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Mit Martin Luther, Johannes Calvin und Philipp Melanchthon werden in diesem Hörbuch drei der wichtigsten Reformatoren anhand ihrer zentralen Schriften porträtiert. Die vorgestellten Texte haben die Entwicklung des theologischen Denkens entscheidend mitbestimmt und gehören deshalb zu den Schlüsselwerken der protestantischen Theologiegeschichte. Ihre Kenntnis ist darüber hinaus auch für das Verständnis der gegenwärtigen theologischen Debatten unerlässlich.

In 1832, 17-year-old Otto von Bismarck had just entered university and was already rejecting the republican indoctrination of his grade school years. Unlike so many of his day who had championed representative government, Bismarck longed for the glory of a nation he believed would only be found under a single, strong leader. Though his early university days showed him he would be isolated by this thinking, he strongly believed not only in the ideal of a national German state, but in its possibility.

In May 1941 the German battleship Bismarck, accompanied by heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, broke out into the Atlantic to attack Allied shipping. The Royal Navy's pursuit and subsequent destruction of the Bismarck was an epic of naval warfare. In this new account of those dramatic events at the height of the Second World War, Iain Ballantyne draws extensively on the graphic eyewitness testimony of veterans to construct a thrilling story, mainly from the point of view of the British battleships, cruisers, and destroyers involved.

Despite the best efforts of a number of historians, many aspects of the ferocious struggle between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union during the Second World War remain obscure or shrouded in myth. One of the most persistent of these is the notion - largely created by many former members of its own officer corps in the immediate postwar period - that the German Army was a paragon of military professionalism and operational proficiency whose defeat on the Eastern Front was solely attributable to the amateurish meddling of a crazed former Corporal.

Reformation, damit verbinden wir Ablassstreit, Thesenanschlag, schließlich die Abspaltung der Anhänger Martin Luthers vom Glaubenskanon der römischen Kirche. Doch jetzt liefert der Historiker Volker Reinhardt einen neuen Blick auf die Geschichte. Die Reformation, behauptet er in seinem Buch "Luther, der Ketzer", war weniger die Folge theologischer Differenzen als vielmehr die Konsequenz einer von Hass und Unverständnis geprägten jahrzehntelangen Auseinandersetzung zwischen kultivierten Römern und barbarischen Deutschen.

With a total of 40 victories, Oswald Boelcke was Germany's first ace in World War I-and a century later he remains a towering figure in the history of air warfare, renowned for his character, inspirational leadership, organizational genius, development of air-to-air tactics, and impact on aerial doctrine. Paving the way for modern air forces across the world with his pioneering strategies, Boelcke had a dramatic effect on his contemporaries. The famed Red Baron's mentor, instructor, squadron commander, and friend, he exerted a tremendous influence upon the German air force.

In the autumn of 1938, Europe believed in the promise of peace. But only a year later, the fateful decisions of just a few men had again led Europe to a massive world war. Drawing on contemporary diaries, memoirs, and newspapers, as well as recorded interviews, 1939 is a narrative account of what the coming of the Second World War felt like to those who lived through it.

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.

South of the Norman city of Caen, the twin features of the Verrieres and Bourguebus ridges were key stepping stones for the British Second Army in late July 1944. To capture this vital ground, Allied forces would have to defeat arguably the strongest German armored formation in Normandy: the I. SS-Panzerkorps "Leibstandarte." The resulting battles of late July and early August 1944 saw powerful German defensive counterattacks south of Caen inflict tremendous casualties, regain lost ground, and at times defeat Anglo-Canadian operations in detail.

Carl von Ossietzky (1889 - 1938) Journalist, Schriftsteller, Pazifist. Ob gegen links, rechts oder die Mitte, er kämpfte unabhängig mit seinen Artikeln für den Erhalt der Demokratie. 1925 prangert er vor Allem die Ungerechtigkeit der alten Justiz an. Im Artikel "Chistlicher Adel teutscher Nation" macht er sich über eine tölpelhaft durchgeführte Korruption lustig und in "Völker ohne Signale" über die erlahmenden Linksbewegungen. Auch taucht schon das Thema auf, das ihm Jahre später zum Verhängnis werden wird: "Das heimliche Heer".

With strong insight into the characters of Ernest Bevin, General Clay, Dean Acheson, and Robert Schumann, and now with a foreword by former British minister to Berlin Sir Michael Burton, this a story of individual heroism and high brinkmanship politics, of daily life under appalling circumstances, and great achievements against all odds.

Werner Heisenberg was one of the greatest physicists of all time. He probed the depths of not just science but the nature of our very existence. His groundbreaking work in quantum mechanics, particularly the formulation of the uncertainty principle, revolutionized our understanding of the subatomic world and earned him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1932.

Weikart reveals the startling and fascinating truth about the most hated man of the 20th century: Adolf Hitler was a pantheist who believed nature was God. In Hitler's Religion, Weikart explains how the laws of nature became Hitler's only moral guide - how he became convinced he would serve God by annihilating supposedly "inferior" human beings and promoting the welfare and reproduction of the allegedly superior Aryansin accordance with racist forms of Darwinism prevalent at the time.

This is the remarkable story of a German soldier who fought throughout World War II, rising from conscript private to captain of a heavy weapons company on the Eastern Front. >William Lubbeck, age 19, was drafted into the Wehrmacht in August 1939. As a member of the 58th Infantry Division, he received his baptism of fire during the 1940 invasion of France. The following spring his division served on the left flank of Army Group North in Operation Barbarossa.

Culture was integral to the smooth running of the Third Reich. In the years preceding WWII, a wide variety of artistic forms were used to instill a Nazi ideology in the German people and to manipulate the public perception of Hitler's enemies. During the war, the arts were closely tied to the propaganda machine that promoted the cause of Germany's military campaigns.

This is the concluding volume of the history of the IV SS-Panzerkorps, a relatively unknown organization that was born in battle during the last year of the war and fought exclusively on the Eastern Front. After their successful defense of Warsaw and the Vistula Front during the fall of 1944, the corps and its two famous Waffen-SS divisions, the Totenkopf and Wiking, as well as several divisions of the German Army, were sent south to reverse the military situation on the Hungarian Front.

The Arms of Krupp brings to life Europe's wealthiest, most powerful family, a 400-year German dynasty that developed the world's most technologically advanced weapons, from cannons to submarines to antiaircraft guns; provided arms to generations of German leaders, including the Kaiser and Hitler; operated private concentration camps during the Nazi era; survived conviction at Nuremberg; and wielded enormous influence on the course of world events.

Een baanbrekend, meeslepend verhaal over hoe Duitse bedrijven als BMW, Dr. Oetker, Porsche en Volkswagen zich verrijkten tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog en er na de oorlog nauwelijks sancties volgden. In 1946 werd magnaat Günther Quandt gearresteerd wegens vermeende nazi-samenwerking. Quandt, patriarch van Duitslands meest iconische industriële imperium, een dynastie die tegenwoordig bmw bestuurt, beweerde dat hij door minister van Propaganda Goebbels was gedwongen zich bij de partij aan te sluiten. De rechtbanken spraken hem vrij. Maar Quandt loog en hij was niet de enige.

Das Dritte Reich hat mit dem 2. Weltkrieg wohl für eine der dunkelsten Stunden der Menschheit gesorgt. Mit dem nationalsozialistischen Völkermord geschah eines der größten Menschheitsverbrechen. Der Autor bemühte sich in jahrelangen Recherchen die Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts aufzuarbeiten. Er sammelte Rundfunkansprachen, Tondokumente, Gerichtsaufzeichnungen und Wochenschauberichte und das Ergebnis soll helfen, die Geschichte zu verstehen. Denn Geschichte wiederholt sich - nicht am gleichen Ort und nicht in der gleichen Abfolge - aber trotzdem immer wieder.

Die bewegende Geschichte eines stillen Widerständlers im Nationalsozialismus. Walther Hultsch war ein charismatischer und couragierter Mann, der es sich zur Aufgabe machte, Menschen während der nationalsozialistischen Diktatur zu helfen. Wo er nur konnte, setzte er sich für diejenigen ein, die durch die Nazis zu leiden hatten, verfolgt wurden oder wegen ihrer politischen Vergangenheit geächtet waren. Die spannende Biografie basiert auf Tagebucheinträgen von Walther Hultsch und handelt von seiner Geschichte im Widerstand und seinem Leben als Spionage-Abwehr-Spezialist.