Product Description: Jewish Responses to Persecution, 1933–1946 offers a new perspective on Holocaust history by presenting documentation that describes the manifestations and meanings of Nazi Germany's "final solution" from the Jewish perspective. This first volume, taking us from Hitler's rise to power through the aftermath of Kristallnacht, vividly reveals the increasing devastation and confusion wrought in Jewish communities in and beyond Germany at the time...read more

Product Description: Bringing together some of the most prominent contemporary historians of modern Germany and innovative newcomers to the field, this volume offers new perspectives on key debates surrounding Germany's descent into and emergence from the Nazi catastrophe...read more

Product Description: German History from the Margins offers new ways of thinking about ethnic and religious minorities and other outsiders in modern German history. Many established paradigms of German history are challenged by the contributors' new and often provocative findings, including evidence of the striking cosmopolitanism of Germany's 19th-century eastern border communities; German Jewry's sophisticated appropriation of the discourse of tribe and race; the unexpected absence of antisemitism in Weimar's campaign against smut; the Nazi embrace of purportedly "Jewish" sexual behavior; and post-war West Germany's struggles with ethnic and racial minorities despite its avowed liberalism...read more

Product Description: This is the first English-language collection of essays on modern German history with a generational theme. It analyzes the origins and impact of generation conflict from the eighteenth century to the 1960s student revolts. It adds to our understanding of generations as historical phenomena and elucidates why so often in modern German history generation conflict has overshadowed class conflict...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Attempts to unravel the many complex mysteries surrounding a document, called the 'Secret Reich matter,' created by a group of Nazi leaders in 1942 at a lavish villa on the shore of Berlin's Lake Wannsee, that tallied up the Jews in Europe, classified half and quarter Jews, and ordered the senseless slaughter of thousands of Jews as the 'final solution to the Jewish Question.'

A young German-Jewish woman's life is changed overnight when war breaks out in Europe and the Gestapo is suddenly looking for her family, in a compelling biography based on Marianne Strauss's own diary, kept while she was on the run in Nazi Germany. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

Product Description: Three times in the 20th century--in 1918, 1945, and again in 1989--Europe was confronted with major questions of restructuring and rebuilding. But can Europe's development be organized into postwar eras? Why was the period 1945-1989 so much more stable and prosperous than 1918-1939? Has the end of the cold war changed the basis of the post-1945 settlement? This comparative collection offers some unique insights into these questions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The Tcl language and Tk toolkit, even alone, offer many benefits: They're easy to learn, capable of producing good interfaces quickly, great for prototyping applications, and they are infinitely customizable. But one of the greatest strengths of Tcl/Tk is the range of extensions written for it...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: An analysis of the measures undertaken to win new labour for the Ruhr coal production industry and train the recruits into productive and settled miners.