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  • Baader-Meinhof and the Novel

    Narratives of the Nation / Fantasies of the Revolution, 1970–2010

    by J. Preece ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    The Baader-Meinhof Group and other violent underground organizations have provided material to many novels by leading German and international writers. This book is the first to examine this rich literary corpus, treating it as a political unconscious which expresses submerged anxieties and moral blind-spots in Europe's most powerful country. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

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  • The Collapse

    The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall

    by Mary Elise Sarotte ...
    On the night of November 9, 1989, massive crowds surged toward the Berlin Wall, drawn by an announcement that caught the world by surprise: East Germans could now move freely to the West. The Wall -- infamous symbol of divided Cold War Europe -- seemed to be falling. But the opening of the gates that night was not planned by the East German ruling regime -- nor was it the result of a bargain ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Eternal Nazi

    From Mauthausen to Cairo, the Relentless Pursuit of SS Doctor Aribert Heim

    by Nicholas Kulish, Souad Mekhennet ...
    From the New York Times reporters who first uncovered S.S. officer Aribert Heim’s secret life in Egypt comes the never-before-told story of the most hunted Nazi war criminal in the world.Dr. Aribert Heim worked at the Mauthausen concentration camp for only a few months in 1941 but left a devastating mark. According to the testimony of survivors, Heim euthanized patients with injections of gasoline ... Read more

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  • Red Army Faction, A Documentary History

    Volume 2: Dancing with Imperialism

    Edited by J. Smith, André Moncourt ...
    Series series Kersplebedeb
    The first in a two-volume series, this is by far the most in-depth political history of the Red Army Faction ever made available in English.Projectiles for the People starts its story in the days following World War II, showing how American imperialism worked hand in glove with the old pro-Nazi ruling class, shaping West Germany into an authoritarian anti-communist bulwark and launching pad for ... Read more

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  • Red Army Faction, A Documentary History

    Volume 1: Projectiles for the People

    Edited by J. Smith, André Moncourt ...
    Series series Kerseplebedeb
    The long-awaited Volume 2 of the first-ever English-language study of the Red Army Faction—West Germany’s most notorious urban guerillas—covers the period immediately following the organization’s near-total decimation in 1977. This work includes the details of the guerilla’s operations, and its communiqués and texts, from 1978 up until the 1984 offensive.This was a period of regrouping and ... Read more

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  • Bringing the War Home

    The Weather Underground, the Red Army Faction, and Revolutionary Violence in the Sixties and Seventies

    by Jeremy Peter Varon ...
    In this first comprehensive comparison of left-wing violence in the United States and West Germany, Jeremy Varon focuses on America's Weather Underground and Germany's Red Army Faction to consider how and why young, middle-class radicals in prosperous democratic societies turned to armed struggle in efforts to overthrow their states. Based on a wealth of primary material, ranging from interviews ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Antisemitism in Film Comedy in Nazi Germany

    by Valerie Weinstein ...
    Series series Encounters: Explorations in Folklore and Ethnomusicology
    How party propagandists worked behind the scenes to create unspoken racist messages in the German culture—even in the most lighthearted of movies.Today many Germans look back fondly on 1930s film comedies, viewing them as a part of the Nazi era that was not tainted with antisemitism. Here, Valerie Weinstein scrutinizes these comic productions and demonstrates that film comedy, despite its innocent ... Read more

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  • Unlearning with Hannah Arendt

    by Marie Luise Knott ...
    Short-listed for the Tractatus Essay Prize, an examination of the innovative strategies Arendt used to achieve intellectual freedomAfter observing the trial of Adolf Eichmann, Hannah Arendt articulated her controversial concept of the “banality of evil,” thereby posing one of the most chilling and divisive moral questions of the twentieth century: How can genocidal acts be carried out by non ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Edge of Irony

    Modernism in the Shadow of the Habsburg Empire

    by Marjorie Perloff ...
    Among the brilliant writers and thinkers who emerged from the multicultural and multilingual world of the Austro-Hungarian Empire were Joseph Roth, Robert Musil, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. For them, the trauma of World War I included the sudden loss of the geographical entity into which they had been born: in 1918, the empire was dissolved overnight, leaving Austria a small, fragile republic that ... Read more

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  • The Making of a Nazi Hero

    The Murder and Myth of Horst Wessel

    by Daniel Siemens ...
    On 14 January 1930, Horst Wessel, a young and ambitious member of the SA was shot at close range at his home in Berlin. Although the crime was never completely solved, the murder was most likely committed by a group of communists with close ties to the city's gangland. Wessel later died from his injuries. Joseph Goebbels, whose attention had already been drawn to Wessel as a possible future Nazi ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • The Passion of Max von Oppenheim

    Archaeology and Intrigue in the Middle East from Wilhelm II to Hitler

    by Lionel Gossman ...
    Born into a prominent German Jewish banking family, Baron Max von Oppenheim (1860-1946) was a keen amateur archaeologist and ethnologist. His discovery and excavation of Tell Halaf in Syria marked an important contribution to knowledge of the ancient Middle East, while his massive study of the Bedouins is still consulted by scholars today. He was also an ardent German patriot, eager to support his ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Use and Abuse of Cinema

    German Legacies from the Weimar Era to the Present

    by Eric Rentschler ...
    Series series Film and Culture Series
    Eric Rentschler's new book, The Use and Abuse of Cinema, takes readers on a series of enthralling excursions through the fraught history of German cinema, from the Weimar and Nazi eras to the postwar and postwall epochs and into the new millennium. These journeys afford rich panoramas and nuanced close-ups from a nation's production of fantasies and spectacles, traversing the different ways in ... Read more

    $35.99 USD