How American race law provided a blueprint for Nazi Germany Nazism triumphed in Germany during the high era of Jim Crow laws in the United States Did the American regime of racial oppression in any way inspire the Nazis? The unsettling answer is yes In Hitler's American Model James Whitman presents a detailed investigation of the American impact on the notorious Nuremberg Laws the centerpiece anti-Jewish legislation of the Nazi regime Contrary to those who have insisted that there was no meaningful connection between American & German racial repression Whitman demonstrates that the Nazis took a real sustained significant & revealing interest in American race policies As Whitman shows the Nuremberg Laws were crafted in an atmosphere of considerable attention to the precedents American race laws had to offer German praise for American practices already found in Hitler's Mein Kampf was continuous throughout the early 1930s & the most radical Nazi lawyers were eager advocates of the use of American models But while Jim Crow segregation was one aspect of American law that appealed to Nazi radicals it was not the most consequential one Rather both American citizenship & antimiscegenation laws proved directly relevant to the two principal Nuremberg Laws--the Citizenship Law & the Blood Law Whitman looks at the ultimate ugly irony that when Nazis rejected American practices it was sometimes not because they found them too enlightened but too harsh Indelibly linking American race laws to the shaping of Nazi policies in Germany Hitler's American Model upends understandings of America's influence on racist practices in the wider world ...

In 1925 Adolf Hitler chose a remote mountain area in the southeast corner of Germany as his home Hitler settled in a small house on the Obersalzberg a district overlooking the picturesque town of Berchtesgaden in the Bavarian Alps After Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in 1933 the Obersalzberg area was transformed into the southern seat of power for the Nazi Party Eventually the locale became a complex of houses barracks & command posts for the Nazi hierarchy including the famous Eagle's Nest & even the mountain itself was honeycombed with tunnels & air-raid shelters A bombing attack at the end of World War Two damaged many of the buildings & some were later torn down but several of the ruins remain today hidden in the woods & overgrown This guide book will help history-minded explorers find these largely-forgotten sites both on the Obersalzberg & in Berchtesgaden & the surrounding area with detailed directions for driving & walking tours ...

It's April 1940 & German troops are pouring onto the streets of Denmark 12-year-old Bamse is ordered by his father to keep his head down & stay out of trouble But Bamse & his daring friend Anton can't resist playing the occasional practical joke on the invading soldiers When it becomes clear that the trouble isn't just going to pass them by the people of Denmark decide to take action & Bamse & his eccentric family are about to take part in one of history's most dramatic rescues
- smuggling Denmark's Jewish population across the water to Sweden & safety Many of the characters are based on Sandi's own family including her father Bamse & the book was inspired by the stories her told to her
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&A prizewinning novel for readers of 8 – 12 told through the voice of a contemporary child as she weaves a story about a secret child of Hitler The bombs were falling the smoke was rising from the concentration camps but all Hitler’s daughter knew was lessons with Fraulein Gelber the hedgehogs she rescued from the cold & infrequent visits from her beloved Duffi her father Was it just a story? Did Hitler’s daughter really exist? If you were Hitler’s daughter would it all be your fault? Could you still love your own father if he had done what Hitler did? Mark a contemporary child starts to question his own beliefs as he listens to the story that Anna weaves A wonderfully sensitive & gripping time-slip novel that will sit well with When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit; Number the Stars & Big Tom WW2 is a major historical topic studied in in UK primary & secondary schools but this novel also deals with questions children so often ask of the ‘ What if?’ variety& ...

' More than 70 years ago I was a "gift" for Adolf Hitler I was stolen as a baby to be part of one of the most terrible of all Nazi experiments Lebensborn'; The Lebensborn programme was the brainchild of Himmler an extraordinary plan to create an Aryan master race leaving behind thousands of displaced victims in the wake of the Nazi regime; In Hitler's Forgotten Children Ingrid von Oelhafen shares her incredible story as a child of the Lebensborn a lonely childhood with a distant foster family; her painstaking & difficult search for answers in post-war Germany; & finally being reunited with her biological family
- with one last shocking truth to be discovered
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On 30th April 1945 Germany is in chaos
- Russian troops have reached Berlin All over the country people are on the move
- concentration

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The definitive history of the supernatural in Nazi Germany exploring the occult ideas esoteric sciences & pagan religions touted by the Third Reich in the service of power The Nazi fascination with the occult is legendary yet today it is often dismissed as Himmler's personal obsession or wildly overstated for its novelty Preposterous though it was however supernatural thinking was inextricable from the Nazi project The regime enlisted astrology & the paranormal paganism Indo-Aryan mythology witchcraft miracle weapons & the lost kingdom of Atlantis in reimagining German politics & society & recasting German science & religion In this eye-opening history Eric Kurlander reveals how the Third Reich's relationship to the supernatural was far from straightforward Even as popular occultism & superstition were intermittently rooted out suppressed & outlawed the Nazis drew upon a wide variety of occult practices & esoteric sciences to gain power shape propaganda & policy & pursue their dreams of racial utopia & empire ...

During the Second World War the German Fallschirmjger (paratroopers) carried out many successful & daring operations such as the capture of the Belgian fortress at Eben Emael in 1940 & the invasion of Crete in 1941 Hitler's Sky Warriors is a detailed examination of all the battles & campaigns of the Third Reich's airborne forces illustrated throughout by many previously unpublished photographs Hitler's Sky Warriors

Includes:: detailed accounts of all the ground campaigns of the parachute divisions especially in Italy where their epic defence of Monte Cassino entered military legend As well as being a comprehensive account of Fallschirmjger battles & campaigns Hitler's Sky Warriors

Includes:: information on the specialist weapons & equipment developed for Germany's airborne forces These include the paratrooper helmet the FG 42 automatic rifle the so-called 'gravity knife' the different jump smocks parachutes & harnesses transport aircraft & gliders Hitler's Sky Warriors also contains biographical details on all the main parachute commanders such as Kurt Student Bernhard Herman Ramcke & Richard Heidrich &

Includes:: appendices that contain information about divisional orders of battle & Knight's Cross winners In this way Hitler's Sky Warriors builds into an extensive & exciting account of one of the elite formations of military history





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A penetrating study of the German army's military campaigns relations with the Nazi regime & complicity in Nazi crimes across occupied Europe For decades after 1945 it was generally believed that the German army professional & morally decent had largely stood apart from the SS Gestapo & other corps of the Nazi machine Ben Shepherd draws on a wealth of primary sources & recent scholarship to convey a much darker more complex picture For the first time the German army is examined throughout the Second World War across all combat theaters & occupied regions & from multiple perspectives its battle performance social composition relationship with the Nazi state & involvement in war crimes & military occupation This was a true people's army drawn from across German society & reflecting that society as it existed under the Nazis Without the army & its conquests abroad Shepherd explains the Nazi regime could not have perpetrated its crimes against Jews prisoners of war & civilians in occupied countries The author examines how the army was complicit in these crimes & why some soldiers units & higher commands were more complicit than others Shepherd also reveals the reasons for the army's early battlefield successes & its mounting defeats up to 1945 the latter due not only to Allied superiority & Hitler's mismanagement as commander-in-chief but also to the failings-moral political economic strategic & operational-of the army's own leadership ...

Daniel Goldhagen re-visits a question which history has treated as settled & his research leads him to the inescapble conclusion that none of the answers holds true That question is How could the Holocaust happen? His response is an exploration of German society & its ingrained anti-semitism that demands a fundamental revision of our thinking about the years 1933-1945 The author marshals fresh primary evidence
- including extensive testimony from the actual perpetrators
- to show that the killers were ordinary Germans who were not compelled to act as they did (they knew they could refuse without retribution) yet they killed willingly & zealously

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