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'Roland's compelling account is highly readable.'
Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, Professor of History, University of Exeter
'No one can deny Paul Roland is a complete master of his subject.'
Colin Wilson, author of A Criminal History of Mankind
Anyone wishing to understand the nature of evil can do no better than look within the pages of this book. When Hitler's 'thousand-year Reich' collapsed after twelve
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For decades, history ignored the Nazi persecution of gay people. Only with the rise of the gay movement in the 1970s did historians finally recognize that gay people, like Jews and others deemed "undesirable," suffered enormously at the hands of the Nazi regime. Of the few who survived the concentration camps, even fewer ever came forward to tell their stories. This heart wrenchingly vivid account of one man's arrest and imprisonment by the Nazis...
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Mein Kampf ("My Struggle") is a political manifesto written by Adolf Hitler. It was his only complete book and became the bible of National Socialism in the German Third Reich. It was published in two volumes, which dated 1925 and 1927. By 1939 it had sold 5,200,000 copies and had been translated into 11 different languages. The first volume, entitled Die Abrechnung ("The Settlement of Accounts," or "Revenge"), was written in 1924 in the Bavarian...
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In Imagining a Greater Germany, Erin R. Hochman offers a fresh approach to the questions of state- and nation-building in interwar Central Europe. Ever since Hitler annexed his native Austria to Germany in 1938, the term "Anschluss" has been linked to Nazi expansionism. The legacy of Nazism has cast a long shadow not only over the idea of the union of German-speaking lands but also over German nationalism in general. Due to the horrors unleashed by...
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A thrilling day-by-day account of the final months of the Weimar Republic, documenting the collapse of democracy in Germany and Hitler's frightening rise to power.
November 1932. With the German economy in ruins and street battles raging between rival political parties, the Weimar Republic is on its last legs. In the halls of the Reichstag, party leaders scramble for power and influence as the elderly president, Paul von Hindenburg, presides over...
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A comprehensive study of the lesser-known organizations that formed the heart of the Nazi police state in World War II Germany.
The abbreviation "Nazi," the acronym "Gestapo," and the initials "SS" have become resonant elements of our vocabulary. Less known is "SD," and hardly anyone recognizes the combination "Sipo and SD." Although Sipo and SD formed the heart of the National Socialist police state, the phrase carries none of the ominous impact...
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Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre la vida de Adolf Hitler, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.
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• Profundizar en la biografía de Adolf Hitler y el contexto en el que vivió, además de entender cómo forjó su carácter y su ideología nazi
• Descubrir la influencia que Hitler ejerció en la esfera política alemana, fundando el NSDAP...
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Découvrez enfin tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur Adolf Hitler en moins d'une heure !
Artiste raté, ancien clochard et survivant des tranchées, Adolf Hitler est devenu le tyran le plus terrible que l'Europe ait connu, alors même que rien ne le laissait présager... Né en Autriche, il connaît une jeunesse faite de frustrations et d'échecs. La Première Guerre mondiale lui donne une cause à défendre, et c'est à corps perdu qu'il se dévoue à...
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Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the life of Adolf Hitler in next to no time with this concise guide.
50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of Adolf Hitler. Adolf Hitler's name will never be forgotten and his atrocious acts are still remembered to this day. He led the most shocking crimes against humanity in modern history which saw millions of people, particularly Jews, killed. But when Hitler was a child, there...
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The Nazis believed their mission was to 'masculinize' life in Germany. Hermann Goering told women, 'Take a pot, a dustpan and a broom, and marry a man,' but many still became active participants in murder and mayhem.
From the Reich Bride Schools through the Bund Deutscher Mädel and the bizarre Lebensborn Aryan breeding programme to the brothels of the Sicherheitsdienst, this book covers the lives of women in the Third Reich, concentrating on those...
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This is a classic story, masterfully told, in a new, revised and expanded edition about how one graphic symbol can endure and influence life-for good and evil-for generations and never, even today, be redeemed. A nuanced examination of the most powerful symbol ever created, The Swastika and Symbols of Hate explores the rise and fall of the symbol, its mysteries, co-option, and misunderstandings. Readers will be fascinated by the twists and turns of...
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The women of the Third Reich were a vital part in a complex and vilified system. What was their role within its administration, the concentration camps, and the Luftwaffe and militia units and how did it evolve in the way it did?
We hear from women who issued typewritten dictates from above through to those who operated telephones, radar systems, fought fires as the cities burned around them, drove concentration camp inmates to their deaths like...
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The Austromarxist era of the 1920s was a unique chapter in socialist history. Trying to carve out a road between reformism and Bolshevism, the Austromarxists embarked on an ambitious journey towards a socialist oasis in the midst of capitalism. Their showpiece, the legendary "Red Vienna," has worked as a model for socialist urban planning ever since.
At the heart of the Austromarxist experiment was the conviction that a socialist revolution had to...
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An acclaimed historian of twentieth century Germany provides a vivid account of Hitler's rise to power and its intimate connection to the Bavarian capital.
The immediate aftermath of the Great War and the Versailles Treaty created a perfect storm of economic, social, political and cultural factors which facilitated the rapid rise of Adolf Hitler's political career and the birth of the National Socialist German Worker's Party. The breeding ground...
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