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  • Science & Emotions after 1945

    A Transatlantic Perspective

    Edited by Frank Biess, Daniel M. Gross ...
    Through the first half of the twentieth century, emotions were a legitimate object of scientific study across a variety of disciplines. After 1945, however, in the wake of Nazi irrationalism, emotions became increasingly marginalized and postwar rationalism took central stage. Emotion remained on the scene of scientific and popular study but largely at the fringes as a behavioral reflex, or as a ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Homecomings

    Returning POWs and the Legacies of Defeat in Postwar Germany

    by Frank Biess ...
    This book focuses on one of the most visible and important consequences of total defeat in postwar Germany: the return to East and West Germany of the two million German soldiers and POWs who spent an extended period in Soviet captivity. These former prisoners made up a unique segment of German society. They were both soldiers in the war of racial annihilation on the Eastern front and then ... Read more

    $58.29 CAD

  • Explorations and Entanglements

    Germans in Pacific Worlds from the Early Modern Period to World War I

    Edited by Frank Biess, Ulrike Strasser, Hartmut Berghoff ...
    Series Book 22 - Studies in German History
    Traditionally, Germany has been considered a minor player in Pacific history: its presence there was more limited than that of other European nations, and whereas its European rivals established themselves as imperial forces beginning in the early modern era, Germany did not seriously pursue colonialism until the nineteenth century. Yet thanks to recent advances in the field emphasizing ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

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  • Heinrich Himmler: A Life

    A Life

    by Peter Longerich ...
    As head of the SS, chief of police, 'Reichskommissar for the Consolidation of Germanness', and Reich Interior Minister, Heinrich Himmler enjoyed a position of almost unparalleled power and responsibility in Nazi Germany. Perhaps more than any other single Nazi leader aside from Hitler, his name has become a byword for the terror, persecution, and destruction that characterized the Third Reich. His ... Read more

    $24.79 CAD

  • Backing Hitler:Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany

    Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany

    by Robert Gellately ...
    The Nazis never won a majority in free elections, but soon after Hitler took power most people turned away from democracy and backed the Nazi regime. Hitler won growing support even as he established the secret police (Gestapo) and concentration camps. What has been in dispute for over fifty years is what the Germans knew about these camps, and in what ways were they involved in the persecution of ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • Concentration Camps in Nazi Germany

    The New Histories

    Edited by Nikolaus Wachsmann, Jane Caplan ...
    The notorious concentration camp system was a central pillar of the Third Reich, supporting the Nazi war against political, racial and social outsiders whilst also intimidating the population at large. Established during the first months of the Nazi dictatorship in 1933, several million men, women and children of many nationalities had been incarcerated in the camps by the end of the Second World ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Believe and Destroy

    Intellectuals in the SS War Machine

    by Christian Ingrao ...
    There were eighty of them. They were young, clever and cultivated; they were barely in their thirties when Adolf Hitler came to power. Their university studies in law, economics, linguistics, philosophy and history marked them out for brilliant careers. They chose to join the repressive bodies of the Third Reich, especially the Security Service (SD) and the Nazi Party’s elite protection unit, the ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • After Hitler

    Recivilizing Germans, 1945-1995

    by Konrad H. Jarausch ...
    In the spring of 1945, as the German army fell in defeat and the world first learned of the unspeakable crimes of the Holocaust, few would have expected that, only half a century later, the Germans would emerge as a prosperous people at the forefront of peaceful European integration. How did the Germans manage to recover from the shattering experience of defeat in World War II and rehabilitate ... Read more

    $33.59 CAD

  • Broken Lives

    How Ordinary Germans Experienced the 20th Century

    by Konrad H. Jarausch ...
    The gripping stories of ordinary Germans who lived through World War II, the Holocaust, and Cold War partition—but also recovery, reunification, and rehabilitationBroken Lives is a gripping account of the twentieth century as seen through the eyes of ordinary Germans who came of age under Hitler and whose lives were scarred and sometimes destroyed by what they saw and did.Drawing on six dozen ... Read more

    $25.29 CAD

  • Hitler's Army : Soldiers Nazis and War in the Third Reich

    Soldiers, Nazis, and War in the Third Reich

    by Omer Bartov ...
    As the Cold War followed on the heels of the Second World War as the Nuremburg Trials faded in the shadow of the Iron Curtain both the Germans and the West were quick to accept the idea that Hitler's army had been no SS no Gestapo that it was a professional force little touched by Nazi politics. But in this compelling account Omer Bartov reveals a very different history as he probes the experience ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Education in Nazi Germany

    by Dr. Lisa Pine ...
    Shaping the minds of the future generation was pivotal to the Nazi regime in order to ensure the continuing success of the Third Reich. Through the curriculum, the elite schools and youth groups, the Third Reich waged a war for the minds of the young. Hitler understood the importance of education in creating self-identity, inculcating national pride, promoting 'racial purity' and building loyalty ... Read more

    $51.49 CAD

  • Holocaust

    The Nazi Persecution and Murder of the Jews

    by Peter Longerich ...
    A comprehensive history of the Nazi persecution and murder of European Jews, paying detailed attention to an unrivalled range sources. Focusing clearly on the perpetrators and exploring closely the process of decision making, Longerich argues that anti-Semitism was not a mere by-product of the Nazis' political mobilization or an attempt to deflect the attention of the masses, but that anti-Jewish ... Read more

    $11.59 CAD