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  • The Betrayal of the Humanities

    The University during the Third Reich

    by Bernard M. Levinson, Robert P. Ericksen, Alan E. Steinweis, Suzanne L. Marchand, Christopher J. Probst, Anders Gerdmar, Thomas Schneider, Johannes Renger, Bettina Arnold0, Oren Gross1, Michael Cherlin2, Emmanuel Faye3, Aniko Szabo4, Franklin Hugh Adler5, Alvin H. Rosenfeld6 ...
    Series series Studies in Antisemitism
    How did the academy react to the rise, dominance, and ultimate fall of Germany's Third Reich? Did German professors of the humanities have to tell themselves lies about their regime's activities or its victims to sleep at night? Did they endorse the regime? Or did they look the other way, whether out of deliberate denial or out of fear for their own personal safety? The Betrayal of the Humanities: ... Read more

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  • Nazi Germany and the Jews

    The Years of Perdecution, 1933–1939

    by Saul Friedländer ...
    A great historian crowns a lifetime of thought and research by answering a question that has haunted us for more than 50 years: How did one of the most industrially and culturally advanced nations in the world embark on and continue along the path leading to one of the most enormous criminal enterprises in history, the extermination of Europe's Jews?Giving considerable emphasis to a wealth of new ... Read more

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  • How Jews Became Germans

    The History of Conversion and Assimilation in Berlin

    by Deborah Hertz ...
    A "very readable" history of Jewish conversions to Christianity over two centuries that "tracks the many fascinating twists and turns to this story" ( Library Journal).When the Nazis came to power and created a racial state in the 1930s, they considered it an urgent priority to identify Jews who had converted to Christianity over the preceding centuries. With the help of church officials, a vast ... Read more

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  • Demonizing the Jews

    Luther and the Protestant Church in Nazi Germany

    by Christopher J. Probst ...
    "An insightful analysis of the ways in which Protestant reformer Martin Luther's anti-Jewish writings were used by German Protestants during the Third Reich." — Contemporary Church History QuarterlyThe acquiescence of the German Protestant churches in Nazi oppression and murder of Jews is well documented. In this book, Christopher J. Probst demonstrates that a significant number of German ... Read more

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  • Complicity in the Holocaust

    Churches and Universities in Nazi Germany

    by Robert P. Ericksen ...
    In one of the darker aspects of Nazi Germany, churches and universities - generally respected institutions - grew to accept and support Nazi ideology. Robert P. Ericksen explains how an advanced, highly educated, Christian nation could commit the crimes of the Holocaust. This book describes how Germany's intellectual and spiritual leaders enthusiastically partnered with Hitler's regime, thus ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

  • The German Conception of History

    The National Tradition of Historical Thought from Herder to the Present

    by Georg G. Iggers ...
    The first comprehensive critical examination in any language of the German national tradition of historiographyThis is the first comprehensive critical examination in any language of the German national tradition of historiography. It analyzes the basic theoretical assumptions of the German historians of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and relates these assumptions to political thought and ... Read more

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  • A History of Jews in Germany Since 1945

    Politics, Culture, and Society

    by Michael Brenner ...
    A comprehensive account of Jewish life in a country that carries the legacy of being at the epicenter of the Holocaust.Originally published in German in 2012, this comprehensive history of Jewish life in postwar Germany provides a systematic account of Jews and Judaism from the Holocaust to the early 21st Century by leading experts of modern German-Jewish history. Beginning in the immediate ... Read more

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  • Dreamland of Humanists

    Warburg, Cassirer, Panofsky, and the Hamburg School

    by Emily J. Levine ...
    Deemed by Heinrich Heine a city of merchants where poets go to die, Hamburg was an improbable setting for a major intellectual movement. Yet it was there, at the end of World War I, at a new university in this commercial center, that a trio of twentieth-century pioneers in the humanities emerged. Working side by side, Aby Warburg, Ernst Cassirer, and Erwin Panofsky developed new avenues in art ... Read more

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  • The Jews of Vienna in the Age of Franz Joseph

    by Robert S. Wistrich ...
    “Robert Wistrich’s exemplary scholarly analysis of the Viennese Jewish community in the 19th century is the first well-written, reliable study of its kind... gives elegant portraits of the crucial Jewish figures of the new Viennese politics at the turn of the century... focus[es] on the internal history of the highly diversified Jewish community... [Wistrich] analyzes effectively the genesis of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Franz Werfel: The Faith of an Exile

    From Prague to Beverly Hills

    by Lionel Steiman ...
    Franz Werfel was born in Prague in 1890 and died in Beverly Hills in 1945, a popular and artistic success in Europe and America. Despite his Jewish birth and upbringing, he was attracted to Christianity at any early age, and although he never formally converted, he celebrated his own vision of it in his entire life's work. The origina sof that peculiar faith and the response it engendered in ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Twisted Cross

    The German Christian Movement in the Third Reich

    by Doris L. Bergen ...
    How did Germany’s Christians respond to Nazism? In Twisted Cross, Doris Bergen addresses one important element of this response by focusing on the 600,000 self-described 'German Christians,' who sought to expunge all Jewish elements from the Christian church. In a process that became more daring as Nazi plans for genocide unfolded, this group of Protestant lay people and clergy rejected the Old ... Read more

    $28.49 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