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The Gedenkbuch – Opfer der Verfolgung der Juden unter der nationalsozialistischen Gewaltherrschaft 1933–1945 ("Memorial Book – Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny in Germany 1933–1945") is a memorial book published by the German Federal Archives, listing persons murdered during the Holocaust as part of the Nazis' so-called "Final Solution".
Germany and the Second World War (vol. 6): The Global War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Contributing authors: Horst Boog, Werner Rahn, Reinhard Stumpf, and Bernd Wegner. Germany and the Second World War (vol. 7): The Strategic Air War in Europe and the War in the West and East Asia 1943-1944/5. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
The End: Hitler's Germany 1944–45 is a 2011 book by Sir Ian Kershaw, in which the author charts the course of World War II between the period of the failed 20 July plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler in July 1944, by Claus von Stauffenberg, until late May 1945, when the last of the Nazi regime's leaders were arrested and the government dissolved.
The Allies seized vast masses of documents in 1945, which British historian Alan Bullock (1914–2004) used with a brilliant writing style. Bullock's biography Hitler: A Study in Tyranny (1952) depicts Hitler as the product of the chaos in Germany after 1918, where uncertainty and anger inflamed extremism and created the ideal setting for Hitler's demagoguery to succeed.
In his 2007 book Cultural Amnesia, the critic Clive James wrote, "Books about Hitler are without number, but after more than 60 years, the first one to read is still Alan Bullock's Hitler: A Study in Tyranny." [7] The book has been criticised for its reliance on the fabrications of Albert Speer and Hermann Rauschning, which it treats as ...
The books are illustrated with maps created by András Bereznay. [2] [3] [4] According to Ian Kershaw, it is "the most comprehensive history in any language of the disastrous epoch of the Third Reich". [5] It has been hailed as a "masterpiece of historical scholarship". [6]
The Saarland became a protectorate of France under the condition that its residents would later decide by referendum which country to join, and Poland became a separate nation and was given access to the sea by the creation of the Polish Corridor, which separated Prussia from the rest of Germany, while Danzig was made a free city. [159] Germany ...
Victor Klemperer (9 October 1881 – 11 February 1960) was a German literary scholar and diarist.His journals, published posthumously in Germany in 1995, detailed his life under the German Empire, the Weimar Republic, the fascist Third Reich, and the communist German Democratic Republic.