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Familienkriege sind nichts Ungewöhnliches. Die meisten von uns können wohl von einem in der eigenen Verwandtschaft berichten, insbesondere wenn es ein Erbe zu verteilen gibt. Die fränkischen Merowinger treiben den Zwist allerdings auf eine Spitze, die außergewöhnlich ist, selbst für das wenig zimperliche Mittelalter. Der "Merowingische Bruderkrieg", wie Historiker das innerfamiliäre Gemetzel und Gemeuchel ab 561 n. Chr. nennen, ist als Begriff aber etwas irreführend.

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.

How did an obscure agitator on the political fringes of early-20th-century Germany rise to become the supreme leader of the "Third Reich"? Unlike many other books that track Adolf Hitler's career after 1933, this book focuses on his formative period—immediately following World War I (1918-1924). The author, a veteran producer of historical documentaries, brings to life this era of political unrest and violent conflict, when forces on both the left and right were engaged in a desperate power struggle.

From the internationally acclaimed author of Hitler’s Private Library, a dramatic recounting of the six critical months before Adolf Hitler seized power, when the Nazi leader teetered between triumph and ruin In the summer of 1932, the Weimar Republic was on the verge of collapse. One in three...

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.

Friedrich Reck might seem an unlikely rebel against Nazism. Not just a conservative but a rock-ribbed reactionary, he played the part of a landed gentleman, deplored democracy, and rejected the modern world outright. To Reck, the Nazis were ruthless revolutionaries in Gothic drag, and helpless as he was to counter the spell they had cast on the German people, he felt compelled to record the corruptions of their rule.

Brought to you by Penguin. Throughout the twentieth century, Berlin stood at the centre of a convulsing world. This history is often viewed as separate acts: the suffering of the First World War, the cosmopolitan city of science, culture and sexual freedom Berlin became, steep economic plunges...

Hailed as the most compelling biography of the German dictator yet written, Ian Kershaw's Hitler brings us closer than ever before to the heart of its subject's immense darkness. From his illegitimate birth in a small Austrian village to his fiery death in a bunker under the Reich chancellery in Berlin, Adolf Hitler left a murky trail, strewn with contradictory tales and overgrown with self-created myths. One truth prevails: the sheer scale of the evils that he unleashed on the world has made him a demonic figure without equal in this century.

At the end of September 1941, more than a million German soldiers lined up along the frontline just 180 miles west of Moscow. They were well trained, confident, and had good reasons to hope that the war in the East would be over with one last offensive. Facing them was an equally large Soviet force, but whose soldiers were neither as well trained nor as confident. When the Germans struck, disaster soon befell the Soviet defenders.

The perfect introduction to the Master. Over a century after his death, Richard Wagner’s music dramas stand at the centre of the culture of classical music. He was a walking contradiction: aggressive, flirtatious, disciplined, capricious, heroic, visionary and poisonously anti-Semitic. His ten...

The sacrifices that enabled the Soviet Union to defeat Nazi Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-45 are sacrosanct. The foundation of their eventual victory was laid during the battle for the city of Stalingrad, resting on the banks of the river Volga. For Germany, the catastrophic defeat was the beginning of their eventual demise that would see the Red Army two years later flying their flag of victory above the Reichstag. Stalingrad is seen as the pivotal battle of the Second World War.

As the horror of Nazism tightened its grip on Germany, Jews found themselves trapped and desperate. For many, their only hope of salvation came in the form of a small, bespectacled British man: Frank Foley. Working as a Berlin Passport Control Officer, Foley helped thousands of Jews to flee the country with visas and false passports, personally entering the camps to get Jews out, and sheltering those on the run from the Gestapo in his own apartment. Described by a Jewish leader as "the Pimpernel of the Jews," Foley was an unsung hero of the Holocaust.

Dieses Hörbuch enthält die folgenden Briefe deutscher Autoren, die zwischen 1783 und 1827 verfasst wurden: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg an Ludwig Franz Amelung im Jahr 1783, Friedrich Hölderlin an Casimir Ulrich Karl Boehlendorff im Jahr 1802, Georg Büchner an Karl Ferdinand Gutzkow im Jahr 1835, Friedrich Zelter an Johann Wolfgang von Goethe im Jahr 1827.

Immediately after the Second World War, the victorious Allies authorized the forced relocation of ethnic Germans from their homes across central and southern Europe to Germany. The numbers were almost unimaginable: between twelve and fourteen million civilians, most of them women and children. And the losses were horrifying: at least five hundred thousand people, and perhaps many more, died while detained in former concentration camps, locked in trains, or after arriving in Germany malnourished, and homeless.

The crimes of Hitler and the Nazis are well known—from orchestrating the Holocaust to launching the most destructive war in history, their evil deeds shaped the course of the 20th century. Yet some chose to profit off the misery they caused, making themselves extraordinarily wealthy and setting up business dynasties that lasted long after the Nazis themselves were gone.

From the hellish skies over Europe to the unforgiving terrain of the Himalayas, this is the first complete history of the C-47 aircrew who helped turn the tide of war. One of the most perilous combat roles of World War II was that of the Allied aircrews who flew unarmed transport planes into enemy territory, often just hundreds of feet above the battlefield. Tasked with delivering paratroopers and towing combat gliders packed with troops and equipment, the crews braved anti-aircraft fire and enemy fighters without the means to shoot back.

La sera del 23 agosto 1942 la Sedicesima divisione corazzata tedesca si assestava sulle rive del Volga, a breve distanza dalla città di Stalingrado . Era l'avanguardia della "grande armata" che poco più di un anno prima Hitler aveva lanciato a sorpresa contro l'Unione Sovietica "per schiacciare il comunismo slavo". L'Armata Rossa pareva in rotta. Gli uomini della Wehrmacht non potevano sapere che la città assediata sarebbe diventata un baluardo insuperabile, una trappola per le ambizioni del Reich e la tomba di decine di migliaia di suoi soldati.

When the Soviets fortified Sevastopol in 1941 it heralded the beginning of a period of intense fighting over the Crimea. In this remarkable work, acclaimed author Robert Forczyk assembles new research to investigate the intense and barbaric fighting for the region in World War II, where first Soviet and then German armies were surrounded and totally obliterated. Forczyk's unique account provides a definitive analysis of the many unique characteristics of the conflict, exploring the historical context as it uncovers one of the most pivotal theaters of the Eastern Front during World War II.

The story of the Weimar Republic's financial crisis has a clear resonance in the second decade of the twenty-first century, when the world is anxious once more about what money is, what it means and how we can judge if its value is true. The Downfall of Money will tell anew the dramatic story of the hyperinflation that saw the once-solid German mark, worth 4.2 to the dollar in 1914, trading at over four trillion by the autumn of 1923.

Gebrannte Seelen ist eine eindringliche und bewegende autobiografische Erzählung, die den Leser in die düsteren Gefängnisse der DDR entführt. In diesem packenden Buch schildert der Autor, basierend auf seinen eigenen Erfahrungen, die erschütternde Geschichte seiner politischen Gefangenschaft und den unerbittlichen Kampf um Freiheit und Menschlichkeit. Als politischer Aktivist gerät der Protagonist in den 1980er Jahren ins Visier der DDR-Stasi und wird gewaltsam aus dem Kreis seiner Familie gerissen.