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  • Empire of Rags and Bones

    Waste and War in Nazi Germany

    by Anne Berg ...
    Paper, bottles, metal scrap, kitchen garbage, rubber, hair, fat, rags, and bones--the Nazi empire demanded its population obsessively collect anything that could be reused or recycled. Entrepreneurs, policy makers, and ordinary citizens conjured up countless schemes to squeeze value from waste or invent new purposes for defunct or spent material, no matter the cost to people or the environment. As ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • On Screen and Off

    Cinema and the Making of Nazi Hamburg

    by Anne Berg ...
    On Screen and Off shows that the making of Nazism was a local affair and the Nazi city a product of more than models and plans emanating from Berlin. In Hamburg, film was key in turning this self-styled "Gateway to the World" into a "Nazi city." The Nazi regime imagined film as a powerful tool to shape National Socialist subjects. In Hamburg, those very subjects chanced upon film culture as a ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • On Screen and Off

    Cinema and the Making of Nazi Hamburg

    by Anne Berg ...
    On Screen and Off shows that the making of Nazism was a local affair and the Nazi city a product of more than models and plans emanating from Berlin. In Hamburg, film was key in turning this self-styled "Gateway to the World" into a "Nazi city." The Nazi regime imagined film as a powerful tool to shape National Socialist subjects. In Hamburg, those very subjects chanced upon film culture as a ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • The Capitalist State and the Construction of Civil Society

    Public Funding and the Regulation of Popular Education in Sweden, 1870–1991

    by Anne Berg, Samuel Edquist ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book challenges the idea that a sharp boundary should be drawn between the state and civil society. Although this idea is extremely common in modern capitalist societies, here it is turned on its head through a study of the ways in which public funding from the 1870s to the 1990s has enabled and shaped collective action in Swedish popular education. Popular education has generally been seen ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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    Empire of Rags and Bones

    Waste and War in Nazi Germany

    by Anne Berg ...
    Narrated by Suzanne Toren ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 46 min

    Paper, kitchen garbage, rubber, hair, fat, rags, and bones—the Nazi empire demanded its population collect anything that could be reused. Citizens conjured up schemes to squeeze value from waste or invent new purposes for defunct or spent material, no matter the cost to people or the environment. As WWII dragged on, rescued loot—much of it waste—clogged transport routes and piled up in warehouses ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • 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

    $34.19 USD

  • 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

    $16.59 USD

  • 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

    $39.69 USD

  • Beyond Totalitarianism

    Stalinism and Nazism Compared

    Edited by Michael Geyer, Sheila Fitzpatrick ...
    In essays written jointly by specialists on Soviet and German history, the contributors to this book rethink and rework the nature of Stalinism and Nazism and establish a new methodology for viewing their histories that goes well beyond the now-outdated twentieth-century models of totalitarianism, ideology, and personality. Doing the labor of comparison gives us the means to ascertain the ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Behind the Berlin Wall

    East Germany and the Frontiers of Power

    by Patrick Major ...
    Few historical changes occur literally overnight, but on 13 August 1961 eighteen million East Germans awoke to find themselves walled in by an edifice which was to become synonymous with the Cold War: the Berlin Wall. This new history rejects traditional, top-down approaches to Cold War politics, exploring instead how the border closure affected ordinary East Germans, from workers and farmers to ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • A Companion to Nazi Germany

    Edited by Shelley Baranowski, Armin Nolzen, Claus-Christian W. Szejnmann ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Companions to World History
    A Deep Exploration of the Rise, Reign, and Legacy of the Third ReichFor its brief existence, National Socialist Germany was one of the most destructive regimes in the history of humankind. Since that time, scholarly debate about its causes has volleyed continuously between the effects of political and military decisions, pathological development, or modernity gone awry. Was terror the defining ... Read more

    $172.00 USD

  • Nazism and German Society, 1933-1945

    Edited by David Crew ...
    Series series Rewriting Histories
    The image of the Third Reich as a monolithic state presiding over the brainwashed, fanatical masses, retains a tenacious grip on the general public's imagination. However, a growing body of research on the social history of the Nazi years has revealed the variety and complexity of the relationships between the Nazi regime and the German people. This volume makes this new research accessible to ... Read more

    $64.99 USD