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Endkampf
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Author : Stephen G. Fritz
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 2004-10-08
Endkampf written by Stephen G. Fritz and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-10-08 with History categories.
At the end of World War II, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, fearing that retreating Germans would consolidate large numbers of troops in an Alpine stronghold and from there conduct a protracted guerilla war, turned U.S. forces toward the heart of Franconia, ordering them to cut off and destroy German units before they could reach the Alps. Opposing this advance was a conglomeration of German forces headed by SS-Gruppenführer Max Simon, a committed National Socialist who advocated merciless resistance. Under the direction of officers schooled in harsh combat in Russia, the Germans succeeded in bringing the American advance to a grinding halt. Caught in the middle were the people of Franconia. Historians have accorded little mention to this period of violence and terror, but it provides insight into the chaotic nature of life while the Nazi regime was crumbling. Neither German civilians nor foreign refugees acted simply as passive victims caught between two fronts. Throughout the region people pressured local authorities to end the senseless resistance and sought revenge for their tribulations in the "liberation" that followed. Stephen G. Fritz examines the predicament and outlook of American GI's, German soldiers and officials, and the civilian population caught in the arduous fighting during the waning days of World War II. Endkampf is a gripping portrait of the collapse of a society and how it affected those involved, whether they were soldiers or civilians, victors or vanquished, perpetrators or victims.
Endkampf
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Author : Stephen G. Fritz
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 2004-10-08
Endkampf written by Stephen G. Fritz and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-10-08 with Fiction categories.
In "Endkampf," Stephen G. Fritz offers a gripping portrait of the collapse of a society that "chillingly narrates the last desperate days of Nazi Germany, illustrating the terror of the last weeks of World War II" (Jerry Cooper). 32 photos. 6 maps.
Reemtsmas Endkampf In Berlin
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Author : Hennecke Kardel
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Reemtsmas Endkampf In Berlin written by Hennecke Kardel and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with War crimes categories.
Absolute Destruction
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Author : Isabel V. Hull
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2013-01-14
Absolute Destruction written by Isabel V. Hull and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-14 with History categories.
In a book that is at once a major contribution to modern European history and a cautionary tale for today, Isabel V. Hull argues that the routines and practices of the Imperial German Army, unchecked by effective civilian institutions, increasingly sought the absolute destruction of its enemies as the only guarantee of the nation's security. So deeply embedded were the assumptions and procedures of this distinctively German military culture that the Army, in its drive to annihilate the enemy military, did not shrink from the utter destruction of civilian property and lives. Carried to its extreme, the logic of "military necessity" found real security only in extremities of destruction, in the "silence of the graveyard." Hull begins with a dramatic account, based on fresh archival work, of the German Army's slide from administrative murder to genocide in German Southwest Africa (1904-7). The author then moves back to 1870 and the war that inaugurated the Imperial era in German history, and analyzes the genesis and nature of this specifically German military culture and its operations in colonial warfare. In the First World War the routines perfected in the colonies were visited upon European populations. Hull focuses on one set of cases (Belgium and northern France) in which the transition to total destruction was checked (if barely) and on another (Armenia) in which "military necessity" caused Germany to accept its ally's genocidal policies even after these became militarily counterproductive. She then turns to the Endkampf (1918), the German General Staff's plan to achieve victory in the Great War even if the homeland were destroyed in the process-a seemingly insane campaign that completes the logic of this deeply institutionalized set of military routines and practices. Hull concludes by speculating on the role of this distinctive military culture in National Socialism's military and racial policies. Absolute Destruction has serious implications for the nature of warmaking in any modern power. At its heart is a warning about the blindness of bureaucratic routines, especially when those bureaucracies command the instruments of mass death.
Founding Weimar
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Author : Mark Jones
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2016-10-20
Founding Weimar written by Mark Jones and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-20 with History categories.
The first study to reveal the key relationship between violence and fears of violence during the German Revolution of 1918-1919.
Endkampf
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Author : Massimo Lucioli
language : it
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Endkampf written by Massimo Lucioli and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with History categories.
No Man S Land Of Violence
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Author : Richard Bessel
language : en
Publisher: Wallstein Verlag
Release Date : 2006
No Man S Land Of Violence written by Richard Bessel and has been published by Wallstein Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Social Science categories.
Colonialism Antisemitism And Germans Of Jewish Descent In Imperial Germany
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Author : Christian Davis
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2012-01-26
Colonialism Antisemitism And Germans Of Jewish Descent In Imperial Germany written by Christian Davis and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-26 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
An exploration of anti-Semitic behaviors in the German empire in the pre-WWI period
The End
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Author : Ian Kershaw
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2011-08-25
The End written by Ian Kershaw and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-25 with History categories.
SUNDAY TIMES, TLS, SPECTATOR, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH, DAILY MAIL and SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY BOOKS OF THE YEAR The last months of the Second World War were a nightmarish time to be alive. Unimaginable levels of violence destroyed entire cities. Millions died or were dispossessed. By all kinds of criteria it was the end: the end of the Third Reich and its terrible empire but also, increasingly, it seemed to be the end of European civilization itself. In his gripping, revelatory new book Ian Kershaw describes these final months, from the failed attempt to assassinate Hitler in July 1944 to the German surrender in May 1945. The major question that Kershaw attempts to answer is: what made Germany keep on fighting? In almost every major war there has come a point where defeat has loomed for one side and its rulers have cut a deal with the victors, if only in an attempt to save their own skins. In Hitler's Germany, nothing of this kind happened: in the end the regime had to be stamped out town by town with a level of brutality almost without precedent. Both a highly original piece of research and a gripping narrative, The End makes vivid an era which still deeply scars Europe. It raises the most profound questions about the nature of the Second World War, about the Third Reich and about how ordinary people behave in extreme circumstances. Ian Kershaw is the author of Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris; Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis; Making Friends with Hitler; and Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions that Changed the World, 1940-4. Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis received the Wolfson History Prize and the Bruno Kreisky Prize in Austria for Political Book of the Year, and was joint winner of the inaugural British Academy Book Prize. Until his retirement in 2008, Ian Kershaw was Professor of Modern History at the University of Sheffield. For services to history he was given the German award of the Federal Cross of Merit in 1994. He was knighted in 2002 and awarded the Norton Medlicott Medal by the Historical Association in 2004. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, and was the winner of the Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding 2012.
Blood And Ruins
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Author : Richard Overy
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2022-04-05
Blood And Ruins written by Richard Overy and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-05 with History categories.
“Monumental… [A] vast and detailed study that is surely the finest single-volume history of World War II. Richard Overy has given us a powerful reminder of the horror of war and the threat posed by dictators with dreams of empire.” – The Wall Street Journal A thought-provoking and original reassessment of World War II, from Britain’s leading military historian A New York Times bestseller Richard Overy sets out in Blood and Ruins to recast the way in which we view the Second World War and its origins and aftermath. As one of Britain’s most decorated and respected World War II historians, he argues that this was the “last imperial war,” with almost a century-long lead-up of global imperial expansion, which reached its peak in the territorial ambitions of Italy, Germany and Japan in the 1930s and early 1940s, before descending into the largest and costliest war in human history and the end, after 1945, of all territorial empires. Overy also argues for a more global perspective on the war, one that looks broader than the typical focus on military conflict between the Allied and Axis states. Above all, Overy explains the bitter cost for those involved in fighting, and the exceptional level of crime and atrocity that marked the war and its protracted aftermath—which extended far beyond 1945. Blood and Ruins is a masterpiece, a new and definitive look at the ultimate struggle over the future of the global order, which will compel us to view the war in novel and unfamiliar ways. Thought-provoking, original and challenging, Blood and Ruins sets out to understand the war anew.