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A groundbreaking investigation of how the Nazis helped German tycoons make billions off the horrors of the Third Reich and World War II—and how America allowed them to get away with it.

The country that gave us Vlad Dracula, and whose citizens consider themselves descendants of ancient Rome, has traditionally preferred the status of enigmatic outsider. But this beautiful and unexplored land has experienced some of the most disastrous leaderships of the last century. After a relatively benign period led by a dutiful king and his vivacious, British-born queen, the country oscillated wildly.

Im Januar 1945 befreite die Rote Armee das Konzentrationslager Auschwitz. Über eine Million Menschen wurde dort von den Nationalsozialisten umgebracht. Das Hörspiel "Briefe aus der Hölle" basiert auf den erstmals restaurierten Texten der Mitglieder des Sonderkommandos in Auschwitz- Birkenau, die gezwungen wurden, bei dem Massenmord in den Krematorien mitzuhelfen. Dass einige von ihnen den Drang verspürten, schriftliche Zeugnisse des Grauens zu verfassen, ist von erschütternder Menschlichkeit. Im Angesicht des fast sicheren Todes wollten sie nur eins: der Nachwelt berichten, was geschah.

In The Inconvenient Journalist, Dusko Doder, writing with his spouse and journalistic partner Louise Branson, describes how one February night crystalized the values and personal risks that shaped his life. The frigid Moscow night in question was in 1984, and Washington Post correspondent Doder reported signs that Soviet leader Yuri Andropov had died.

Berlin, 1962. Morale is at rock bottom in East Germany, thrown into chaos by the new Berlin Wall. The Ministry for State Security is hunting for a new weapon in the war against capitalism - and their solution is stranger than fiction. Rather than guns, tanks or bombs, the Stasi resolve to fight the enemy through rhyme and verse, winning the Culture Wars through poetry - and the result is the most bizarre book club in history.

Wie alles begann. Am 24. Juni 2022 jährt sich die Ermordung des deutschen Außenministers Walther Rathenau zum 100. Mal. Der Journalist und Buchautor Thomas Hüetlin lässt zu diesem Anlass die Ereignisse, die zu dieser verhängnisvollen Tat führten, in einer aufrüttelnden Reportage wieder auferstehen. Er erzählt vom Verlauf dieses tragischen Tages der deutschen Geschichte und den politischen Auswirkungen bis in unsere Tage hinein. Wie in einem Thriller laufen die Operationen der "Organisation Consul" auf den Tag X zu - ebenso wie das Leben Walther Rathenaus, dieser herausragenden Persönlichkeit.

Paul Gottfried looks at antifascism from its roots in early 20th-century Europe to its American manifestation in the present. The pivotal development for defining the present political spectrum, he suggests, has been the replacement of a recognizably Marxist left by an intersectional one. He concludes that promoting a fear of fascism today serves the interests of the powerful in particular, those in positions of political, journalistic, and educational power who want to bully and isolate political opponents.

Leonardo Sciascia pubblicò Il giorno della civetta nel 1961. Fu il primo, vero libro sulla mafia in Sicilia. Con un epilogo amaro: alla fine vince il boss. Da allora si è sempre tentato di cambiare quella conclusione. Non solo in letteratura. Ci siamo riusciti? La Sicilia è stata l'inconscio della storia italiana. Il suo incubo. Una peste siciliana si è diffusa nel pianeta, contagiandolo. Oggi l'epidemia è di nuovo in cammino, da Milano a Palermo, dall'Europa agli Stati Uniti.

Born a German Jew in 1915, Rudy Baum was 86 years old when he sealed the garage door of his Dallas home, turned on the car ignition, and tried to end his life. After confronting her father's attempted suicide, Karen Baum Gordon, Rudy's daughter, began a sincere effort to understand the sequence of events that led her father to that dreadful day in 2002. What she found were hidden scars of generational struggles reaching back to the camps and ghettos of the Third Reich.

In far-flung locations around the globe, an unparalleled sequence of international events took place between December 1 and December 12, 1941. In this riveting book, historian Evan Mawdsley explores how the story unfolded....

Da inauguração de Brasília aos protestos de John Lennon, das novelas de TV até a chegada do homem à Lua, este livro conduz o leitor numa instigante viagem por essa época de grandes emoções. Em linguagem direta e divertida, a autora mostra como as reviravoltas políticas, musicais, econômicas e sexuais daquela década ressoavam na cabeça de uma adolescente apaixonada por Roberto Carlos e que começava a conhecer o mundo.

You are invited to join an intellectual adventure of the mind, a broad canvas review of the cognitive evolution of our civilization in politics, science, technology, and the arts. Humanity is on a path of rising cognition and complexity, the world becomes increasingly our idea. After two horrific world wars, it seems that the great powers are rejecting the sword in favor of the pen. Technology is giving us tools and challenging us to change and move forward. But the new and more cognitive world is also confusing, sometimes frustrating, and changing very fast.

La fidedigna narración del Golpe de Casado y de los últimos meses de la guerra civil española por Paul Preston, el más prestigioso hispanista de la actualidad.

Franz Jägerstätter, an Austrian farmer, a devoted husband and father, and a devout Catholic, was executed in 1943 as a result of his refusal to serve in the Nazi army. Before taking this stand Jägerstätter consulted both his pastor and his local bishop, who instructed him to do his duty to the fatherland and to obey the law, an instruction that violated his conscience.

Dawn. 19th July 1972. A force of nearly 300 heavily armed, well-trained guerrillas launches a surprise attack on the small fishing village of Mirbat. All that stands in their way is a troop of just nine SAS, aided only by an elite band of fighter pilots overhead. Two years earlier, a Communist rebellion had threatened the Arabian Peninsula, in the strategically critical Sultanate of Oman. Following a covert intelligence mission, 22 SAS deployed their largest ever assault force against the rebels. But this was to be a bitter and hard-fought campaign culminating the Battle of Mirbat.

On 28th March 1944, Italian sisters Tati (six) and Andra (four) were roused from their sleep and taken to Auschwitz, to the infamous Kinder Block, presided over by Josef Mengele, the Angel of Death. By the time Auschwitz was liberated, 230,000 children had been murdered, and Andra and Tati were among 70 child survivors. They were sent to Lingfield House in Britain, a home for children orphaned or lost at the end of the war.

Los campos de concentración fueron la primera pata de un sistema represivo, un holocausto ideológico, que convirtió a toda España en una inmensa cárcel repleta de fosas. En ellos, presos políticos y prisioneros de guerra fueron asesinados, murieron de hambre y enfermedades, padecieron todo tipo de torturas y humillaciones.

1978 - a chance meeting on a remote military airbase between two Green Berets involved in the same operation leads to a partnership that will last over 40 years. Four years after that meeting, Nick Brokhausen and Jeff Miller leave the service within a few weeks of each other and begin an odyssey that takes them to dozens of countries on five continents.

Una completa visión del anarquismo, el sindicalismo revolucionario, el comunismo libertario y sus dirigentes: Proudhon, Kropotkin, Bakunin, Malatesta. Desde su constitución como ideología sindical y política en el siglo XIX hasta su evolución en el siglo XX y su proyección en el XXI.

While D-Day is one of the most famous events of the war, it is widely overlooked that about two months after the landings in Normandy, there was a second Allied landing in France. On August 15, 1944, a combined US-French force landed in southern France on the beaches of the Côte d'Azur as part of Operation Dragoon. In just over four weeks of fighting, the Allied landing led to the liberation of most of southern France and to one of the most audacious and successful Allied operations of World War II. What followed remains a controversial part of the end of the war in Europe.