The Unmaking of Adolf Hitler, which includes dozens of photos from German collections, covers literally every aspect of Hitler's life from his success after he came to power in 1933 to his self-destruction. Renowned author Eugene Davidson describes in detail Hitler's stratagems in reviving morale and undoing the inequitable treaties imposed on Germany after World War I and his shrewd moves to take advantage of the fatal miscalculations of the coalition that had been aligned against the Reich. Once Hitler had brutally improved Germany's desperate state, there followed mortal errors and fateful mistakes of judgment arising from his own inadequacies. Compelling, well-researched, and eminently readable, The Unmaking of Adolf Hitler strives to explain how and why Hitler's empire collapsed from his own actions. Available only in the USA and Canada.
These essays deal with the history of the past half-century, facing the world's encouraging as well as saddening developments, from the Nuremburg Trials to Saddam Hussein and the absurdities of Ezra Pound. One group of essays confronts the idea of history and what the past should mean.
Available for the first time in paperback, The Nuremberg Fallacy examines the inherent shortcomings of the Nuremberg "rules of war" and the War Crimes Tribunal's impossible expectations. In 1946, the Tribunal declared all aggressive war, war crimes, and crimes against humanity illegal. Yet the period since World War II has witnessed an unprecedented number of armed conflicts. In light of recent crises, including those in Rwanda, Bosnia and Serbia, and the Middle East, it is clear that the issues explored in The Nuremberg Fallacy are as relevant today as they were at the time of the book's first publication a quarter century ago. In this volume, Eugene Davidson continues his investigations begun in The Trial of the Germans (University of Missouri Press), which studied the Nuremberg trials themselves, by focusing on five major conflicts since the end of World War II: the Suez crisis of 1956; Algeria's war of independence; Israel's recurring (and ongoing) battles with its Arab neighbors, complicated and worsened by intervention of the superpowers; the wars in Southeast Asia; and the Soviet Union's suppression of Czechoslovakia and other border states of Eastern Europe. By exploring the roots and ramifications of these five conflicts, Davidson is able to chart the crosscurrents between large and small states, between individual nations and the United Nations, between the rules of Nuremberg and the significantly older rules of self- interest. The result is a thoughtful and thought-provoking study of the dynamics of war and peace in the post-Nuremberg world. The rules of war proclaimed at Nuremberg--observing the flag of truce, prohibiting attacks on surrendered enemies, treating prisoners of war and civilian populations humanely--have become virtually irrelevant in modern guerrilla warfare. If anything, Davidson suggests, conditions have actually become worse than they were before the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal. The continuing importance and relevance of The Nuremberg Fallacy is best summarized in the final sentences of Davidson's text: "The survival of a nation cannot be successfully entrusted to simplistic formulae or to principles that reflect unworkable doctrines. No computers have been programmed for the wisdom that remains essential for survival. People still have to provide that from their own inner and outer resources, no matter how far the weapons may seem to have outdistanced them.
Of the thousands packed in trains and transported from Viseu to Auschwitz, just a small group survived to see liberation. Among the survivors were Tessler, his father, and two of his brothers. This is their amazing story as Hasidic Jews caught in the chaos and terror of the Holocaust. Tessler's upbringing had emphasized community and family devotion --
Examines each of the defendants in the Nuremberg Trials, during which charges were brought against members of Hitler's Third Reich for wartime atrocities, and considers questions of whether the trials were necessary and just.
The harsh Armistice terms of 1918, the short-lived Weimar Republic, Hindenburg's senile vacillations, and behind-the-scene power plays form the backbone of this excellent study covering German history during the first three-and-a-half decades of the century."--Publishers website.
DEA and US Customs, baffled by a Colombian Drug Cartel's incredible ability to smuggle without detection gargantuan amounts of cocaine, heroin and marijuana into New Orleans and other Gulf port cities, seek the assistance of the elite covert PODOLAR Group to assist in solving the secret of the drug merchant's newest scheme. Suspicions point to Maracaibo as the contrabands port of embarkation, then moving up by ship through the Yucatan Channel between Cuba and Mexico to an eagerly waiting New Orleans market. But the two top drug agency's lack effective personnel to infiltrate this expansive route. Enter Daniel Conte, PODOLAR Group's premier agent. Conte's course to uncover the cleverly veiled secret begins with betrayal and his near death in the Southern California mountains and continues to the tough New Orleans waterfront and the French Quarter's scandalous Bourbon Street before he takes command of the Marine Runner on a voyage through the Caribbean Sea to Maracaibo and the cartel's Venezuelan domain.
Tysklandshistorie, biografi. Engelsk bog om Hitler med nye oplysninger om hans barndom og ungdom, hans familie og specielt hans mor, og hans politiske og filosofiske udvikling, især hans fattigdom og antisemitisme. Men først og fremmest analyseres og beskrives de specielle forhold i og udenfor Tyskland, der gjorde det muligt for Hitler at komme til magten: "While Hitler himself was unique, the destructive elements that enabled him to sieze power were and are ever present. The author examines these elements by tracing the dissolution of a modern industrial society through portraits of the leaders and the led. Through contemporary evidence in books, documents, letters and memoirs as well, he shows how a highly succesful state, a mixture of pioneering social democracy and ultra conservative forces, was transformed into an unstable malfunctioning, radicalized society overburdened with problems for which it had no solutions other than the promises of a demigod".
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