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A German Life

Author : Christopher Hampton
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571356184
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book A German Life written by Christopher Hampton and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2019-05-09 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I had no idea what was going on. Or very little. No more than most people. So you can't make me feel guilty. Brunhilde Pomsel's life spanned the twentieth century. She struggled to make ends meet as a secretary in Berlin during the 1930s, her many employers including a Jewish insurance broker, the German Broadcasting Corporation and, eventually, Joseph Goebbels. Christopher Hampton's play is based on the testimony she gave when she finally broke her silence to a group of Austrian filmmakers, shortly before she died in 2016. Maggie Smith, alone on stage, plays Brunhilde Pomsel. Christopher Hampton's play is drawn from the testimony Pomsel gave when she finally broke her silence shortly before she died to a group of Austrian filmmakers, and from their documentary A German Life (Christian Krönes, Olaf Müller, Roland Schrotthofer and Florian Weigensamer, produced by Blackbox Film & Media Productions).

A German Life

Author : Bernd Wollschlaeger
Publisher : A German Life
ISBN 13 : 9780979183102
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (831 download)

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Download or read book A German Life written by Bernd Wollschlaeger and published by A German Life. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Life in the Third Reich

Author : Richard Bessel
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0192158929
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (921 download)

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Download or read book Life in the Third Reich written by Richard Bessel and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1987 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reveals that daily German life under the Third Reich involved a complex mixture of bribery and terror; of fear and concessions; of barbarism and appeals to conventional moral values employed by the Nazis to maintain their grip on society. Eight leading historians present essays that shed fresh light on topics as familiar as the role of political violence in Nazi seizure of power and the German view of Hitler himself. It also focuses on lesser-known aspects of life in the Third Reich, such as village life, the treatment of "social outcasts," and the Germans' own retrospective view of this period of their history.

A Baltic German Life

Author : Claus Von Rosen
Publisher : Old Guard Press
ISBN 13 : 9781848613614
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (136 download)

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Download or read book A Baltic German Life written by Claus Von Rosen and published by Old Guard Press. This book was released on 2014-05-26 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Claus von Rosen was born into one of the Baltic Ritterschaften, the German-speaking landed nobility of the Baltic countries, then part of the Russian Empire. He prospered as an executive in family-owned businesses, and adapted to the new order of independent Estonia, learning the language and doing national service in the Estonian army. With the arrival of the Second World War, and the invasion of Estonia by Soviet forces, all German Balts were declared enemy aliens, and Claus's family moved west and he himself was drafted into the German army, seeing service on the Eastern front. There, together with thousands of other German soldiers, he was taken captive by the Soviets and imprisoned in Siberia. He was to remain in the Gulag until 1955, when all German prisoners-of-war in the USSR were released, following negotiations between Moscow and Bonn. Claus returned to the Federal Republic (West Germany), for him a new country born from the ruins of the old. This volume is his memoir, offering the modern reader a glimpse of an almost-forgotten, indeed almost-unknown, world.

Life in the Third Reich

Author : Paul Roland
Publisher : Arcturus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1784281131
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (842 download)

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Download or read book Life in the Third Reich written by Paul Roland and published by Arcturus Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-17 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Germans in the late 1920s and early 1930s, the allure of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party's promises for a better, brighter future promised so much. The reality was vastly different... Germany was a deeply divided nation when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party came to power in 1933. As the shadow of the swastika lengthened, its citizens quickly came to realize that the Nazis' brutal programme was not optional. Everyone was expected to play their part in "national revival", especially those chosen as sacrificial victims. Much has been written about daily life during World War II from the perspective of the Allied nations, but little about life in Germany during the Third Reich. With the benefit of hindsight, questions have been raised as to why a civilized, cultured nation stood by and let the Nazi Party impose their rule in such inhumane fashion, and why so few individuals made any attempt to rebel. Life in the Third Reich draws on the recollections of those who actually experienced the rise and fall of this brutal and vicious regime: from the indoctrination of children to the disappearance of family, friends and neighbours and the effect of Kinder, Küche und Kirche [Children, Kitchen and Church] on the female population, to the defiance of the 'swing kids' and the resulting deprivation of the Nazi policy of 'Guns, not butter'. These are the stories of ordinary Germans caught up in an extraordinary time.

Black German

Author : Theodor Michael
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1781383111
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book Black German written by Theodor Michael and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first English translation of an important document in the history of the black presence in Germany and Europe: the autobiography of Theodor Michael. Theodor Michael is among the few surviving members of the first generation of 'Afro-Germans': Born in Germany in 1925 to a Cameroonian father and a German mother, he grew up in Berlin in the last days of the Weimar Republic. As a child and teenager he worked in circuses and films and experienced the tightening knot of racial discrimination under the Nazis in the years before the Second World War. He survived the war as a forced labourer, founding a family and making a career as a journalist and actor in post-war West Germany. Since the 1980s he has become an important spokesman for the black German consciousness movement, acting as a human link between the first black German community of the inter-war period, the pan-Africanism of the 1950s and 1960s, and new generations of Germans of African descent. Theodor Michael's life story is a classic account of coming to consciousness of a man who understands himself as both black and German; accordingly, it illuminates key aspects of modern German social history as well as of the post-war history of the African diaspora. The text has been translated by Eve Rosenhaft, Professor of German Historical Studies at the University of Liverpool and an internationally acknowledged expert in Black German studies. It is accompanied by a translator's preface, explanatory notes, a chronology of historical events and a guide to further reading, so that the book will be accessible and useful both for general readers and for undergraduate students.

German Comedy

Author : Peter Schneider
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374523584
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (745 download)

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Download or read book German Comedy written by Peter Schneider and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1992-10 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tour of Germany after reunification provides anecdotes of the West German people, an East German baker, Bavarian yodelers, Stalinist functionaries, and Western capitalists

Inside Hitler's Germany

Author : Chris Mann
Publisher : Brown Bear Books Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781781212707
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (127 download)

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Download or read book Inside Hitler's Germany written by Chris Mann and published by Brown Bear Books Limited. This book was released on 2015-03-09 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There have been numerous histories of World War II and many analyses of the Nazi Party. But what was it like actually to live under the Nazi Regime? Inside Hitler's Germany attempts to answer this question. This book looks at all aspects of life under the Nazis, including during the early 1930s, when Nazism brought economic benefits and before the full horrors of the racism at the heart of the regime were revealed. The role of women and children in the Nazi state, the changing face of popular culture and high art, the position of industry, the part played by the army, and the integration of the Nazi Party itself into German life are covered in full. Important questions, such as the attitude of ordinary Germans to racist policies and the nature of the German resistance to Hitler, are also addressed.

Rebuilt from Broken Glass

Author : Fred Behrend
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 1612495036
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (124 download)

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Download or read book Rebuilt from Broken Glass written by Fred Behrend and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-15 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Symbolized by a three-hundred-year-old Seder plate, the religious life of Fred Behrend's family had centered largely around Passover and the tale of the Jewish people's exodus from tyranny. When the Nazis came to power, the wide-eyed boy and his family found themselves living a twentieth-century version of that exodus, escaping oppression and persecution in Germany for Cuba and ultimately a life of freedom and happiness in the United States. Behrend's childhood came to a crashing end with Kristallnacht (the Night of Broken Glass) and his father's harrowing internment at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. But he would not be defined by these harrowing circumstances. Behrend would go on to experience brushes with history involving the defeated Germans. By the age of twenty, he had run a POW camp full of Nazis, been an instructor in a program aimed at denazifying specially selected prisoners, and been assigned by the U.S. Army to watch over Wernher von Braun, the designer of the V-2 rocket that terrorized Europe and later chief architect of the Saturn V rocket that sent Americans to the moon. Behrend went from a sheltered life of wealth in a long-gone, old-world Germany, dwelling in the gilded compound once belonging to the manufacturer of the zeppelin airships, to a poor Jewish immigrant in New York City learning English from Humphrey Bogart films. Upon returning from service in the U.S. Army, he rose out of poverty, built a successful business in Manhattan, and returned to visit Germany a dozen times, giving him unique perspective into Germany's attempts to surmount its Nazi past.

Marianne in Chains

Author : Robert Gildea
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312423599
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (235 download)

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Download or read book Marianne in Chains written by Robert Gildea and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-06 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In France, the German occupation is called simply the "dark years." There were only the "good French" who resisted and the "bad French" who collaborated. Marianne in Chains, a broad and provocative history drawing on previously unseen archives, firsthand interviews, diaries, and eyewitness accounts, uncovers the complex truth of the time. Robert Gildea's groundbreaking study reveals the everyday life in the heart of occupied France; the pressing imperatives of work, food, transportation, andfamily obligations that led to unavoidable compromise and negotiation with the army of occupation.

Life and Death in a German Town

Author : Panikos Panayi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857714406
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book Life and Death in a German Town written by Panikos Panayi and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2007-03-28 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The period between 1929 and 1949 represents one of the most traumatic and destructive in the history of Germany. Economic crisis, Nazism, war, destruction and post-war dislocation dominated the lives of all Germans and those living in Germany. While all ethnic groups faced great hardship during these years, there were stark differences between the experience of native ethnic Germans, German refugees from Eastern Europe, German Jews, Romanies and foreigners. Using vital primary sources, archival material and insightful interviews, Panikos Panayi presents an extraordinary analysis of the individual experiences of, and relationships between, all these groups living in the German town of Osnabruck. He focuses on Alltagsgeschichte (the history of everyday life) to understand the realities for people living in one German location in a time of great change and upheaval. By concentrating on the wide span of 20 years of German experience he brings original breadth to an area of study, more commonly associated with the narrower focus of 1933-45. Despite the centrality of race in Nazi ideology, this is the first major study to look at the lives of all of the differing ethnic groups in Germany during this period. Panayi reveals the fluidity of the borderline between victims and perpetrators, how the use of forced labour dramatically changed the ethnic composition of the town and the impact of the arrival of German refugees from Eastern Europe at the end of World Wa II. Panayi's revealing analysis of the continuity and discontinuity in the everyday lives of Osnabruckers between 1929 and 1949, and the inter-ethnic relations during this period, is an essential reference tool for anyone wanting to understand the now time realities of living in Nazi Germany.

Pictures of German Life [18th and 19th Centuries]

Author : Gustav Freytag
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (965 download)

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Download or read book Pictures of German Life [18th and 19th Centuries] written by Gustav Freytag and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Belonging

Author : Nora Krug
Publisher : Scribner
ISBN 13 : 1476796637
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book Belonging written by Nora Krug and published by Scribner. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award * Silver Medal Society of Illustrators * * Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, Comics Beat, The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Kirkus Reviews, and Library Journal This “ingenious reckoning with the past” (The New York Times), by award-winning artist Nora Krug investigates the hidden truths of her family’s wartime history in Nazi Germany. Nora Krug was born decades after the fall of the Nazi regime, but the Second World War cast a long shadow over her childhood and youth in the city of Karlsruhe, Germany. Yet she knew little about her own family’s involvement; though all four grandparents lived through the war, they never spoke of it. After twelve years in the US, Krug realizes that living abroad has only intensified her need to ask the questions she didn’t dare to as a child. Returning to Germany, she visits archives, conducts research, and interviews family members, uncovering in the process the stories of her maternal grandfather, a driving teacher in Karlsruhe during the war, and her father’s brother Franz-Karl, who died as a teenage SS soldier. In this extraordinary quest, “Krug erases the boundaries between comics, scrapbooking, and collage as she endeavors to make sense of 20th-century history, the Holocaust, her German heritage, and her family's place in it all” (The Boston Globe). A highly inventive, “thoughtful, engrossing” (Minneapolis Star-Tribune) graphic memoir, Belonging “packs the power of Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home and David Small’s Stitches” (NPR.org).

Aftermath

Author : Harald Jähner
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0593319745
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Aftermath written by Harald Jähner and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does a nation recover from fascism and turn toward a free society once more? This internationally acclaimed revelatory history—"filled with first-person accounts from articles and diaries" (The New York Times)—of the transformational decade that followed World War II illustrates how Germany raised itself out of the ashes of defeat and reckoned with the corruption of its soul and the horrors of the Holocaust. Featuring over 40 eye-opening black-and-white photographs and posters from the period. The years 1945 to 1955 were a raw, wild decade that found many Germans politically, economically, and morally bankrupt. Victorious Allied forces occupied the four zones that make up present-day Germany. More than half the population was displaced; 10 million newly released forced laborers and several million prisoners of war returned to an uncertain existence. Cities lay in ruins—no mail, no trains, no traffic—with bodies yet to be found beneath the towering rubble. Aftermath received wide acclaim and spent forty-eight weeks on the best-seller list in Germany when it was published there in 2019. It is the first history of Germany's national mentality in the immediate postwar years. Using major global political developments as a backdrop, Harald Jähner weaves a series of life stories into a nuanced panorama of a nation undergoing monumental change. Poised between two eras, this decade is portrayed by Jähner as a period that proved decisive for Germany's future—and one starkly different from how most of us imagine it today.

German Jerusalem

Author : Thomas Sparr
Publisher : Haus Pub.
ISBN 13 : 9781912208616
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book German Jerusalem written by Thomas Sparr and published by Haus Pub.. This book was released on 2021-06-30 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Not I

Author : Joachim Fest
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781635425123
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (251 download)

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Download or read book Not I written by Joachim Fest and published by . This book was released on 2024-08-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Story of Everyday German Peasant Life

Author : David Jon Koehler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781688237384
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book The Story of Everyday German Peasant Life written by David Jon Koehler and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-11 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the story of how 90% of the people in the German lands lived for the past 2000 years. It focused on the everyday lives of otherwise faceless, nameless people. The book deals with how they lived, what they ate and drank, what kind of work they did, how they dressed, their religion and the values, their laws, the family systems, their weapons and warfare, how they traveled, their medical care and how they survived through wars, famines and plagues.