The Most Valuable Asset Of The Reich 1 1920 1932

Author : Alfred C. Mierzejewski
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 9780807824962
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The most valuable asset of the Reich. 1. 1920 - 1932 written by Alfred C. Mierzejewski and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most Valuable Asset of the Reich: A History of the German National Railway Volume 1, 1920-1932

Author : Alfred C. Mierzejewski
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469620200
Total Pages : 507 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Most Valuable Asset of the Reich written by Alfred C. Mierzejewski and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-03-30 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The largest enterprise in the capitalist world between 1920 and 1932, the Deutsche Reichsbahn (German National Railway) was at the center of events in a period of great turmoil in Germany. In the first detailed history of this important organization, Alfred Mierzejewski presents a sophisticated analysis of the Reichsbahn's operations, finances, and political and social roles. In addition, he uses the story of the Reichsbahn to gain new perspectives on modern German economic and political history. Mierzejewski describes and analyzes the beginnings of the national railway in Germany and the problems that it faced. He examines the Reichsbahn's noncapitalistic, "commonweal" approach to economic management and shows how the railway was used to hold Germany together, especially in the face of Bavarian particularism. Mierzejewski's account also provides unparalleled insight into Germany's reparations policies, demonstrating that Germany was fully capable of paying the Dawes annuities and that the government's claims that reparations paid by the Reichsbahn hurt both the railway and Germany were groundless. A second volume will cover the period from 1933 to 1945.

Author : Alfred C. Mierzejewski
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807825747
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Most Valuable Asset of the Reich: 1933-1945 written by Alfred C. Mierzejewski and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The largest enterprise in the capitalist world between 1920 and 1945, the Deutsche Reichsbahn (German National Railway) was at the center of events in a period of great turmoil in Germany. In this, the second volume of his comprehensive history of the Rei

Author : Alfred C. Mierzejewski
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Most Valuable Asset of the Reich: 1920-1932 written by Alfred C. Mierzejewski and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jan Musekamp
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253068940
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shifting Lines, Entangled Borderlands written by Jan Musekamp and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-05 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing multiple mobilities, entangled borderlands, microhistory and space, and human and nonhuman actors, Jan Musekamp demonstrates how an inner-Prussian railroad line turned into a transnational force, overcoming borders and connecting Europeans in a time of rising nationalism. Shifting Lines, Entangled Borderlands investigates the dichotomy between a globalizing world and tighter border control in nineteenth-century Central and Eastern Europe, focusing on the Royal Prussian Eastern Railroad (Ostbahn) between the 1830s and 1930s. The line was initially planned as a major internal modernizing project to connect Prussia's capital of Berlin to East Prussia's provincial capital of Königsberg (today's Kaliningrad). Soon, the Ostbahn connected to the growing Imperial Russian railroad network, thus becoming a backbone of European East–West transportation in trade, tourism, technological exchange, and migration. The First World War temporarily disrupted and reconfigured existing networks, adapting them to new political regimes and borders. However, World War II and its aftermath altered mobility patterns more permanently, dividing not only the Ostbahn tracks but the whole continent for decades to come. From border towns and major cities to unique structures, such as stations or bridges, this volume analyzes the obvious and not-so-obvious nodes of the Central and Eastern European rail network—and the spaces in between.

Author : Mary Kathryn Barbier
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 1461750849
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book D-Day Deception written by Mary Kathryn Barbier and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2005-03-04 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before landing in France on D-Day, June 6, 1944, the Allies executed an elaborate deception plan designed to prevent the Germans from concentrating forces in Normandy. The lesser-known first part, Fortitude North, suggested a threat to Norway. The more famous Fortitude South indicated that the invasion would occur at the Pas de Calais rather than Normandy, largely by creating a fictitious army group under Gen. George S. Patton. While historians have generally praised Operation Fortitude, Barbier takes a more nuanced view, arguing that the deception, while implemented well, affected the invasion's outcome only minimally. A much-needed reassessment of the deception operation that preceded the Allied invasion of Europe in World War II Involves double agents, fake equipment, phantom units, and famous commanders

Author : Thomas Zeller
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 0857452266
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Driving Germany written by Thomas Zeller and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2007-02-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in Association with the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C. Hitler's autobahn was more than just the pet project of an infrastructure-friendly dictator. It was supposed to revolutionize the transportation sector in Germany, connect the metropoles with the countryside, and encourage motorization. The propaganda machinery of the Third Reich turned the autobahn into a hyped-up icon of the dictatorship. One of the claims was that the roads would reconcile nature and technology. Rather than destroying the environment, they would embellish the landscape. Many historians have taken this claim at face value and concluded that the Nazi regime harbored an inbred love of nature. In this book, the author argues that such conclusions are misleading. Based on rich archival research, the book provides the first scholarly account of the landscape of the autobahn.

Author : Marc Clement
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3759781756
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tireless Engine written by Marc Clement and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-08-14 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Second World War – an unparalleled catastrophe. With millions of victims, destruction and immeasurable suffering. But without this catastrophe, the ‘light freight locomotive’ of the Deutsche Reichsbahn would probably never have achieved the importance it has today. It would probably never have become the most built steam locomotive in the world. With probably the most modern production logistics of that time and with the help of forced labour, more than 10,000 units were built. After the war they became a decisive factor in the reconstruction of Europe. More than 80 years later traces could be found in at least 25 countries and on three continents. Find out more about the history of this locomotive, which had a major impact on the railways of the continent.

Author : Theo Balderston
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521777605
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Economics and Politics in the Weimar Republic written by Theo Balderston and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-08-29 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a succinct overview of the turbulent economic history of the Weimar Republic.

Author : Felix Jeschke
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1789207770
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Iron Landscapes written by Felix Jeschke and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2021-08-13 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the newly formed country of Czechoslovakia built an ambitious national rail network out of what remained of the obsolete Habsburg system. While conceived as a means of knitting together a young and ethnically diverse nation-state, these railways were by their very nature a transnational phenomenon, and as such they simultaneously articulated and embodied a distinctive Czechoslovak cosmopolitanism. Drawing on evidence ranging from government documents to newsreels to train timetables, Iron Landscapes gives a nuanced account of how planners and authorities balanced these two imperatives, bringing the cultural history of infrastructure into dialogue with the spatial history of Central Europe.