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Wilhelm Canaris was appointed by Hitler to head the Abwehr (the German secret service) 18 months after the Nazis came to power. But Canaris turned against the Fuhrer and the Nazi regime, believing that Hitler would start a war Germany could not win. In 1938 he was involved in an attempted coup, undermined by British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. In 1940 he sabotaged the German plan to invade England, and fed General Franco vital information that helped him keep Spain out of the war.

The Austro-Hungarian army that marched east and south to confront the Russians and Serbs in the opening campaigns of World War I had a glorious past but a pitiful present. Speaking a mystifying array of languages and lugging outdated weapons, the Austrian troops were hopelessly unprepared for the industrialized warfare that would shortly consume Europe.

In the early years of World War II, Germany shocked the world with a devastating blitzkrieg, rapidly conquered most of Europe, and pushed into North Africa. As the Allies scrambled to counter the Axis armies, the British Eighth Army confronted the experienced Afrika Corps, led by German field marshal Erwin Rommel, in three battles at El Alamein. In the first battle, the Eighth Army narrowly halted the advance of the Germans during the summer of 1942. However, the stalemate left Nazi troops within striking distance of the Suez Canal, which would provide a critical tactical advantage to the controlling force. War historian Glyn Harper dives into the story, vividly narrating the events, strategies, and personalities surrounding the battles and paying particular attention to the Second Battle of El Alamein, a crucial turning point in the war that would be described by Winston Churchill as "the end of the beginning."

Richard Bessel, history professor at the University of York, specializes in the social and political history of Nazi Germany. In four compelling essays, he forcefully argues that racism made war inevitable. The Third Reich, led by "[A] band of political gangsters", came to power with a deep ideological commitment to war and racism. As the driving force behind the economics, social policy, and propaganda of Germany, racial hatred was the catalyst that plunged Europe into war.

Um die Nazi-Verbrechen zu dokumentieren, führte der ehemalige Lagerhäftling Hermann Langbein bereits sechs Jahre nach der Befreiung des Vernichtungslagers Auschwitz zahlreiche Interviews mit anderen Überlebenden. Detailliert berichten die Zeitzeugen vom Aufbau des Lagers, von Selektionen, der Arbeit der Lagerärzte, der Vernichtung in Gaskammern, von Krematorien und dem Schicksal inhaftierter Kinder.

Am 3. Oktober 1990 wurde zum ersten Mal in der deutschen Geschichte Einheit in Frieden und Freiheit Wirklichkeit...

Wird über den dunkelsten Fleck in der deutschen Geschichte gesprochen, kommt immer wiederdie Frage auf, ob es der deutschen Bevölkerung nicht möglich gewesen wäre, Widerstand zu leisten. Doch wo beginnt Widerstand? Dieser Frage geht dieses Hörbuch nach, exemplarisch an den Lebensgeschichten von den Geschwistern Scholl, Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg und Oskar Schindler.

Nur gut 40 Jahre währte sie, die Geschichte der DDR, aber noch 20 Jahre nach ihrem Ende lässt sie die Menschen nicht los. Folgen Sie Christian von Ditfurth auf den Spuren des real existierenden Sozialismus.

Die Revolution von 1848 ist, so Golo Mann, "eine kummervoll, kläglich zu erzählende Geschichte", denn 1848 wurde "nicht zu Ende gedacht, nicht zu Ende getan".

Nach Quellen und aus eigenen Erinnerungen schildert Golo Mann die zwölf Jahre der Nazi-Herrschaft, von Hitlers Machtergreifung bis zum Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs. Klar und engagiert legt er die politischen Entwicklungen dar, die den Zweiten Weltkrieg entfesselten, und analysiert die Ideologie, die zum Holocaust führte...

Warum kämpften die Deutschen im Zweiten Weltkrieg bis zum bitteren Ende? Warum funktionierte ein untergehendes System bis zum Schluss? Ian Kershaw erklärt in seinem neuen Werk, wie Hitlers Regime bis zum Ende durchhalten konnte, und analysiert die letzten Monate zwischen dem Stauffenberg-Attentat im Juli 1944 und dem Kriegsende im Mai 1945. In diesem außergewöhnlichen Feature werden Auszüge aus dem Buch mit O-Tönen aus der Epoche angereichert.

Vom Sturz Bismarcks, von Wilhelm II. mit seiner Schlachtflotte als Lieblingsspielzeug über Deutschlands zunehmende Isolation im europäischen Bündnisgefüge bis hin zur 'Dauerkrise' vor dem Ausbruch des ersten Weltkriegs: Kenntnisreich und spannend erzählt und kommentiert Golo Mann die Jahre 1888 bis 1914 mit ihren Akteuren und Geschehnissen.

Thea Dorn und Richard Wagner bringen dem Hörer das eigene Land näher - kenntnisreich, kritisch, leidenschaftlich und ohne Berührungsängste. Sie erforschen die deutsche Seele und widmen sich einer Vielzahl von Begriffen wie beispielsweise "Abendbrot"', "Gemütlichkeit", "Wanderlust", "Fußball" und "Kulturnation". "Die deutsche Seele" ist keine nüchterne Bestandsaufnahme, sondern ein persönliches Plädoyer der Autoren.

2008 jährte sich die Gründung der Freien Universität Berlin zum 60. Male. Grund genug, die bewegte Geschichte dieser Berliner Institution Revue passieren zu lassen...

Tantor Audio presents the complete audio version of the long awaited one-volume campaign history from the leading experts of the decisive clash of Nazi and Soviet forces at Stalingrad. Stalingrad is an abridged edition of the five-volume Stalingrad Trilogy.

Despite the best efforts of a number of historians, many aspects of the ferocious struggle between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union during the Second World War remain obscure or shrouded in myth. One of the most persistent of these is the notion - largely created by many former members of its own officer corps in the immediate postwar period - that the German Army was a paragon of military professionalism and operational proficiency whose defeat on the Eastern Front was solely attributable to the amateurish meddling of a crazed former Corporal.

In May 1940, Nazi Germany was master of continental Europe. The only European power still standing was Great Britain - and the all-conquering German armed forces stood poised to cross the Channel. Following the destruction of the RAF fighter forces, the sweeping of the Channel of mines, and the wearing down of the Royal Naval defenders, two German army groups were set to storm the beaches of southern England.

History has focused on Hitler's use of charisma and terror, asserting that the dictator made few concessions to maintain power. Nathan Stoltzfus, the award-winning author of Resistance of Heart: Intermarriage and the Rosenstrasse Protest in Germany, challenges this notion, assessing the surprisingly frequent tactical compromises Hitler made in order to preempt hostility and win the German people's complete fealty.

Wounded five times and awarded numerous decorations for valor, Gottlob Herbert Bidermann saw action in the Crimea and siege of Sebastopol, participated in the vicious battles in the forests south of Leningrad, and ended the war in the Courland Pocket. In his memoir, he shares his impressions of countless Russian POWs seen at the outset of his service, of peasants struggling to survive the hostilities while caught between two ruthless antagonists, and of corpses littering the landscape.

Jürgen, angehender Ingenieur, exmatrikuliert wegen einer politisch unliebsamen Bemerkung. Die junge Ärztin Henriette, die einmal Venedig sehen will. Sie beide wagen schließlich mit ihren Familien die Flucht, so wie unzählige andere. Von der Gründung der DDR 1949 bis zur Grenzöffnung 1989 verlassen etwa drei Millionen Menschen den Arbeiter- und Bauernstaat, davon viele illegal und unter großer Gefahr.

This is the real story of Patton, known affectionately as "The Old Man" and "Old Blood and Guts" by his troops. Told first hand by generals and comrades who fought side by side with him in all of his campaigns, from World War l to World War II and the famous "Battle of the Bulge".

A special contribution in included from Mrs. Patton, as well as "A Study Guide for Harvard" that contains additional biographical information, facts, famous Patton quotes, and Patton's complete legacy.

The Battle for Berlin was the culminating struggle of World War II in the European theater. The last offensive against Hitler’s Third Reich, it devastated one of Europe’s historic capitals and marked the final defeat of Nazi Germany. It was also one of the war’s bloodiest and most pivotal battles, whose outcome would shape international politics for decades to come.

Glanz und Mythos einerseits, Schande und Schreckbild andererseits. Mit dem Namen Preußen verbinden sich gegensätzliche Assoziationen und eine Reihe von Klischees, so etwa Graf Mirabeaus Ausspruch: "Andere Staaten haben eine Armee; in Preußen hat die Armee einen Staat." Für Golo Mann jedoch wurde es Preußens Funktion, "seine unvorhersagbare, ungewollt, vom Eigensinn der Geschichte ihm zugespielte Chance und Aufgabe, der deutschen Nation ihre moderne Form zu geben".

The Making of Martin Luther takes a provocative look at the intellectual emergence of one of the most original and influential minds of the 16th century. Richard Rex traces how, in a concentrated burst of creative energy in the few years surrounding his excommunication by Pope Leo X in 1521, this lecturer at an obscure German university developed a startling new interpretation of the Christian faith that brought to an end the dominance of the Catholic Church in Europe.

Au lendemain de la victoire sur le nazisme et de la libération des camps, l'ampleur des crimes qui y ont été perpétrés a bouleversé la conscience universelle. Les déportés ont été plongés dans l'univers concentrationnaire, celui des camps d'extermination, où la majorité d'entre eux était exterminée, du bébé au vieillard, dès l'arrivée, dans les chambres à gaz, celui des camps de concentration, où ils mouraient d'épuisement suite aux multiples sévices. Chaque déporté a connu une petite partie de l'univers concentrationnaire qui forme un tout aux multiples facettes.

John Mosier presents a revisionist retelling of the war on the Eastern Front. The conventional wisdom is that Hitler was mad to think he could defeat the USSR, because of its vast size and population, and that the Battle of Stalingrad marked the turning point of the war. Neither statement is accurate, says Mosier; Hitler came very close to winning outright.

This is the remarkable story of a German soldier who fought throughout World War II, rising from conscript private to captain of a heavy weapons company on the Eastern Front. >William Lubbeck, age 19, was drafted into the Wehrmacht in August 1939. As a member of the 58th Infantry Division, he received his baptism of fire during the 1940 invasion of France. The following spring his division served on the left flank of Army Group North in Operation Barbarossa.

This book describes the often overlooked World War II campaign for Norway - a complex series of battles in which Hitler out-gambled Churchill in order to secure a vital resource lifeline for the Third Reich. After Hitler conquered Poland and was still fine-tuning his plans against France, the British began to exert control of the coastline of neutral Norway, an action that threatened to cut off Germany’s iron-ore conduit to Sweden and outflank from the start its hegemony on the Continent.

The most famous battle of the 19th century was undoubtedly Waterloo, and the biggest battle of the Napoleonic Wars was Leipzig, but neither one of those legendary battles was the biggest of the century. That distinction instead belongs to the Battle of Königgrätz, a little known, but decisive conflict in a war between Prussia and Austria. Though it lasted only seven weeks and only had one truly decisive battle, the Austro-Prussian War nonetheless changed the political outlook in Europe forever.

The sinking of the German battleship Bismarck - a masterpiece of engineering, well-armored with a main artillery of eight 15-inch guns - was one of the most dramatic events of World War II. She left the port of Gotenhafen for her first operation on the night of 18 May 1941, yet was almost immediately discovered by Norwegian resistance and Allied air reconnaissance. British battlecruiser Hood was quickly dispatched from Scapa Flow to intercept the Bismarck, together with new battleship Prince of Wales.