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  • In the Shadow of the Holocaust

    Jewish-Communist Writers in East Germany

    by Thomas C. Fox ...
    This study investigates the negotiation of Jewish-German-Communist identity in post-Holocaust Germany, specifically East Germany. After an introduction to the political-historical context, it highlights the conflicted writings of six East German Jewish writers: Anna Seghers (1900-1983), Stefan Heym (1913-2001), Stephan Hermlin (1915-1997), Jurek Becker (1937-1997), Peter Edel (1921-1983), and Fred ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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    The Man Who Put the Nazis on the Witness Stand

    by Benjamin Carter Hett ...
    During a 1931 trial of four Nazi stormtroopers, known as the Eden Dance Palace trial, Hans Litten grilled Hitler in a brilliant and merciless three-hour cross-examination, forcing him into multiple contradictions and evasions and finally reducing him to helpless and humiliating rage (the transcription of Hitler's full testimony is included.) At the time, Hitler was still trying to prove his ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • The Kraus Project

    by Jonathan Franzen ...
    "Engrossing, highly original . . . Franzen finds in...Kraus a model of how to provoke readers while at the same time getting them to do some work." ― The New York Times Book ReviewA hundred years ago, the Viennese satirist Karl Kraus was among the most penetrating and farsighted writers in Europe. In his self-published magazine, DieFackel, Kraus brilliantly attacked the popular media's ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Growing Up Female in Nazi Germany

    by Dagmar Reese ...
    Translated by William Templer ...
    Series series Social History, Popular Culture, And Politics In Germany
    Growing Up Female in Nazi Germany explores the world of the Bund Deutscher Mädel (BDM), the female section within the Hitler Youth that included almost all German girls aged 10 to 14. The BDM is often enveloped in myths; German girls were brought up to be the compliant handmaidens of National Socialism, their mental horizon restricted to the "three Ks" of Kinder, Küche, Kirche (children, kitchen, ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Unlearning with Hannah Arendt

    by Marie Luise Knott ...
    Short-listed for the Tractatus Essay Prize, an examination of the innovative strategies Arendt used to achieve intellectual freedomAfter observing the trial of Adolf Eichmann, Hannah Arendt articulated her controversial concept of the “banality of evil,” thereby posing one of the most chilling and divisive moral questions of the twentieth century: How can genocidal acts be carried out by non ... Read more

    $11.99 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

  • Edge of Irony

    Modernism in the Shadow of the Habsburg Empire

    by Marjorie Perloff ...
    Among the brilliant writers and thinkers who emerged from the multicultural and multilingual world of the Austro-Hungarian Empire were Joseph Roth, Robert Musil, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. For them, the trauma of World War I included the sudden loss of the geographical entity into which they had been born: in 1918, the empire was dissolved overnight, leaving Austria a small, fragile republic that ... Read more

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  • Edgar Julius Jung, Right-Wing Enemy of the Nazis

    A Political Biography

    by Roshan Magub ...
    By the time of his death, Edgar Julius Jung (1894-1934) was well known in Germany and Europe as one of the foremost ideologues of the political movement that called itself the Conservative Revolution and as a right-wing opponent of the Nazis. He was speechwriter for and confidant of Franz von Papen (first Hitler's predecessor as chancellor, then Hitler's vice-chancellor), which put him at the ... Read more

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  • The Making of an SS Killer

    The Life of Colonel Alfred Filbert, 1905–1990

    by Alex J. Kay ...
    In this pioneering biography of a frontline Holocaust perpetrator, Alex J. Kay uncovers the life of SS Lieutenant Colonel Alfred Filbert, responsible as the first head of SS-Einsatzkommando 9, a mobile killing squad, for the murder of more than 18,000 Soviet Jews - men, women and children - on the Eastern Front. He reveals how Filbert, following the political imprisonment of his older brother, set ... Read more

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  • In Hitler's Munich

    Jews, the Revolution, and the Rise of Nazism

    by Michael Brenner ...
    Translated by Jeremiah Riemer ...
    From acclaimed historian Michael Brenner, a mesmerizing portrait of Munich in the early years of Hitler's quest for powerIn the aftermath of Germany's defeat in World War I and the failed November Revolution of 1918–19, the conservative government of Bavaria identified Jews with left-wing radicalism. Munich became a hotbed of right-wing extremism, with synagogues under attack and Jews physically ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

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  • Anti-Semitism and Schooling Under the Third Reich

    by Gregory Wegner ...
    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

    $63.99 USD

  • A Companion to Twentieth-Century German Literature

    Edited by Raymond Furness, Malcolm Humble ...
    Containing entries on over four hundred authors of fiction, poetry and drama from Germany, Austria and Switzerland, this invaluable work of reference presents material of a range and depth that no other book on the subject in English attains. For the second edition, the entries have been updated to include the most recent works of German literature. A number of new entries have been added, dealing ... Read more

    $57.99 USD