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German Refugee Historians and Friedrich Meinecke

Letters and Documents, 1910-1977

By: Gerhard A. Ritter

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German Refugee Historians and Friedrich Meinecke

Letters and Documents, 1910-1977

By: Gerhard A. Ritter

The book deals with the relationship between Friedrich Meinecke, who is often considered to be the leading German historian of the first half of the twentieth century, and several of his students who, after the Nazi seizure of power, were forced to emigrate because of their Jewish descent or their political views. The letters published here to Meinecke from Hans Rothfels, Dietrich Gerhard, Hajo Holborn, Felix Gilbert, Hans Rosenberg, and others show these scholars' deep respect for their old teacher, but also their growing distance from his historical interests and methods. In a period of struggle between democracy and Nazi dictatorship, the letters address the problems of emigration and remigration, German-Jewish and German-American identity, and historiography in both Germany and the United States.

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BRILL

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9004184058

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9789004184053

Germany, Hitler, and World War II

Essays in Modern German and World History

By: Gerhard L. Weinberg

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Germany, Hitler, and World War II

Essays in Modern German and World History

By: Gerhard L. Weinberg

Reflecting on the greatest war in human history, one cannot help but think about the terrible conflict as a whole, its leaders, its peoples, and the puzzles still open about its conduct. Leaders on both sides realised that at stake from the very beginning was a complete restructuring of the world order. More than a conflict of imperial aggression, World War II was about who would live and command the globe's resources and which peoples would disappear entirely because they were believed to be inferior or undesirable by the victor. This collection of special studies in twentieth-century German and world history illuminates the nature of the Nazi system and its impact on Germany and the world. Bringing together essays now widely scattered and several never previously published in English, this volume examines the Holocaust, the connections between the European and Pacific theatres of war, as well as the effects, leaders, and research problems of World War II. By examining the effects of World War II, its leaders, its problems, and the Holocaust, this volume provides an illuminating study of the nature of the Nazi system and its impact on Germany and the world.

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358

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Cambridge University Press

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1316583724

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9781316583722

Germany and the Second World War

By: Gerhard Schreiber

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Germany and the Second World War

By: Gerhard Schreiber

Explores the conduct of the war in the Mediterranean region and examines the dramatic military events of this period

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Germany and the Second World W

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0198228848

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9780198228844

Thinking with Adorno

The Uncoercive Gaze

By: Gerhard Richter

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Thinking with Adorno

The Uncoercive Gaze

By: Gerhard Richter

What Theodor W. Adorno says cannot be separated from how he says it. By the same token, what he thinks cannot be isolated from how he thinks it. The central aim of Richter’s book is to examine how these basic yet far-reaching assumptions teach us to think with Adorno—both alongside him and in relation to his diverse contexts and constellations. These contexts and constellations range from aesthetic theory to political critique, from the problem of judgment to the difficulty of inheriting a tradition, from the primacy of the object to the question of how to lead a right life within a wrong one. Richter vividly shows how Adorno’s highly suggestive—yet often overlooked—concept of the “uncoercive gaze” designates a specific kind of comportment in relation to an object of critical analysis: It moves close to the object and tarries with it while struggling to decipher the singularities and non-identities that are lodged within it, whether the object is an idea, a thought, a concept, a text, a work of art, an experience, or a problem of political or sociological theory. Thinking with Adorno’s uncoercive gaze not only means following the fascinating paths of his own work; it also means extending hospitality to the ghostly voices of others. As this book shows, Adorno is best understood as a thinker in dialogue, whether with long-deceased predecessors in the German tradition such as Kant and Hegel, with writers such as Kafka, with contemporaries such as Benjamin and Arendt, or with philosophical voices that succeeded him, such as those of Derrida and Agamben.

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225

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Fordham Univ Press

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0823284050

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9780823284054

Frederick the Great

A Historical Profile

By: Gerhard Ritter

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Frederick the Great

A Historical Profile

By: Gerhard Ritter

GERHARD RITTER'S biography of Frederick the Great onglnated in a series of lectures, which were published with scarcely any revisions in 1936. In this translation, based on the third edition, published in 1954, Paret has tried to convey the hard and precise style that characterizes the German text, while eliminating some of the numerous adjectives and parallel phrases that a lecturer might have found useful for emphasis but which seem unnecessary on the printed page. With the author's agreement also excluded is the brief introduction and epilogue of the original, since they are addressed specifically to the German reader and to German conditions. Gerhard Ritter died in 1967, shortly after the translation was completed.

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Univ of California Press

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0520341422

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9780520341425

A World at Arms

A Global History of World War II

By: Gerhard L. Weinberg

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A World at Arms

A Global History of World War II

By: Gerhard L. Weinberg

A truly global account of WWII - the war that encompassed six continents.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521618266

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9780521618267

Fascism, Communism and the Consolidation of Democracy

A Comparison of European Dictatorships

By: Gerhard Besier

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Fascism, Communism and the Consolidation of Democracy

A Comparison of European Dictatorships

By: Gerhard Besier

The authoritarian and totalitarian systems of individual countries have long been studied independently of each other. The separation of Eastern and Western Europe was used as a parameter by historians. This also applies to the analysis of Communism and Mussolini's Fascism. Only in recent years has the comparative perspective in the regional, chronological and system-oriented sense been applied, thus allowing many phenomena to be correctly understood and assessed. Central and Eastern Europe is tied to Western and Southern Europe by the experience of dictatorship and the ongoing need to evaluate and come to terms with these dictatorships. In the present anthology Mussolini's Fascism, National Socialism and Communism are examined comparatively. Similarities, connections and mutual influences in these dictatorships are sought. Finally, the transition from dictatorship to democracy is examined. With this collection of essays the editors intend to give impulse for inter-European comparative research on dictatorships and democracy.

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LIT Verlag Münster

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3825896579

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9783825896577

Germany and the Second World War

Volume VII: The Strategic Air War in Europe and the War in the West and East Asia, 1943-1944/5

By: Horst Boog,Gerhard Krebs,Detlef Vogel

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Germany and the Second World War

Volume VII: The Strategic Air War in Europe and the War in the West and East Asia, 1943-1944/5

By: Horst Boog,Gerhard Krebs,Detlef Vogel

Volume VII of the 'Germany and the Second World War' series looks at Germany and her Japanese ally on the defensive after the tide of war turned in 1943. An exhaustive study of the air war over the Reich and the Luftwaffe's growing impotence is followed by an account of the invasion of occupied France and the Allies' advance to Germany's borders. A final section examines Japan's defeat and capitulation, and the creation of a new order in the Far East.

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Clarendon Press

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0198228899

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9780198228899

Hitler's Foreign Policy 1933-1939

The Road to World War II

By: Gerhard L. Weinberg

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Hitler's Foreign Policy 1933-1939

The Road to World War II

By: Gerhard L. Weinberg

Hitler’s path to war consisted of two different stages that paralleled the internal development of Germany. From 1933 to the end of 1936, he created a diplomatic revolution in Europe. From a barely accepted equal, Germany became the dominant power on the continent. With the remilitarization of the Rhineland, the stalemate in the Spanish Civil War, the forming of the Axis, and the signing of the Anti-Comintern Pact, the first phase was completed. In the second phase, the diplomatic initiative in the world belonged to Germany and its partners. Germany’s march toward war therefore became the central issue in world diplomacy.

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892

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Enigma Books

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1936274841

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9781936274840

The "German Spirit" in the Ottoman and Turkish Army, 1908-1938

A history of military knowledge transfer

By: Gerhard Grüßhaber

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The "German Spirit" in the Ottoman and Turkish Army, 1908-1938

A history of military knowledge transfer

By: Gerhard Grüßhaber

The study focuses on the mutual transfer of military knowledge between the German and the Ottoman/ Turkish army between the 1908 Young Turk revolution and the death of Atatürk in 1938. Whereas the Ottoman and later the Turkish army were the main beneficiaries of this selective appropriation, the German armed forces evaluated their (prospective) ally’s military experiences to a lesser extent. Through the analysis of archival and published sources and memoir literature the study provides evidence for the impact of this exchange on the armies of both countries and on the Turkish civil society. Indeed, the officer corps in both countries was a small but influential group of the society for the further development of their nations.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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311055478X

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9783110554786

The Price of German Unity

Reunification and the Crisis of the Welfare State

By: Gerhard A. Ritter

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The Price of German Unity

Reunification and the Crisis of the Welfare State

By: Gerhard A. Ritter

The first full-scale analysis of the history of German reunification, with a particular emphasis on social policy, showing how the transfer of the West German social policy framework to the East intensified the crisis of the German welfare state.

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Oxford University Press

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0199556822

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9780199556823

Volume 20: The Auction Catalogue of Kierkegaard's Library

By: Katalin Nun,Gerhard Schreiber

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Volume 20: The Auction Catalogue of Kierkegaard's Library

By: Katalin Nun,Gerhard Schreiber

This volume is a revised and improved edition of the auction catalogue of Kierkegaard’s private library. The catalogue has long served as one of the most valuable tools in Kierkegaard studies and has been actively used by commentators, translators and researchers for tracing the various sources of Kierkegaard’s thought. With the catalogue in hand, one can determine with some degree of probability what books he read and what editions he used for his information about specific authors. The present volume represents the fourth printing of the catalogue, and it differs from its predecessors in many respects. The previous editions contained incomplete, erroneous and inconsistent bibliographical information about the works in the catalogue. The primary goal of the present edition was to obtain all of the books and check their title pages for the precise bibliographical information. The result is an accurate and reliable edition of the catalogue that conforms to the needs of Kierkegaard studies in the digital age.

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Routledge

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1351874667

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9781351874663

The Schlieffen Plan

Critique of a Myth

By: Gerhard Ritter

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The Schlieffen Plan

Critique of a Myth

By: Gerhard Ritter

The Schlieffen Plan was the name given after World War I to the theory behind the German invasion of France and Belgium on 4 August 1914. In 1905-1906 Field Marshal Alfred von Schlieffen, the Chief of the Imperial Army German General Staff from 1891-1906, had devised a deployment plan for a war-winning offensive, in a one-front war against the French Third Republic. After the war, the German official historians of the Reichsarchiv and other writers, described the plan as a blueprint for victory. Post-war writing by senior German officers and the Reichsarchiv historians managed to establish a commonly accepted narrative that it was Schlieffen’s successor Helmuth von Moltke the Younger’s failure to follow the blueprint, rather than German strategic miscalculation, that resulted in four years of attrition warfare. In 1953, renowned historian Prof. Gerhard Ritter Schlieffen’s unearthed Schlieffen’s papers during a visit to the United States, and he published his findings in the book Der Schlieffenplan: Kritik eines Mythos, presented here in its 1958 English translation, The Schlieffen Plan: Critique of a Myth. It proved to be an important historical publication, as it set in motion a period of revision, when the details of the supposed Schlieffen Plan were subjected to scrutiny and contextualisation. In Der Schlieffen Plan, Prof. Ritter presents the full text of Schlieffen’s military testament, and the relevant parts of other memoranda which shed light on the evolution of the Plan. They are preceded by Professor Ritter’s masterly exposition of their content and significance, while his accompanying notes add to the illuminating effect. “FOR two generations the Schlieffen Plan has been a magic phrase, embodying one of the chief mysteries and ‘might have beens’ of modern times. The mystery is cleared up and the great ‘If’ analysed in Gerhard Ritter’s book—a striking contribution to twentieth-century history.”—B. H. Liddell Hart

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Pickle Partners Publishing

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178912283X

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9781789122831

Handbook of Computer Vision Algorithms in Image Algebra

By: Joseph N. Wilson,Gerhard X. Ritter

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Handbook of Computer Vision Algorithms in Image Algebra

By: Joseph N. Wilson,Gerhard X. Ritter

Image algebra is a comprehensive, unifying theory of image transformations, image analysis, and image understanding. In 1996, the bestselling first edition of the Handbook of Computer Vision Algorithms in Image Algebra introduced engineers, scientists, and students to this powerful tool, its basic concepts, and its use in the concise representation

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CRC Press

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1420042386

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German Refugee Historians and Friedrich Meinecke

German Refugee Historians and Friedrich Meinecke

Germany, Hitler, and World War II

Germany, Hitler, and World War II

Germany and the Second World War

Germany and the Second World War

Thinking with Adorno

Thinking with Adorno

Frederick the Great

Frederick the Great

A World at Arms

A World at Arms

Fascism, Communism and the Consolidation of Democracy

Fascism, Communism and the Consolidation of Democracy

Germany and the Second World War

Germany and the Second World War

Hitler's Foreign Policy 1933-1939

Hitler's Foreign Policy 1933-1939

The "German Spirit" in the Ottoman and Turkish Army, 1908-1938

The "German Spirit" in the Ottoman and Turkish Army, 1908-1938

The Price of German Unity

The Price of German Unity

Volume 20: The Auction Catalogue of Kierkegaard's Library

Volume 20: The Auction Catalogue of Kierkegaard's Library

The Schlieffen Plan

The Schlieffen Plan

Handbook of Computer Vision Algorithms in Image Algebra

Handbook of Computer Vision Algorithms in Image Algebra

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