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Medicine and Conflict - The Spanish Civil War and its Traumatic Legacy (Paperback): Sebastian Browne Medicine and Conflict - The Spanish Civil War and its Traumatic Legacy (Paperback)
Sebastian Browne
R1,240 Discovery Miles 12 400 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book focuses on an important but neglected aspect of the Spanish Civil War, the evolution of medical and surgical care of the wounded during the conflict. Importantly, the focus is from a mainly Spanish perspective - as the Spanish are given a voice in their own story, which has not always been the case. Central to the book is General Franco's treatment of Muslim combatants, the anarchist contribution to health, and the medicalisation of propaganda - themes that come together in a medico-cultural study of the Spanish Civil War. Suffusing the narrative and the analysis is the traumatic legacy of conflict, an untreated wound that a new generation of Spaniards are struggling to heal.

Enacting History - A Practical Guide to Teaching the Holocaust through Theater (Hardcover): Mira Hirsch, Janet E. Rubin, Arnold... Enacting History - A Practical Guide to Teaching the Holocaust through Theater (Hardcover)
Mira Hirsch, Janet E. Rubin, Arnold Mittelman
R3,916 Discovery Miles 39 160 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Enacting History is a practical guide for educators that provides methodologies and resources for teaching the Holocaust through a variety of theatrical means, including scripted texts, verbatim testimony, devised theater techniques and process-oriented creative exercises. A close collaboration with the USC Shoah Foundation I Witness program and the National Jewish Theater Foundation Holocaust Theater International Initiative at the University of Miami Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies resulted in the ground-breaking work within this volume. The material facilitates teaching the Holocaust in a way that directly connects students to individual people and historical events through the art of theater. Each section is designed to help middle and high school educators meet curricular goals, objectives and standards and to integrate other educational disciplines based upon best practices. Students will gain both intellectual and emotional understanding by speaking the words of survivors, as well as young characters in scripted scenes, and developing their own performances based on historical primary sources. This book is an innovative and invaluable resource for teachers and students of the Holocaust; it is an exemplary account of how the power of theater can be harnessed within the classroom setting to encourage a deeper understanding of this defining event in history.

Enacting History - A Practical Guide to Teaching the Holocaust through Theater (Paperback): Mira Hirsch, Janet E. Rubin, Arnold... Enacting History - A Practical Guide to Teaching the Holocaust through Theater (Paperback)
Mira Hirsch, Janet E. Rubin, Arnold Mittelman
R1,033 Discovery Miles 10 330 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Enacting History is a practical guide for educators that provides methodologies and resources for teaching the Holocaust through a variety of theatrical means, including scripted texts, verbatim testimony, devised theater techniques and process-oriented creative exercises. A close collaboration with the USC Shoah Foundation I Witness program and the National Jewish Theater Foundation Holocaust Theater International Initiative at the University of Miami Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies resulted in the ground-breaking work within this volume. The material facilitates teaching the Holocaust in a way that directly connects students to individual people and historical events through the art of theater. Each section is designed to help middle and high school educators meet curricular goals, objectives and standards and to integrate other educational disciplines based upon best practices. Students will gain both intellectual and emotional understanding by speaking the words of survivors, as well as young characters in scripted scenes, and developing their own performances based on historical primary sources. This book is an innovative and invaluable resource for teachers and students of the Holocaust; it is an exemplary account of how the power of theater can be harnessed within the classroom setting to encourage a deeper understanding of this defining event in history.

Norman Bethune in Spain - Commitment, Crisis and Conspiracy (Paperback, New): David Lethbridge Norman Bethune in Spain - Commitment, Crisis and Conspiracy (Paperback, New)
David Lethbridge
R974 Discovery Miles 9 740 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Born to fanatical religious zealots, deeply wounded by an unloving mother and a weak father whom he hated, Norman Bethune struggled throughout his life to overcome deep emotional scars. Sexually inhibited, given to outbursts of near psychopathic rage, this wounded doctor healed himself through healing others. In the mid-1930s, Bethune emerged as a renowned surgeon fighting the twin plagues of disease and fascism. When Franco launched his offensive, Bethune travelled quickly to Madrid, organised a mobile transfusion service and, often under fire, brought blood to the wounded at the front. David Lethbridge presents the complex of Bethune's unique activities and personality as they intersected with history: His engagement with medical, political, and military civil war players, and the Communist party; his cadaver blood transfusion work with the Nobel Prize-winning geneticist, Hermann Muller; the profound effect that the Malaga atrocity had on him, and the role it played in his attempt to build "children's cities" outside war zones; his meeting with Graham Spry a high-ranking functionary in the Canadian social democratic party, the CCF; the unravelling of Bethune's romantic relationship with the Swedish journalist Kasja Rothman; the implications of his friendship with Henning Sorensen, a possibly secret member of the Communist Party of Canada, and the circumstances of the conspiracy that led to Bethune's ejection from Spain. The book concludes with Bethune's political tour throughout North America raising funds and public awareness on behalf of the Spanish Republic.

A New Nationalist Europe Under Hitler - Concepts of Europe and Transnational Networks in the National Socialist Sphere of... A New Nationalist Europe Under Hitler - Concepts of Europe and Transnational Networks in the National Socialist Sphere of Influence, 1933-1945 (Paperback)
Johannes Dafinger, Dieter Pohl
R1,228 Discovery Miles 12 280 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Nazis, fascists and voelkisch conservatives in different European countries not only cooperated internationally in the fields of culture, science, economy, and persecution of Jews, but also developed ideas for a racist and ethno-nationalist Europe under Hitler. The present volume attempts to combine an analysis of Nazi Germany's transnational relations with an evaluation of the discourse that accompanied these relations.

Empathy and the Historical Understanding of the Human Past (Hardcover): Thomas A. Kohut Empathy and the Historical Understanding of the Human Past (Hardcover)
Thomas A. Kohut
R3,901 Discovery Miles 39 010 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Empathy and the Historical Understanding of the Human Past is a comprehensive consideration of the role of empathy in historical knowledge, informed by the literature on empathy in fields including history, psychoanalysis, psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, and sociology. The book seeks to raise the consciousness of historians about empathy, by introducing them to the history of the concept and to its status in fields outside of history. It also seeks to raise the self-consciousness of historians about their use of empathy to know and understand past people. Defining empathy as thinking and feeling, as imagining, one's way inside the experience of others in order to know and understand them, Thomas A. Kohut distinguishes between the external and the empathic observational position, the position of the historical subject. He argues that historians need to be aware of their observational position, of when they are empathizing and when they are not. Indeed, Kohut advocates for the deliberate, self-reflective use of empathy as a legitimate and important mode of historical inquiry. Insightful, cogent, and interdisciplinary, the book will be essential for historians, students of history, and psychoanalysts, as well as those in other fields who seek to seek to know and understand human beings.

Hitler and Nazi Germany - A History (Hardcover, 8th edition): Jackson J Spielvogel, David Redles Hitler and Nazi Germany - A History (Hardcover, 8th edition)
Jackson J Spielvogel, David Redles
R5,230 Discovery Miles 52 300 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Hitler and Nazi Germany: A History is a brief but comprehensive survey of the Third Reich based on current research findings that provides a balanced approach to the study of Hitler's role in the history of the Third Reich. The book considers the economic, social, and political forces that made possible the rise and development of Nazism; the institutional, cultural, and social life of the Third Reich; World War II; and the Holocaust. World War II and the Holocaust are presented as logical outcomes of the ideology of Hitler and the Nazi movement. This new edition contains more information on the Kaiserreich (Imperial Germany), as well as Nazi complicity in the Reichstag Fire and increased discussion of consent and dissent during the Nazi attempt to create the ideal Volksgemeinschaft (people's community). It takes a greater focus on the experiences of ordinary bystanders, perpetrators, and victims throughout the text, includes more discussion of race and space, and the final chapter has been completely revised. Fully updated, the book ensures that students gain a complete and thorough picture of the period and issues. Supported by maps, images, and thoroughly updated bibliographies that offer further reading suggestions for students to take their study further, the book offers the perfect overview of Hitler and the Third Reich.

Nazi Officer's Wife - How One Jewish Woman Survived The Holocaust (Paperback): Edith H Beer Nazi Officer's Wife - How One Jewish Woman Survived The Holocaust (Paperback)
Edith H Beer 1
R445 R369 Discovery Miles 3 690 Save R76 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

#1 New York Times BestsellerEdith Hahn was an outspoken young woman in Vienna when the Gestapo forced her into a ghetto and then into a slave labor camp. When she returned home months later, she knew she would become a hunted woman and went underground. With the help of a Christian friend, she emerged in Munich as Grete Denner. There she met Werner Vetter, a Nazi Party member who fell in love with her. Despite Edith's protests and even her eventual confession that she was Jewish, he married her and kept her identity a secret.In wrenching detail, Edith recalls a life of constant, almost paralyzing fear. She tells how German officials casually questioned the lineage of her parents; how during childbirth she refused all painkillers, afraid that in an altered state of mind she might reveal something of her past; and how, after her husband was captured by the Soviets, she was bombed out of her house and had to hide while drunken Russian soldiers raped women on the street.Despite the risk it posed to her life, Edith created a remarkable record of survival. She saved every document, as well as photographs she took inside labor camps. Now part of the permanent collection at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., these hundreds of documents, several of which are included in this volume, form the fabric of a gripping new chapter in the history of the Holocaust--complex, troubling, and ultimately triumphant.

Representations of Anne Frank in American Literature - In Different Rooms (Paperback): Rachael McLennan Representations of Anne Frank in American Literature - In Different Rooms (Paperback)
Rachael McLennan
R1,260 Discovery Miles 12 600 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book explores portrayals of Anne Frank in American literature, where she is often invoked, if problematically, as a means of encouraging readers to think widely about persecution, genocide, and victimisation; often in relation to gender, ethnicity, and race. It shows how literary representations of Anne Frank in America over the past 50 years reflect the continued dominance of the American dramatic adaptations of Frank's Diary in the 1950s, and argues that authors feel compelled to engage with the problematic elements of these adaptations and their iconic power. At the same time, though, literary representations of Frank are associated with the adaptations; critics often assume that these texts unquestioningly perpetuate the problems with the adaptations. This is not true. This book examines how American authors represent Frank in order to negotiate difficult questions relating to representation of the Holocaust in America, and in order to consider gender, coming of age, and forms of inequality in American culture in various historical moments; and of course, to consider the ways Frank herself is represented in America. This book argues that the most compelling representations of Frank in American literature are alert to their own limitations, and may caution against making Frank a universal symbol of goodness or setting up too easy identifications with her. It will be of great interest to researchers and students of Frank, the Holocaust in American fiction and culture, gender studies, life writing, young adult fiction, and ethics.

The Final Solution - Origins and Implementation (Paperback, Revised): David Cesarani The Final Solution - Origins and Implementation (Paperback, Revised)
David Cesarani
R1,193 Discovery Miles 11 930 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


The Final Solution clarifies the key questions surrounding the attempt by the Nazis to exterminate the Jews. Drawing on important new research, these authoritative essays focus on the preconditions and antecedents for the 'Final Solution' and examine the immediate origins of the genocidal decision.
Contributors also examine the responses of peoples and governments in Germany, occupied Europe, the USA and among Jews worldwide. The controversial conversions of this study challenge many of our accepted ideas about the period.

eBook available with sample pages: 0203206312

Pegasus Bridge - 6 June 1944 (Paperback, New ed): Stephen E. Ambrose Pegasus Bridge - 6 June 1944 (Paperback, New ed)
Stephen E. Ambrose
R465 R384 Discovery Miles 3 840 Save R81 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In the early morning hours of June 6, 1944, a small detachment of British airborne troops stormed the German defense forces and paved the way for the Allied invasion of Europe. Pegasus Bridge was the first engagement of D-Day, the turning point of World War II. This gripping account of it by acclaimed author Stephen Ambrose brings to life a daring mission so crucial that, had it been unsuccessful, the entire Normandy invasion might have failed. Ambrose traces each step of the preparations over many months to the minute-by-minute excitement of the hand-to-hand confrontations on the bridge. This is a story of heroism and cowardice, kindness and brutality -- the stuff of all great adventures.

Hope is the Last to Die - A Coming of Age Under Nazi Terror (Paperback, A new, expanded ed): Halina Birenbaum Hope is the Last to Die - A Coming of Age Under Nazi Terror (Paperback, A new, expanded ed)
Halina Birenbaum; Translated by David Welsh
R1,179 Discovery Miles 11 790 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book is an important work in Holocaust literature and was originally published in Poland in 1967. Covering the years 1939-1945, it is the author's account of her experience growing up in the Warsaw ghetto and her eventual deportation to, imprisonment in, and survival of the Majdanek, Auschwitz, Ravensbruck, and Neustadt-Glewe camps. Since the old, the weak, and children were summarily executed by the Nazis in these camps, Mrs Birenbaum's survival and coming of age is all the more remarkable. Her story is told with simplicity and clarity and the new edition contains revisions made by the author to the original English translation, and is expanded with a new epilogue and postscripts that bring the story up to date and complete the circle of Mrs Birenbaum's experiences.

Fifty Key Thinkers on the Holocaust and Genocide (Paperback): Paul R. Bartrop, Steven L Jacobs Fifty Key Thinkers on the Holocaust and Genocide (Paperback)
Paul R. Bartrop, Steven L Jacobs
R769 Discovery Miles 7 690 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This unique volume critically discusses the works of fifty of the most influential scholars involved in the study of the Holocaust and genocide. Studying each scholar 's background and influences, the authors examine the ways in which their major works have been received by critics and supporters, and analyse each thinker 's contributions to the field. Key figures discussed range from historians and philosophers, to theologians, anthropologists, art historians and sociologists, including:

  • Hannah Arendt
  • Christopher Browning
  • Primo Levi
  • Raphael Lemkin
  • Jacques S melin
  • Saul Friedl nder
  • Samantha Power
  • Hans Mommsen
  • Emil Fackenheim
  • Helen Fein
  • Adam Jones
  • Ben Kiernan.

A thoughtful collection of groundbreaking thinkers, this book is an ideal resource for academics, students, and all those interested in both the emerging and rapidly evolving field of Genocide Studies and the established field of Holocaust Studies.

Death Dealer - The Memoirs Of The SS Kommandant At Auschwitz (Paperback, 1st Da Capo Press Ed): Rudolph Hoss Death Dealer - The Memoirs Of The SS Kommandant At Auschwitz (Paperback, 1st Da Capo Press Ed)
Rudolph Hoss 1
R628 R534 Discovery Miles 5 340 Save R94 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

SS Kommandant Rudolph Hoss (1900-1947) was history's greatest mass murderer, personally supervising the extermination of approximately two million people, mostly Jews, at the death camp in Auschwitz, Poland. "Death Dealer" is a new, unexpurgated translation of Hoss's autobiography, written before, during, and after his trial. This edition includes rare photos, the minutes of the Wannsee Conference (where the Final Solution was decided and coordinated), original diagrams of the camps, a detailed chronology of important events at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Hoss's final letters to his family, and a new foreword by Auschwitz survivor Primo Levi. "Death Dealer" stands as one of the most important--and chilling--documents of the Holocaust.

Nazis Next Door, The (Paperback): Eric Lichtblau Nazis Next Door, The (Paperback)
Eric Lichtblau
R512 R421 Discovery Miles 4 210 Save R91 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Until recently, historians believed America gave asylum only to key Nazi scientists after World War II, along with some less famous perpetrators who managed to sneak in and who eventually were exposed by Nazi hunters. But the truth is much worse, and has been covered up for decades: the CIA and FBI brought thousands of perpetrators to America as possible assets against their new Cold War enemies. When the Justice Department finally investigated and learned the truth, the results were classified and buried. Using the dramatic story of one former perpetrator who settled in New Jersey, conned the CIA into hiring him, and begged for the agency's support when his wartime identity emerged, Eric Lichtblau tells the full, shocking story of how America became a refuge for hundreds of postwar Nazis.

The Yishuv In The Shadow Of The Holocaust - Zionist Politics And Rescue Aliya, 1933-1939 (Hardcover): Abraham J. Edelheit The Yishuv In The Shadow Of The Holocaust - Zionist Politics And Rescue Aliya, 1933-1939 (Hardcover)
Abraham J. Edelheit
R3,644 Discovery Miles 36 440 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

For the Jewish world and the Yishuv in particular, the 1930s was a time of escalating crises?the rise of the Nazis and their antisemitic policies, the declining fortunes of Eastern European Jewry, increasing Arab enmity, and the hardening of British Mandatory policies in Palestine. Reexamining some of the most controversial episodes in modern Jewis

The Holocaust - A New History (Paperback): Laurence Rees The Holocaust - A New History (Paperback)
Laurence Rees 1
R345 R270 Discovery Miles 2 700 Save R75 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER AND THE FIRST AUTHORITATIVE ACCOUNT FOR 30 YEARS. 'By far the clearest book ever written about the Holocaust, and also the best at explaining its origins and grotesque mentality, as well as its chaotic development' Antony Beevor 'Groundbreaking. You might have thought that we know everything there is to know about the Holocaust but this book proves there is much more' Andrew Roberts, Mail on Sunday Two fundamental questions about the Holocaust must be asked: How did it happen? And why? More completely than any other single work of history yet published, Laurence Rees's Holocaust definitively answers them. 'Rees provides an exemplary account of how the greatest crime in modern history came about' The Times 'Rees has distilled 25 years of research into this compelling study, the finest single-volume account of the Holocaust . . . demands to be read' Saul David, Telegraph 'Anyone wanting a compelling, highly readable explanation of how and why the Holocaust happened, drawing on recent scholarship and impressively incorporating moving and harrowing interviews need look no further than Laurence Rees's brilliant book' Professor Ian Kershaw, bestselling author of Hitler

Edith Stein and Regina Jonas - Religious Visionaries in the Time of the Death Camps (Paperback): Emily Leah Silverman Edith Stein and Regina Jonas - Religious Visionaries in the Time of the Death Camps (Paperback)
Emily Leah Silverman
R1,181 Discovery Miles 11 810 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published 2013. This ground-breaking book examines the lives of two extraordinary, religious women. Both Edith Stein and Regina Jonas were German Jewish women who demonstrated 'deviant' religious desires as they pursued their spiritual paths to serve their communities during the Holocaust. Both were religious visionaries viewed as iconoclasts in their own times. Stein, the first woman to receive a doctorate in philosophy from Husserl, the founder of phenomenology, claimed her Jewish identity while she was still a cloistered Carmelite nun. Jonas, the first woman rabbi in Jewish history, served as a rabbi in Berlin and Theresienstadt concentration camp. A study of a contemplative and a rabbi, the book ranges across many spiritual and theological questions, not least it offers a remarkable exploration of the theology of spiritual resistance. For Stein, this meant redemption and the transmutation of suffering on the cross; for Jonas, acts of compassion bring the face of God into our presence.

Transcending Darkness - A Girl's Journey Out of the Holocaust (Paperback): Estelle Glaser Laughlin Transcending Darkness - A Girl's Journey Out of the Holocaust (Paperback)
Estelle Glaser Laughlin
R596 R500 Discovery Miles 5 000 Save R96 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Mama, I don't want to live like this," pleaded twelve-year-old Estelle Glaser's older sister as they watched the bodies of friends dangle from the gibbet in the center of Warsaw's Apel Platz. "I cannot take the indignities and brutalities. Let's step forward and make them kill us now." But Estelle's mother fiercely responded to her two daughters: "No! Life is sacred. It is noble to fight to stay alive." Their mother's indomitable will was a major factor in the trio's survival in the face of brutal odds. Estelle's memoir, published sixty-four years after their liberation from the concentration camp, is a narrative of fear and hope and resiliency. While it is a harrowing tale of destruction and loss, it is also a story of the goodness that still exists in a dark world.

Local Dimensions of the Second World War in Southeastern Europe (Hardcover): Xavier Bougarel, Hannes Grandits, Marija Vulesica Local Dimensions of the Second World War in Southeastern Europe (Hardcover)
Xavier Bougarel, Hannes Grandits, Marija Vulesica
R3,927 Discovery Miles 39 270 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book deals with the Second World War in Southeastern Europe from the perspective of conditions on the ground during the conflict. The focus is on the reshaping of ethnic and religious groups in wartime, on the "top-down" and "bottom-up" dynamics of mass violence, and on the local dimensions of the Holocaust. The approach breaks with the national narratives and "top-down" political and military histories that continue to be the predominant paradigms for the Second World War in this part of Europe.

Jews and Gentiles in Central and Eastern Europe during the Holocaust - History and memory (Paperback): Hana Kubatova, Jan... Jews and Gentiles in Central and Eastern Europe during the Holocaust - History and memory (Paperback)
Hana Kubatova, Jan Lanicek
R1,268 Discovery Miles 12 680 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Providing diverse insights into Jewish-Gentile relations in East Central Europe from the outbreak of the Second World War until the reestablishment of civic societies after the fall of Communism in the late 1980s, this volume brings together scholars from various disciplines - including history, sociology, political science, cultural studies, film studies and anthropology - to investigate the complexity of these relations, and their transformation, from perspectives beyond the traditional approach that deals purely with politics. This collection thus looks for interactions between the public and private, and what is more, it does so from a still rather rare comparative perspective, both chronological and geographic. It is this interdisciplinary and comparative perspective that enables us to scrutinize the interaction between the individual majority societies and the Jewish minorities in a longer time frame, and hence we are able to revisit complex and manifold encounters between Jews and Gentiles, including but not limited to propaganda, robbery, violence but also help and rescue. In doing so, this collection challenges the representation of these encounters in post-war literature, films, and the historical consciousness. This book was originally published as a special issue of Holocaust Studies.

Lord of All the Dead (Hardcover): Javier Cercas Lord of All the Dead (Hardcover)
Javier Cercas; Translated by Anne McLean 1
R609 R496 Discovery Miles 4 960 Save R113 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

"A remarkable act of personal history: brave, revelatory and unflinchingly honest" WILLIAM BOYD "There is no-one writing in English like this: engaged humanity achieving a hard-won wisdom" DAVID MILLS, The Times Lord of All the Dead is a courageous journey into Javier Cercas' family history and that of a country collapsing from a fratricidal war. The author revisits Ibahernando, his parents' village in southern Spain, to research the life of Manuel Mena. This ancestor, dearly loved by Cercas' mother, died in combat at the age of nineteen during the battle of the Ebro, the bloodiest episode in Spain's history. Who was Manuel Mena? A fascist hero whose memory is an embarrassment to the author, or a young idealist who happened to fight on the wrong side? And how should we judge him, as grandchildren and great-grandchildren of that generation, interpreting history from our supposed omniscience and the misleading perspective of a present full of automatic answers, that fails to consider the particularities of each personal and family drama? Wartime epics, heroism and death are some of the underlying themes of this unclassifiable novel that combines road trips, personal confessions, war stories and historical scholarship, finally becoming an incomparable tribute to the author's mother and the incurable scars of an entire generation.

Mengele - Unmasking the "Angel of Death" (Hardcover): David G. Marwell Mengele - Unmasking the "Angel of Death" (Hardcover)
David G. Marwell 1
R730 Discovery Miles 7 300 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Josef Mengele has come to symbolise both the evil of the Nazi regime and the failure of justice. Drawing on new scholarship and sources, David G. Marwell examines Mengele's life, chronicling his university studies, which led to two PhDs; his wartime service, in combat and at Auschwitz, where his "selections" determined the fate of countless innocents and his "scientific" pursuits resulted in the traumatisation and death of thousands more; and his post-war refuge in Germany and South America. Mengele describes the international search in 1985, which ended in a cemetery in Sao Paulo and the forensic investigation that produced overwhelming evidence that Mengele had died-but failed to convince those who, arguably, most wanted him dead. This is a story of science without limits, escape without freedom and resolution without justice.

The Betrayal of the Humanities - The University during the Third Reich (Paperback): Bernard M. Levinson, Robert P. Ericksen The Betrayal of the Humanities - The University during the Third Reich (Paperback)
Bernard M. Levinson, Robert P. Ericksen; Contributions by Alan E. Steinweis, Suzanne L. Marchand, Christopher J Probst, …
R1,020 Discovery Miles 10 200 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

How did the academy react to the rise, dominance, and ultimate fall of Germany's Third Reich? Did German professors of the humanities have to tell themselves lies about their regime's activities or its victims to sleep at night? Did they endorse the regime? Or did they look the other way, whether out of deliberate denial or out of fear for their own personal safety? The Betrayal of the Humanities: The University during the Third Reich is a collection of groundbreaking essays that shed light on this previously overlooked piece of history. The Betrayal of the Humanities accepts the regrettable news that academics and intellectuals in Nazi Germany betrayed the humanities, and explores what went wrong, what occurred at the universities, and what happened to the major disciplines of the humanities under National Socialism. The Betrayal of the Humanities details not only how individual scholars, particular departments, and even entire universities collaborated with the Nazi regime but also examines the legacy of this era on higher education in Germany. In particular, it looks at the peculiar position of many German scholars in the post-war world having to defend their own work, or the work of their mentors, while simultaneously not appearing to accept Nazism.

Violence, Memory, and History - Western Perceptions of Kristallnacht (Paperback): Colin McCullough, Nathan Wilson Violence, Memory, and History - Western Perceptions of Kristallnacht (Paperback)
Colin McCullough, Nathan Wilson
R1,474 Discovery Miles 14 740 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This edited collection delves into the horrors of November 1938 and to what degree they portended the Holocaust, demonstrating the varied reactions of Western audiences to news about the pogrom against the Jews. A pattern of stubborn governmental refusal to help German Jews to any large degree emerges throughout the book. Much of this was in response to uncertain domestic economic conditions and underlying racist attitudes towards Jews. Contrasting this was the outrage expressed by ordinary people around the world who condemned the German violence and challenged the policy of Appeasement being advanced by Great Britain and France towards Adolf Hitler's Nazi German government at the time. Contributors employ multiple media sources to make their arguments, and compare these with official government records. For the first time, a collection on Kristallnacht has taken a truly transnational approach, giving readers a fuller understanding of how the events of November 1938 were understood around the Western world.

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