Ergebnis für "hitler" in Kunst & Literatur

Sir Winston Churchill (1874 – 1965), Sohn einer alten englischen Adelsfamilie, britischer Premier und Nobelpreisträger für Literatur, hat schon viele Historiker beschäftigt. Churchill, der sich bereits in den dreißiger Jahren zur stärksten politischen Persönlichkeit Englands entwickelte, wurde im Zweiten Weltkrieg eine Art lebendiges Symbol des nationalen Widerstands und einer der großen Heroen der Anti-Hitler-Koalition. Seit 1946 gab er dank seines internationalen Ansehens wichtige Impulse zur Schaffung des Nordatlantik-Paktes und zur wirtschaftlichen und politischen Einigung Europas.

Wer Thomas Mann nur als Namen im Kanon kennt, hat erst die Oberfläche berührt. Dieses Hörbuch führt Sie mitten hinein in das Leben und Denken eines Meisters der Gesellschaftsromane und zeigt, warum seine Literatur bis heute modern wirkt, weil sie Menschen, Milieus und Moral mit präziser Sprache und großer Spannung sichtbar machte. Sie entdecken einen Autor, der bürgerliche Fassaden scharf beleuchtete und zugleich die Sehnsucht nach Freiheit, Kunst und Selbstbestimmung ernst nahm.

Brought to you by Penguin. 'Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it'. Thus wrote Orwell following his experiences as a militiaman in the Spanish Civil War...

For fans of unheralded women’s stories, a captivating look at Sigrid Schultz—one of the earliest reporters to warn Americans of the rising threat of the Nazi regime “No other American correspondent in Berlin knew so much of what was going on behind the scene as did Sigrid Schultz.” —...

The "endlessly compelling" (NYT Book Review) untold story of a trailblazing Paris correspondent for The New Yorker, who sounded the alarm about the rise of fascism in Europe while becoming enmeshed in the sensational case of a German serial killer stalking the streets of the French capital on...

Brought to you by Penguin. George Orwell's vivid memoir of his time living among the desperately poor and destitute, Down and Out in Paris and London is a moving tour of the underworld of society. 'You have talked so often of going to the dogs - and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached...

A riveting story of how dueling ambitions and the power of prodigy made America the cultural center of the world—and Picasso the most famous artist alive—in the shadow of World War II “[Eakin] has mastered this material. . . . The book soars.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’...

Warning: This book makes jokes about the Third Reich, the Reign of Terror, World War I, cancer, Millard Fillmore, and Chernobyl. When advertising legend Jim Riswold is stricken with leukemia and prostate cancer, he quits the business that made him famous to become a "fake artist", creating a controversial body of work with a controversial cast of characters, from Hitler to Mao to Kim Jong-Il. It was a decision that would save his life.

Walter Frentz var en af Hitlers topfotografer, og han kommer til Danmark sommeren 1943 efter ordre fra Føreren. Hans opgave er at dokumentere, hvor langt tyskerne er nået med den såkaldte Atlantvold langs den jyske vestkyst. Men i takt med, at Walter Frentz rejser rundt i et postkortskønt Danmark, bliver Atlantvolden mindre vigtig. For fotografen havner i en af de mest skelsættende måneder i den danske besættelseshistorie.

Uma história emocionante que se passa durante os anos da Segunda Guerra, em Berlim. De dia, a jornalista alemã Ruth trabalhava para a revista feminina Die junge Dame (A jovem senhora) e, à noite, salvava desconhecidos, amigos e conhecidos judeus, abrigando-os em sua casa. Pessoas como Ruth arriscaram suas vidas fazendo uso da coragem civil para salvar cinco mil pessoas na Alemanha. Em Berlim, 1.700 conseguiram sobreviver com a ajuda de corajosos civis.

‘Effervescent’ New Yorker Best Books Of 2022 So Far ‘Bursts with colour and incident’ FT Best Books of Summer Read this prize-winning historian’s “immersive” ( New York Times) account of the famous writers who, in the run-up to World War II, took on dictators and rewrote the rules...

As World War II approached, the six most powerful media moguls in America and Britain tried to pressure their countries to ignore the fascist threat. The media empires of Robert McCormick, Joseph and Eleanor Patterson, and William Randolph Hearst spanned the United States, reaching tens of millions of Americans in print and over the airwaves with their isolationist views.

A stirring true story of the journalists who dared to oppose Hitler - and the campaign waged against them. After serving in the First World War, Adolf Hitler encountered a serious obstacle to his plotting for power when the Munich Post, drawing on sources within the Nazi Party, began tracking the corruption and dark dreams of his inner circle. With leaked documents from Hitler's political rivals, who were shocked by his violent rhetoric and fearing the worst, the Post battled Hitler for ownership of the truth.  

A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR From one of our greatest living writers, comes a remarkable memoir of a forgotten England. 'The war went. We sang in the playground, "Bikini lagoon, an atom bomb’s boom, and two big explosions." David’s father came back from Burma and didn’t eat rice...

Albert Speer fu l'architetto di Hitler. Venne accusato per la deportazione e lo sfruttamento dei civili europei. Nominato da Hitler nel febbraio del 1942 ministro degli Armamenti, si servì dei prigionieri di guerra anche nell'industria bellica. Ascoltato a Norimberga nell'udienza del 19 giugno 1946, riconobbe tuttavia che Hitler aveva tradito il popolo tedesco "gettandolo nell'abisso". Questo ritratto ripercorrerà la vita del genio dell'estetica del terzo Reich. Luigi Romolo Carrino (napoletano, classe 1968) nel suo percorso letterario ha affrontato tematiche sociali di vario tipo.