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  • Goering's Man in Paris

    The Story of a Nazi Art Plunderer and His World

    A charged biography of a notorious Nazi art plunderer and his career in the postwar art world'Ć'Äπ"[Petropoulos] brings Lohse into sharper focus, as a personality and axis point from which to explore a network of art dealers, collectors and museum curators connected to Nazi looting. . . . What emerges from Petropoulos's research is a portrait of a charismatic and nefarious figure who tainted ... Read more

    $28.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Artists Under Hitler

    Collaboration and Survival in Nazi Germany

    "What are we to make of those cultural figures, many with significant international reputations, who tried to find accommodation with the Nazi regime?" Jonathan Petropoulos asks in this exploration of some of the most acute moral questions of the Third Reich. In his nuanced analysis of prominent German artists, architects, composers, film directors, painters, and writers who rejected exile, ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Royals and the Reich:The Princes von Hessen in Nazi Germany

    The Princes von Hessen in Nazi Germany

    The link between Hitler's Third Reich and European royalty has gone largely unexplored due to the secrecy surrounding royal families. Now, in Royals and the Reich, Jonathan Petropoulos uses unprecedented access to royal archives to tell the fascinating story of the Princes of Hesse and the important role they played in the Nazi regime. Princes Philipp and Christoph von Hessen-Kassel, great ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Faustian Bargain

    The Art World in Nazi Germany

    Nazi art looting has been the subject of enormous international attention in recent years, and the topic of two history bestsellers, Hector Feliciano's The Lost Museum and Lynn Nicholas's The Rape of Europa. But such books leave us wondering: What made thoughtful, educated, artistic men and women decide to put their talents in the service of a brutal and inhuman regime? This question is the ... Read more

    $61.19 USD

  • The Faustian Bargain

    The Art World in Nazi Germany

    Nazi art looting has been the subject of enormous international attention in recent years, and the topic of two history bestsellers, Hector Feliciano's The Lost Museum and Lynn Nicholas's The Rape of Europa. But such books leave us wondering: What made thoughtful, educated, artistic men and women decide to put their talents in the service of a brutal and inhuman regime? This question is the ... Read more

    $61.19 USD

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    Göring’s Man in Paris

    The Story of a Nazi Art Plunderer and His World

    Narrated by Paul Heitsch ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 57 min

    A charged biography of a notorious Nazi art plunderer and his career in the postwar art worldBruno Lohse (1911–2007) was one of the most notorious art plunderers in history. Appointed by Hermann Göring to Hitler's special art looting agency, he went on to supervise the systematic theft and distribution of over 22,000 artworks, largely from French Jews; helped Göring develop an enormous private art ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    Oliver Thomson's book The Other Kaisers is one of the first books to look at the proliferation of German dynasties throughout Europe. Aimed at the general reader The Other Kaisers will appeal to anyone with an interest in biography and history, particularly royal history. The book's underlying theme is the 'Germanness' of the House of Windsor up until 1935, which is explored in depth with a ... Read more

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  • Germany: Jekyll and Hyde

    An Eyewitness Analysis of Nazi Germany

    Germany: Jekyll and Hyde — An Eyewitness Analysis of Nazi Germany by Sebastian Haffner (translated from the German by Wilfrid David, with an introduction by Neal Ascherson; 97,000 words)In this book written in early 1940 in England, Sebastian Haffner, a recent refugee from Nazi Germany, analyzed Hitler, the Nazis, the German population, and German émigrés. His purpose was to help the Allies wage ... Read more

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  • Odilo Globocnik, Hitler's Man in the East

    Odilo Globocnik, a collaborator of Adolf Hitler and Heinrich Himmler, was responsible for the deaths of at least 1.5 million people in three Nazi camps in occupied Poland: Treblinka, Sobibor, and Belzec. Along with Rudolf Hoss, Globocnik may be named as one of the first industrial-style killers in history. Betraying his homeland by conspiring with Hitler to destroy Austria's independence, he then ... Read more

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  • Anti-Semitism and Schooling Under the Third Reich

    Series series Studies in the History of Education
    This book investigates the anti-Semitic foundations of Nazi curricula for elementary schools, with a focus on the subjects of biology, history, and literature. Gregory Paul Wegner argues that any study of Nazi society and its values must probe the education provided by the regime. Schools, according to Wegner, play a major role in advancing ideological justifications for mass murder, and in ... Read more

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  • The Last Nazis

    SS Werewolf Guerrilla Resistance in Europe 1944-1947

    The history of the shadowy Werewolf guerrilla bands formed at end of the Second World War as the last desperate defence of Nazis.Founded by Heinrich Himmler in 1944 when it became clear Germany would be invaded, the Werewolf guerrilla movement was given the task of slowing down the Allied advance to allow time for the success of negotiations or wonder weapons. Staying behind in territory occupied ... Read more

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  • Behind Valkyrie

    German Resistance to Hitler, Documents

    While the "Valkyrie" plot by Nazi officers to kill Adolf Hitler is the best known instance of German opposition to his dictatorship, there were many other significant acts of resistance. Behind Valkyrie collects documents, letters, and testimonies of Germans who fought Hitler from within, making many of them available in their entirety and in English for the first time.Peter Hoffmann assembles the ... Read more

    $36.99 USD