Richard von Weizsucker is best remembered as the West German president who in 1985 delivered the "most moving political and personal speech of [his] Presidency," reminding the G...
In 1914, Hitler crossed the border to Germany and joined the 16th Bavarian Reserve Infantry Regiment. He fought on the Western Front and was awarded the Iron Cross for his bravery in battle. In 1918 he was temporarily blinded from a gas attack and was invalided out of the war. Hitler was...
This book draws on the extraordinary memoirs, diaries, interviews, and letters of Jewish women and men to give us the first intimate portrait of Jewish life in Nazi Germany. The book tells the story of Jews in Germany not from the hindsight of the Holocaust, nor from the vantage of the ...
The Hitler Myth Historic attachments to heroic leadership combined with a mastery of propaganda techniques to mesmerise Germany into acceptance of the charismatic authority offered by the Nazi 'Fuhrer'. For almost a decade after 1933, Hitler enjoyed a r... I Kershaw 被引量: 12发表: 1985年 To...
There was a movement in German art to portray the everyday Germans, rather than just the aristocrats and their activities, which was especially popular under National Socialism. Gallery viaNS Europa. Julius Engelhard (1883–1964) – Mädchen mit Hunden (1943) Girl with Dogs (1943) ...
of Spanish territorial waters for his submarines to be sheltered and supplied. Second, it guaranteed Hitler a privileged supply of all primary sources essential to his war industries and allowed Spain to continue to import some US petroleum which Germany would otherwise have to supply.3Under non-...
Since our lists were of low-propensity voters, I also guessed when I did find people home I’d encounter large gaps where political knowledge should be. This too proved true. My personal goal was modest: stop 2024 in the United States from becoming 1933 in Germany (see my earlier Jumping...
At first blush, the premise of Jojo Rabbit sounds so absurd it comes across as an off-color fever dream: A young boy named Jojo (Roman Griffin Davis) growing up in Nazi Germany creates an imaginary friend named Adolf (Taika Waititi), based on the mass-murdering dictator, in the waning...
“No class or group or party in Germany could escape its share of responsibility for the abandonment of the democratic Republic and the advent of Adolf Hitler. The cardinal error of the Germans who opposed Nazism was their failure to unite against it.” ...
“were the people who wanted the best for Germany and who did something about it.” As a member of the Hitler Youth he took part in the burning of books written by “Jews or others who were degenerate.” And he believed that, by doing so, he was helping rid Germany of an ...