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The critic George Steiner suggested that Mein Kampf can be seen as one of several books that resulted from the crisis of German culture following Germany's defeat in World War I, comparable in this respect to the philosopher Ernst Bloch's The Spirit of Utopia (1918), the historian Oswald Spengler's The Decline of the West (1918), the theologian ...
The bombing of Hamburg during 1943. 18 January – World War II: Soviet officials announce they have broken the Wehrmacht's siege of Leningrad. 18 January – The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins. 27 January – World War II: 64 bombers mount the first all American air raid against Germany (Wilhelmshaven is the target).
March – The self-illustrated children's novella The Little Prince by the exiled French aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the all-time best-selling book originated in French, is published in New York.
First book edition of the Stroop Report from 1948 by Stanisław Piotrowski The Report was a 125-page typed document, bound in black pebble leather, with 53 photographs. It consisted of the following sections: Summary, with title page; list of soldiers/Police killed and wounded; the list of combat units involved, and
Otto Hampel (21 June 1897 – 8 April 1943) was born in Mühlbock, a suburb of Wehrau, now in Poland, but then part of Germany. He served in World War I and was later a factory worker. [1] Elise Lemme (27 October 1903 – 8 April 1943) was born in the Bismark area of Stendal. Her education lasted only through elementary school.
One was in 1943 and became the basis of a fictionalised film, The Wooden Horse (1950), based on a book by escapee Eric Williams. The second breakout—the so-called Great Escape —of March 1944, was conceived by Squadron Leader Roger Bushell of the Royal Air Force (RAF) and was authorised by the senior British officer at Stalag Luft III ...
Germany assumed full control in France in 1942, Italy in 1943, and Hungary in 1944. Although Japan was a powerful ally, the relationship was distant, with little co-ordination or co-operation. For example, Germany refused to share their formula for synthetic oil from coal until late in the war. [84]
The German War: A Nation Under Arms, 1939-1945 is a non-fiction book written by historian Nicholas Stargardt.Centering upon the "thoughts and actions" of the citizens living inside Nazi Germany during the Second World War, the author argues that the war crimes committed by Adolf Hitler's totalitarian state had widespread awareness among regular people.