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Commemorating Hell

The Public Memory of Mittelbau-Dora

By: Gretchen E. Schafft,Gerhard Zeidler

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Commemorating Hell

The Public Memory of Mittelbau-Dora

By: Gretchen E. Schafft,Gerhard Zeidler

This powerful, wide-ranging history of the Nazi concentration camp Mittelbau-Dora is the first book to analyze how memory of the Third Reich evolved throughout changes in the German regime from World War II to the present. Building on intimate knowledge of the history of the camp, where a third of the 60,000 prisoners did not survive the war, Gretchen Schafft and Gerhard Zeidler examine the political and cultural aspects of the camp's memorialization in East Germany and, after 1989, in unified Germany. Prisoners at Mittelbau-Dora built the V-1 and V-2 missiles, some of them coming into direct contact with Wernher von Braun and Arthur Rudolph, who later became leading engineers in the U.S. space program. Through the continuing story of Mittelbau-Dora, from its operation as a labor camp to its social construction as a monument, Schafft and Zeidler reflect an abiding interest in the memory and commemoration of notorious national events. In extending the analysis of Mittelbau-Dora into post-war and present-day Germany, Commemorating Hell uncovers the intricate relationship between the politics of memory and broader state and global politics, revealing insights about the camp's relationship to the American space pioneers and the fate of the nearby city of Nordhausen.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252093054

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9780252093050

The Myth and Reality of German Warfare

Operational Thinking from Moltke the Elder to Heusinger

By: Gerhard P. Gross

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The Myth and Reality of German Warfare

Operational Thinking from Moltke the Elder to Heusinger

By: Gerhard P. Gross

Surrounded by potential adversaries, nineteenth-century Prussia and twentieth-century Germany faced the formidable prospect of multifront wars and wars of attrition. To counteract these threats, generations of general staff officers were educated in operational thinking, the main tenets of which were extremely influential on military planning across the globe and were adopted by American and Soviet armies. In the twentieth century, Germany's art of warfare dominated military theory and practice, creating a myth of German operational brilliance that lingers today, despite the nation's crushing defeats in two world wars. In this seminal study, Gerhard P. Gross provides a comprehensive examination of the development and failure of German operational thinking over a period of more than a century. He analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of five different armies, from the mid–nineteenth century through the early days of NATO. He also offers fresh interpretations of towering figures of German military history, including Moltke the Elder, Alfred von Schlieffen, and Erich Ludendorff. Essential reading for military historians and strategists, this innovative work dismantles cherished myths and offers new insights into Germany's failed attempts to become a global power through military means.

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465

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813168384

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9780813168388

Matrix Riccati Equations in Control and Systems Theory

By: Hisham Abou-Kandil,Gerhard Freiling,Vlad Ionescu,Gerhard Jank

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Matrix Riccati Equations in Control and Systems Theory

By: Hisham Abou-Kandil,Gerhard Freiling,Vlad Ionescu,Gerhard Jank

The authors present the theory of symmetric (Hermitian) matrix Riccati equations and contribute to the development of the theory of non-symmetric Riccati equations as well as to certain classes of coupled and generalized Riccati equations occurring in differential games and stochastic control. The volume offers a complete treatment of generalized and coupled Riccati equations. It deals with differential, discrete-time, algebraic or periodic symmetric and non-symmetric equations, with special emphasis on those equations appearing in control and systems theory. Extensions to Riccati theory allow to tackle robust control problems in a unified approach. The book makes available classical and recent results to engineers and mathematicians alike. It is accessible to graduate students in mathematics, applied mathematics, control engineering, physics or economics. Researchers working in any of the fields where Riccati equations are used can find the main results with the proper mathematical background.

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584

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Birkhäuser

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3034880812

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9783034880817

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

By the spring of 1943, after the defeat at Stalingrad, the writing was on the wall. But while commanders close to the troops on Germany's various fronts were beginning to read it, those at the top were resolutely looking the other way. This seventh volume in the magisterial 10-volume series from the Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt [Research Institute for Military History] shows both Germany and her Japanese ally on the defensive, from 1943 into early 1945. It looks in depth at the strategic air war over the Reich and the mounting toll taken in the Battles of the Ruhr, Hamburg, and Berlin, and at the "Battle of the Radar Sets" so central to them all. The collapse of the Luftwaffe in its retaliatory role led to hopes being pinned on the revolutionary V-weapons, whose dramatic but ultimately fruitless achievements are chronicled. The Luftwaffe's weakness in defence is seen during the Normandy invasion, Operation overlord, an account of the planning, preparation and execution of which form the central part of this volume together with the landings in the south of France, the setback suffered at Arnhem, and the German counter-offensive in the Ardennes. The final part follows the fortunes of Germany's ally fighting in the Pacific, Burma, Thailand, and China, with American forces capturing islands ever closer to Japan's homeland, and culminates in her capitulation and the creation of a new postwar order in the Far East. The struggle between internal factions in the Japanese high command and imperial court is studied in detail, and highlights an interesting contrast with the intolerance of all dissent that typified the Nazi power structure. Based on meticulous research by MGFA's team of historians at Potsdam, this analysis of events is illustrated by a wealth of tables and maps covering aspects ranging from Germany's radar defence system and the targets of RAF Bomber Command and the US 8th Air Force, through the break-out from the Normandy beachhead, to the battles for Iwo Jima and Okinawa.

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Oxford University Press

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0191089842

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9780191089848

Acoustic Echo and Noise Control

A Practical Approach

By: Eberhard Hänsler,Gerhard Schmidt

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Acoustic Echo and Noise Control

A Practical Approach

By: Eberhard Hänsler,Gerhard Schmidt

Authors are well known and highly recognized by the "acoustic echo and noise community." Presents a detailed description of practical methods to control echo and noise Develops a statistical theory for optimal control parameters and presents practical estimation and approximation methods

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474

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John Wiley & Sons

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0471678392

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9780471678397

Lecture Notes on Solution Chemistry

By: Viktor Gutmann,Gerhard Resch

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Lecture Notes on Solution Chemistry

By: Viktor Gutmann,Gerhard Resch

This book emphasises those features in solution chemistry which are difficult to measure, but essential for the understanding of both the qualitative and the quantitative aspects. Attention is paid to the mutual influences between solute and solvent, even at extremely small concentrations of the former. The described extension of the molecular concept leads to a broad view ? not by a change in paradigm ? but by finding the rules for the organizations both at the molecular and the supermolecular level of liquid and solid solutions.

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258

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World Scientific

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9810222580

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9789810222581

Handbook of Mathematics

By: I.N. Bronshtein,K.A. Semendyayev,Gerhard Musiol,Heiner Mühlig

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Handbook of Mathematics

By: I.N. Bronshtein,K.A. Semendyayev,Gerhard Musiol,Heiner Mühlig

This incredibly useful guide book to mathematics contains the fundamental working knowledge of mathematics which is needed as an everyday guide for working scientists and engineers, as well as for students. Now in its fifth updated edition, it is easy to understand, and convenient to use. Inside you’ll find the information necessary to evaluate most problems which occur in concrete applications. In the newer editions emphasis was laid on those fields of mathematics that became more important for the formulation and modeling of technical and natural processes. For the 5th edition, the chapters "Computer Algebra Systems" and "Dynamical Systems and Chaos" have been revised, updated and expanded.

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1206

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540721223

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9783540721222

Nation Builders and Enemy Aliens

Four Centuries of German Experience in Canada

By: Gerhard P. Bassler

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Nation Builders and Enemy Aliens

Four Centuries of German Experience in Canada

By: Gerhard P. Bassler

Today German Canadians are among Canada’s most assimilated citizens, often distinguishable from other Canadians by their name only. For centuries their pioneer farmers, economic developers, industrialists, professionals, musicians, artists, missionaries, fisherman, boat builders, and soldiers have acquired an acknowledged reputation as nation builders in Canada. Not too long ago, however, they were also associated with Canada’s enemy in two world wars, discriminated against, and subjected to infringements of their citizenship rights. Virtually overnight, Canadians of German-speaking background were recast into disloyal enemy aliens. Anti-German sentiments and stigmas, unknown in Canada before World War I, became firmly entrenched and have obliterated their legacy as nation builders. This book documents and illustrates how German Canadians have experienced Canada and how Canada has experienced German Canadians over the course of four centuries. It shows what influence Canada’s relations with Germany had on this development. This is the first comprehensive synopsis of the German experience in Canada.

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FriesenPress

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1525590359

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9781525590351

Fraud

Deceit Among Scientists, Academics, Writers, and Philanthropists

By: Gerhard Falk

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Fraud

Deceit Among Scientists, Academics, Writers, and Philanthropists

By: Gerhard Falk

While fraud is generally associated with the business world, this book demonstrates that there is also a good deal of fraud and deception among scientists, writers and philanthropists. Scientists will sometimes announce fraudulent findings in order to raise money for additional research projects. Since many scientists live by this "soft" money and have no other income, the temptation to claim results that never occurred is great. Likewise, authors and journalists may commit fraud by claiming that they saw some thing that they did not see or that an event occurred which never happened. There are also writers who steal the work of others and publish such material under their own name. There are executives of charitable organizations who steal the money donated to a charitable cause and there are clergy who steal from the members of their own parish, or sell objects that do not belong to them. Some members of the clergy use their trusted office to gain sexual favors from congregants while others entertain their friends at the expense of their congregations. This work is well documented and demonstrates that the notion of the aloof scientists or holy clergy may be no more than a myth, and that even in these professions all things are not what they seem. Book jacket.

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0761838589

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9780761838586

Wolf-Heidegger's Atlas of Human Anatomy

By: Gerhard Wolf-Heidegger,Petra Köpf-Maier

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Wolf-Heidegger's Atlas of Human Anatomy

By: Gerhard Wolf-Heidegger,Petra Köpf-Maier

The original Latin nomenclature version with German and English captions.

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3805576633

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9783805576635

Commemorating Hell

The Public Memory of Mittelbau-Dora

By: Gretchen E. Schafft,Gerhard Zeidler

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Commemorating Hell

The Public Memory of Mittelbau-Dora

By: Gretchen E. Schafft,Gerhard Zeidler

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Commemorating Hell

Commemorating Hell

The Myth and Reality of German Warfare

The Myth and Reality of German Warfare

Matrix Riccati Equations in Control and Systems Theory

Matrix Riccati Equations in Control and Systems Theory

Germany and the Second World War

Germany and the Second World War

Acoustic Echo and Noise Control

Acoustic Echo and Noise Control

Lecture Notes on Solution Chemistry

Lecture Notes on Solution Chemistry

Handbook of Mathematics

Handbook of Mathematics

Nation Builders and Enemy Aliens

Nation Builders and Enemy Aliens

Fraud

Fraud

Wolf-Heidegger's Atlas of Human Anatomy

Wolf-Heidegger's Atlas of Human Anatomy

Commemorating Hell

Commemorating Hell

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