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Cruel World

The Children of Europe in the Nazi Web

By: Lynn H. Nicholas

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Cruel World

The Children of Europe in the Nazi Web

By: Lynn H. Nicholas

To be a child in mid-twentieth-century Europe was to be not a person but an object, available for use in the service of the totalitarian state. Very soon after Adolf Hitler came to power, policies of eugenic selection and euthanasia began to weed ill or disabled children out of the New Order by poison, gas, and starvation. Defect-free “good blood” children were subjected to an “education” based on racism, propaganda, and the glorification of the Führer, and were deliberately deprived of free time that would allow independent thought or action. Once the war began, “Nordic”-looking children were kidnapped from families in the conquered lands and subjected to “Germanization.” Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of “bad blood” children—Jews, Gypsies, Poles, Ukrainians, Russians(were separated from their families and condemned to forced migration, slave labor, sadistic experiments, starvation, and mass execution. At the end of the war, uprooted children of every origin wandered the bombed-out cities and countryside, some having been taken from home at such a young age that they did not know where they had come from or even their own names. Millions surged into and out of DP camps, exploited by political and religious groups, while the Allies and the fledgling United Nations tried mightily to put families back together and to find new homes for the orphans. All the riveting narrative skill and impeccable scholarship that distinguished Lynn Nicholas’s first book, The Rape of Europa (winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction), are present in her study of these terrible crimes against humanity. To research this story she has delved into the governmental and military archives of many nations, and has interviewed countless individuals. She shows the relationship of the deadly Nazi policies to the brutal tactics used in the USSR in the 1930s and to their rehearsal in the Spanish Civil War, and vividly describes the abject failure of Hitler’s campaign to plant Germanizing colonies in the conquered nations. She gives us the stories of survivors of ghastly war-spawned famines(in Greece and Russia in the 1940s, Holland in the “Hunger Winter” of 1945, and Berlin in the Airlift year of 1949(and of British, French, and Dutch children who were evacuated to the countryside; boys and girls sent alone from Europe to England on the Kindertransports; the teenaged soldiers of the Reich; the small veterans of the quarries, the factories, and the camps as well as those who survived in lonely hiding. In Cruel World Lynn Nicholas shows us clearly, and with passionate empathy for the innocent victims, the crimes against children that inevitably result when ideology overwhelms humanity. This powerful book, as it recounts the waking nightmare that enmeshed the lives of Europe’s boys and girls, bears witness to our own responsibility to the children of the twenty-first century.

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Vintage

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0307793826

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9780307793829

Marx's Theory of Price and its Modern Rivals

By: H. Nicholas

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Marx's Theory of Price and its Modern Rivals

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Marx's Theory of Price and its Modern Rivals provides an original look at how Marx understood the role of money, extending his theory to consider how prices move over the course of business cycles. Key modern theories of price are also analysed; Neoclassical, Post Keynesian and Sraffian theories are contrasted with Marxian thought.

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228

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Springer

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0230346502

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9780230346505

The Rape of Europa

The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War

By: Lynn H. Nicholas

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The Rape of Europa

The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War

By: Lynn H. Nicholas

The Third Reich's senseless purges and war on European cultural artefacts are profiled by Nicholas, who describes how art treasures were both perserved and destroyed.

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498

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0333639510

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9780333639511

Inventing Ethan Allen

By: John J. Duffy,H. Nicholas Muller, III

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Inventing Ethan Allen

By: John J. Duffy,H. Nicholas Muller, III

Since 1969, Ethan Allen has been the subject of three biographical studies, all of which indulge in sustaining and revitalizing the image of Allen as a physically imposing Vermont yeoman, a defender of the rights of Americans, an eloquent military hero, and a master of many guises, from rough frontiersman to gentleman philosopher. Seeking the authentic Ethan Allen, the authors of this volume ask: How did that Ethan Allen secure his place in popular culture? As they observe, this spectacular persona leaves little room for a more accurate assessment of Allen as a self-interested land speculator, rebellious mob leader, inexperienced militia officer, and truth-challenged man who would steer Vermont into the British Empire. Drawing extensively from the correspondence in Ethan Allen and his Kin and a wide range of historical, political, and cultural sources, Duffy and Muller analyze the factors that led to Ethan Allen's two-hundred-year-old status as the most famous figure in Vermont's past. Placing facts against myths, the authors reveal how Allen acquired and retained his iconic image, how the much-repeated legends composed after his death coincide with his life, why recollections of him are synonymous with the story of Vermont, and why some Vermonters still assign to Allen their own cherished and idealized values.

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University Press of New England

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1611685540

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The Rape of Europa

The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War

By: Lynn H. Nicholas

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The Rape of Europa

The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War

By: Lynn H. Nicholas

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award The real story behind the major motion picture The Monuments Men. The cast of characters includes Hitler and Goering, Gertrude Stein and Marc Chagall--not to mention works by artists from Leonardo da Vinci to Pablo Picasso. And the story told in this superbly researched and suspenseful book is that of the Third Reich's war on European culture and the Allies' desperate effort to preserve it. From the Nazi purges of "Degenerate Art" and Goering's shopping sprees in occupied Paris to the perilous journey of the Mona Lisa from Paris and the painstaking reclamation of the priceless treasures of liberated Italy, The Rape of Europa is a sweeping narrative of greed, philistinism, and heroism that combines superlative scholarship with a compelling drama.

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Vintage

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0307739724

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9780307739728

I Come First

How the Individual Ego Rules Every Business Decision

By: Mark H. Nicholas,Mark Nicholas

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I Come First

How the Individual Ego Rules Every Business Decision

By: Mark H. Nicholas,Mark Nicholas

I Come First offers author M.H Nicholas's hard-learned lessons in business, reminding business people that they must watch out for themselves first and that they must learn to recognize self-interest in their day to day work.

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Mark H Nicholas

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0982688806

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9780982688809

It's (Not) Just Business

The Employee's Survival Guide: Your Guide to Politics, Ego and Negotiating in the Workplace

By: M. H. Nicholas

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It's (Not) Just Business

The Employee's Survival Guide: Your Guide to Politics, Ego and Negotiating in the Workplace

By: M. H. Nicholas

It's Not Just Business is designed to give you the edge you need to navigate the complex business world and the equally complex people who reside there. Business is about human nature, goals and emotion, with all of the quirks and flaws; and it is about forgiving people for being human, and business for being compromised of people. Loaded with practical advice that you can instantly put to use,

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0982688865

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9780982688861

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Cruel World

Cruel World

Marx's Theory of Price and its Modern Rivals

Marx's Theory of Price and its Modern Rivals

The Rape of Europa

The Rape of Europa

Inventing Ethan Allen

Inventing Ethan Allen

The Rape of Europa

The Rape of Europa

I Come First

I Come First

It's (Not) Just Business

It's (Not) Just Business

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