Ergebnis für "Learn German" in Geschichte

For low - to high-intermediate learners. Improve your German and expand your vocabulary with topics that matter. When it comes to mastering a foreign language, listening around your interests makes all the difference. But finding audiobooks designed for language learners can be hard! This audiobook fixes that. For the first time, you’ll learn to improve your German while listening about the history of World War II.

Deutschland ist ein relativ junger Nationalstaat. Mit seiner Gründung im Jahr 1871 ist er sogar jünger als die Vereinigten Staaten. Die von Deutschen besiedelten Territorien verfügen jedoch über eine vielfältige Geschichte, die weit zurück in die Antike und Vorgeschichte reicht. Im Zentrum Europas gelegen, war Deutschland Zeuge jahrhundertelanger Konflikte, Einwanderung und Verhandlungen. Infolgedessen wandelte sich seine Gestalt, Größe und seine Ethnie über seine gesamte Geschichte hinweg.

For nearly a century, historians have depicted Germany as a rabidly nationalist land, born in a sea of aggression. Not so, says Helmut Walser Smith, who, in this groundbreaking 500-year history, challenges traditional perceptions of Germany's conflicted past, revealing a nation far more thematically complicated than 20th-century historians have imagined.

Here, from New York Times best-selling historian Francis Russell, is the dramatic story of Germany - from the rise of Charlemagne to the age of Martin Luther, from the 30 Years' War to the iron rule of Otto von Bismarck, and from the formation of the Weimar Republic to the fighting of two world wars.

In the wake of white nationalist attacks, the ongoing debate over reparations, and the controversy surrounding Confederate monuments and the contested memories they evoke, Susan Neiman's Learning from the Germans delivers an urgently needed perspective on how a country can come to terms with its historical wrongdoings. Neiman is a white woman who came of age in the civil rights-era South and a Jewish woman who has spent much of her adult life in Berlin.