To Die For Germany
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To Die For Germany
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Author : Jay W. Baird
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 1992-10-22
To Die For Germany written by Jay W. Baird and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-10-22 with History categories.
Baird (history, Miami U., Ohio) illuminates the political culture of the Third Reich by focusing on the regime's fascination with motifs of death. He traces the development of Nazi propaganda from the fields of Flanders in 1914 to the cult of death created by Hitler, Goebbels, and others during World War II. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Hitler S Boy Soldiers
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Author : Helene Munson
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2022-05-24
Hitler S Boy Soldiers written by Helene Munson and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-24 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A shocking personal memoir and a new perspective on World War II that follows the author’s journey in the footsteps of her father’s youth as one of Hitler’s child soldiers—bringing to light the untold story of the 300,000 German children who served in Hitler’s army When Helene Munson finally reads her father, Hans Dunker’s, wartime journal, she discovers secrets he kept buried for seven decades. This is no ordinary historical document but a personal account of devastating trauma. During World War II, the Nazis trained some three hundred thousand German children to fight—and die—for Hitler. Hans was just one of those boy soldiers. Sent to an elite school for the gifted at nine years old, he found himself in the grip of a system that substituted dummy grenades for Frisbees. By age seventeen, Hans had shot down Allied pilots with antiaircraft artillery. In the desperate, final stage of Hitler’s war, he was sent on a suicide mission to Závada on the Sudetenland front, where he witnessed the death of his schoolmates—and where Helene begins to retrace her father’s footsteps after his death. As Helene translates Hans’s journal and walks his path of suffering and redemption, she uncovers the lost history of an entire generation brainwashed by the Third Reich’s school system and funneled into the Hitler Youth. A startling new account of this dark era, Hitler’s Boy Soldiers grapples with inherited trauma, the burden of guilt, and the blurred line between “perpetrator” and “victim.” It is also a poignant tale of forgiveness, as Helene comes to see her late father as not just a soldier but as one child in a sea of three hundred thousand forced onto the wrong side of history—and left to answer for it.
To Die In Spring
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Author : Ralf Rothmann
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2017-07-13
To Die In Spring written by Ralf Rothmann and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-13 with Fiction categories.
Winner of the HWA Sharpe Gold Crown for Best Historical Novel 2018 '[To Die in Spring] holds its own against [Günter] Grass and [Erich Maria] Remarque; it is an excellent work, and one deserving of its wide readership.' Guardian Walter Urban and Friedrich 'Fiete' Caroli work side by side as hands on a dairy farm in northern Germany. By 1945, it seems the War's worst atrocities are over. When they are forced to 'volunteer' for the SS, they find themselves embroiled in a conflict which is drawing to a desperate, bloody close. Walter is put to work as a driver for a supply unit of the Waffen-SS, while Fiete is sent to the front. When the senseless bloodshed leads Fiete to desert, only to be captured and sentenced to death, the friends are reunited under catastrophic circumstances. In a few days the war will be over, millions of innocents will be dead, and the survivors must find a way to live with its legacy. An international bestseller, To Die in Spring is a beautiful and devastating novel by German author Ralf Rothmann.
Eight Days In May
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Author : Volker Ullrich
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2021-09-07
Eight Days In May written by Volker Ullrich and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-07 with History categories.
'Superb' David Aaronovitch, The Times 'A punchy account that is a proper page-turner' Financial Times 'The last days of the Third Reich have often been told, but seldom with the verve, perception and elegance of Volker Ullrich's rich narrative' Richard Overy, author of The Bombing War 1 May 1945. The world did not know it yet, but the final week of the Third Reich's existence had begun. Hitler was dead, but the war had still not ended. Everything had both ground to a halt and yet remained agonizingly uncertain. Volker Ullrich's remarkable book takes the reader into a world torn between hope and terror, violence and peace. Ullrich describes how each day unfolds, with Germany now under a new Führer, Admiral Dönitz, based improbably in the small Baltic town of Flensburg. With Hitler dead, Berlin in ruins and the war undoubtedly lost, the process by which the fighting would end remained horrifyingly unclear. Many major Nazis were still on the loose, wild rumours continued to circulate about a last stand in the Alps and the Western allies falling out with the Soviet Union. All over Europe, millions of soldiers, prisoners, slave labourers and countless exhausted, grief-stricken and often homeless families watched and waited for the war's end. Eight Days in May is the story of people, in Erich Kästner's striking phrase, stuck in 'the gap between no longer and not yet'. 'A fast-paced, brilliant recounting of the turbulent last days of the Third Reich, with all the energy and chaos of a Jackson Pollock canvas' Helmut Walser Smith, author of Germany: A Nation in its Time
Every Man Dies Alone
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Author : Hans Fallada
language : en
Publisher: Melville House
Release Date : 2019-09-10
Every Man Dies Alone written by Hans Fallada and has been published by Melville House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-10 with Fiction categories.
This never-before-translated masterpiece—by a heroic best-selling writer who saw his life crumble when he wouldn’t join the Nazi Party—is based on a true story. It presents a richly detailed portrait of life in Berlin under the Nazis and tells the sweeping saga of one working-class couple who decides to take a stand when their only son is killed at the front. With nothing but their grief and each other against the awesome power of the Reich, they launch a simple, clandestine resistance campaign that soon has an enraged Gestapo on their trail, and a world of terrified neighbors and cynical snitches ready to turn them in. In the end, it’s more than an edge-of-your-seat thriller, more than a moving romance, even more than literature of the highest order—it’s a deeply stirring story of two people standing up for what’s right, and for each other.
Soldaten On Fighting Killing And Dying
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Author : Sonke Neitzel
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2012-09-25
Soldaten On Fighting Killing And Dying written by Sonke Neitzel and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-25 with History categories.
In November 2001, as the world still reeled from the attack on the Twin Towers, German historian Sonke Neitzel discovered an extraordinary cache of documents from the Second World War. The documents were the transcripts of German prisoners of war talking among themselves in prisoner of war camps, and secretly recorded by the allies. In these apparently private conversations the soldiers talked freely and openly about their hopes and fears, their concerns and their day-to-day lives. With a banality and ease which to the modern reader can appear shocking, they also talked about the horrors of war -- about rape, death and killing. Sonke Neitzel shared the material with renowned and bestselling psychologist Harald Wezler and they set about trying to make sense of the vast piles of documents, the hours of transcripts. The result is SOLDATEN, a landmark book which will change the way we look at soldiers and war, and is as relevant to our modern conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan as it was to the soldiers of the German Army in 1945. Published to huge acclaim and controversy in Germany it was a number one bestseller there and reignited the debate about the banality of evil under the Nazi regime.
Nations Have The Right To Kill
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Author : Richard A. Koenigsberg
language : en
Publisher: Library of Social Science
Release Date : 2009
Nations Have The Right To Kill written by Richard A. Koenigsberg and has been published by Library of Social Science this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with History categories.
Koenigsberg shows how Hitler's thoughts about war generated the Holocaust. While some view Hitler as an anomaly, Koenigsberg shows how both the Holocaust and two World Wars grew out of an ideology located at the heart of Western civilization: that of nationalism. Based on belief in the absolute reality and profound significance of their nations, political leaders feel that they have a right to kill and to ask their people to die.
Witnesses Of War
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Author : Nicholas Stargardt
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2010-06-29
Witnesses Of War written by Nicholas Stargardt and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-29 with History categories.
Witnesses of War is the first work to show how children experienced the Second World War under the Nazis. Children were often the victims in this most terrible of European conflicts, falling prey to bombing, mechanised warfare, starvation policies, mass flight and genocide. But children also became active participants, going out to smuggle food, ply the black market, and care for sick parents and siblings. As they absorbed the brutal new realities of German occupation, Polish boys played at being Gestapo interrogators, and Jewish children at being ghetto guards or the SS. Within days of Germany's own surrender, German children were playing at being Russian soldiers. As they imagined themselves in the roles of their all-powerful enemies, children expressed their hopes and fears, as well as their humiliation and envy. This is the first account of the Second World War which brings together the opposing perspectives and contrasting experiences of those drawn into the new colonial empire of the Third Reich. German and Jewish, Polish and Czech, Sinti and disabled children were all to be separated along racial lines, between those fit to rule and those destined to serve; ultimately between those who were to live and those who were to die. Because the Nazis measured their success in terms of Germany's racial future, children lay at the heart of their war. Drawing on a wide range of new sources, from welfare and medical files to private diaries, letters and pictures, Nicholas Stargardt evokes the individual voices of children under Nazi rule. By bringing their experiences of the war together for the first time, he offers a fresh and challenging interpretation of the Nazi social order as a whole.
Memorialization In Germany Since 1945
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Author : B. Niven
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2009-12-18
Memorialization In Germany Since 1945 written by B. Niven and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-12-18 with History categories.
Difficult Pasts provides a wide-ranging discussion of contemporary Germany's rich memorial landscape. It discusses the many memorials to German losses during the Second World War, to the victims of National Socialism and to those of GDR socialism. With up-to-date coverage of many less well-known memorials as well as the most publicised ones.
Die Glocke The Bell
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Author : S.E. Bolden
language : en
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
Release Date : 2020-11-09
Die Glocke The Bell written by S.E. Bolden and has been published by Page Publishing Inc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-09 with Fiction categories.
In the last year of World War II, most of Germany realized defeat was imminent. Facing the overwhelming power and equipment of the Allies, Hitler authorized the construction of Wunderwaffe (wonder weapons). This story offers an explanation of the focus on the “Die Glocke” project. There were other Wunderwaffe projects but “The Bell” was the one most-cloaked in secrecy. If its powers could be harnessed by the Nazis, it could be the bargaining chip to bring the Allies to the negotiating table and improve the surrender terms of the Third Reich. Its powers were believed to be so staggering that at the end of World War II, all of the scientists and laborers working on “Die Glocke” were murdered. The bell, General Hans Kammler (SS general in charge of the Die Glocke project), two Nazi U-boats, and many Nazi war criminals ended up missing. This work of fiction attempts to explain this mystery.