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  • Industrial Collaboration in Nazi-Occupied Europe

    Norway in Context

    Edited by Mats Ingulstad, Jonas Scherner, Hans Otto Frøland ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book brings together leading experts to assess how and whether the Nazis were successful in fostering collaboration to secure the resources they required during World War II. These studies of the occupation regimes in Norway and Western Europe reveal that the Nazis developed highly sophisticated instruments of exploitation beyond oppression and looting. The authors highlight that in ... Read more

    $166.99 CAD

  • Paying for Hitler's War

    The Consequences of Nazi Hegemony for Europe

    Edited by Jonas Scherner, Eugene N. White ...
    Series series Publications of the German Historical Institute
    During World War II, Germany occupied much of continental Europe. Although the social and political history of this occupation has been studied extensively, the economics of the unprecedented transfer of resources has received surprisingly little attention. Allies, neutrals, and conquered nations under German hegemony were a vital source of supplies for Hitler's war machine. Without the war ... Read more

    $53.99 CAD

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  • When Money Dies

    The Nightmare of Deficit Spending, Devaluation, and Hyperinflation in Weimar Germany

    by Adam Fergusson ...
    **The classic history of the political and economic devastation wrought by runaway inflation in Weimar Germany—“**brilliant” (Guardian)In 1923, with its currency effectively worthless (the exchange rate in December of that year was one dollar to 4,200,000,000,000 marks), the German republic was all but reduced to a barter economy. Expensive cigars, artworks, and jewels were routinely exchanged for ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • Chasing Gold

    by George M Taber ...
    For the entire history of human civilization, gold has enraptured people around the globe. The Nazis was no less enthralled by it, and felt that gold was the solution to funding Hitler's war machine. Gold was also on the mind of FDR across the Atlantic, as he worked with Europe's other leaders to bring the United States and the rest of the world out of a severe depression. FDF was hardly the first ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Splendid Blond Beast

    Money, Law, and Genocide in the Twentieth Century

    by Christopher Simpson ...
    Series Book 24 - Forbidden Bookshelf
    From a National Jewish Book Award–winning author: The "revelatory and shocking" investigation into the CIA's liberation of Nazi war criminals ( Kirkus Reviews).How did Gen, Karl Wolff, one of the highest-ranking members of the Nazi Party's Waffen-SS, who personally oversaw the deportation of three hundred thousand Jews to the Treblinka extermination camps, escape prosecution at the Nuremberg ... Read more

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  • Tower of Basel

    The Shadowy History of the Secret Bank that Runs the World

    by Adam LeBor ...
    A brilliant investigation into the most powerful institution you’ve never heard of.**“An absorbing and thorough examination.” —**ReutersThe Bank for International Settlements is the bank for central banks. It is one of the world’s most secretive—and most influential—global financial institutions.Created by the governors of the Bank of England and the Reichsbank in 1930 and protected by an ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

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  • The Death of Democracy

    Hitler's Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic

    by Benjamin Carter Hett ...
    A riveting account of how the Nazi Party came to power and how the failures of the Weimar Republic and the shortsightedness of German politicians allowed it to happenWhy did democracy fall apart so quickly and completely in Germany in the 1930s? How did a democratic government allow Adolf Hitler to seize power? In The Death of Democracy, Benjamin Carter Hett answers these questions, and the story ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • All Honorable Men

    The Story of the Men on Both Sides of the Atlantic Who Successfully Thwarted Plans to Dismantle the Nazi Cartel System

    by James Stewart Martin ...
    Series Book 21 - Forbidden Bookshelf
    A scathing attack on Wall Street's illegal ties to Nazi Germany before WWII—and the postwar whitewashing of Nazi business leaders by the US governmentPrior to World War II, German industry was controlled by an elite group who had used their money and influence to help bring the Nazi Party to power. After the Allies had successfully occupied Germany and removed the Third Reich, the process of ... Read more

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  • The German Empire

    A Short History

    by Michael Sturmer ...
    Series Book 4 - Modern Library Chronicles
    In The German Empire, one of Europe's great historians and men of letters chronicles one of history's most fateful transformations--Germany's rise from new nation to prime mover in the chain of events that sent it hurtling into two world wars.In 1871, Otto von Bismarck fused with "blood and iron" a motley collection of principalities, Free Cities, and bishoprics into one Reich. In England, ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler

    The Astonishing True Story of the American Financiers Who Bankrolled the Nazis

    by Antony Cyril Sutton ...
    'The contribution made by American capitalism to German war preparations can only be described as phenomenal. It was certainly crucial to German military capabilities... Not only was an influential sector of American business aware of the nature of Naziism, but for its own purposes aided Naziism wherever possible (and profitable) - with full knowledge that the probable outcome would be war ... Read more

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  • The Marshall Plan

    Dawn of the Cold War

    by Benn Steil ...
    Winner of the New-York Historical Society Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American HistoryWinner of the American Academy of Diplomacy Douglas Dillon AwardShortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize in Literary NonfictionFrom the author of Battle of Bretton Woods comes a “brilliant book…by far the best study yet” (The Wall Street Journal) of the gripping history behind the Marshall Plan an... ... Read more

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  • A History of Modern Germany

    1800 to the Present

    by Martin Kitchen ...
    Featuring revised and extended coverage, the second edition of A History of Modern Germany offers an accessible and engagingly written account of German history from 1800 to the present.Provides readers with a long view of modern German history, revealing its continuities and changesFeatures updated and extended coverage of German social change and modernization, class, religion, and ... Read more

    $58.99 CAD