The history of the Holocaust keeps being written and rewritten in ever greater detail, but almost always by Jews. Wolgang Benz's book makes an important contribution by bringing the German perspective to this horrific event. A masterpiece of compression, the books covers all the major topics and issues, from the Wannsee Conference of January 20, 1942, to stripping Jews of their civil rights, from the establishment of ghettos to the creation of killing centers and the development of an efficient system for extermination. The book also includes a chapter on "The Other Genocide: The Persecution...
The history of the Holocaust keeps being written and rewritten in ever greater detail, but almost always by Jews. Wolgang Benz's book makes an importa...
The history of the Holocaust keeps being written and rewritten in ever greater detail, but almost always by Jews. Wolgang Benz's book makes an important contribution by bringing the German perspective to this horrific event. A masterpiece of compression, the books covers all the major topics and issues, from the Wannsee Conference of January 20, 1942, to stripping Jews of their civil rights, from the establishment of ghettos to the creation of killing centers and the development of an efficient system for extermination. The book also includes a chapter on "The Other Genocide: The Persecution...
The history of the Holocaust keeps being written and rewritten in ever greater detail, but almost always by Jews. Wolgang Benz's book makes an importa...
This well-illustrated, highly accessible book at last gives general readers and students a compact, yet comprehensive and authoritative history of the twelve years of the Third Reich--from political takeover of January 30, 1933 to the German capitulation of May 1945. Originally published to rave reviews in Germany, A Concise History of the Third Reich describes the establishment of the totalitarian dictatorship, the domestic and foreign politics of the regime, everyday life and terror in National Socialist Germany, the events leading to World War II and the war itself, various forms of...
This well-illustrated, highly accessible book at last gives general readers and students a compact, yet comprehensive and authoritative history of the...
At the age of fifty and faced with severe depression, Salomea Genin began to write about her family's history. From stories both told and untold, Genin recreates the lives of the Zwerling family in the Jewish quarter of Lvov: Shulim, her strict and deeply religious grandfather; his patient but tired wife Dvoire; and his beautiful, rebellious daughter Shayndl, who marries a dreamer against her father's wishes and without his blessing, and who will later become Salomea Genin's mother. Genin's richly detailed portrait shows the effects of a family's struggles--personal, religious, social,...
At the age of fifty and faced with severe depression, Salomea Genin began to write about her family's history. From stories both told and untold, Geni...
Trap with a Green Fence is Richard Glazar's memoir of deportation, escape, and survival. In economical prose, Glazar weaves a description of Treblinka and its operations into his evocation of himself and his fellow prisoners as denizens of an underworld. Glazar gives us compelling images of these horrors in a tone that remains thoughtful but sober, affecting but simple.
Trap with a Green Fence is Richard Glazar's memoir of deportation, escape, and survival. In economical prose, Glazar weaves a description of Tr...
"Lost in a Labyrinth of Red Tape" is the story of one family's desperate attempts to emigrate from Nazi Germany. The Fruhaufs faced enormous obstacles with the German and foreign authorities when they attempted to take advantage of matriarch Hilde Fruhauf's U.S. citizenship. At the mercy of various agencies and shippers, they became more and more entangled in the red tape of the title. The daughter went into hiding and fled to Belgium, where she was hidden by the Resistance and survived the war. Tragically, the remaining members of her family failed to emigrate, and were killed by the...
"Lost in a Labyrinth of Red Tape" is the story of one family's desperate attempts to emigrate from Nazi Germany. The Fruhaufs faced enormous obstacles...
At the age of fifty and faced with severe depression, Salomea Genin began to write about her family's history and her own. From stories both told and untold, Genin recreates the lives of the Zwerling family in the Jewish quarter of Lemberg (Lvov): There is her strict, deeply religious grandfather, Shulim, the patriarch; his patient but tired wife, Dvoire; and his beautiful and rebellious daughter, Shayndl, who marries the dreamer Avram Genin against her father's wishes and without his blessing, and who will later become Salomea Genin's mother. Genin details her grandparents' and parents'...
At the age of fifty and faced with severe depression, Salomea Genin began to write about her family's history and her own. From stories both told and ...
Vier international renommierte Herausgeber verwirklichen zusammen mit einem neuen Team ausgewiesener Historiker ein Konzept, das den tiefgreifenden Vernderungen der Geschichtswissenschaft gerecht wird. Die vier Groepochen - Sptantike bis zum Mittelalter; Frhe Neuzeit bis zum Ende des Alten Reiches; das 19. und das 20. Jahrhundert - werden in 24 Bnden umfassend dargestellt.Die Leser des Gebhardt werden grndlich ber den aktuellsten Stand der Forschung informiert. Die deutsche Geschichte wird nicht mehr nur national, sondern in ihren europischen und weltumspannenden Zusammenhngen verstanden....
Vier international renommierte Herausgeber verwirklichen zusammen mit einem neuen Team ausgewiesener Historiker ein Konzept, das den tiefgreifenden Ve...
