Kategoria BISAC: History >> Modern - 20th Century - Holocaust

This book about the reparations issue (-shilumim- in Hebrew) brings together selected protocols of all debates held regarding conducting negotiations with Germany. This is the first book documenting confidential protocols lately opened to the public. With the elaborate introduction by Yehiam Weitz, this book will serve as a basic textbook for an important chapter not only in Israeli and German history, but also in post-war history in general.

Before Adolf Hitler's rise to power in Germany, there was 1924. This was the year of Hitler's final transformation into the self-proclaimed savior and infallible leader who would interpret and distort Germany's historical traditions to support his vision for the Third Reich.

Everything that would come--the rallies and riots, the single-minded deployment of a catastrophically evil idea--all of it crystallized in one defining year. 1924 was the year that Hitler spent locked away from society, in...

Over two volumes, Mark Levene demonstrates how the relationship between geography, nation, and power came to play a key role in the emergence of genocide...

A cherished house, the family it sheltered, and the true meaning of home

1939: the Nazis have invaded Prague. Little Anna huddles with her doll in the corner of a train car while a German officer shrieks, "You are Jews " Fleeing for their lives, her family has abandoned their elegant house near Prague Castle, bringing their life of privilege to an abrupt halt.

In Part I of this memoir that reads like a novel, we meet Anna's shining and beautiful opera singer mother, her prominent lawyer father, and their circle of friends that includes Albert...

"Highly recommended, ... a haunting book."
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Remembering Dvinsk is a compilation of three sources. First is a reprint of the 1965 book Dvinsk - The Rise and Decline of a Town by Yudel Flior, translated from the Yiddish by Bernard Sachs. Second is the translation of the 1975 class project In Memory of the Community of Dvinsk, to memorialize the Latvian town of Dvinsk by the 8^th grade of the Kol Haverim Junior High School of Haifa; it is a fine collection of history, recollections of former residents, essays, historic photographs, and artwork by the students. Third is an appendix of historic photographs assembled by Eilat...

The theme of this book is the gradual emergence of the Jewish people from total political powerlessness - a development stretching over nearly 100 years and culminating in the consolidation in the State of Israel. Ironically, Professor Bauer demonstrates, events during this period stemmed in part from a belief in the power of the international Jewish community that never existed - but that motivated both the Germans and, after the war, the British.

This is a brief but absorbing study by one of the world's great experts on the Holocaust, who has drawn on a huge body of material to...

Seit dem Kaiserreich war der volkische Nationalismus in der Rechten verankert und gewann wahrend der Weimarer Republik sichtlich an politischer Relevanz. Das Handbuch beschreibt und analysiert den Ubergang vom Aufkommen rechtspopulistischer Wissenschaftsfelder seit der Jahrhundertwende bis hin zur Radikalisierung, Nazifizierung und Mobilisierung von Wissenschaftlern fur die Kriegs-, Umsiedlungs- und Vernichtungsabsichten in den Jahren bis 1944/45. Volkische Forschungsparadigmen wirkten in der Bundesrepublik auch danach noch weiter und konnen bis in die 1980er verfolgt werden. Die...