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Eva Braun era una giovane donna di Monaco che proveniva da una famiglia borghese come molte altre. L'incontro con Adolf Hitler, l'uomo più potente della Germania nazista, condizionò la sua esistenza e tutte e sue scelte. Eva nutrì per il Fuhrer un amore incondizionato, nonostante lui la tenesse lontana da Berlino e dalla sua vita politica e si rifiutasse di prenderla in moglie o anche solo di mostrarsi pubblicamente insieme a lei.

Negli ultimi cinquant'anni gli storici hanno analizzato ogni dettaglio della vita di Adolf Hitler e del regime nazista...

An unknown story of an unlikely hero--the US consul who best analyzed the threat posed by Nazi Germany and predicted the horrors to come In 1929, Raymond Geist went to Berlin as a consul and handled visas for emigrants to the US. Just before Hitler came to power, Geist expedited the exit of...

Fin dalla loro fondazione, le Schutzstaffeln (SS), l’unità paramilitare del Partito Nazista, create da Adolf Hitler nel 1925, assunsero risvolti inquietanti. Ben presto divennero, soprattutto grazie all’azione di Heinrich Himmler e del suo braccio destro Reinhard Heydrich, sinonimo di terrore, violenza, efferatezza e morte. Durante la Seconda guerra mondiale le SS si trasformarono in una forza letale, macchiandosi di numerosi crimini di guerra e diventarono la macchina organizzatrice e sterminatrice della brutale Soluzione Finale dei campi di concentramento.

Gli eventi che portarono Adolf Hitler al potere furono il frutto di un contesto storico preciso e di una concatenazione di errori, emergenze e sottovalutazioni. Li scoprirete in questo primo volume della “Breve storia del Terzo Reich” insieme al racconto della storia del popolo tedesco dalle origini fino alla crisi della Repubblica di Weimar e all’avvento e all’affermazione del Terzo Reich. Inoltre, ogni volume contiene le “Appendici alla Breve Storia del Terzo Reich”: documenti ufficiali del Terzo Reich o testi e testimonianze originali e autentiche dell’epoca storica dominata da Adolf Hitler.

Angela Merkel è indubbiamente il simbolo della Germania del nuovo millennio. Una passione per la politica, una carriera duratura con alti e bassi, scelte difficili e grandi doti di leadership. In questo breve viaggio nella vita politica di Angela Merkel seguiremo la sua carriera nel partito e alla guida di uno degli Stati chiave della nuova Unione Europea. Alla vigilia delle elezioni in Germania, previste per l'autunno del 2017, la Merkel si trova forse nel momento più delicato della propria carriera, con un’economia nazionale per la prima volta in recessione dopo anni, e con il rischio di vedere sfaldata la complessa trama di relazioni e dipendenze intessuta fino ad ora dalla sua cancelleria.

Blitzkrieg, “Guerra Lampo”: è lo strumento militare vincente che Adolf Hitler utilizzò come strumento di espansione e conquista del Terzo Reich. Con la Blitzkrieg il Fuhrer si impadronì letteralmente in un lampo di gran parte dell’Europa: dall’Austria alla Cecoslovacchia, dalla Polonia alla Francia, nel 1940 l’avanzata del Terzo Reich sembrava inarrestabile.

In this powerful audiobook, first published in 1943, Amy Buller recounts the hopes and fears of Germans engulfed in the rise of fascism during the 1930s. During the years leading up to the outbreak of war, Buller defied her critics and social norms by leading delegations of British intelligentsia to Germany to learn about and confront the appeal of the Nazis.

Wilhelm Canaris was appointed by Hitler to head the Abwehr (the German secret service) 18 months after the Nazis came to power. But Canaris turned against the Fuhrer and the Nazi regime, believing that Hitler would start a war Germany could not win. In 1938 he was involved in an attempted coup, undermined by British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. In 1940 he sabotaged the German plan to invade England, and fed General Franco vital information that helped him keep Spain out of the war.

Based on a lifetime living in and reporting on Germany and Central Europe, award-winning journalist and author Peter Millar tackles the fascinating and complex story of the people at the heart of our continent. Focussing on nine cities (only six of which are in the Germany of today), he takes us on a zigzag ride back through time via the fall of the Berlin Wall through the horrors of two world wars and the patchwork states of the Middle Ages to the splendour of Charlemagne and the fall of Rome.

It is sometimes difficult to remember that in war there are innocents on all sides who suffer. German citizens who had no connection to the atrocities committed by their countrymen nonetheless endured great hardships because of them.

The astounding memoir of a World War II veteran who spent three and a half years in the slave-labor camps made famous by The Bridge on the River Kwai.

Loet Velmans was 17 when the Germans invaded Holland. He and his family fled to London on the Dutch Coast Guard cutter Seaman’s Hope and then sailed to the Dutch East Indies - now Indonesia - where he joined the Dutch army. In March 1942, the Japanese invaded the archipelago and made prisoners of the Dutch soldiers. For the next three and a half years Velmans and his fellow POWs toiled in slave-labor camps.

Fremdenfeindlichkeit und Hass auf "den Staat": Verlieren wir den Osten Deutschlands? Das Buch sucht Antworten auf das Warum der Radikalisierung, ohne die aktuell bestimmende Opfererzählung nach 1989 zu bedienen. Es erzählt von den Schweigegeboten nach dem Ende der NS-Zeit, der Geschichtsklitterung der DDR und den politischen Umschreibungen nach der deutschen Einheit. Verdrängung und Verleugnung prägen die Gesellschaft bis ins Private hinein, wie die Autorin mit der eigenen Familiengeschichte eindrucksvoll erzählt.

In "Spieler-Gegenspieler. Eine Deutsch-Deutsche Nachkriegsgeschichte" erzählt der Autor und Journalist Claudius Crönert die Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland anhand einiger ihrer wichtigsten Protagonisten. In 24 Porträts zu je 30 Minuten wird das Panorama eines Staates entworfen, der auf den Trümmern des Zweiten Weltkriegs aufgebaut wurde. Ein Staat, der von der NS-Vergangenheit vieler seiner Verantwortungsträger lange nichts wissen wollte, an den Westen gebunden war und den Ausgleich mit dem Osten suchte und in dem immer wieder Menschen für ganz andere und neue Ideen stritten.

Die Jahre 1919 bis 1929 markieren eine Epoche unvergleichlicher geistiger Kreativität, in der Gedanken zum ersten Mal gedacht wurden, ohne die das Leben und Denken in unserer Gegenwart nicht dasselbe wäre. Die großen Philosophen Ludwig Wittgenstein, Walter Benjamin, Ernst Cassirer und Martin Heidegger prägten diese Epoche und ließen die deutsche Sprache ein letztes Mal vor der Katastrophe des Zweiten Weltkriegs zur Sprache des Geistes werden.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, the continent of Africa was a hotbed of international trade, colonialism, and political gamesmanship. So when World War I broke out, the European powers were forced to contend with each other not just in the bloody trenches - but in the treacherous jungle. And it was in that unforgiving land that General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck would make history.

In 2009, three US professors with access to Adolf Hitler’s alleged remains startled the world with scientific DNA proof that the skull and bones that Russia had claimed since the end of World War II were Hitler’s actually belonged to a middle-aged woman whose identity remains unknown.

Autumn 1945 saw the start of the Nuremberg trials, in which high ranking representatives of the Nazi government were called to account for their war crimes. In a curious yet fascinating twist, witnesses for the prosecution and the defense were housed together in a villa on the outskirts of town. The Witness House reveals the social structures that allowed a cruel and unjust regime to flourish and serves as a symbol of the blurred boundaries between accuser and accused that would come to form the basis of postwar Germany.

On June 15, 1942, as thousands of vacationers lounged in the sun on Virginia Beach, a massive fireball erupted from a convoy of oil tankers steaming into Chesapeake Bay. By the next day, three ships lay at the bottom of the channel, victims of Lieutenant-Commander Horst Degen and his crew on the German submarine U-701. In The Burning Shore, acclaimed military reporter Ed Offley presents a thrilling account of Degen's rampage along the American coast and of US Lieutenant Harry J. Kane's quest to bring him down.

Since the fall of the Soviet Union, long-suppressed information has emerged on Heisenberg’s role in the Nazi atomic bomb project. In Beyond Uncertainty, Cassidy interprets this and other previously unknown material within the context of his vast research and tackles the vexing questions of a scientist’s personal responsibility and guilt when serving an abhorrent military regime.