Leutnant Gerhard Ehlert was one of the few survivors of 2. Nachtaufkl rungsstaffel, part of the Luftwaffe's 6th Air Fleet, which operated on Eastern Front during the Second World War. Although he came from a family that spoke out against Hitler and the Nazi regime, he volunteered to join the Luftwaffe. He went on to undertake combat patrols under the most extreme circumstances. Facing hazardous weather conditions - often landing his aircraft blind' in heavy fog - and mountainous odds against Soviet air superiority, Ehlert completed twenty-two sorties before his Dornier Do 217M-1, coded K7+FK, was shot down on 14 June 1944. Despite strenuous efforts to escape the Soviets, along with his rear-gunner Feldwebel Wilhelm Burr, he was captured by the Red Army. What followed changed his life forever. Though interrogated repeatedly, Ehlert revealed nothing about his missions or duties. Then, during his transfer to a prisoner of war camp, he had to face a hostile crowd of Russian civilians who had suffered from the devastating effects of the Luftwaffe's bombs. In the long journey eastwards across the bleak Russian steppes to the camp at Yelabuga, a town in the Republic of Tatarstan, Ehlert reflected on his early years and the road he took to the east and the horrifying situation he was in. But it was not the months he endured in the freezing prisoner of war camp which became his most haunting memory - it was when the war ended. The Russians announced that with peace came new rules. Now the prisoners must work and the food ration would be reduced. Their uniforms were removed, and all privileges of rank dismissed. To the Soviets they were no longer prisoners of war, they were mere criminals and were treated accordingly. Transferred to Bolshoy Bor in the north, day after day the men had to transport logs, even through the snow and ice of winter, with many of the prisoners dying of malnutrition and exposure. The Russians told them they were to rebuild what they destroyed in the Soviet Union'. Ehlert's suffering finally ended in 1949. He was able to return to his parental home, initially being treated as an unwelcome stranger. When he related his story to Christian Huber, Gerhard Ehlert was in his 90s, by then a happy father and grandfather, and undoubtedly a survivor.

Unlike other historical depictions of the fall of the Third Reich, German Accounts from the Dying Days of the Third Reich presents the authentic voices of those German soldiers who fought on the front line. Throughout we are witness to the kind of bravery, ingenuity and, ultimately, fear that we are so familiar with from the many Allied accounts of this time. Their sense of confusion and terror is palpable as Nazi Germany finally collapses in May 1945, with soldiers fleeing to the American victors instead of the Russians in the hope of obtaining better treatments as a prisoner of war. This collection of first-hand accounts include the stories of German soldiers fighting the Red Army on the Eastern Front; of Horst Messer, who served on the last East Prussian panzer tank but was captured and spent four years in Russian captivity at Riga; of Hans Obermeier, who recounts his capture on the Czech front and escape from Siberia; and a moving account of an anonymous Wehrmacht soldier in Slovakia given orders to execute Russian prisoners.

Climate - Chaos - Trump - Brexit - Terror: the apocalypse looms large in the Zeitgeist. Could and should this not provide the fulcrum for renewing the imaginative range of organization studies? In this volume, we bring together scholars who have taken Roberto Bolano's visionary novel 2666 as a starting point for reflections, provocations, and challenges to established imaginaries. How can we cultivate and develop our attention to the violent organization of the world without reproducing more violence? Contributors to this edited volume take on this challenge as they seek to break through the various blind spots in the discipline of management and organization studies. Bolano's work opens up hidden and fantastic dimensions in organization and provides alternative spaces and associations for new and bold organizational thinking. Variously disturbing, self-destructive, and abyssal, these essays reflect "that something that terrifies us all" as Bolano wrote, "that something that cows and spurs us on". We call this something Organization 2666.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Deutsch - Literaturgeschichte, Epochen, Note: 1,33, Maria-Theresia-Gymnasium Augsburg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Wie viel Macht Worte doch haben konnen Diese Verse beispielsweise, welche ein Gedicht namens "Weitende" bilden und vom Dichter Jakob von Hoddis verfasst wurden, leiteten gar, wenn auch nicht ganzlich eigenstandig, eine ganze Epoche ein, den Expressionismus. Eine Ara voller genialer Werke in Kunst und Literatur, hinter denen mindestens genauso begnadete Kunstler stehen, ein Zeitalter des Aufbruchs und der Veranderung, aber eben auch gepragt von Gewalt und Angsf.2 Womit wir wieder bei Jakob von Hoddis waren, und zwei seiner Kollegen, namentlich Georg Heym und Georg Trakl, allesamt gleichermassen talentvoll wie charakterlich schwierig. Und jeder dieser Kunstler hat eine traurige Lebensgeschichte hinter sich, mit psychischen Krankheiten und einem bedauernswerten Tod. Aber inwiefern hangen d iese drei Schicksale mit der Epoche, die sie jewei ls gepragt haben, zusammen? Diesem interessanten Ratsel mochte ich auf den Grund gehen. In meiner Arbeit soll deshalb - nach einer kurzen Vorstellung der Epoche und ihrer Umstande - erortert werden, ob die seelischen Erkrankungen der genannten drei Autoren als Beweis fur eine kollektive Psychose im Expressionismus gesehen werden konnen oder ob diese eher durch Grunde, die nicht unmitte lbar in den gesellschaftlichen beziehungsweise ausseren Einflussen jener Zeit zu suchen sind, erkrankten. ...] 1 Zit.: Jens, Walter (Hrsg.): Kindlers neues Uteraturlexikon. Band 7. Munchen. 1990. 5.916 2 Vgl.: Jen s, Walter (Hrsg.): Kindlers neues Literaturlexikon. Band 7. Munchen. 1990. 5.91

Diplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich BWL - Recht, Note: 2,3, Hochschule Pforzheim, 54 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Mit der Festsetzung der Art. 43 ff. EGV und den europaischen Grundsatzen der Freizugigkeit und der freien Dienstleistungs- und Kapitalverkehre folgte zwangslaufig auch eine Anpassung im deutschen Gesellschaftsrecht. Die Anpassung erfolgte nicht durch den Gesetzgeber, sondern durch drei grundsatzliche Urteile des EuGH. Mit den Urteilen erhielten alle im europaischen Ausland vertretenen Gesellschaftstypen ebenfalls und uneingeschrankt Einzug in Deutschland. Dem Unternehmensgrunder in Deutschland stehen damit nun nicht mehr nur die deutschen Formen der Personen-, Kapitalgesellschaften und all ihrer Mischformen zu, sondern zudem auch alle im europaischen Ausland existierenden. Doch genau hier liegt die Schwierigkeit. Die Vielfalt ist kaum zu uberblicken. Daruber hinaus modifizieren die einzelnen Mitgliedsstaaten kontinuierlich ihr Recht - ob dies durch Rechtsprechung oder durch Gesetze geschieht, spielt fur den Grunder keine Rolle. Beides ist massgeblich fur die Wahl einer Unternehmensform. Ein Paradebeispiel, welches diese Situation verdeutlicht, sind die beiden Kapitalgesellschaften: Die deutsche Gesellschaft mit beschrankter Haftung und die UK Private Company Limited by Shares. Auch wenn die Zahl der Ltd. in Deutschland noch uberschaubar ist und im Vergleich zur GmbH kaum ins Gewicht fallt, so hat die Zahl der neu gegrundete Ltd. stark zugenommen.Insbesondere die fehlende hohe Kapitaleinlage, wie sie bei der GmbH erfolgen muss, wird als Hauptargument fur die Ltd. und gegen die GmbH propagiert. Der deutsche Gesetzgeber hat nun eine Reform angekundigt und mit dem MoMiG die Anpassung der GmbH an die Ltd. auf den Weg gebracht. Der Entwurf soll damit unter Anderem fur deutsche Unternehmer den Weg ins englische Gesellschaftsrecht unnotig machen. Auch in England wurden Reformen auf den Weg gebracht, die Veranderunge

It has taken seventy years for the accounts of ordinary German soldiers during the Second World War to be made widely available to an English-speaking audience. This is hardly surprising given that interest in these important documents has only recently surfaced in Germany, where a long process of coming to terms with the past, or Vergangenheitsbewaltigung, has taken place. Unlike other historical depictions of the fall of the Third Reich, Dying Days of the Third Reich presents the authentic voices of those German soldiers who fought on the front line. Throughout we are witness to the kind of bravery, ingenuity and, ultimately, fear that we are so familiar with from the many Allied accounts of this time. Their sense of confusion and terror is palpable as Nazi Germany finally collapses in May 1945, with soldiers fleeing to the American victors instead of the Russians in the hope of obtaining better treatments as a prisoner of war. This collection of first-hand accounts includes the stories of German soldiers fighting the Red Army on the Eastern Front; of Horst Messer, who served on the last East Prussian panzer tank but was captured and spent four years in Russian captivity at Riga; Hans Obermeier, who recounts his capture on the Czech front and escape from Siberia; and a moving account of an anonymous Wehrmacht soldier in Slovakia given orders to execute Russian prisoners.