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  • 1931

    Debt, Crisis, and the Rise of Hitler

    by Tobias Straumann ...
    Germany's financial collapse in the summer of 1931 was one of the biggest economic catastrophes of modern history. It led to a global panic, brought down the international monetary system, and turned a worldwide recession into a prolonged depression. The crisis also contributed decisively to the rise of Hitler. Within little more than a year of its onset, the Nazis were Germany's largest political ... Read more

    $9.19 CAD

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  • Out of Hitler's Shadow

    Debt, Guilt, and the German Economic Miracle

    by Tobias Straumann ...
    Why were the United States and its Western Allies so lenient after the most atrocious war of all times? Out of Hitler's Shadow answers this question, and considers why the Allies concluded that imposing unrealistic financial conditions on a defeated country would do more harm than good. The destruction left by Nazi Germany was horrendous. The occupied countries had been ravaged and plundered, ... Read more

    $20.89 CAD

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    1931

    Debt, Crisis, and the Rise of Hitler

    by Tobias Straumann ...
    Narrated by Nigel Patterson ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 15 min

    Germany's financial collapse in the summer of 1931 was one of the biggest economic catastrophes of modern history. It led to a global panic, brought down the international monetary system, and turned a worldwide recession into a prolonged depression. The reason for the financial collapse was Germany's large pile of foreign debt denominated in gold currency which condemned the government to cut ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

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  • The Splendid Blond Beast

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    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

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    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

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  • The Marshall Plan

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    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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  • Nazi Gold

    The Full Story of the Fifty-Year Swiss-Nazi Conspiracy to Steal Billions from Europe's Jews and Holocaust Survivors

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  • The Downfall of Money

    Germany’s Hyperinflation and the Destruction of the Middle Class

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  • Twentieth-Century Europe

    A Brief History, 1900 to the Present

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    Twentieth-Century Europe: A Brief History presents readers with a concise and accessible survey of the most significant themes and political events that shaped European history in the 20th and 21st centuries.Features updates that include a new chapter that reviews major political and economic trends since 1989 and an extensively revised chapter that emphasizes the intellectual and cultural history ... Read more

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