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Berlin: The Twenties
by Rainer Metzger  Publisher Comments Berlin, a haunting vision of the twentieth century’s first modern city, is a cultural history filled with 400 shockingly fresh and romantic photographs, paintings, and other images. In the brief years between the twentieth century’s two cataclysmic...
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Weimar Germany: Promise & Tragedy
by Eric Weitz Publisher Comments Weitzs book reveals the Weimar era as a time of strikingly progressive achievements--and even greater promise. With a rich thematic narrative and detailed portraits, this comprehensive history views Weimar in its own right--and not as a mere prelude to...
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Germany After the First World War
by Richard Bessel Publisher Comments A social history of Germany in the years following the First World War, Germany After the First World War explores Germany's defeat and the subsequent demobilization of its armies, events which had devastating social and psychological consequences for...
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The Red Count: The Life and Times of Harry Kessler
by Laird M Easton Publisher Comments "A richly contextualized portrait of a key Weimar figure, who deserves to be better known. Easton is a lively writer."--Martin Jay, University of California, Berkeley<BR>"Provocative and original. . . . "The Red Count "should be welcomed by a...
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Women & Modernity in Weimar Germany Re
by Vibeke Rut Petersen Publisher Comments This book focuses on the popular fiction of Weimar Germany and explores the relationship between women, the texts they read, and the society in which they lived. A complex picture emerges that shows women taking center stage, not only in the fiction but...
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Berlin in Lights: The Diaries of Count Harry Kessler (1918-1937)
by Charles Kessler Synopsis The diaries of a German aristocrat encapsulate the years between the two great wars, recording first hand the agonizing collapse of Weimar Germany and the goose-stepping arrival of the Nazis. Illustrations throughout....
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Berlin in Lights: The Diaries of Count Harry Kessler (1918-1937)
by Charles Kessler Publisher Comments Berlin in Lights, chosen as a New York Times Notable Book, is the collection of German aristocrat Harry Kessler's diaries between the two world wars. Count Harry Kessler (1868-1937), the son of a German banker and an Irish beauty, was a diplomat and...
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The Logic of Evil: The Social Origins of the Nazi Party, 1925-1933
by William Brustein Publisher Comments Why did millions of apparently sane, rational Germans join the Nazi Party, between 1925 and 1933? In this provocative book, William Brustein argues that Nazi supporters were no different from citizens anywhere who select a political party or candidate...
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Reactionary Modernism: Technology, Culture, and Politics in Weimar and the Third Reich
by Jeffrey Herf Publisher Comments How could Germany's conservative revolutionaries of the Weimar Republic, and later the Nazis, reject the rationalism of the Enlightenment and yet embrace modern technology? Jeffrey Herf examines this paradox in a cultural tradition evident in the...
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Justice Imperiled: The Anti-Nazi Lawyer Max Hirschberg in Weimar Germany (Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany)
by Douglas G Morris Publisher Comments "This book reads like a legal thriller; it will leave you thinking about the nature of justice and inspired by the human spirit."<BR>-Sister Helen Prejean <BR>"Justice Imperiled" is the story of the brilliant lawyer Max Hirschberg, one of...
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What I Saw : Reports From Berlin 1920-1933 (03 Edition)
by Joseph Roth Publisher Comments Glowingly reviewed, the revival of Roth's work--about the tragicomic world of 1920s Berlin as seen by its greatest journalistic eyewitness--introduces a new generation to the genius of this tortured author....
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Welfare, Modernity, and the Weimar State (Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History)
by Young Sun Hong Publisher Comments This is the first comprehensive study of the turbulent relationship among state, society, and church in the making of the modern German welfare system during the Weimar Republic. Young-Sun Hong examines the competing conceptions of poverty, citizenship...
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The Weimar Republic
by J W Hiden Synopsis This text argues that the Weimar Republic was not doomed from its conception at the Treaty of Versailles and therefore it was a complex set of factors which allowed Hitler to rise to power. This edition features an updated and extended bibliography and...
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Before the Deluge: Portrait of Berlin in the 1920s, a
by Otto Friedrich Publisher Comments The Birds of Berlin PROLOGUE Therefore let us found a city here And call it Mahagonny, Which means city of nets. . . . It should be like a net Stretched out for edible birds. Everywhere there is toil and trouble But here we'll have fun .... Gin and...
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Hindenburg: Icon of German Militarism (Brassey's Military Profiles)
by Dennis E Showalter Publisher Comments Analyzes the storied career of one of Germany??'s most famous military...
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Joyless Streets: Women and Melodramatic Representation in Weimar Germany
by Patrice Petro Publisher Comments Patrice Petro challenges the conventional assessment of German film history, which sees classical films as responding solely to male anxieties and fears. Exploring the address made to women in melodramatic films and in popular illustrated magazines, she...
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A Brief History of the Birth of the Nazis: How the Freikorps Blazed the Trail for Hitler
by Nigel H Jones Publisher Comments A timely and concise history of the Freikorps, the voluntary paramilitary groups that dominated German political life from the abdication of the Kaiser in 1918 to Hitler's Beerhall Putsch of 1923, and paved the way for the Nazis. Photographs are included....
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Germany after the First World War
by Richard Bessel Publisher Comments A social history of Germany in the years following the First World War, Germany After the First World War explores Germany's defeat and the subsequent demobilization of its armies, events which had devastating social and psychological consequences for...
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Dispatches from the Weimar Republic: Versailles and German Fascism
by M Philips Price
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Lustmord :sexual murder in Weimar Germany
by Maria Tatar Description Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-208) and index....
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