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The secrets of Queen Victoria's sixth child, Princess Louise, may be destined to remain hidden forever. What was so dangerous about this artistic, tempestuous royal that her life has been documented more by rumor and gossip than hard facts? When Lucinda Hawksley started to investigate, often thwarted by inexplicable secrecy, she discovered a fascinating woman, modern before her time, whose story has been shielded for years from public view.

The massive armies of the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies posed a huge threat to the nations of Western Europe. US military planners decided they needed a plan to slow the juggernaut they expected when and if a war began. The plan was Special Forces Berlin. Their mission, should hostilities commence, was to wreak havoc behind enemy lines and buy time for vastly outnumbered NATO forces to conduct a breakout from the city.

This book is the culmination of more than three decades of meticulous historiographic research on Nazi Germany by one of the period’s most distinguished historians. The volume brings together the most important and influential aspects of Ian Kershaw’s research on the Holocaust for the first time. The writings are arranged in three sections - Hitler and the Final Solution, popular opinion and the Jews in Nazi Germany, and the Final Solution in historiography - and Kershaw provides an introduction and a closing section on the uniqueness of Nazism.

What would life be like for a Black boy growing up in Nazi Germany? This unprecedented autobiography answers that question with the spellbinding true story of Hans J. Massaquoi’s life in Hamburg during the height of Hitler’s regime. Hans is the son of a Black Liberian diplomat father and a white German mother. His father returns to Africa at the beginning of the war, leaving them behind in poverty without the means to flee. Within this tense atmosphere, increasingly violent Nazi policies and Allied bombing raids make Hans and his mother’s lives a day-to-day survival struggle.

Now capital of the Federal Republic of Germany, Berlin rose from insignificant origins on swampy soil, becoming a city of immigrants over the ages. Through a series of ten vignettes, Mary Fulbrook discusses the periods and regimes that shaped its character—whether Prussian militarism; courtly culture and enlightenment; rapid industrialization and expansion; ambitious imperialism; experiments with democracy; or repressive dictatorships of both right and left, dramatically evidenced in the violence of World War and genocide, and then in the Wall dividing Cold War Berlin.

Alles begann im Januar 1891 mit einer Sex-Party im Berliner Jagdschloss Grunewald. Teilgenommen hatten rund 15 adlige Damen und Herren der Hofgesellschaft - einige davon pikanterweise enge Verwandte Wilhelms II. Als ihr sexuelles Treiben in anonymen und mit pornographischen Fotos versehenen Briefen angeprangert wurde und der Inhalt der Briefe an die Öffentlichkeit durchsickerte, zog der Skandal rasch immer weitere Kreise. Als Verfasser der Briefe verdächtigt wurde Zeremonienmeister Leberecht von Kotze.

Historische Aufnahmen: So wie es damals wirklich war: Eine faszinierende Reise durch die „gute, alte Zeit“ - historische Tondokumente vom Kaiser Franz Joseph und den Thronfolgern, von der Wachablöse am Burgtor und dem Kaiserlied, von den Lieblingssängern des Kaisers: Alexander Moissi, Leo Slezak, Alfred Grünfeld und Alexander Girardi.

Ein Spaziergang durch die Seelenlandschaft der Deutschen mit Bestseller-Autor Asfa-Wossen Asserate. Als Asfa-Wossen Asserate im Sommer 1968 zum Studieren aus Addis Abeba nach Tübingen kam, geriet er mitten hinein in die Studentenbewegung. Inzwischen besitzt der äthiopische Prinz die deutsche Staatsbürgerschaft, von seinen englischen Freunden wird er liebevoll "My favourite Kraut" genannt. Nach über fünfzig Jahren in Deutschland ist es an der Zeit für ein persönliches Fazit.

Now an esoteric of legal and criminal history, A Hangman's Diary gives a year-by-year breakdown on all of Master Franz Schmidt's executions, which included hangings, beheadings, and other methods, as well as details of each capital crime and the reason for the punishment.

In the aftermath of Germany's defeat in World War I and the failed November Revolution of 1918-19, the conservative government of Bavaria identified Jews with left-wing radicalism. Munich became a hotbed of right-wing extremism, with synagogues under attack and Jews physically assaulted in the streets. It was here that Adolf Hitler established the Nazi movement and developed his anti-Semitic ideas. Michael Brenner provides a gripping account of how Bavaria's capital city became the testing ground for Nazism and the Final Solution.

In 1941 Hitler's armies blocked the last roads leading into Leningrad. What followed was one of the most horrific sieges in history. When the German High Command encircled Leningrad it was a deliberate policy to eradicate the city's civilian population by starving them to death. As winter set in and food supplies dwindled, starvation and panic set in.

Mit der Person Walther Rathenau kann die deutsche Geschichte vom Beginn der Industrialisierung, die Politik unter dem Kaiser, der erste Weltkrieg und der Anfang der Weimarer Republik verfolgt werden. In Zeitgenossenberichten, Parlamentsreden, Selbstzeugnissen, Briefen holt Harry Graf Kessler den komplizierten (jüdischen) Charakter sehr nah heran. Noch näher aber durch die Werke des Denkers und Bestsellerautors Rathenau, und deren tiefgreifende Ausdeutung. Ein genialer Deutscher, der zu früh starb.

In Goering, Roger Manvell and Heinrich Fraenkel use firsthand testimonies and a variety of historical documents to tell the story of a monster lurking in Hitler's shadows. After rising through the ranks of the German army, Hermann Goering became Hitler's right hand man and was hand-picked to head the Luftwaffe, one of history's most feared fighting forces. As he rose in power, though, Goering became disillusioned and was eventually shunned from Hitler's inner circle.

Als im Morgengrauen des 1. September 1939 die Wehrmacht Polen überfiel, war dies der Auftakt zu einem weltumspannenden Inferno. Hitlers Eroberungsdrang und sein Rassenwahn hatten bereits erkennen lassen, dass dieses Deutschland vor nichts zurückschrecken würde. Das Feature verwebt die Vorgeschichte des Zweiten Weltkriegs eng mit der Täterbiografie des NS-Geheimagenten Alfred Naujocks, dem Anführer jenes SS-Kommandos, das den Sender Gleiwitz überfiel. 1944 lief er zu den Alliierten über und führte im Nachkriegs-Hamburg als geachteter Geschäftsmann ein beschauliches Leben.

8. Mai 1945: Nach dem verheerenden Krieg kapituliert das nationalsozialistische Deutschland vor den Siegermächten USA, Großbritannien, Frankreich und der Sowjetunion. Wie auf der Konferenz von Jalta entschieden, wird das Staatsgebiet unter den alliierten Mächten aufgeteilt. Die folgenden Jahre sind geprägt von Zerstörung und Wiederaufbau, Displaced Persons und Vertriebenen, Demilitarisierung und Entnazifizierung, Lebensmittelknappheit und Währungsreformen.

A princess of White Russian descent, Marie Vassiltchikov was 23 years old when she was trapped in Berlin by the outbreak of World War II. In these secret diaries, she chronicles the glamorous rise and shattering fall of the Nazi Party, as seen from the vantage point of her desk at the Foreign Ministry. She also describes how she and her friends became involved in a desperate conspiracy to murder Hitler.

This audiobook will take you on a thrilling ride through history, starting with the modest origins of Prussia and its Hohenzollern dynasty. You will be amazed at how they traversed the historical barbwire of late medieval times, unwillingly entangled in wars with greater powers and religious reformation. You will learn of their struggles against the Habsburgs and Austria, France and Napoleon, and many other adversaries in the countless wars in which the Prussians found themselves - wars which weren’t always won by them.

In January 1945, the Red Army launched a powerful offensive across the Vistula River to drive the Wehrmacht out of Poland, with the intention of securing a start line for an operation that would ultimately result in the capture of Berlin and the end of the war. But, as Prit Buttar expertly reveals, there were other issues at play. Stalin was determined to push the boundaries of the Soviet Union further west, restoring land lost by the tsars and securing vast industrial and mineral wealth.

"Der Herbst 1923 brachte die tiefste, ganz Deutschland umfassende, alle Schichten und Klassen der Bevölkerung ergreifende Krise der Bourgeoisie. Die Markwährung, die beim Regierungsantritt des Reichskanzlers Cuno auf 8000 stand, stieg auf 4,5 und 6 Billionen. Die Arbeiter konnten für ihre Löhne nichts mehr kaufen. Das Gespenst des Hungers schritt durch Deutschland." (Ernst Thälmann). In den frühen 1920er-Jahren bereiste Larissa Reissner das westliche Ausland und fasste ihre Erlebnisse in ausdrucksstarke Reiseberichte zusammen, deren bekanntester "Hamburg auf den Barrikaden" ist.

Germany is a relatively young nation-state. United in 1871, it's even younger than the United States. However, the territories inhabited by the Germanic people have a rich history that reaches far back in prehistory and antiquity. Located in the heart of Europe, Germany witnessed centuries of conflicts, immigration, and negotiations. Consequently, its shape, size, and ethnicity changed throughout history. The territories which constitute Germany today were often war zones, and at times they would join forces against a common enemy or break apart due to internal conflicts.