"A "provocative" account of great "intellectual significance," illuminating the economic workings of the Third Reich--and the reasons ordinary Germans supported the Nazi state (The New York Times Book Review) In this groundbreaking book, historian Götz Aly addresses one of modern history's greatest conundrums: How did Hitler win the allegiance of ordinary Germans? The answer is as shocking as it is persuasive: by engaging in a campaign o ..."
" Before the Great Depression Jewish businesspeople in Berlin thrived alongside their non-Jewish neighbors. But Nazi racism changed that, gradually destroying Jewish businesses before murdering the Jews themselves. Reconstructing the fate of more than 8,000 companies, this bookoffers the first comprehensive analysis of Jewish economic activity and its destruction in Berlin. Rather than just examining violent and bureaucratic steps taken ..."
Dead Funny(Reprint) Telling Jokes in Hitler's Germany 通过 Rudolph Herzog, JeffersonChase Paperback, 256 页, 发布时间 2012 通过 Melville House ISBN-13: 978-1-61219-130-0, ISBN: 1-61219-130-4
"In Nazi Germany, telling jokes about Hitler could get you killed Hitler and Göring are standing on top of the Berlin radio tower. Hitler says he wants to do something to put a smile on the Berliners’ faces. Göring says, “Why don’t you jump?” When a woman told this joke in Germany in 1943, she was arrested by the Nazis and sentenced to death by guillotine—it didn’t matter that her husband was a good German soldier who died in battle. In ..."
Hitler's Beneficiaries(1st Edition) Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State 通过 Götz Aly, JeffersonS. Chase Hardcover, 448 页, 发布时间 2007 通过 Metropolitan Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8050-7926-5, ISBN: 0-8050-7926-2
Dead Funny(1st Edition) Humor in Hitler's Germany 通过 Rudolph Herzog, JeffersonChase Hardcover, 256 页, 发布时间 2011 通过 Melville House ISBN-13: 978-1-935554-30-1, ISBN: 1-935554-30-1
"In Nazi Germany, telling jokes about Hitler could get you killed. Is it permissible to laugh at Hitler? This is a question that is often debated in Germany today, where, in light of the dimension of the horrors committed in the name of its citizens, many people have difficulty taking a satiric look at the Third Reich. And whenever some do, accusations arise that they are downplaying or trivializing the Holocaust. But there is a long his ..."
Soldaten(1st Edition) On Fighting, Killing, and Dying, The Secret WWII Transcripts of German POWS 通过 Welzer Neitzel, Sonke Neitzel, JeffersonChase Hardcover, 448 页, 发布时间 2012 通过 Alfred A. Knopf Deckle Edge ISBN-13: 978-0-307-95812-9, ISBN: 0-307-95812-4
"In 2001, spurred by a nagging curiosity over a transcript of a secretly recorded conversation he had come across in his research on the German U-boat wars, historian Sönke Neitzel paid a visit to the British national archives. He had heard of the existence of recorded interrogations of German POWs, but never about covert recordings taken within the confines of the holding cells, bedrooms, and camps that housed the prisoners. What Neitze ..."
"In October 2001, nineteen-year-old Murat Kurnaz traveled to Pakistan to visit a madrassa. During a security check a few weeks after his arrival, he was arrested without explanation and for a bounty of $3,000, the Pakistani police sold him to U.S. forces. He was first taken to Kandahar, Afghanistan, where he was severely mistreated, and then two months later he was flown to Guantanamo as Prisoner #61. For more than 1,600 days, he was tor ..."
After the Wall Confessions from an East German Childhood and the Life that Came Next 通过 Jana Hensel, JeffersonChase Paperback, 192 页, 发布时间 2008 通过 Publicaffairs ISBN-13: 978-1-58648-559-7, ISBN: 1-58648-559-8
"Jana Hensel was thirteen on November 9, 1989, the night the Berlin Wall fell. In all the euphoria over German reunification, no one stopped to think what it would mean for Jana and her generation of East Germans. These were the kids of the seventies, who had grown up in the shadow of Communism with all its hokey comforts: the Young Pioneer youth groups, the cheerful Communist propaganda, and the comforting knowledge that they lived in ..."
"Provocative takes on cyberbullshit, smartphone zombies, instant gratification, the traffic school of the information highway, and other philosophical concerns of the Internet age.In The Death Algorithm and Other Digital Dilemmas, Roberto Simanowski wonders if we are on the brink of a society that views social, political, and ethical challenges as technological problems that can be fixed with the right algorithm, the best data, or the fa ..."
Berlin 1936 Sixteen Days in August 通过 Oliver Hilmes, JeffersonChase Hardcover, 320 页, 发布时间 2018 通过 Other Press ISBN-13: 978-1-59051-929-5, ISBN: 1-59051-929-9
"Named a Best Book of the Year by The Guardian, The Telegraph, Daily Mail, and Financial TimesA lively account of the 1936 Olympics told through the voices and stories of those who witnessed it, from an award-winning historian and biographerBerlin 1936 takes the reader through the sixteen days of the Olympiad, describing the events in the German capital through the eyes of a select cast of characters--Nazi leaders and foreign diplomats, ..."
Germany 1923 Hyperinflation, Hitler's Putsch, and Democracy in Crisis 通过 Volker Ullrich , JeffersonChase Hardcover, 发布时间 2023 通过 Liveright ISBN-13: 978-1-324-09346-6, ISBN: 1-324-09346-3
Servants of War Private Military Corporations and the Profit of Conflict 通过 Rolf Uesseler, JeffersonChase Paperback, 250 页, 发布时间 2008 通过 Soft Skull Press ISBN-13: 978-1-59376-202-5, ISBN: 1-59376-202-X
"Private military firms are making a killing. They operate on all continents throughout the world—commissioned by governments, intelligence agencies, private industries, warlords, drug cartels, and rebel groups to support their military and safety interests. Here in the U.S., as the massively expensive war in Iraq shows no signs of ending, our forces grow more and more dependent on the assistance of military contractors. Beyond Iraq, eng ..."
"Focusing on three seminal cases of military defeat--the South after the Civil War, France in the wake of the Franco-Prussian War, and Germany following World War I--Wolfgang Schivelbusch reveals the complex psychological and cultural responses of vanquished nations to the experience of loss on the battlefield. Drawing on reactions from every level of society, Schivelbusch charts the narratives defeated nations construct and finds remark ..."
"A fascinating look at history's losers-the myths they create to cope with defeat and the steps they take never to be vanquished againHistory may be written by the victors, Wolfgang Schivelbusch argues in his brilliant and provocative new book, but the losers often have the final word. Focusing on three seminal cases of modern warfare-the South after the Civil War, France in the wake of the Franco-Prussian War, and Germany following Worl ..."
Soldiers(Reprint) German POWs on Fighting, Killing, and Dying (Vintage) 通过 Harald Welzer, Sonke Neitzel, JeffersonChase Paperback, 448 页, 发布时间 2013 通过 Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-307-94833-5, ISBN: 0-307-94833-1
"In 2001, spurred by a nagging curiosity over a transcript of a secretly recorded conversation he had come across in his research on the German U-boat wars, historian Sönke Neitzel paid a visit to the British national archives. He had heard of the existence of recorded interrogations of German POWs, but never about covert recordings taken within the confines of the holding cells, bedrooms, and camps that housed the prisoners. What Neitze ..."
"In November 2001, as the world still reeled from the attack on the Twin Towers, German historian Sonke Neitzel discovered an extraordinary cache of documents from the Second World War. The documents were the transcripts of German prisoners of war talking among themselves in prisoner of war camps, and secretly recorded by the allies. In these apparently private conversations the soldiers talked freely and openly about their hopes and fea ..."
"On a visit to the British National Archive in 2001, Sonke Neitzel made a remarkable discovery: reams of meticulously transcribed conversations among German POWs that had been covertly recorded and recently declassified. Netizel would later find another collection of transcriptions, twice as extensive, in the National Archive in Washington. These were discoveries that would provide a unique and profoundly important window into the true m ..."
"An exhibition and book about space, politics, and power, Territories provides Israeli architects, critics, filmmakers and artists with an open platform. Aiming to formulate a multi-layered critique by means of territorial research, Territories attempts to compare the specificities of this process in Israel to diverse areas around the world. With texts and interviews by Eyal Weizman, Rafi Segal, W.J.T. Mitchell, Matthew Buckingham and ot ..."