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"The 82nd Airborne Division has seen some of the American Army's most elite soldiers pass through its ranks. The history of the glorious division has been forged by thousands of anonymous paratroopers, always prepared to jump in extreme situations and to accomplish their objective on the ground, whatever the conditions. From the trenches of the Somme ( World War I) to the Iraqi desert (2nd Gulf War), ...

In this revisionist account of France's crushing defeat in 1940, the author assesses France's diplomatic and military preparations for war with Germany, its conduct of the war once the fighting began, and the political consequences of defeat on the battlefield. He also tracks attitudes among French leaders once defeat seemed a likelihood, identifying who among them took advantage of the nation's misfortunes ...

This is the first major study of the mass sequestration of Armenian property by the Young Turk regime during the 1915 Armenian genocide. It details the emergence of Turkish economic nationalism, offers insight into the economic ramifications of the genocidal process, and describes how the plunder was organized on the ground. The interrelated nature of property confiscation initiated by the Young Turk ...

Sketches the history of the Jews in the village of Geroldshausen (Würzburg district) and in the region of Unterfranken (northwest Bavaria) from the Middle Ages (pp. 103-159). Using interviews and archival material, focuses on their fate under Nazi rule. Some were able to emigrate; others were sent to extermination camps. Notes that there was no violence against Jews in Geroldshausen, but neighbors ...

A new theory of ethnic cleansing based on the most terrible cases (colonial genocides, Armenia, the Nazi Holocaust, Cambodia, Yugoslavia, Rwanda) and cases of lesser violence (early modern Europe, contemporary India, and Indonesia). Murderous cleansing is modern, 'the dark side of democracy'. It results where the demos (democracy) is confused with the ethnos (the ethnic group). Danger arises where ...

05:46:37 Quick shot of event at night with soldiers in long coats. In Warsaw, von Ribbentrop with Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs Colonel Beck. Memorial wreath presented during ceremony for "Polish Ehrenmahl." Old German military leaders, distinguished-looking, sitting at table, conversing. President Ignacy Moscicki is among them. 05:47:43 Berlin, 30 January 1939. Sixth anniversary of the Nazi seizure ...

"Theresienstadt was the Jewish ghetto (1941-45) created by the Nazis within the walled garrison town of Terezín, Czech Republic, to which many of Europe's Jewish cultural elite were deported, and where their artistic activities were allowed flourish despite the ghetto's hidden purpose as a prison and conduit to Auschwitz-Birkenau and other Nazi concentration camps. Considered as a whole, the art of ...

Gyula Gömbös (1886-1936) was a politician and soldier, member of the Hungarian Parliament, Minister of Defense (1929-1932) and eventually Prime Minister of Hungary (1932-1936). During the 1920s, Gömbös oscillated between the governing party led by Prime Minister István Bethlen and a more radical race protectionist platform. Upon becoming Prime Minister, Gömbös announced a wideranging plan of reorganization ...

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 ...

The Reich Ministry of the Interior (RMI) was the Ministry of the Interior of the German Reich during the Weimar Republic and the period of National Socialism . On November 1, 1934, it was united with the Prussian Ministry of the Interior to the Reich and Prussian Ministry of the Interior. It had the responsibility for the entire police apparatus. It was the successor of the Reich Office of the Interior ...