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Germania
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Author : Simon Winder
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2010-03-16
Germania written by Simon Winder and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-16 with History categories.
A UNIQUE EXPLORATION OF GERMAN CULTURE, FROM SAUSAGE ADVERTISEMENTS TO WAGNER Sitting on a bench at a communal table in a restaurant in Regensburg, his plate loaded with disturbing amounts of bratwurst and sauerkraut made golden by candlelight shining through a massive glass of beer, Simon Winder was happily swinging his legs when a couple from Rottweil politely but awkwardly asked: "So: why are you here?" This book is an attempt to answer that question. Why spend time wandering around a country that remains a sort of dead zone for many foreigners, surrounded as it is by a force field of historical, linguistic, climatic, and gastronomic barriers? Winder's book is propelled by a wish to reclaim the brilliant, chaotic, endlessly varied German civilization that the Nazis buried and ruined, and that, since 1945, so many Germans have worked to rebuild. Germania is a very funny book on serious topics—how we are misled by history, how we twist history, and how sometimes it is best to know no history at all. It is a book full of curiosities: odd food, castles, mad princes, fairy tales, and horse-mating videos. It is about the limits of language, the meaning of culture, and the pleasure of townscape.
Germania
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Author : Brendan McNally
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2009-02-10
Germania written by Brendan McNally 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 2009-02-10 with Fiction categories.
In their youth, Manni and Franzi, together with their brothers, Ziggy and Sebastian, captured Germany's collective imagination as the Flying Magical Loerber Brothers -- one of the most popular vaudeville acts of the old Weimar days. The ensuing years have, however, found the Jewish brothers estranged and ensconced in various occupations as the war is drawing near its end and a German surrender is imminent. Manni is traveling through the Ruhr Valley with Albert Speer, who is intent on subverting Hitler's apocalyptic plan to destroy the German industrial heartland before the Allies arrive; Franzi has become inextricably attached to Heinrich Himmler's entourage as astrologer and masseur; and Ziggy and Sebastian have each been employed in pursuits that threaten to compromise irrevocably their own safety and ideologies. Now, with the Russian noose tightening around Berlin and the remnants of the Nazi government fleeing north to Flensburg, the Loerber brothers are unexpectedly reunited. As Himmler and Speer vie to become the next Führer, deluded into believing they can strike a bargain with Eisenhower and escape their criminal fates, the Loerbers must employ all their talents -- and whatever magic they possess -- to rescue themselves and one another. Deftly written and darkly funny, Germania is an astounding adventure tale -- with subplots involving a hidden cache of Nazi gold, Hitler's miracle U-boats, and Speer's secret plan to live out his days hunting walrus in Greenland -- and a remarkably imaginative novel from a gifted new writing talent.
A Most Dangerous Book Tacitus S Germania From The Roman Empire To The Third Reich
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Author : Christopher B. Krebs
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2011-08-15
A Most Dangerous Book Tacitus S Germania From The Roman Empire To The Third Reich written by Christopher B. Krebs and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-15 with History categories.
“A model of popular intellectual history. . . . In every way, ?A Most Dangerous Book is a most brilliant achievement.”—Washington Post When the Roman historian Tacitus wrote the Germania, a none-too-flattering little book about the ancient Germans, he could not have foreseen that centuries later the Nazis would extol it as “a bible” and vow to resurrect Germany on its grounds. But the Germania inspired—and polarized—readers long before the rise of the Third Reich. In this elegant and captivating history, Christopher B. Krebs, a professor of classics at Harvard University, traces the wide-ranging influence of the Germania, revealing how an ancient text rose to take its place among the most dangerous books in the world.
Germania
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Author : Simon Winder
language : en
Publisher: Picador
Release Date : 2011-03-01
Germania written by Simon Winder and has been published by Picador this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-01 with History categories.
Germania is propelled by a wish to reclaim the brilliant, chaotic, endlessly varied German civilization that the Nazis buried and ruined, and that, since 1945, so many Germans have worked to rebuild. A very funny book on serious topics---how we are misled by history, how we twist history, and how sometimes it is best to know no history at all. It is a book full of curiosities: odd food, castles, mad princes, fairy tales, and horse-mating videos. It is about the limits of language, the meaning of culture, and the pleasure of townscape, and "a book you will return to time and again" (The Florida Times-Union).
Germania
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Author :
language : de
Publisher:
Release Date : 1894
Germania written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1894 with German language categories.
Germania And Agricola
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Author : Tacitus
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2018-01-28
Germania And Agricola written by Tacitus and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-28 with Fiction categories.
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Germania In Latino English Italiano
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Author : Tacito
language : it
Publisher: goWare
Release Date : 2015-10-05
Germania In Latino English Italiano written by Tacito and has been published by goWare this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-05 with History categories.
Christopher Krebs, un classicista dell’Università di Stanford, ha definito Germania di Tacito “un libro molto pericoloso” e ha dedicato alla fortuna di questo classico della storiografia latina, di appena 30 pagine, un libro di oltre 300 pagine. Lo scritto di Tacito è divenuto una miniera di tropi. Heine, Herder, Grimm se ne sono occupati ampiamente. Marinetti lo tradusse come un testo futurista e Gramsci si beffò della sua traduzione. Il nazismo ne fece la sua bibbia. Himmler ne era ossessionato al tal punto da mandare nel 1943 un commando delle SS in Italia a trafugare il manoscritto, vanamente. Il paradosso più grande è che Tacito ha scritto Germania senza aver mai conosciuto, né visitato quei luoghi. Ma lui vedeva la storia come un’astrazione. Oggi la Germania è tornata in primo piano nella politica e nella storia europea. Il volto dei suoi leader suscita sentimenti forti. Rileggere oggi questa sintetica monografia antropologica, fuori dalle passate querelle e dagli innumerevoli tropi che l’hanno piagata, può essere un buon impiego del proprio tempo. Oltre al testo originale, un latino che raggiunge i suoi più alti vertici di sinteticità e pregnanza, offriamo al lettore la traduzione italiana e quella inglese. Conoscere la storia è magistrale, altrimenti, come dice Hegel, chi dimentica il passato lo ripete. Christopher Krebs, a classicist from Stanford University, defined Germania by Tacitus as “a most dangerous book” in literature. Krebs himself studied the fortune of this classic from Latin historiography in a book of over 300 pages based on a piece barely 30 pages long. Actually Germania can be read in a half an hour. Through history Germania has been a constant source of tropes. Heine, Herder, Grimm all wrote extensively about it. Tommaso Marinetti translated it as a futurist text and Antonio Gramsci mocked his translation. Germania became a sort of bible for the Nazis. Himmler was so obsessed with it that in 1943 he dispatched a commando to Italy in an unsuccessful attempt to steal the manuscript. The superb paradox is Tacitus never stepped foot in Germany. For Tacitus, history was only an abstraction. Once again we find Germany in the spotlight. German leaders arouse strong emotions and feelings. Reading this book today would serve us all well. It can help us to untangle the European puzzle. In any case The Germania is a classic. A first example of an anthropological monograph written in Latin at the peak of conciseness and poignancy. This ebook contains the Latin text, English, and Italian translations linked and intertwined. Historia magistra vitae, otherways, in Hegel’s words: “Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it”.
The Germania Agricola
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Author : Cornelius Tacitus
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1873
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Albert Speer And Germania
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Author : Charles River
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-07-14
Albert Speer And Germania written by Charles River and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-14 with categories.
*Includes pictures *Includes a bibliography for further reading In 1933, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party took absolute control of Germany, and his new regime was known as the Third Reich (Third Empire). The first Germanic empire had been the Holy Roman Empire (800-1806), and the second was the German Empire (1871-1918). Hitler was determined the new Reich be more impressive and longer-lasting than any that had gone before, and the Nazis soon began referring to the Tausendjähriges Reich ("Thousand-Year Reich"). Naturally, the party's leaders believed the new empire would require a suitably impressive new capital. Hitler dreamed of building Welthauptstadt Germania ("World Capital Germania"), a super-sized city that would dwarf everything that had come before it. The new metropolis would be built in the same location as Berlin, but it was expressly designed to be the most impressive city in the world. Its heart would be the seven-kilometer long Prachtstrasse, or Boulevard of Splendors, and the buildings there and elsewhere would not just be large but gargantuan. At one end of the boulevard would be a triumphal arch so large that six of Paris' Arc de Triomphe could fit beneath it. At the opposite end would be the domed Grand Hall, containing the largest enclosed space in the world, capable of holding a staggering 180,000 people. So vast was the dome that there were concerns it might generate its own internal weather system, where clouds would form from the breath of the vast crowds below. Some predicted that rain might even fall. While Hitler may not have been an architect, there were people around who could implement his vision and put the plans to fruition. The most famous was Albert Speer, a real architect who became Hitler's friend and confidante and rose to power within the Nazi hierarchy. Speer played several roles during the war, only one of which was the project that would enlarge Berlin. There had never been plans for anything quite like Germania, but Hitler was determined the new city be complete by 1950 at the latest. Work began in 1937, but as anyone familiar with World War II knows, the Thousand-Year Reich lasted for just 12 years and Germania did not progress beyond a megalomaniacal dream. Today, virtually no trace remains of the planned Nazi super-city, but the story of its design and the misery inflicted on slave-laborers during the early stages of preparation for construction offer examples of how power without restraint can lead to the most extreme visions of the future. Albert Speer and Germania: The History of Nazi Germany's Lead Architect and His Plans for a Future German Capital examines the origins of the project, what it envisioned, and how it went during the war. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about Germania like never before.
Germania Its Courts Camps And People In Two Volumes
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Author : Marie Pauline Rose baroness Blaze de Bury
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1850
Germania Its Courts Camps And People In Two Volumes written by Marie Pauline Rose baroness Blaze de Bury and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1850 with categories.