Eingepfercht auf einem Schiff hoffen jüdische Flüchtlinge auf ein neues Leben in Israel. Thomas Mann ist als berühmter Schriftsteller in den USA zwar privilegiert, aber auch er muss sich in einem Leben im Exil einrichten. Marianne Cohn gelingt die Rettung nicht. Sie wird auf der Flucht in die Schweiz geschändet und erschossen. Das Exil in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus besteht aus unendlich...

Der Prozess gegen den SS-Obersturmbannführer Adolf Eichmann, der in der internationalen Öffentlichkeit als einer der Hauptverantwortlichen für die »Endlösung der Judenfrage« in Europa war, fand 1961 in Jerusalem statt. Unter den zahlreichen Prozessbeobachtern aus aller Welt war auch Hannah Arendt. Ihr Prozessbericht – zunächst in mehreren Folgen im New Yorker veröffentlicht – wurde von ihr 1964...

The text is accompanied by unique photographs. Color illustrations are prepared on the basis of the documents and give an accurate representation of the characteristic elements of the SA uniform.

Vospominaniia vypusknitsy tsentral'noi zhenskoi shkoly snaiperskoi podgotovki 1944-1945. Seriia na linii fronta. Julia Konstantinovna Zhukova went to the Red Army as a volunteer at the age of 18. In 1944 she graduated from the Central Women's School of Sniper Training. For several months of hard fighting in East Prussia, as an active sniper she had went through both an offensive action and...

The book tells about the most important trial in the history of mankind - the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal. The book is based on rare archival documents, hard-to-reach sources, the latest research, as well as the memoirs of contemporaries and direct participants in those distant events. Many materials are published for the first time. It is not surprising that some historical...

The book reflects the following questions: who was the culprit of the war - Germany or the USSR; was the Soviet Union preparing a preemptive strike against Germany; what goals did Germany pursue with regard to the USSR - the destruction of statehood, dismemberment, occupation and annexation of its territory to the Third Reich or the liberation of the peoples inhabiting the USSR from Bolshevism;...

In this groundbreaking book, historian Götz Aly addresses one of modern history's greatest conundrums: How did Hitler win the allegiance of ordinary Germans? The answer is as shocking as it is persuasive: by engaging in a campaign of theft on an almost unimaginable scale-and by channeling the proceeds into generous social programs-Hitler literally bought his people's consent.

From the moment they met in 1940 in Ravensbrück concentration camp, Milena Jesenska and Margarete Buber-Neumann were inseparable. Czech Milena was Kafka’s first translator and epistolary lover, and a journalist opposed to fascism. A non-conformist, bi-sexual feminist, she was way ahead of her time. With the German occupation of Czechoslovakia, her home became a central meeting place for Jewish...

Hermann Göring (1893 - 1946), Reichsminister für Luftfahrt und zweiter Mann hinter Hitler, hat wie keine andere NS-Größe Ämter und Machtbefugnisse angehäuft. Andreas Molitor erzählt das Leben eines Machthungrigen, der Gegner kaltblütig ausschaltete, am Holocaust mitwirkte und – von Hitler kaltgestellt – ein bizarres Luxusleben führte. In szenischen Nahaufnahmen und analytisch auf dem aktuellen...

In Eight Days in May, the award-winning historian and Hitler biographer Volker Ullrich draws on an astonishing variety of sources, including diaries and letters of ordinary Germans, to narrate a society’s descent into Hobbesian chaos. In the town of Demmin in the north, residents succumbed to madness and committed mass suicide. In Berlin, Soviet soldiers raped German civilians on a...

A respected historian and author of Hitler's Beneficiaries offers an intriguing portrait of a child victim of the Holocaust, eleven-year-old Marion Samuel, killed in 1943 in Auschwitz, reconstructing her brief life and that of her family as they became caught up in the harsh grip of persecution and genocide.