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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 books are to be of high literary merit, but not primarily academic. The prize is organized by the English PEN . Marjorie Hessell-Tiltman was a member of PEN during the 1960s and 1970s; on her death in 1999 she bequeathed £100,000 to the PEN Literary Foundation to found a prize in her name. [ 1 ]
Vol. 1, Post-World War II Fighters 1945-1973. Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 978-0-912799-19-3; Knaack, Marcelle Size (1978). Encyclopedia of US Air Force Aircraft and Missile Systems (PDF). Vol. 2, Post-World War II Bombers 1945-1973. Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 0-912799-59-5
National Council of the National Front of Democratic Germany. Brown Book: War and Nazi Criminals in West Germany. Dresden: Verlag Zeit im Bild, n.d. Neumann, Franz L. Behemoth: The Structure and Practice of National Socialism, 1933-1944. New York: Oxford University Press, 1944. Nevin, Thomas. Ernst Jünger and Germany. Into the Abyss 1914–1945.
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 ]
The Dec. 6 Feast of St. Nicholas became a popular tradition during the medieval period, particularly in Germany and German-speaking countries. When is St. Nicholas Day? St. Nick's Day occurs ...
In The German War, historian Nicholas Stargardt writes that by mid-1942, hard-line Nazi ideologues such as Martin Bormann thought that Germans "should be made to realise that they were now locked in a genocidal global conflict, which could end only with their victory or destruction". In response to queries about how to explain the "extremely ...