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Summary of Laurence Rees's Auschwitz

Autor: Everest Media,

Número de Páginas: 54

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The story of the decision-making process that led to the extermination of more than a million people at Auschwitz is one of the most shocking in history. Without Höss’s leadership, the camp would never have functioned as it did. #2 The most urgent need for the Nazis was to understand why Germany had lost the war and made such a humiliating peace. They believed they had found the answer in the Jews. #3 After the first Nazi poster attack on the Jews, which claimed that their hatred was based on scientific fact, many Nazis began to claim that they hated the Jews because they lived in cities and not because they were Jewish. #4 The first prisoners who entered Dachau in 1933 were mostly political opponents of the Nazis. Jews were taunted, humiliated, and beaten in those early days, but it was the left-wing politicians of the former regime who were seen as the more immediate threat.

Auschwitz

Autor: Laurence Rees

Número de Páginas: 725

Hace sesenta años el mundo se horrorizó con el descubrimiento de la realidad de Auschwitz, el escenario de la mayor matanza de la historia humana: un millón cien mil seres humanos asesinados, incluidos más de doscientos mil niños. Pero, más allá de las imágenes y de los testimonios de las víctimas, la realidad de lo que Auschwitz fue y significó ha seguido escapando a nuestra percepción. Laurence Rees, que lleva quince años investigando el nazismo, no sólo ha utilizado la documentación aparecida en estos últimos años, sino que se ha valido de más de un centenar de entrevistas a supervivientes del campo y a sus verdugos nazis, que por primera vez hablan de sus experiencias, ahora que no arriesgan nada por dejar testimonio de lo que han vivido. Éste es el primer relato completo de la historia de Auschwitz, que se convirtió en un inmenso taller que trabajaba para la guerra, a la vez que en una fábrica de muerte, donde se acabó arrojando a los niños vivos a las hogueras, al no dar abasto las cámaras de gas. Un lugar singular, con funcionarios corruptos, con médicos sanguinarios como Mengele y hasta con un burdel para estimular a los prisioneros "muy...

El Holocausto

Autor: Laurence Rees

Número de Páginas: 814

Tras veinticinco años de investigaciones acerca de la Alemania nazi, con libros como Auschwitz, Laurence Rees culmina su obra con esta visión global, que Nikolaus Wachsmann, el autor de KL, califica como «una de las mejores síntesis de la historia del Holocausto». Este es un libro que se basa en la larga experiencia de trabajo de Rees: en sus visitas a los escenarios originales y en sus búsquedas en los archivos, pero sobre todo en las conversaciones con centenares de supervivientes de los campos de exterminio, recogidas en entrevistas filmadas, muchas de las cuales aparcen aquí por primera vez. Rees nos cuenta esta historia desde sus orígenes, desde que el odio antisemita de los nazis animó las primeras persecuciones, hasta el hundimiento del Reich, en un relato que cobra una fuerza y una emotividad especiales al llegarnos puntuado por las voces de las víctimas y de los verdugos.

Hitler y Stalin

Autor: Laurence Rees

Número de Páginas: 1892

Este libro sobre Hitler y Stalin –la culminación de treinta años de trabajo— examina a los dos líderes durante la segunda guerra mundial, cuando Alemania y la Unión Soviética libraron la mayor y más sangrienta guerra de la historia, y nos muestra que, aunque la creación del Holocausto por parte de Hitler sigue siendo un crimen incomparable, vistos con perspectiva ambos tenían en común que estaban preparados para crear un sufrimiento inimaginable para construir las utopías que querían. Utilizando testimonios inéditos y sorprendentes de soldados del Ejército Rojo y de la Wehrmacht, de civiles que sufrieron durante el conflicto y de personas que conocieron personalmente a ambos hombres, Laurence Rees –probablemente el historiador que ha conocido a más alemanes y rusos que trabajaron directamente para Hitler y Stalin— pone en tela de juicio ideas erróneas que durante mucho tiempo se han mantenido sobre dos de las figuras más importantes de la historia. Esta es una obra maestra de uno de nuestros mejores historiadores.

El holocausto asiático

Autor: Laurence Rees

Número de Páginas: 258

A puerta cerrada

Autor: Laurence Rees

Número de Páginas: 552

Deux minutes et quatorze secondes

Autor: Jean-benoît Clerc

Número de Páginas: 701

Eté 1941 sur une plage de la mer baltique. Le clair soleil, le sable, l’eau, le vent. Des gens se baignent et font des cabrioles dans l’eau, flirtent, jouent et badinent sur la plage. Quelques heures plus tard, au même endroit, dans des fosses creusées au pied d’anciennes fortifications russes en face de la mer, on amène d’autres gens pour y être fusillés. Les personnes qui se baignaient dans la mer et jouaient sur le sable peu avant assistent à la scène. Un sergent de la marine allemande, Reinhard Wiener, filme. Son très court métrage apparaît systématiquement dans les documentaires télévisuels d’histoire qui traitent de la destruction par fusillade des juifs d’URSS durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, où il est associé à des événements qui lui sont étrangers par la date et le lieu. Dans cet ouvrage, l’auteur examine le court-métrage de Reinhard Wiener, le seul film qui nous est parvenu, des exécutions par fusillades des Juifs. Les premières pages sont dévolues à une description du film comme objet matériel, ainsi qu’à l’analyse de ce qu’il montre. S’ensuit une présentation du contexte historique général, à savoir la destruction...

Los verdugos y las víctimas

Autor: Laurence Rees

Número de Páginas: 314

Durante veinte años Laurence Rees ha recorrido el mundo entero entrevistando a centenares de supervivientes de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, y ha recogido los testimonios y confesiones de violadores, asesinos en masa e incluso caníbales, a la vez que los de las víctimas que sobrevivieron, o los de quienes lucharon con valor y dignidad. Parte de estos materiales le sirvieron para construir libros tan espléndidos como Auschwitz, pero algunas de las historias más terribles, algunas de las páginas más negras, que no encajaban en ellos, le han seguido inquietando y las recupera hoy para enfrentarse al reto de explicar cómo fue posible que hubiera seres humanos capaces de cometer tales atrocidades. Estas treinta y cinco historias de hombres y mujeres de las más diversas nacionalidades y condiciones, que Ian Kershaw ha calificado como «soberbias, inquietantes y aterradoras», componen un libro del que Antony Beevor ha dicho que «representa una importante contribución a nuestra comprensión de la segunda guerra mundial».

Damnare silentium

Autor: Adrián Misichevici-carp , Tania Ayelén Sejudo Pérez

Número de Páginas: 334

Se trata de la historia real de una chica alemana durante los años 1938-1945 y las condiciones en las que tuvo que esconder sus verdaderos sentimientos hacia el régimen nazi, para emprender el viaje más difícil de su vida: la búsqueda de su novio judío, a quien, tras su arresto, se le perdió la pista. Pasando por algunos campos de concentración como guardia, vuelve a estar convencida de que los verdaderos valores humanos no pueden ser, de ninguna manera, los impuestos por la propaganda del régimen, que tienen como base el odio.

The Blaze of Obscurity

Autor: Clive James

Número de Páginas: 333

In the 1980s, Clive James found his way into full-time television. In The Blaze of Obscurity, his fifth book of memoir, he delivers the inside story. A hilarious, thoughtful, warts and all account of a life in the public eye. 'Clive James is an intellectual as well as a joker, a wise man as well as a wit' – Observer As his fame grew, Clive James was never alone – except in the toilet. But there, cubicle walls provided little protection against young men, standing at urinals, talking behind his back: Jesus, he's looking rough. And it's only Monday. Taking it in his stride and batting away accusations of selling out, Clive James was in television for the adventure. And an adventure it was. Rollicking through the end of one century and the beginning of the next, he interviews Hefner and Hepburn, Frank Sinatra and Françoise Sagan, Peter Ustinov ('even his nose could act') and Ronald Reagan. He explores the Las Vegas Grand Prix and the Louisville Kentucky Holiday Inn talent pageant, sends Postcards from Kenya, Shanghai, Tokyo and Dallas, interprets the news, discovers the first bizarre examples of what has come to be known as reality TV, and promotes the career of the...

Cartografías del mal

Autor: Camila De Gamboa , Cristina Sánchez

Número de Páginas: 280

Este libro es el resultado de cuatro años de investigación y reflexión colectivas de académicos y académicas de varios países: España, Colombia, Chile, Alemania y Argentina. El volumen se compone de diez artículos donde se analizan, desde diversas disciplinas, las múltiples formas del mal contemporáneo que afectan a nuestras instituciones sociales, políticas y jurídicas y se manifiestan en ellas, así como en las identidades de los ciudadanos en dichas sociedades. En todos los artículos encontramos un aporte que sitúa estas violencias siempre en un contexto desde el cual se construye un análisis crítico, que permita dar cuenta de las formas que han revestido estos males, de los esfuerzos institucionales y sociales para responder a ellos y de los trabajos que quedan pendientes a la hora de elaborar las memorias del mal. Con esta obra se pretende, en este sentido, cartografiar algunos de los males pasados y presentes, junto con sus múltiples variantes, y proponer un análisis transversal de los males contemporáneos en búsqueda del imperativo ético del "nunca más".

Grandes atrocidades de la Segunda Guerra Mundial

Autor: Jesús Hernández

Número de Páginas: 367

Cuando hablamos de atrocidades de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, acuden a nuestra cabeza los nombres de Auschwitz, Sobibor o Treblinka, en donde aquella conflagración que segó la vida de millones de personas inocentes se mostraría en todo su espeluznante horror. También provoca escalofríos conocer los detalles de lo ocurrido en Hiroshima o Nagasaki, cuando la humanidad se enfrentó por primera vez al apocalipsis atómico. Pero, desgraciadamente, son muchos más los nombres escritos con sangre en la historia del conflicto de 1939-1945... A través de estas páginas, el lector podrá conocer el sangriento prólogo que tuvo lugar en 1937 en la ciudad china de Nanking, como pavoroso adelanto de lo que estaba por llegar. También descubrirá tragedias como la deportación de miles civiles polacos a Siberia, o la brutal limpieza étnica que se desarrolló en la región de Volinia, hechos que suelen ser pasados por alto por los historiadores del conflicto.Por el contrario, a los campos de exterminio nazis se les ha dedicado una gran atención, pero no tanto a las sistemáticas matanzas cometidas por los Einsatzgruppen en el frente oriental. La más representativa, la perpetrada en el...

K.O. Auschwitz

Autor: José Ignacio Pérez

Número de Páginas: 335

La sobrecogedora historia real de los presos que tuvieron que boxear para sobrevivir en el infierno nazi. K.O. Auschwitz es un libro magistral, escrito por José Ignacio Pérez, periodista del diario Marca que fue galardonado por partida doble por el reportaje Los púgiles de Auschwitz, un texto publicado en 2019 en el diario deportivo del que nació este libro inolvidable. ** Premio online Journalism Awards en la categoría de deportes. ** Premio Nacional de periodismo deportivo Manuel Alcántara. En el mayor matadero de inocentes jamás conocido... Auschwitz. Cuentan que allí, al otro lado, detrás de la alambrada, justo ahí donde el hombre nunca fue hombre, sino bestia, una vez un nazi preguntó: ¿Quién sabe boxear? Unos dijeron que sí y otros dijeron que no; pero ya fuera sí o no... Allí no era vivir, sino morir. Cuentan que allí, donde el hombre por no tener no tenía ni nombre, sólo era número, triángulo o estrella y un color, un SS aburrido, cansado de matar, buscaba diversión; un rato de asueto para distraer el sopor de asesinar. Y entonces volvió a preguntar: ¿Quién sabe boxear? Y cuentan que allí, detrás de la alambrada, donde los presos no eran presos,...

La canción de Auschwitz

Autor: Francisco Javier Aspas

Número de Páginas: 288

Una estremecedora novela que revela la posibilidad del amor en el campo de concentración en el que se exterminaron cientos de miles de vidas y de sueños. Helena y su amiga Rivka, dos chicas judías de Eslovaquia, viajan hacinadas en un tren a una fábrica en Alemania junto a cientos de mujeres. Pronto descubrirán que su destino es, en realidad, una «fábrica» de eliminación de judíos. Una de las noches en el barracón, para tranquilizar a una de sus compañeras, Helena canta una «canción prohibida» que cambiará su destino. En un ambiente tan infernal, en el que parece que no hay lugar para el amor, un joven de las SS se enamora de una bonita voz. Basada en personajes reales y documentada de manera exhaustiva, La canción de Auschwitz muestra la cara más siniestra del ser humano y los sentimientos contradictorios de lealtad, compasión y culpa que afloran en situaciones extremas.

La reforma protestante desde el margen: A 500 años del evento banal que revolucionó la cultura de Occidente

Autor: Fabián Alejandro Campagne , Olivier Christin , Wim François , José Emilio Burucúa , Yann Lignereux , Santiago Francisco Peña , Carolina M. Losada , Constanza Cavallero , Fernando Bahr , Griselda Gaiada , Ismael Del Olmo

Número de Páginas: 223

La imagen de cubierta corresponde al frontispicio de un panfleto redactado por Johannes Cochlaeus: “Las siete cabezas de Martín Lutero”. Editado en latín y alemán en 1529, en Leipzig, Sieben Kopffe Martini Luthers o Luther septiceps intentaba contrarrestar las consecuencias de la polémica iniciada por Lutero en 1517. Una Reforma que comportaría la destrucción de un mundo. Este monstruo, que sugería asociar a Lutero con la bestia del apocalipsis, resume cómica y severamente el conjunto de objetivos que aborda este libro: entrever las raíces del movimiento reformado como reacción a una teología escolástica, a una eclesiología gregoriana y a prácticas monacales, evangélicas y rituales específicas; debatir sobre el hecho moderno de la implosión del cristianismo, sobre la inimaginable conversión de herejías en Iglesias y sobre la posible influencia de los idearios radicales tanto teológicos como políticos en nuestra cultura actual; atender a la expansión de la prédica protestante y católica −oral, escrita e iconográfica− hacia áreas geográficas cada vez más amplias, a la relación de las nacientes confesiones entre sí y a las diversas lecturas que...

Morir matando

Autor: Diego Navarro Bonilla

Número de Páginas: 479

Todas las guerras generan sus trincheras. La elección de una de ellas depende de lo cerca que se quiera estar de la muerte, de la gloria o de la ignominia. En mayo de 1939, milicianos anarquistas del Servicio de Información Especial Periférico se escaparon del campo de Albatera. Recorrieron 600 kilómetros para matar al cacique de su pueblo antes de emprender el exilio francés. Todo salió mal. Uno de ellos, enfrentado a la Guardia Civil, murió matando. Ese mismo mes de mayo, con la Guerra Civil finalizada, seguían llegando toneladas de documentos a Salamanca. Allí, desde otra trinchera, hecha de legajos, sacos de papeles, máquinas de escribir y turnos de trabajo sin cesar, se completó la mayor gesta organizativa con fines represivos nunca vista en la España contemporánea: la elaboración de casi dos millones de fichas personales con las que llevar a cabo la depuración del Nuevo Estado nacido de la victoria. En una época preinformática esta increíble planificación, ejecutada por un reducido grupo de hombres y mujeres, alumbró el mayor archivo de la historia de España con una implacable finalidad de control social. Este libro se adentra en aquellos dos hechos,...

The Life and Thought of Louis Lowy

Autor: Lorrie Gardella

Número de Páginas: 240

Louis Lowy (1920–1991), an international social worker and gerontologist, rarely spoke publicly about the Holocaust. During the last months of his life, however, he recorded an oral narrative that explores his activities during the Holocaust as the formative experiences of his career. Whether caring for youth in concentration camps, leading an escape from a death march, or forming the self-government of a Jewish displaced persons center, Lowy was guided by principles that would later inform his professional identity as a social worker, including the values of human worth and self-determination, the interdependence of generations, and the need for social participation and lifelong learning. Drawing on Lowy’s oral narrative and accounts from three other Holocaust survivors who witnessed his work in the Terezín ghetto and the Deggendorf Displaced Persons Center, Gardella offers a rich portrait of Lowy’s personal and professional legacy. In chronicling his life, Gardella also uncovers a larger story about Jewish history and the meaning of the Holocaust in the development of the social work profession.

18th and 19th Century Porcelain Analysis

Autor: Howell G. M. Edwards

Número de Páginas: 344

This book addresses the contributions made by analytical chemistry to the characterisation of 18th and early 19th Century English and Welsh porcelains commencing with the earliest reports of Sir Arthur Church and of Herbert Eccles and Bernard Rackham using chemical digestion techniques and concluding with the most recent instrumental experiments, which together span more than a hundred years of study. From the earliest experiments which required necessarily the sacrifice of significant portions of each specimen, which may already have been damaged , to the latest experiments which needed only microsampling or the non-destructive interrogation of valuable perfect specimens a comprehensive survey is undertaken of more than twenty manufactories of quality porcelains. The correlation is made between the quantitative elemental oxide determinations of the scanning electron microscopic diffraction and Xray fluorescence data and the qualitative molecular spectroscopic Raman data to demonstrate their complementarity and use in the holistic forensic assessment of the origin of the fired procelains ; this will form the groundwork for the adoption of analytical techniques for the attribution...

Historians

Autor: D. Snowman

Número de Páginas: 327

History in all its forms is more popular nowadays than ever. History programmes on television can attract audiences in the millions, as do top heritage sites, while growing numbers of people pursue family and local history and join historical re-enactment societies. A bestselling history book can nowadays outsell a popular novel, something almost unimaginable fifty years ago. Who are the men and women who have helped make the past of such absorbing interest to the present, and how have they done so? In his stimulating anthology of essays about the life and work of some of our leading historians, Daniel Snowman provides a vivid snapshot of history and historians in our new century. Included in Historians are: Jeremy Black, John Brewer, Asa Briggs, Peter Burke, David Cannadine, Linda Colley, Norman Davies, Natalie Zemon Davis, Christopher Dyer, Richard J. Evans, Niall Ferguson, Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Orlando Figes, Eric Foner, Roy Foster, Antonia Fraser, Eric Hobsbawm, Geoffrey Hosking, Lisa Jardine, John Keegan, Ian Kershaw, John Morrill, Laurence Rees, Lyndal Roper, Simon Schama, Peter Stansky, David Starkey, Theodore Zeldin.

World War II

Autor: Christopher Catherwood

Número de Páginas: 208

With over sixty million casualties World War II was the bloodiest conflict in history. In this incisive introduction, Christopher Catherwood covers all the key battles, while giving the wider story behind them. He also brings a fresh angle to the conflict, emphasising the huge impact of the preceding Sino-Japanese War on World War II and the relative unimportance of the British campaign in Africa. From the impact of the Hiroshima bombing to the horrors wreaked by the Red Army and the Nazis, Catherwood makes clear the legacy of the war today. Full of text-boxes revealing key details about intelligence, weaponry, and the social milieu of the conflict, there is no better brief introduction.

In the Shadow of the Holocaust

Autor: Michael Fleming

Número de Páginas: 319

In the midst of the Second World War, the Allies acknowledged Germany's ongoing programme of extermination. In the Shadow of the Holocaust examines the struggle to attain post-war justice and prosecution. Focusing on Poland's engagement with the United Nations War Crimes Commission, it analyses the different ways that the Polish Government in Exile (based in London from 1940) agitated for an Allied response to German atrocities. Michael Fleming shows that jurists associated with the Government in Exile made significant contributions to legal debates on war crimes and, along with others, paid attention to German crimes against Jews. By exploring the relationship between the UNWCC and the Polish War Crimes Office under the authority of the Polish Government in Exile and later, from the summer of 1945, the Polish Government in Warsaw, Fleming provides a new lens through which to examine the early stages of the Cold War.

Holocaust and the Moving Image

Autor: Toby Haggith , Joanna Newman

Número de Páginas: 354

Based on an event held at the Imperial War Museum in 2001, this book is a blend of voices and perspectives - archivists, curators, filmmakers, scholars, and Holocaust survivors. Each section examines films and how they have contributed to wider awareness and understanding of the Holocaust since the war.

A Poetics of Hiroshima & Other Poems

Autor: William Heyen

Número de Páginas: 104

William Heyen is one of America's most prolific and respected poets.

Hindu Rashtra

Autor: Ashutosh

Número de Páginas: 350

About the Book A SEARING EXAMINATION OF THE CHANGES THAT INDIA HAS UNDERGONE SINCE 2014 Riding the storied Modi wave, the BJP and its allies won the 2014 general elections to form the government at the centre. While the supporters of the new government may have hoped for economic reforms and accelerated development, the past four and a half years have only delivered incidents of hate attacks, mob violence and an increasingly hostile attitude towards religious minorities. With questionable decisions like demonetisation still fresh in the minds of people, how is the BJP gearing up for the 2019 general elections? As the Hindutva hardliners continue their clamour for a Hindu Rashtra, is the ideology strong enough to withstand the increasing unrest and discontent of the common Indian? In this astutely observed and expertly narrated account of India’s socio-political present, Ashutosh employs his experience as a journalist as well as a politician to give us an insider’s view of India’s changing political terrain. Relying on research, observations and personal experience, Hindu Rashtra takes a hard look at the political reality of India and what its future may hold. About the...

Scripting Genocide

Autor: Nicholas K. Johnson

Número de Páginas: 439

Scripting Genocide traces the history of how and why the Wannsee Conference has repeatedly attracted the attention of American, British, and German artists, writers, and filmmakers since 1960. Almost all of their televisual depictions of the conference itself are sparse, minimalist, dialogue-driven productions. Their subtle, almost scholarly projection of the conference stands in stark contrast to the large-scale and often critically acclaimed attention devoted to other aspects of the Holocaust in both big-budget theatrical films and European art cinema. Scripting Genocide investigates how the dramatic, fictionalized depictions of the Wannsee Conference offered filmmakers, and especially screenwriters, opportunities to be public historians. This book also contains the final interviews with screenwriters Paul Mommertz and Loring Mandel. Following the methods of the New Film History, which is grounded in archival production material, oral history interviews, and screenplay analysis, this book asks why and how filmmakers have grappled with portraying Wannsee in dramatic form since the 1960s. Each of these docudramas contributed to a diffuse body of work the author conceptualizes as...

Televising History

Autor: E. Bell , A. Gray

Número de Páginas: 278

This volume brings together scholars from across Europe to critically examine TV history programming in a period of political, economic and cultural change. They look at links between programming and national identity, consider the representation of minorities, and explore a range of televisual genres and techniques.

Sights, Sounds, and Sensibilities of Atrocity Prosecutions

Número de Páginas: 558

This book unlocks the look, sound, smell, taste, and feel of justice for massive human rights abuses. Twenty-nine expert authors examine the dynamics of the five human senses in how atrocity is perceived, remembered, and condemned. This book is chockful of images. It serves up remarkably diverse content. It treks around the globe: from Pacific war crimes trials in the aftermath of the Second World War to Holocaust proceedings in contemporary Germany, France, and Israel; from absurd show trials in Communist Czechoslovakia to international courtrooms in Arusha, Phnom Penh, and The Hague. Readers embark on a journey that transcends myriad dimensions, including photographic representations of grandfatherly old torturers in Argentina, narco-trafficking in Mexico, colonialisation in India, disinformation and misinformation pixelated in cyberspace, environmental degradation in Cambodia, militarism in Northern Ireland, and civil rights activism in Atlanta. Sights, Sounds, and Sensibilities of Atrocity Prosecutions reimagines what an atrocity means, reconsiders what drives the manufacture of law, and reboots the role of courtrooms and other mechanisms in the pursuit of justice. It unveils...

Forgotten Voices of The Holocaust

Autor: Lyn Smith

Número de Páginas: 372

Following the success of Forgotten Voices of the Great War, Lyn Smith visits the oral accounts preserved in the Imperial War Museum Sound Archive, to reveal the sheer complexity and horror of one of human history's darkest hours. The great majority of Holocaust survivors suffered considerable physical and psychological wounds, yet even in this dark time of human history, tales of faith, love and courage can be found. As well as revealing the story of the Holocaust as directly experienced by victims, these testimonies also illustrate how, even enduring the most harsh conditions, degrading treatment and suffering massive family losses, hope, the will to survive, and the human spirit still shine through.

Auschwitz

Autor: James Deem

Número de Páginas: 130

Yet, my little Diary, I don't want to die, I still want to live... Eva Heyman, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl, wrote these words in her last diary entry in the spring of 1944. Soon after, she was deported and murdered at Auschwitz. During the Holocaust, the Nazis murdered more than one million people at Auschwitz. The largest of all the Nazi camps, Auschwitz was both a death camp and a forced labor camp. Author James M. Deem examines this place of unspeakable horror from the perspective of those who experienced it, from the construction of the camp to its final days.

Who Betrayed the Jews?

Autor: Agnes Grunwald-spier

Número de Páginas: 1080

A groundbreaking account that examines the various ways Jews were betrayed by their fellow countrymen during the Holocaust.

Holocaust Consciousness in Contemporary Britain

Autor: Andy Pearce

Número de Páginas: 334

The Holocaust is a pervasive presence in British culture and society. Schools have been legally required to deliver Holocaust education, the government helps to fund student visits to Auschwitz, the Imperial War Museum's permanent Holocaust Exhibition has attracted millions of visitors, and Britain has an annually commemorated Holocaust Memorial Day. What has prompted this development, how has it unfolded, and why has it happened now? How does it relate to Britain's post-war history, its contemporary concerns, and the wider "globalisation" of Holocaust memory? What are the multiple shapes that British Holocaust consciousness assumes and the consequences of their rapid emergence? Why have the so-called "lessons" of the Holocaust enjoyed such popularity in Britain? Through analysis of changing engagements with the Holocaust in political, cultural and memorial landscapes over the past generation, this book addresses these questions, demonstrating the complexities of Holocaust consciousness and reflecting on the contrasting ways that history is used in Britain today.

OCR GCSE History SHP: Living under Nazi Rule 1933-1945

Autor: Richard Kennett

Número de Páginas: 260

Exam board: OCR (Specification B, SHP) Level: GCSE (9-1) Subject: History First teaching: September 2016 First exams: Summer 2018 An OCR endorsed textbook Let SHP successfully steer you through the OCR B specification with an exciting, enquiry-based series, combining best practice teaching methods and worthwhile tasks to develop students' historical knowledge and skills. The engaging, accessible text covers the content you need for teacher-led lessons and independent study Step-by-step enquiries inspired by best practice in KS3 help to simplify lesson planning and ensure continuous progression within and across units The scaffolded three-part task structure enables students to record, reflect on and review their learning Suitably challenging tasks encourage high achievers to excel at GCSE while clear explanations make key concepts accessible to all A range of purposeful, intriguing visual and written source material is embedded at the heart of each investigation to enhance understanding Memorable case studies, diagrams, infographics and contemporary photos bring fascinating events and people to life

From Benito Mussolini to Hugo Chavez

Autor: Paul Hollander

Número de Páginas: 339

During the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, political dictators were not only popular in their own countries, but were also admired by numerous highly educated and idealistic Western intellectuals. The objects of this political hero-worship included Benito Mussolini, Adolph Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Fidel Castro and more recently Hugo Chavez, among others. This book seeks to understand the sources of these misjudgements and misperceptions, the specific appeals of particular dictators, and the part played by their charisma, or pseudo-charisma. It sheds new light not only on the political disposition of numerous Western intellectuals - such as Martin Heidegger, Eric Hobsbawm, Norman Mailer, Ezra Pound, Susan Sontag and George Bernard Shaw - but also on the personality of those political leaders who encouraged, and in some instances helped to design, the cult surrounding their rise to dictatorship.

Hitler

Autor: Michael Lynch

Número de Páginas: 322

Adolf Hitler is the most notorious political figure of the twentieth century. The story of his life, how he became a dictator, and how he managed to convince so many to follow his cause is a subject of perennial fascination. Balancing narrative and analysis, this biography employs a chronological approach to describe the main features of Hitler’s career. Set against the background of developments in Germany and Europe during his lifetime, the text tells the extraordinary story of how an Austrian layabout rose to become Führer of the Third Reich. This second edition has been fully updated to incorporate the research and literature from the last ten years, including several major studies by British and German scholars that have added to our understanding of Hitler and the Third Reich. New light has been shed on the character of National Socialism and on Hitler as a person and a political figure. Fresh insights have been made into the Hitler cult and into the charismatic nature of Hitler’s rule over Germany. Modern historians continue to wrestle with questions that still demand an answer – why did the nation that had made a unique contribution to European culture willingly...

Hitler's Brothel

Autor: Steve Matthews

Número de Páginas: 438

Two sisters are brutally separated by war in tragic circumstances. Ania is imprisoned and forced to endure the atrocities of a Nazi concentration camp. Danuta’s search for her sister leads her into the dangers of the Polish Underground. Each will do what they must to survive long enough to find each other. Their dream of being reunited is crushed in shocking circumstances.In an astonishing twist of fate, the opportunity for revenge presents itself 60 years later. But faced with the ultimate decision what will be the outcome ... seek justice or revenge? Spanning decades, Hitler’s Brothel is a tragic and gripping tale of deception, courage and survival.

Leadership in War

Autor: Andrew Roberts

Número de Páginas: 191

'Wonderful ... among military historians, Roberts is Britain's crown gem' Wall Street Journal Taking us from the French Revolution to the Cold War and the Falklands, celebrated historian Andrew Roberts presents us with a bracingly honest and insightful look at nine major figures in modern history: Napoleon Bonaparte, Horatio Nelson, Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, George C. Marshall, Charles de Gaulle, Dwight D. Eisenhower and Margaret Thatcher. Each of these leaders fundamentally shaped the outcome of the war their nation was embroiled in. How were they alike, and in what ways did they differ? Was their war leadership unique, or did these leaders have something in common, traits and techniques that transcend time and place and can be applied to the fundamental nature of conflict? Meticulously researched and compellingly written, Leadership in War presents readers with fresh, complex portraits of leaders who approached war with different tactics and different weapons, but with the common goal of success in the face of battle. Both inspiring and cautionary, these portraits offer important lessons on leadership in times of struggle. With his trademark verve and...

The Katyn Massacre 1940

Autor: Thomas Urban

Número de Páginas: 298

In the spring of 1940, Stalin‘s NKVD executed 22,000 Polish officers, ensigns and state officials near the Russian village of Katyn and other places. When Wehrmacht soldiers discovered some of the graves three years later, the Soviets succeeded in convincing US President Roosevelt of the German perpetration. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill had no clear picture of the crime, and therefore made no public comments. Using thousands of recently released US documents, this book refutes the popular thesis that the Western Allies deliberately lied about the Katyn case in order not to endanger the alliance with Stalin. As well as consulting Polish and Russian documentation on this war crime, for the first time, the diaries of the Nazi Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels, who wrote a great deal about Katyn, have been examined. Completely new for research is the role that Hitler's opponents in the Wehrmacht played in solving the crime: at the Nuremberg trial they convinced the US delegation that the executors were not from the SS, but from the NKVD. Nevertheless, it took until 1990 for Kremlin chief Gorbachev to admit Soviet responsibility. Today in Putin's Russia, however,...

The Other Side of Truth

Autor: Paul Kimball

Número de Páginas: 248

In The Other Side of Truth, filmmaker Paul Kimball crosses the Rubicon of the imagination to explore the idea that what we call the 'paranormal' is actually a form of artistic expression created by an advanced non-human intelligence to inspire us to think about who we are, where we have been, and where we are going. Using his own journey of discovery as the starting point, Kimball presents the 'other side of truth' - the world not as we have been told it is, but as we are being encouraged to imagine that it could become.

The Fall of Western Civilization

Autor: Shivaji Lokam

Número de Páginas: 285

Can Western civilization stop its decline? The West gave the World the light bulb, the internal combustion engine and much more that vastly improved the life on earth. But lately, the West is tired, hopeless, and dying. Author Shivaji Lokam says Western countries have been in a self-destruction mode for the past hundred years: first the two World Wars, then the Cold War, now the Experts-driven utopian pursuit of Open Borders and Multiculturalism. The unaccountable experts have been wrong more times than anybody can count. They were wrong on financial crisis, bailouts, stagnant wages, higher taxes, brexit, trump, global trade deals. The experts failed because they were part of the problem. This incredible book tells the story of why they get it wrong every time and their pivotal role in causing the irreversible Western decline. In The fall of Western Civilization you will learn: • How Classical Liberalism caused World Wars, Great Depression, Socialism, Fascism, Cold War, and Decolonization • Why Modern Liberalism wants nothing short of the full destruction of the West and its values • Why the West is becoming less free • How America and Europe’s destruction were long sown ...