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“bettina courage”

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  • “Steps of Courage”

    My Parents’ Journey from Nazi Germany to America

    by Bettina Hoerlin ...
    This riveting love story, revolving around two extraordinary individuals, plays out against some of the most profound markers of the 20th century: Hitlers Germany, the American immigrant experience and growing threats of the nuclear age. Hermann Hoerlin and Kate Tietz Schmid meet in 1934; he, a handsome world record-holding mountaineer and aspiring physicist, is a staunch anti-fascist and she, ... Read more

    $6.29 CAD

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  • Aftermath

    Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945-1955

    by Harald Jähner ...
    Translated by Shaun Whiteside ...
    **How does a nation recover from fascism and turn toward a free society once more?This internationally acclaimed revelatory history—"filled with first-person accounts from articles and diaries" (The *New York Times)—*of the transformational decade that followed World War II illustrates how Germany raised itself out of the ashes of defeat and reckoned with the corruption of its soul and the horrors ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Crossing Hitler

    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

    $35.99 CAD

  • Hitler's First Hundred Days

    When Germans Embraced the Third Reich

    by Peter Fritzsche ...
    The history of Germany’s fractured republic and how it gave way to the Third Reich, from the breakthrough of the Nazi party to the rise of Hitler.**"Elegant and sobering." —**New York TimesAmid the ravages of economic depression, Germans in the early 1930s were pulled to political extremes both left and right. Then, in the spring of 1933, Germany turned itself inside out, from a deeply divided ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Master Plan

    Himmler's Scholars and the Holocaust

    by Heather Pringle ...
    A groundbreaking history of the Nazi research institute whose work helped lead to the extermination of millionsIn 1935, Heinrich Himmler established a Nazi research institute called The Ahnenerbe, whose mission was to send teams of scholars around the world to search for proof of Ancient Aryan conquests. But history was not their most important focus. Rather, the Ahnenerbe was an essential part of ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Leni Riefenstahl

    A Life

    by Jürgen Trimborn ...
    Dancer, actress, mountaineer, and director Leni Riefenstahl's uncompromising will and audacious talent for self-promotion appeared unmatched—until 1932, when she introduced herself to her future protector and patron: Adolf Hitler. Known internationally for two of the films she made for him, Triumph of the Will and Olympia, Riefenstahl's demanding and obsessive style introduced unusual angles, new ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Crossing Hitler : 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 embrace of ... Read more

    $19.79 CAD

  • Broken Lives

    How Ordinary Germans Experienced the 20th Century

    by Konrad H. Jarausch ...
    The gripping stories of ordinary Germans who lived through World War II, the Holocaust, and Cold War partition—but also recovery, reunification, and rehabilitationBroken Lives is a gripping account of the twentieth century as seen through the eyes of ordinary Germans who came of age under Hitler and whose lives were scarred and sometimes destroyed by what they saw and did.Drawing on six dozen ... Read more

    $25.29 CAD

  • Education in Nazi Germany

    by Dr. Lisa Pine ...
    Shaping the minds of the future generation was pivotal to the Nazi regime in order to ensure the continuing success of the Third Reich. Through the curriculum, the elite schools and youth groups, the Third Reich waged a war for the minds of the young. Hitler understood the importance of education in creating self-identity, inculcating national pride, promoting 'racial purity' and building loyalty ... Read more

    $51.49 CAD

  • Rudolf Steiner as a Spiritual Teacher

    From Recollections of Those Who Knew Him

    by Peter Selg ...
    Translated by Catherine E. Creeger ...
    "He listened extremely attentively, apparently not looking at me at all, but totally devoted to my words." --Franz Kafka"The only love that you can show me is to call me anytime, day or night, when you need me." --Rudolf Steiner (to Friedrich Rittelmeyer)For Peter Selg, if Anthroposophy to be a living reality, we must learn to know and love Rudolf Steiner as he appeared to those who knew and loved ... Read more

    $9.61 CAD

  • The Gallery of Miracles and Madness

    Insanity, Modernism, and Hitler's War on Art

    by Charlie English ...
    The untold story of Hitler’s war on “degenerate” artists and the mentally ill that served as a model for the “Final Solution.”“A penetrating chronicle . . . deftly links art history, psychiatry, and Hitler’s ideology to devastating effect.”—The Wall Street JournalAs a veteran of the First World War, and an expert in art history and medicine, Hans Prinzhorn was uniquely placed to explore the ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • 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

    $22.39 CAD