The Most Valuable Asset Of The Reich

Author : Alfred C. Mierzejewski
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2003-06-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807860885

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The Most Valuable Asset of the Reich by Alfred C. Mierzejewski Pdf

The largest enterprise in the capitalist world between 1920 and 1945, the Deutsche Reichsbahn (German National Railway) was at the center of events in a period of great turmoil in Germany. In this, the second volume of his comprehensive history of the Reichsbahn, Alfred Mierzejewski offers the first complete account of the national railway under Hitler's regime. Mierzejewski uses sources that include Nazi Party membership records and Reichsbahn internal memoranda to explore the railway's operations, finances, and political and social roles from 1933 to 1945. He examines the Reichsbahn's role in German rearmament, its own lack of preparations for war, and its participation in Germany's military operations. He shows that despite successfully resisting Nazi efforts to politicize its internal functions, the Reichsbahn cooperated with the government's anti-Semitic policies. Indeed, the railway played a crucial role in the Holocaust by supporting the construction and operation of the Nazi death camps and by transporting Jews and other victims to them.

Author : Alfred C. Mierzejewski
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469620206

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The Most Valuable Asset of the Reich by Alfred C. Mierzejewski Pdf

The largest enterprise in the capitalist world between 1920 and 1932, the Deutsche Reichsbahn (German National Railway) was at the center of events in a period of great turmoil in Germany. In the first detailed history of this important organization, Alfred Mierzejewski presents a sophisticated analysis of the Reichsbahn's operations, finances, and political and social roles. In addition, he uses the story of the Reichsbahn to gain new perspectives on modern German economic and political history. Mierzejewski describes and analyzes the beginnings of the national railway in Germany and the problems that it faced. He examines the Reichsbahn's noncapitalistic, "commonweal" approach to economic management and shows how the railway was used to hold Germany together, especially in the face of Bavarian particularism. Mierzejewski's account also provides unparalleled insight into Germany's reparations policies, demonstrating that Germany was fully capable of paying the Dawes annuities and that the government's claims that reparations paid by the Reichsbahn hurt both the railway and Germany were groundless. A second volume will cover the period from 1933 to 1945.

Author : Alfred C. Mierzejewski
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0807825743

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The Most Valuable Asset of the Reich: 1933-1945 by Alfred C. Mierzejewski Pdf

The largest enterprise in the capitalist world between 1920 and 1945, the Deutsche Reichsbahn (German National Railway) was at the center of events in a period of great turmoil in Germany. In this, the second volume of his comprehensive history of the Rei

Author : Alfred C. Mierzejewski
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Railroads and state
ISBN : 0807824968

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The most valuable asset of the Reich. 1. 1920 - 1932 by Alfred C. Mierzejewski Pdf

Most Valuable Asset of the Reich: A History of the German National Railway Volume 1, 1920-1932

Author : Alfred C. Mierzejewski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:247129711

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1920-1932 by Alfred C. Mierzejewski Pdf

Author : Alfred C. Mierzejewski
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Railroads and state
ISBN : STANFORD:36105028566417

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The Most Valuable Asset of the Reich: 1920-1932 by Alfred C. Mierzejewski Pdf

Author : Alfred C. Mierzejewski
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Railroads and state
ISBN : UOM:39015048528536

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The Most Valuable Asset of the Reich: 1920-1932 by Alfred C. Mierzejewski Pdf

Author : Irene Anastasiadou
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789052603926

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Constructing Iron Europe by Irene Anastasiadou Pdf

Conventional histories portray the development of railway infrastructures as a tool to build empires and nation states. Recent scholarship however, has stressed the importance of a transnational perspective beyond an exclusive focus on the nation state. The new perspective enriches both the history of modern Europe and European integration. Constructing Iron Europe demonstrates how during the interwar years key players saw railroads as instruments for building a transnational European community. Based on new archival research, Anastasiadou not only sheds light on patterns of internationalization of railways, but also explores the co-construction of the national and the European in the case of the Greek railways in the Interbellum period. Foundation for the History of Technology & Amsterdam University Press Technology and European History Series (TEHS)

Author : Raul Hilberg,Christopher Browning,Peter Hayes
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789202779

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German Railroads, Jewish Souls by Raul Hilberg,Christopher Browning,Peter Hayes Pdf

A rich and accessible introduction to the role of the German railway system in the Holocaust, a topic that remains understudied even today. Renowned Holocaust scholar Raul Hilberg considered the German railway system that delivered European Jews to ghettos and death camps in Eastern Europe to be not only an essential component of the “machinery of destruction” but also emblematic of the amoral bureaucracy that helped to implement the Jewish genocide. German Railroads, Jewish Souls centers around Hilberg’s seminal essay of the same name, a landmark study of German railways in the Nazi era long unavailable in English. Supplemented with additional writings from Hilberg, primary source materials, and historical commentary from leading scholars Christopher Browning and Peter Hayes. “This important book unites three prominent scholars tackling crucial questions about German railways and the Holocaust. Two essays from the late, renowned Raul Hilberg investigate their overlooked role in the extermination of the European Jews. They provide groundbreaking investigations into the German railway as the prototype of a bureaucracy and challenge its supposed banality. While Christopher Browning eloquently situates Hilberg’s essays within the historical literature, Peter Hayes makes a detailed critique of the common but false belief that the deportation and annihilation of the Jews were more of a priority for the Nazis than the war effort. This question, arising from Hilberg’s essays, demonstrates the continued significance of his work today.”—Wolf Gruner, author, The Holocaust in Bohemia and Moravia: Czech Initiatives, German Policies, Jewish Responses Published in Association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Author : Michael Truscello
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780262358729

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Infrastructural Brutalism by Michael Truscello Pdf

How "drowned town" literature, road movies, energy landscape photography, and "death train" narratives represent the brutality of industrial infrastructures. In this book, Michael Truscello looks at the industrial infrastructure not as an invisible system of connectivity and mobility that keeps capitalism humming in the background but as a manufactured miasma of despair, toxicity, and death. Truscello terms this "infrastructural brutalism"--a formulation that not only alludes to the historical nexus of infrastructure and the concrete aesthetic of Brutalist architecture but also describes the ecological, political, and psychological brutality of industrial infrastructures.

Author : Simone Gigliotti
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781845459277

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The Train Journey by Simone Gigliotti Pdf

Deportations by train were critical in the Nazis’ genocidal vision of the “Final Solution of the Jewish Question.” Historians have estimated that between 1941 and 1944 up to three million Jews were transported to their deaths in concentration and extermination camps. In his writings on the “Final Solution,” Raul Hilberg pondered the role of trains: “How can railways be regarded as anything more than physical equipment that was used, when the time came, to transport the Jews from various cities to shooting grounds and gas chambers in Eastern Europe?” This book explores the question by analyzing the victims’ experiences at each stage of forced relocation: the round-ups and departures from the ghettos, the captivity in trains, and finally, the arrival at the camps. Utilizing a variety of published memoirs and unpublished testimonies, the book argues that victims experienced the train journeys as mobile chambers, comparable in importance to the more studied, fixed locations of persecution, such as ghettos and camps.

Author : Gregory Liedtke
Publisher : Helion and Company
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781911096870

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Enduring the Whirlwind by Gregory Liedtke Pdf

This work seeks to address the notion of German numerical-weakness in terms of Germany's ability to replace its losses and regenerate its military strength, and assess just how accurate this argument was during the crucial first half of the Russo-German War (June 1941-June 1943).

Author : Mary Kathryn Barbier
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2005-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781461750840

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D-Day Deception by Mary Kathryn Barbier Pdf

Before landing in France on D-Day, June 6, 1944, the Allies executed an elaborate deception plan designed to prevent the Germans from concentrating forces in Normandy. The lesser-known first part, Fortitude North, suggested a threat to Norway. The more famous Fortitude South indicated that the invasion would occur at the Pas de Calais rather than Normandy, largely by creating a fictitious army group under Gen. George S. Patton. While historians have generally praised Operation Fortitude, Barbier takes a more nuanced view, arguing that the deception, while implemented well, affected the invasion's outcome only minimally. A much-needed reassessment of the deception operation that preceded the Allied invasion of Europe in World War II Involves double agents, fake equipment, phantom units, and famous commanders

Author : Sarah Federman
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299331702

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Last Train to Auschwitz by Sarah Federman Pdf

During World War II, the French National Railways Corporation (SNCF) deported 75,000 people to Nazi death camps. Last Train to Auschwitz delves into the many roles of the French railways during the Holocaust. Poignant stories of survivors mixed with contemporary legal debates illuminate a company's amends for human rights violations.

Author : Jan Musekamp
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2024-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253068941

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Shifting Lines, Entangled Borderlands by Jan Musekamp Pdf

Tracing multiple mobilities, entangled borderlands, microhistory and space, and human and nonhuman actors, Jan Musekamp demonstrates how an inner-Prussian railroad line turned into a transnational force, overcoming borders and connecting Europeans in a time of rising nationalism. Shifting Lines, Entangled Borderlands investigates the dichotomy between a globalizing world and tighter border control in nineteenth-century Central and Eastern Europe, focusing on the Royal Prussian Eastern Railroad (Ostbahn) between the 1830s and 1930s. The line was initially planned as a major internal modernizing project to connect Prussia's capital of Berlin to East Prussia's provincial capital of Königsberg (today's Kaliningrad). Soon, the Ostbahn connected to the growing Imperial Russian railroad network, thus becoming a backbone of European East–West transportation in trade, tourism, technological exchange, and migration. The First World War temporarily disrupted and reconfigured existing networks, adapting them to new political regimes and borders. However, World War II and its aftermath altered mobility patterns more permanently, dividing not only the Ostbahn tracks but the whole continent for decades to come. From border towns and major cities to unique structures, such as stations or bridges, this volume analyzes the obvious and not-so-obvious nodes of the Central and Eastern European rail network—and the spaces in between.