Books written by Richard Bessel
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Germany 1945: From War to Peace
No doubt most of those who heard the broadcast of the Wehrmacht's final communique shared the feelings of Klaus Kahlenberg, the man who read it out over the airwaves ...
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Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany: Comparisons and Contrasts
... 1987 ) or Richard J. Golsan ( ed . ) , Fascism , Aesthetics , and Culture ( Hanover , N.H. , and London , 1992 ) . Broszat , ' Betrachtungen zu “ Hitlers Zweitem Buch ” ” . 69 I take the notion of ' mad - dog ' politics from Gaines ...
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Nazism and War
Hitler's headlong rush to war nevertheless continued to raise concern among the military, most importantly with the chief of the army general staff, General Ludvvig Beck. When Hitler made clear his determination to go to war to destroy ...
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Life in the Third Reich
The essays presented here by eight leading historians shed fresh light on familiartopics, the role of political violence in Nazi seizure of power, the German view of Hitler himself, and also focus upon less well-known aspects of life in the ...
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Germany After the First World War
This is a social history of Germany in the years following the First World War.
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Life After Death: Approaches to a Cultural and Social History of Europe During the 1940s and 1950s
This book offers a novel approach to the cultural and social history of Europe after the Second World War.
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Nazism and War
In Nazism and War, Richard Bessel, one of the preeminent authorities on the social and political history of modern Germany, demonstrates that “Nazi war was racial struggle; Nazi racial struggle was war.” War was the anvil on which ...
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Nazism and War
A chilling and powerful account of the rise and fall of the Nazis, emphasising their beliefs in race and war which produced the most terrible killing frenzy in the history of humanity As this book shows, Nazi ideology was based on two ...
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No Man's Land of Violence: Extreme Wars in the 20th Century
Heinrich Böll , rank and file soldier with the infantry , in his letters from the front gave an account of a » split « he reckoned for himself . In one way , he saw himself as the grudgingly obedient soldier ; whereas the other Böll was ...
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Patterns of Provocation: Police and Public Disorder
riot of April 1990). He argues that, the more the police prepared for 'worst case scenario', the less likely disorder was. Only on those occasions when the police were not present in paramilitary strength did rioting occur: 'when ...
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Life in the Third Reich
Essays discuss politcal violence, village life, public opinion of Hitler, Nazi policy against the Jews, social outcasts, and the experience of youngsters growing up in Nazi Germany
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Germany after the First World War
Skilled workers were in particularly short supply , and it became necessary to call many soldiers back from the 46 > 47 44 45 46 47 See Feldman , Army , Industry and Labor , 64-73 ; Daniel , Arbeiterfrauen in der Kriegsgesellschaft ...
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Life in the Third Reich
The essays presented here by eight leading historians shed fresh light on familiar topics, the role of political violence in Nazi seizure of power, the German view of Hitler himself, and also focus upon less well-known aspects of life in ...
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War, Empire and Slavery, 1770-1830
The imperial warfare of the period 1770-1830, including the American wars of independence and the Napoleonic wars, affected every continent. Covering southern India, the Caribbean, North and South America, and...