216 p. ; 18 cm.

Met literatuuropgave.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-274) and indexes. xi, 296 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Reel 5: German tanks advance. Stukas bomb Allied positions. Wounded tank crewmen receive aid. German trucks haul artillery. German troops cross the Rhine in rubber boats over pontoon bridges. German soldiers stuff grenades into their belts. German troops lay wire, and horses are pushed into water. Shows wrecked French tanks, French POWs, French troops in the Maginot Line. Panoramic views of the Maginot ...

Met lit. opg.-Index. xiv, 206 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

Met lit. opg. en index. XXII, 730, XXXI p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

"Revenants of a Fallen Empire reveals the various ways in which Colonial Germans attempted to cope with the loss of the German colonies after the Treaty of Versailles in 1919. These Kolonialdeutsche (Colonial Germans) had invested substantial time and money in German imperialism. German men and women from the former African colonies exploited any opportunities they could to recover, renovate and market ...

Papers presented at a conference at Brown University. viii, 228 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

This is a book about Germans and Jews, about power and money. It is a book focused on Bismarck and Bleichröder, Junker and Jew, statesman and banker, collaborators for over thirty years. The setting is that of a Germany where two worlds clashed: the new world of capitalism and an earlier world with its ancient feudal ethos; gradually a new and broadened elite emerged, and Bismarck's tie with Bleichröder ...

Bijdr. in het Duits en Engels. 211 p., [13] p. pl. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Introduction / Daniel Siemens and Gerhard Wolf. - Organizing the 'people's community' : the NSDAP and the 'ethnic Germans' in Nazi-occupied territories / Armin Nolzen. - 'Sword and plough' : settling Nazi stormtroopers in Eastern Europe, 1936-43 / Daniel Siemens. - Negotiating Germanness : National Socialist germanization policy in the Wartheland / Gerhard Wolf. - 'Germanje' : Dutch empire-building ...

Met index, lit. opg. XIV, 337 p. ; 24 cm

Shatterzone of Empires is a comprehensive analysis of interethnic relations, coexistence, and violence in Europe's eastern borderlands over the past two centuries. In this vast territory, extending from the Baltic to the Black Sea, four major empires with ethnically and religiously diverse populations encountered each other along often changing and contested borders. Examining this geographically widespread, ...

Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-299) and index. xviii, 307 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Reel 1 The opening title indicates that the film was written and begun in 1942 and that it is based on historical events. The first scene takes place in Breslau in 1813. General Wilhelm von Gniesenau bursts into the chambers of King Friedrich Wilhelm III and chastises him for refusing to enlist the citizenry to aid in the war effort against Napoleon. Gniesenau reminds the King of the perfomance of ...

"France in the Second World War is a wide-ranging and clear introduction to French history during the Second World War and its aftermath. It examines the interwar years, the build up to the conflict, the fall of France and the founding of the Vichy regime, as well as collaboration, resistance, everyday life, the Holocaust, liberation and the echoes of the period in contemporary France. Chris Millington ...

"Just three days after the Wehrmacht launched Operation Barbarossa, the Central Committee of the Kazakh Communist Party convened its fifth plenary session in the Central Asian city of Almaty. Declaring a state of emergency in response to this "treacherous attack by German fascism," the plenum called on the local population to support the Soviet war effort. From 1941 to 1945, hundreds of thousands of ...

"On 22 June 1940 Marshal Philippe Pétain's newly-constituted French government signed an armistice with Hitler's Germany. At the same time, a relatively unknown Brigadier General named Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle fled to London. De Gaulle became the leader of the Free French movement, which resolved to continue fighting against the Axis powers in the name of France. It pursued this battle ...

"This book explores the dynamic role of love in German-Jewish lives, from the birth of the German Empire in the 1870s, to the 1970s, a generation after the Shoah. During a remarkably turbulent hundred-year period when German Jews experienced five political regimes, rapid urbanization, transformations in gender relations, and war and genocide, the romantic ideals of falling in love and marrying for ...

This book discusses the experience of nearly 100,000 French colonial prisoners of war captured by Nazi Germany during World War II. Raffael Scheck shows that the German treatment of French colonial soldiers improved dramatically after initial abuses, leading the French authorities in 1845 to believe that there was a possible German plot to instigate a rebellion in the French empire. Scheck illustrates ...

"The German Revolution of 1918-19 was a transformative moment of modern European history. It was both the end of the German Empire and the First World War, as well as the birth of the Weimar Republic, the short-lived democracy that preceded the establishment of the Nazi dictatorship. A time of great political drama, the revolution saw unprecedented levels of mass mobilisation and political violence, ...