After The Reich

Author : Giles MacDonogh
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465006205
Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book After the Reich written by Giles MacDonogh and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2009-02-24 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The shocking history of the brutal occupation of Germany after the Second World War When the Third Reich collapsed in 1945, Germany was a nation in tatters, in many places literally flattened by bombs. In the ensuing occupation, hundreds of thousands of women were raped. Hundreds of thousands of Germans and German-speakers died in the course of brutal deportations from Eastern Europe. By the end of the year, denied access to any foreign aid, Germany was literally starving to death. An astonishing 2.5 million ordinary Germans were killed in the post-Reich era. A shocking account of a massive and brutal military occupation, After the Reich draws on an array of contemporary first-person accounts of the period to offer a bold reframing of the history of World War II and its aftermath.

Author : Giles MacDonogh
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1787381056
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Germany written by Giles MacDonogh and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the Second World War, Germany was an international pariah. Today, it has become a beacon of the Western world. But what makes this extraordinary nation tick? On Germany tells the story of a country reborn, from defeat in 1945 to the fall of the Berlin Wall, the painstaking reunification of "the two Germanies" and the Republic's return to the world stage as an economic colossus and European leader. Giles MacDonogh restores these momentous events of world history to their German context, from the food and drink that accompanied them to the deep-rooted provincialism behind the national story. Full of vivid and often whimsical vignettes of German life, this is a Germanophile's homage to the culture and people of a country he has known for decades.

Author : Harald Jähner
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0593319745
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( 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.

Author : Konrad H Jarausch
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195374002
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book After Hitler written by Konrad H Jarausch and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Hitler seeks to explain the breathtaking transformation of the Germans from the defeated National Socialist accomplices and Holocaust perpetrators of 1945 to the civilized, democratic, and prosperous people of today, living in a reunited country that plays a leading role in the integration of Europe.

Author : Albert Speer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781857998566
Total Pages : 832 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inside the Third Reich written by Albert Speer and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'INSIDE THE THIRD REICH is not only the most significant personal German account to come out of the war but the most revealing document on the Hitler phenomenon yet written. It takes the reader inside Nazi Germany on four different levels: Hitler's inner circle, National Socialism as a whole, the area of wartime production and the inner struggle of Albert Speer. The author does not try to make excuses, even by implication, and is unrelenting toward himself and his associates... Speer's full-length portrait of Hitler has unnerving reality. The Fuhrer emerges as neither an incompetent nor a carpet-gnawing madman but as an evil genius of warped conceits endowed with an ineffable personal magic' NEW YORK TIMES

Author : Julia Boyd
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1681778432
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Travelers in the Third Reich written by Julia Boyd and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-08-07 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travelers in the Third Reich is an extraordinary history of the rise of the Nazis based on fascinating first-hand accounts, drawing together a multitude of voices and stories, including politicians, musicians, diplomats, schoolchildren, communists, scholars, athletes, poets, fascists, artists, tourists, and even celebrities like Charles Lindbergh and Samuel Beckett. Their experiences create a remarkable three-dimensional picture of Germany under Hitler—one so palpable that the reader will feel, hear, even breathe the atmosphere.These are the accidental eyewitnesses to history. Disturbing, absurd, moving, and ranging from the deeply trivial to the deeply tragic, their tales give a fresh insight into the complexities of the Third Reich, its paradoxes, and its ultimate destruction.

Author : Peter Fritzsche
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198871120
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hitler's First Hundred Days written by Peter Fritzsche and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of how Germans came to embrace the Third Reich.Germany in early 1933 was a country ravaged by years of economic depression and increasingly polarized between the extremes of left and right. Over the spring of that year, Germany was transformed from a republic, albeit a seriously faltering one, into a one-party dictatorship. In Hitler's First Hundred Days, award-winning historian PeterFritzsche examines the pivotal moments during this fateful period in which the Nazis apparently won over the majority of Germans to join them in their project to construct the Third Reich. Fritzsche scrutinizes the events of theperiod - the elections and mass arrests, the bonfires and gunfire, the patriotic rallies and anti-Jewish boycotts - to understand both the terrifying power that the National Socialists came to exert over ordinary Germans and the powerful appeal of the new era that they promised.

Author : Ladislas Farago
Publisher : Avon Books
ISBN 13 : 9780380004072
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aftermath written by Ladislas Farago and published by Avon Books. This book was released on 1975 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gavriel D. Rosenfeld
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108497497
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fourth Reich written by Gavriel D. Rosenfeld and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-14 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first history of postwar fears of a Nazi return to power in Western political, intellectual, and cultural life.

Author : William L. Shirer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1272 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich written by William L. Shirer and published by . This book was released on 2011-10-11 with total page 1272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of Nazi Germany.