most important project in the latter part of his life: the analysis of Eastern European - especially Soviet societies and their difficult ?transition? after the fall of communism in 1989?91. The variety of the contributions reflects the diversity of specialists in the volume, but also reveals Zaslavsky?s gift: he surrounded himself with talented people from many different fields and disciplines. In line with Zaslavsky?s work and scholarly method, the book promotes new theoretical and methodological approaches to the concept of totalitarianism for understanding Soviet and East European societies, and the study of fascist and communist regimes in general. ÿ

Author : Susanne Heim,Carola Sachse,Mark Walker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521879064

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The Kaiser Wilhelm Society Under National Socialism by Susanne Heim,Carola Sachse,Mark Walker Pdf

This book examines the Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes under Hitler, illustrating the cooperation between scientists and National Socialists in service of autarky, racial hygiene, war, and genocide.

Author : Paul Lawrence Rose
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520927162

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Heisenberg and the Nazi Atomic Bomb Project, 1939-1945 by Paul Lawrence Rose Pdf

No one better represents the plight and the conduct of German intellectuals under Hitler than Werner Heisenberg, whose task it was to build an atomic bomb for Nazi Germany. The controversy surrounding Heisenberg still rages, because of the nature of his work and the regime for which it was undertaken. What precisely did Heisenberg know about the physics of the atomic bomb? How deep was his loyalty to the German government during the Third Reich? Assuming that he had been able to build a bomb, would he have been willing? These questions, the moral and the scientific, are answered by Paul Lawrence Rose with greater accuracy and breadth of documentation than any other historian has yet achieved. Digging deep into the archival record among formerly secret technical reports, Rose establishes that Heisenberg never overcame certain misconceptions about nuclear fission, and as a result the German leaders never pushed for atomic weapons. In fact, Heisenberg never had to face the moral problem of whether he should design a bomb for the Nazi regime. Only when he and his colleagues were interned in England and heard about Hiroshima did Heisenberg realize that his calculations were wrong. He began at once to construct an image of himself as a "pure" scientist who could have built a bomb but chose to work on reactor design instead. This was fiction, as Rose demonstrates: in reality, Heisenberg blindly supported and justified the cause of German victory. The question of why he did, and why he misrepresented himself afterwards, is answered through Rose's subtle analysis of German mentality and the scientists' problems of delusion and self-delusion. This fascinating study is a profound effort to understand one of the twentieth century's great enigmas.