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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.
Nicholas Stargardt (born in 1962) is Professor of History at Oxford University, currently serving as Vice President of Magdalen College. Stargardt is the son of a German-Jewish father and Australian mother. He was born in Melbourne, Australia, and lived in Australia, Japan, England and Germany.
The narrator notes that this is not the only time that Germany has unleashed war on the world, stating that while its generation fought the "Nazis", its fathers fought the "Huns" (pejorative term for Germany during World War I), and its grandfathers remember the "Prussians". The narrator states that it was all part of the same German lust for ...
The following is a list of German National Socialist propaganda films. Before and during the Second World War , the Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda under Joseph Goebbels produced several propaganda films designed for the general public.
The Volkssturm (German pronunciation: [ˈfɔlksʃtʊʁm]; "people's storm") [1] [2] was a levée en masse national militia established by Nazi Germany during the last months of World War II. It was set up by the Nazi Party on the orders of Adolf Hitler and established on 25 September 1944. [ 3 ]
Drama. End of war for German soldiers; second of three parts 1955 West Germany 08/15 at Home: 08/15 – In der Heimat: Paul May: Drama. End of war for German soldiers; third of three parts 1955 United Kingdom The End of the Affair: Edward Dmytryk: Romance drama. British homefront and illicit romance 1955 East Germany Ernst Thälmann – Leader ...
It Can't Happen Here is a 1935 dystopian political novel by the American author Sinclair Lewis. [1] Set in a fictionalized version of the 1930s United States, it follows an American politician, Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip, who quickly rises to power to become the country's first outright dictator (in allusion to Adolf Hitler's rise to power in Nazi Germany), and Doremus Jessup, a newspaper editor ...
Berlin – Wie es war: Documentary Berlin the Way it Was; 87 min documentary about pre-war Berlin: Between Heaven and Earth: Harald Braun: Werner Krauss, Gisela Uhlen: Historical drama The Big Game: Robert A. Stemmle: René Deltgen, Gustav Knuth: Sports Das große Spiel Some sequences of the film are in Agfacolor Boote mit Flügeln: Nicholas ...