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Author : Folke Bernadotte
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258005177
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (51 download)
Download or read book The Curtain Falls written by Folke Bernadotte and published by . This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Folke Bernadotte
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786255731
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (862 download)
Download or read book The Curtain Falls: The Last Days Of The Third Reich written by Folke Bernadotte and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: COUNT FOLKE BERNADOTTE attracted the whole world’s attention during the hectic months that preceded the total collapse of the Third Reich and the capitulation of the German forces. About the middle of February 1945 he set out from Sweden for Germany to try to establish contact with Heinrich Himmler and induce him to allow all Danes and Norwegians in German concentration camps to be transported to Sweden for internment until the end of the war. In this book, which is based on his own notes and reports, Count Bernadotte describes his various missions, which were repeated up to the very day of the surrender, his meetings with Himmler and other leading figures of the Nazi regime, and gives Intimate close-ups of the events and the weird atmosphere in which the last act of the drama of the Third Reich was played. He explains, further, how his project, which originally had had a purely humanitarian character, developed a political one of great importance when, long past the eleventh hour, he was asked to convey, via the Swedish Government, Himmler’s offer of surrender to the western Powers. After the war, Bernadotte was unanimously chosen by the victorious powers to be the United Nations Security Council mediator in the Arab-Israeli conflict of 1947-1948. He was assassinated in Jerusalem in 1948 by members of the underground Zionist group Lehi while pursuing his official duties.
Author : Comte Folke Bernadotte (grefve.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (458 download)
Download or read book The Curtain Falls written by Comte Folke Bernadotte (grefve.) and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Count Folke Bernadotte
Publisher : Frontline Books
ISBN 13 : 1848325223
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (483 download)
Download or read book Last Days of the Reich written by Count Folke Bernadotte and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2009-01-30 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Count Folke Bernadotte was one of those rare figures in war ' a man trusted by both sides alike. Shortly before the war ended, Bernadotte was the leader of a rescue operation to transfer western European inmates to Swedish hospitals in the so-called 'White Buses'. This work through the Swedish Red Cross involved mercy missions to Germany and it was through this link that Bernadotte came into touch with prominent Nazi leaders in the 1940s. During the last months of the war, Bernadotte was introduced to Heinrich Himmler ' one of the most sinister men of the Third Reich. Bernadotte was asked by Himmler to approach the Allies with the proposal of a complete surrender to Britain and the US ' providing Germany could continue to fight the Soviet Union. The offer was passed to Winston Churchill and Harry Truman, but rejected. The course of these negotiations is narrated in this book with a simple, compelling clarity and thrilling immediacy. This new edition of Bernadotte's memoir includes a Preface by his two sons, and an Introduction by a leading Swedish author discussing Count Bernadotte's wartime record and his post-war assassination.
Author : Folke Bernadotte
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (243 download)
Download or read book The Fall of the Curtain written by Folke Bernadotte and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Katrin Paehler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107157196
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Download or read book The Third Reich's Intelligence Services written by Katrin Paehler and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-24 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gaining a foothold -- Rising star -- Intelligence man -- Office VI and its forerunner -- Competing visions: Office VI and the Abwehr -- Doing intelligence: Italy as an example -- Alternative universes: Office VI and the Auswärtige Amt -- Schellenberg, Himmler, and the quest for "peace"--Postwar
Author : Robert Watson
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0306824906
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (68 download)
Download or read book The Nazi Titanic written by Robert Watson and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Theodore P. Savas
Publisher : Casemate
ISBN 13 : 1935149687
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (351 download)
Download or read book Nazi Millionaires written by Theodore P. Savas and published by Casemate. This book was released on 2007-07-24 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The untold story of Nazi officers who escaped Germany after WWII with stolen treasure—and the Allied investigation to get it back. During the final days of World War II, German SS officers crammed trains, cars, and trucks full of gold, currency, and jewels, and headed for the mountains of Austria. Most of these men were eventually apprehended, but many managed to evade capture. The intensive postwar Allied investigation that followed recovered only a sliver of their treasure. The true story of the men who escaped, and the riches that went missing, is finally revealed in Nazi Millionaires. This groundbreaking study, based on previously unpublished and newly declassified documents, offers insight into the minds and methods of these SS thieves. Readers are taken inside the Reich Security Main Office where they worked and the Allied investigation into their activities to discover what happened to the vast wealth they looted from Europe’s Jews. Nazi Millionaires tells a remarkable tale of greed, fraud, treachery, and murder.
Author : Karen Larsen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 140087579X
Total Pages : 603 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book History of Norway written by Karen Larsen and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 603 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A distinguished one-volume history of Norway, from the Vikings through the Resistance of World War II. "Full, objective, and thoroughly readable history, rich in content.... The result is a well-rounded treatment of Norwegian life—political, religious, economic, and intellectual—during the long centuries.... Easily the most important history of Norway in the English language since Gjerset."—N. Y. Times Originally published in 1948. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Daniel Blatman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674050495
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Death Marches written by Daniel Blatman and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blatman writes about the end phase of the German concentration camp system when the Nazis, realizing that they were losing the war, were faced with the enormous problem of what to do with the people being held captive. As these camps were being evacuated, the collapse of the front in Poland and the advance of the Red Army generated frantic waves of flight and the evacuation of millions of civilians and soldiers. The panicky retreat created conditions under which prisoners were murdered in horrific death marches. Gas chambers in faraway camps were no longer in use, and now the slaughters took place on the very doorsteps of ordinary German civilians' homes and in the streets German and Austrian towns. Unknown numbers of ordinary civilians across the dissolving Reich, fearing for the fate of their families and property, participated in the lethal eruption of violence. The book is divided into two sections. The first part provides an detailed overview of the camp system and a thorough chronological treatment of the camp evacuations during the winter of 1944-45 and the spring of 1945. The second part is a case study of the atrocity in the German town of Gardelegen where over 1000 prisoners were murdered, along with about 400 in the surrounding villages. This event serves as a focused example of the breakdown of the evacuation plans at the end of the war.
Author : Gerald Steinacher
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191014982
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Humanitarians at War written by Gerald Steinacher and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-16 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Geneva-based International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is one of the world's oldest, most prominent, and revered aid organizations. But at the end of World War II things could not have looked more different. Under fire for its failure to speak out against the Holocaust or to extend substantial assistance to Jews trapped in Nazi camps across Europe, the ICRC desperately needed to salvage its reputation in order to remain relevant in the post-war world. Indeed, the whole future of Switzerland's humanitarian flagship looked to hang in the balance at this time. Torn between defending Swiss neutrality and battling Communist critics in the early Cold War, the Red Cross leadership in Geneva emerged from the world war with a new commitment to protecting civilians caught in the crossfire of conflict. Yet they did so while interfering with Allied de-nazification efforts in Germany and elsewhere, and coming to the defence of former Nazis at the Nuremberg Trials. Not least, they provided the tools for many of Hitler's former henchmen, notorious figures such as Joseph Mengele and Adolf Eichmann, to slip out of Europe and escape prosecution - behaviour which did little to silence those critics in the Allied powers who unfavourably compared the 'shabby' neutrality of the Swiss with the 'good neutrality' of the Swedes, their eager rivals for leadership in international humanitarian initiatives. However, in spite of all this, by the end of the decade, the ICRC had emerged triumphant from its moment of existential crisis, navigating the new global order to reaffirm its leadership in world humanitarian affairs against the challenge of the Swedes, and playing a formative role in rewriting the rules of war in the Geneva Conventions of 1949. This uncompromising new history tells the remarkable and intriguing story of how the ICRC achieved this - successfully escaping the shadow of its ambiguous wartime record to forge a new role and a new identity in the post-1945 world.
Author : Jeffrey Gurock
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136675280
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)
Download or read book America, American Jews, and the Holocaust written by Jeffrey Gurock and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume incorporates studies of the persecution of the Jews in Germany, the respective responses of the German-American Press and the American-Jewish Press during the emergence of Nazism, and the subsequent issues of rescue during the holocaust and policies towards the displaced.
Author : Michael Robert Marrus
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110976196
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Perspectives on the Holocaust written by Michael Robert Marrus and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-08-02 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition is the first of its kind to offer a basic collection of facsimile, English language, historical articles on all aspects of the extermination of the European Jews. A total of 300 articles from 84 journals and collections allows the reader to gain an overview of this field. The edition both provides access to the immense, rich array of scholarly articles published after 1960 on the history of the Holocaust and encourages critical assessment of conflicting interpretations of these horrifying events. The series traces Nazi persecution of Jews before the implementation of the "Final Solution", demonstrates how the Germans coordinated anti-Jewish activities in conquered territories, and sheds light on the victims in concentration camps, ending with the liberation of the concentration camp victims and articles on the trials of war criminals. The publications covered originate from the years 1950 to 1987. Included are authors such as Jakob Katz, Saul Friedländer, Eberhard Jäckel, Bruno Bettelheim and Herbert A. Strauss.
Author : Marie Louise Seeberg
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317028651
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Holocaust as Active Memory written by Marie Louise Seeberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ways in which memories of the Holocaust have been communicated, represented and used have changed dramatically over the years. From such memories being neglected and silenced in most of Europe until the 1970s, each country has subsequently gone through a process of cultural, political and pedagogical awareness-rising. This culminated in the ’Stockholm conference on Holocaust commemoration’ in 2000, which resulted in the constitution of a task force dedicated to transmitting and teaching knowledge and awareness about the Holocaust on a global scale. The silence surrounding private memories of the Holocaust has also been challenged in many families. What are the catalysts that trigger a change from silence to discussion of the Holocaust? What happens when we talk its invisibility away? How are memories of the Holocaust reflected in different social environments? Who asks questions about memories of the Holocaust, and which answers do they find, at which point in time and from which past and present positions related to their societies and to the phenomenon in question? This book highlights the contexts in which such questions are asked. By introducing the concept of ’active memory’, this book contributes to recent developments in memory studies, where memory is increasingly viewed not in isolation but as a dynamic and relational part of human lives.
Author : Shelley Emling
Publisher : ECW Press
ISBN 13 : 1773053086
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (73 download)
Download or read book A Forgotten Hero written by Shelley Emling and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of Folke Bernadotte’s heroic rescue of 30,000 prisoners during WWII In one of the most amazing rescues of WWII, the Swedish head of the Red Cross rescued more than 30,000 people from concentration camps in the last three months of the war. Folke Bernadotte did so by negotiating with the enemy — shaking hands with Heinrich Himmler, the head of the Gestapo. Time was of the essence, as Hitler had ordered the destruction of all camps and everyone in them. A Forgotten Hero chronicles Folke’s life and extraordinary journey, from his family history and early years to saving thousands of lives during WWII and his untimely assassination in 1948. A straightforward and compelling narrative, A Forgotten Hero sheds light on this important and heroic historical figure.
Author : David M. Crowe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429964986
Total Pages : 539 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book The Holocaust written by David M. Crowe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book details the history of the Jews, their two-millennia-old struggle with a larger Christian world, and the historical anti-Semitism that created the environment that helped pave the way for the Holocaust. It helps students develop the interpretative skills in the fields of history and law.
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Author : Spencer C. Tucker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1851099697
Total Pages : 2730 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (51 download)
Download or read book World War II [5 volumes] written by Spencer C. Tucker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 2730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With more than 1,700 cross-referenced entries covering every aspect of World War II, the events and developments of the era, and myriad related subjects as well as a documents volume, this is the most comprehensive reference work available on the war. This encyclopedia represents a single source of authoritative information on World War II that provides accessible coverage of the causes, course, and consequences of the war. Its introductory overview essays and cross-referenced A–Z entries explain how various sources of friction culminated in a second worldwide conflict, document the events of the war and why individual battles were won and lost, and identify numerous ways the war has permanently changed the world. The coverage addresses the individuals, campaigns, battles, key weapons systems, strategic decisions, and technological developments of the conflict, as well as the diplomatic, economic, and cultural aspects of World War II. The five-volume set provides comprehensive information that gives readers insight into the reasons for the war's direction and outcome. Readers will understand the motivations behind Japan's decision to attack the United States, appreciate how the concentration of German military resources on the Eastern Front affected the war's outcome, understand the major strategic decisions of the war and the factors behind them, grasp how the Second Sino-Japanese War contributed to the start of World War II, and see the direct impact of new military technology on the outcomes of the battles during the conflict. The lengthy documents volume represents a valuable repository of additional information for student research.
