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The Second World War affected the lives and shaped the experience
of millions of individuals in Germany--soldiers at the front,
women, children and the elderly sheltering in cellars, slave
laborers toiling in factories, and concentration-camp prisoners and
POWs clearing rubble in the Reich's devastated cities.
Taking a "history from below" approach, the volume examines how
the minds and behaviour of individuals were moulded by the Party as
the Reich took the road to Total War. The ever-increasing numbers
of German workers conscripted into the Wehrmacht were replaced with
forced foreign workers and slave labourers and concentration camp
prisoners. The interaction in everyday life between German civilian
society and these coerced groups is explored, as is that society's
relationship to the Holocaust.
From early 1943, the war on the home front was increasingly
dominated by attack from the air. The role of the Party,
administration, police, and courts in providing for the vast
numbers of those rendered homeless, in bolstering civilian morale
with "miracle revenge weapons" propaganda, and in maintaining order
in a society in disintegration is reviewed in detail.
For society in uniform, the war in the east was one of ideology
and annihilation, with intensified indoctrination of the troops
after Stalingrad. The social profile of this army is analysed
through study of a typical infantry division. The volume concludes
with an account of the various forms of resistance to Hitler's
regime, in society and the military, culminating in the failed
attempt on his life in July 1944.
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used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
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American Ideals
Norman Foerster, William Whatleyjoint Pierson
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Discovery Miles 9 400
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Ships in 12 - 19 working days
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In these ground-breaking essays, Heinz von Foerster discusses
some of the fundamental principles that govern how we know the
world and how we process the information from which we derive that
knowledge. The author was one of the founders of the science of
cybernetics.
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