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March Violets. March Violets is a historical detective novel and the first written by Philip Kerr featuring detective Bernhard "Bernie" Gunther. March Violets is the first of the trilogy by Kerr called Berlin Noir. The second, The Pale Criminal, appeared in 1990 and the third, A German Requiem in 1991.
Glossary of Nazi Germany. This is a list of words, terms, concepts and slogans of Nazi Germany used in the historiography covering the Nazi regime. Some words were coined by Adolf Hitler and other Nazi Party members. Other words and concepts were borrowed and appropriated, and other terms were already in use during the Weimar Republic.
Christmas in Nazi Germany. Christmas presents for the poor in 1935. The celebration of Christmas in Nazi Germany included attempts by the regime to bring the Christian religious holiday into line with Nazi ideology. The Jewish origins of Jesus and the commemoration of his birth as the Jewish Messiah was troubling for some members of the Nazi ...
The Nazi Party, [ b ] officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (‹See Tfd› German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei [ c ] or NSDAP), was a far-right [ 10 ] 11 12 political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that created and supported the ideology of Nazism.
A diary handed down through three generations has helped find the wreck of a German U-boat sunk by a secret Royal Navy Q-ship in 1917. Henrietta Sandford, from Helston, shared diaries and letters ...
Weihnachten. Weihnachten (German: [ˈvaɪ̯naxtn̩] ⓘ) is the observance of what is commonly known in English as Christmas in the German -speaking countries such as Germany, Austria and Switzerland. It is also widespread in countries with a German-speaking minority, such as Transylvania in Romania, South Tyrol in Italy, Eupen in Belgium, and ...
Holidays in Nazi Germany were primarily centred on important political events, serving as a form of political education and reinforcing propaganda themes. [1] Major national holidays were therefore controlled by Joseph Goebbels at the Reich Propaganda Ministry , and were often accompanied by mass meetings, parades, speeches and radio broadcasts.
The March Violets are an English post-punk / gothic rock [1] band formed in 1981 in Leeds, incorporating male & female singers, drum machine rhythms and echo-laden electric guitar, much in the style of fellow Leeds band the Sisters of Mercy. Seven March Violets singles reached the UK Indie Chart; the Natural History collection also was an indie ...