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By the acclaimed journalist and New York Times best-selling author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, this day-by-day eyewitness account of the momentous events leading up to World War II in Europe is the private, personal, utterly revealing journal of a great foreign correspondent.

Mary Fulbrook's encompassing book explores the lives of individuals across a full spectrum of suffering and guilt, each one capturing one small part of the greater story. Using "reckoning" in the widest possible sense to evoke how the consequences of violence have expanded almost infinitely through time. Fulbrook exposes the disjuncture between official myths about "dealing with the past" and the extent to which the vast majority of Nazi perpetrators evaded responsibility. 

The Nazi regime preached an ideology of physical, mental, and moral purity. But as Norman Ohler reveals in this gripping new history, the Third Reich was saturated with drugs. On the eve of World War II, Germany was a pharmaceutical powerhouse, and companies such as Merck and Bayer cooked up cocaine, opiates, and, most of all, methamphetamines, to be consumed by everyone from factory workers to housewives to millions of German soldiers.

Auf den Punkt: 2000 Jahre deutsche Geschichte! Überzeugend und souverän führt James Hawes von den alten Römern bis in die Gegenwart. Eine große Tour durch die Jahrhunderte, die in einer leidenschaftlichen Hommage an die Bundesrepublik endet. Der Sieg gegen die Römer im Teutoburger Wald, die barbarische Grausamkeit des Dreißigjährigen Kriegs, der Aufstieg des militaristischen Preußens im 18. Jahrhundert - wie Blitzlichter scheinen diese historischen Ereignisse in James Hawes' fulminantem Parforceritt durch die deutsche Geschichte auf.

In the summer of 1940, darkness was falling over Europe. Led by Winston Churchill, the British rediscovered the virtues that had made a humble people the rulers of the world. In June 1940, Winston Churchill called the battle Britain's "finest hour", and he was right.

The grandson of a King. The son of the Viceroy of India. Churchill's nephew. Held captive at the notorious Colditz prisoner of war camp, they were the Prominente: scions of the British establishment, and pawns in the hands of Nazi leaders. As a German defeat loomed, the SS head of the POW camps...

Inspiriert von der damaligen „bleiernen" Zeit und den Alltagserlebnissen in der DDR stehen diese Momentaufnahmen wie Zeitzeugnisse einer vergangenen Epoche. Sie beschäftigen sich mit dem stupiden grauen Arbeitsalltag, mit Umweltzerstörung, mit Freizeitbeschäftigungen, Kneipen- oder Konzertbesuchen, sind aber auch einigen literarischen Vorbildern gewidmet oder reflektieren frustrierende Erfahrungen aus der Grundwehrdienstzeit des Autors (1977–1979), die er als Soldat in einer Rostocker Kaserne verbringen musste.

Otto von Bismarck was not the kind of man who waited for history to happen. He made it happen, and he didn't much care whose feelings got hurt along the way. Bismarck was the pragmatic Prussian statesman who engineered Germany creation as a unified nation through Realpolitik—the unsentimental art of doing whatever it takes to get results. While other politicians speechified and moralized, Bismarck was already three moves ahead, turning all of Europe into his personal chessboard.

The Berlin Wall was erected in 1961 to end all traffic between the city’s two halves: the democratic west and the communist east. The iconic symbol of a divided Europe, the Wall became a focus of western political pressure on East Germany; as Ronald Reagan’s famously said in a 1987 speech in Berlin, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”

In this powerful audiobook, first published in 1943, Amy Buller recounts the hopes and fears of Germans engulfed in the rise of fascism during the 1930s. During the years leading up to the outbreak of war, Buller defied her critics and social norms by leading delegations of British intelligentsia to Germany to learn about and confront the appeal of the Nazis.

The dramatic story of Jagdverband 44, the squadron of aces founded by leading Luftwaffe pilot Adolf Galland equipped with the new Messerschmitt Me 262 jet fighter. Jagdverband (JV) 44 was formed as a result of conflict and dissent within the Luftwaffe's high command. Assembling a small group of disillusioned and weary Luftwaffe fighter aces and flying instructors, Galland moved his unit, JV 44, to Munich, from where it operated the Me 262 against USAAF aircraft bombing targets in Austria and southern Germany.

In einem historischen Meisterwerk erzählt er eine verwickelte Geschichte voller Widersprüche, die mit der Unterstützung der bolschewistischen Revolution durch das kaiserliche Deutschland beginnt und 1941 mit dem Überfall auf die Sowjetunion endet. Wenn ein kurzfristiger Vorteil lockte, waren beide Seiten zu jeder Prinzipienlosigkeit bereit.

In der Familie kursieren wunderliche Geschichten: Großvater war für die olympischen Spiele 1936 nominiert. Er hat Tito gejagt. Und war mit Widerständlern befreundet. Im Institut für Zeitgeschichte stößt die Juristin Dagmar Knigge auf ein Foto, das ihren Opa beim Handschlag mit Hitler zeigt...

Die 50er Jahre: Zeit des Wirtschaftswunders und des Neuanfangs. Nachkriegskinder sind in etwa die Jahrgänge bis 1960 – in West und Ost. Ihre Eltern waren keine Kriegskinder, sondern haben als Erwachsene den Krieg mitgemacht, die Väter meist als aktive Kriegsteilnehmer. Nachkriegskinder hilft den Angehörigen dieser Generation, die Ungereimtheiten im eigenen Lebenslauf zu verstehen und für sich neue Ressourcen zu entdecken.

"Nothing New But 'Abortive Gasp'“ portrays the short-lived, controversial Hamburg electro-industrial band Abortive Gasp (1987–1989). Founded by Harry Luehr (instruments) and Tim Paal (vocals) with rotating guests, they stood out for their high improvisation – unusual in the electronic scene. Their sound mixed early dub, parodies of Front 242/Ministry, and ironic-anarchic elements. As "Hamburg Bunker Bands“ (with Girls Under Glass), they played clubs like Kir or Stairways near the Schanzenviertel Flakbunker – a refuge from scene hostility.

Schon vor mehr als 300 Jahren gewöhnten sich die Deutschen an das Leben in der Welt des Kolonialismus. Schließlich wurde die lang geübte Ausbeutung zur Grundlage des deutschen Kolonialreichs in Afrika, Ozeanien und China: Das weltumspannende Imperium war größer, als heute oft angenommen wird. Private Unternehmer hatten die Voraussetzungen dafür geschaffen. An der Härte, mit der viele Europäer ihre Interessen durchsetzten, hatte die Abschaffung der Sklaverei im Lauf des 19. Jahrhunderts nur wenig geändert.

What role did German big business play in the persecution of European Jews during the Holocaust? What were its motivations? And how did it respond to changing social and economic circumstances after the war? Profits and Persecution examines how the leaders of Germany's largest industrial and...

From internationally acclaimed historian Timothy W. Ryback, the chilling chronicle of how Adolf Hitler overturned a constitutional democracy in less than eight weeks On September 25, 1930, Adolf Hitler appeared before Germany’s Supreme Court and outlined his plans to destroy the Weimar...

'Sebestyen reminds us once again why he is one of the best historians writing today' ANDREW ROBERTS, author of Churchill: Walking with Destiny In the years after the First World War, Berlin was - as Vladimir Nabokov described it - a place 'of dangerous glamour and worldliness, of tawdry cynicism...

In this new military-focused study, renowned World War II historian Robert Forczyk traces the development and operations of the Wehrmacht from the announcement of rearmament in 1935 to the occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1938. He examines the critical trends and events in this period, including the growth of the new Panzer arm, as well as competing priorities with the Luftwaffe and Kriegsmarine.