Rheinwiesenlager

  rheinwiesenlager: Tartaria - Adolf Hitler David Ewing Jr, 2022-12-07 On the 19 August 1934, Adolf Hitler became the Fuhrer of Germany. Why 19...? Why...? Researchers found a mathematical code, in the major events, of the history of Germany. This mathematical code showed that the history of Germany was a lie. This book will examine the history of Adolf Hitler and September 11 and the secret history of Europe. Why did the barbarians in Germany fight against the Church? Were these people really barbarians? Or... was this history fraudulently invented by the Church and its allies? Did the Germans really fight in Crusades against Muslims or did they fight against the Church? During the Middle Ages, the Holy Roman Emperors in Germany had Arabic writing on their clothes. Why...? During the Middle Ages, many European Muslims used the Swastika. Why...? During the Middle Ages, European people used millions of coins with Arabic and Islamic writing. Why do people not know about this?
  rheinwiesenlager: Behind Barbed Wire Alexander Mikaberidze, 2018-11-26 An indispensable reference on concentration camps, death camps, prisoner-of-war camps, and military prisons offering broad historical coverage as well as detailed analysis of the nature of captivity in modern conflict. This comprehensive reference work examines internment, forced labor, and extermination during times of war and genocide, with a focus on the 20th and 21st centuries and particular attention paid to World War II and recent conflicts in the Middle East. It explores internment as it has been used as a weapon and led to crimes against humanity and is ideal for students of global studies, history, and political science as well as politically and socially aware general readers. In addition to entries on such notorious camps as Abu Ghraib, Andersonville, Auschwitz, and the Hanoi Hilton, the encyclopedia includes profiles of key perpetrators of camp and prison atrocities and more than a dozen curated and contextualized primary source documents that further illuminate the subject. Primary sources include United Nations documents outlining the treatment of prisoners of war, government reports of infamous camp and prison atrocities, and oral histories from survivors of these notorious facilities.
  rheinwiesenlager: Atrocities, Massacres, and War Crimes Alexander Mikaberidze, 2013-06-25 Both concise and wide-ranging, this encyclopedia covers massacres, atrocities, war crimes, and genocides, including acts of inhumanity on all continents; and serves as a reminder that lest we forget, history will repeat itself. The 400-plus entries in Atrocities, Massacres, and War Crimes: An Encyclopedia provide accessible and concise information on the difficult subject of abject human violence committed on all continents. The entries in this two-volume work describe atrocities, massacres, and war crimes committed in the 20th century, thereby documenting how human beings have repeatedly proven their capability to commit horrific acts of inhumanity even in relatively recent times and within the modern era. The encyclopedia covers countries, treaties, and terms; profiles individuals who had been formally indicted for war crimes as well as those who have committed mass atrocities and gone unpunished; and addresses human rights violations, crimes against humanity, and crimes against peace.
  rheinwiesenlager: Erinnerungsorte der extremen Rechten Martin Langebach, Michael Sturm, 2015-02-05 Geschichtspolitik ist für die extreme Rechte von zentraler Bedeutung. Das spiegelt sich in ihren Publikationen ebenso wie bei ihren Aufmärschen mit historischen Bezügen. Das kollektive Gedächtnis der extremen Rechten ist durch ein Repertoire an Mythen, Bildern und Erzählungen geprägt, die in Anlehnung an Pierre Nora als „Erinnerungsorte“ begriffen werden können. Diese beziehen sich nicht nur auf geografische Orte, sondern auch auf Ereignisse, Artefakte oder Ideen. Erinnerungsorte erfüllen für dieses politische Spektrum eine wichtige sinnstiftende Funktion: Sie sollen dessen nationalistische und ethnozentrisch-rassistische Gemeinschaftsentwürfe legitimieren. Quellennah skizzieren die Autorinnen und Autoren ausgewählte Erinnerungsorte, analysieren deren symbolische Aufladung, dekonstruieren die daran geknüpften Mythen und fragen nach der strategischen Bedeutung für extrem rechte Politikkonzepte.
  rheinwiesenlager: Returning Memories Christiane Wienand, 2015 Provides the first comprehensive analysis of the history of returning German POWs after the Second World War, explored as a history of memory both during Germany's division and after unification.
  rheinwiesenlager: Disarmed Enemy Forces Fouad Sabry, 2024-06-21 What is Disarmed Enemy Forces Those prisoners of war who had already surrendered and were being detained in camps in occupied German territory at the time are referred to as Disarmed Enemy Forces by the United States. This designation is given to soldiers who surrender to an adversary after the end of hostilities on the battlefield. In the occupied territory of Germany that existed after World War II, General Dwight D. Eisenhower was the one who designated the German captives. How you will benefit (I) Insights, and validations about the following topics: Chapter 1: Disarmed Enemy Forces Chapter 2: Prisoner of War Chapter 3: War Crime Chapter 4: James Bacque Chapter 5: Other Losses Chapter 6: Rheinwiesenlager Chapter 7: End of World War II in Europe Chapter 8: German Instrument of Surrender Chapter 9: Surrendered Enemy Personnel Chapter 10: Flensburg Government (II) Answering the public top questions about disarmed enemy forces. Who this book is for Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of Disarmed Enemy Forces.
  rheinwiesenlager: Tartaria David Ewing Jr, 2022-04-06 19 sierpnia 1934 r. Adolf Hitler został fuhrerem Niemiec. Dlaczego 19? Czemu? Kim był Adolf Hitler? Ta książka pokaże relacje między Adolfem Hitlerem a 11 września Jest wielu ludzi, którzy kwestionują historię świata, a wielu badaczy twierdzi, że historia Adolfa Hitlera to kłamstwo. Gdzie jest dowód? Ta książka pokaże ci historię Adolfa Hitlera w sposób, którego nigdy nie możesz sobie wyobrazić, i możesz zdecydować, czy historia Adolfa Hitlera jest prawdą, czy kłamstwem
  rheinwiesenlager: The Charlemagne Murders Carl Douglass, 2016-09-10 Six famous (or infamous, if you prefer) World War Two generals have been murdered in six different countries leading to separate quiet but intense investigations. INTERPOL is finally involved because the police in each country come to realize that there has to be a connection, but no one knows what that connection is. Once links seem plausible, the Mossad joins the international police investigation and search; and the greatest manhunt in history is launched spreading over four continents and delving into secrets best left undisturbed.
  rheinwiesenlager: Tartarië - Adolf Hitler David Ewing Jr, 2022-02-28 Op 19 augustus 1934 werd Adolf Hitler de Führer van Duitsland. Waarom 19? Waarom? Wie was Adolf Hitler? Dit boek zal de relatie tussen Adolf Hitler en 11 september laten zien Er zijn veel mensen die de wereldgeschiedenis in twijfel trekken en veel onderzoekers zeggen dat de geschiedenis van Adolf Hitler een leugen is. Waar is het bewijs? Dit boek zal je de geschiedenis van Adolf Hitler laten zien op een manier die je je nooit kunt voorstellen, en je kunt beslissen of de geschiedenis van Adolf Hitler waar is of een leugen
  rheinwiesenlager: After the Reich Giles MacDonogh, 2009-02-24 The shocking history of the brutal occupation of Germany after the Second World War When the Third Reich collapsed in 1945, Germany was a nation in tatters, in many places literally flattened by bombs. In the ensuing occupation, hundreds of thousands of women were raped. Hundreds of thousands of Germans and German-speakers died in the course of brutal deportations from Eastern Europe. By the end of the year, denied access to any foreign aid, Germany was literally starving to death. An astonishing 2.5 million ordinary Germans were killed in the post-Reich era. A shocking account of a massive and brutal military occupation, After the Reich draws on an array of contemporary first-person accounts of the period to offer a bold reframing of the history of World War II and its aftermath.
  rheinwiesenlager: Savage Continent Keith Lowe, 2012-07-03 Winner of the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize A superb and immensely important book.—Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post The Second World War might have officially ended in May 1945, but in reality it rumbled on for another ten years... The end of World War II in Europe is remembered as a time when cheering crowds filled the streets, but the reality was quite different. Across Europe, landscapes had been ravaged, entire cities razed, and more than thirty million people had been killed in the war. The institutions that we now take for granted—such as police, media, transport, and local and national government—were either entirely absent or compromised. Crime rates soared, economies collapsed, and whole populations hovered on the brink of starvation. In Savage Continent, Keith Lowe describes a continent where individual Germans and collaborators were rounded up and summarily executed, where concentration camps were reopened, and violent anti-Semitism was reborn. In some of the monstrous acts of ethnic cleansing the world has ever seen, tens of millions were expelled from their ancestral homelands. Savage Continent is the story of post–war Europe, from the close of the war right to the establishment of an uneasy stability at the end of the 1940s. Based principally on primary sources from a dozen countries, Savage Continent is the chronicle of a world gone mad, the standard history of post–World War II Europe for years to come.
  rheinwiesenlager: Rheinwiesenlager Remagen/Sinzig: Hunger und Hilflosigkeit Niklas Schonschek, 2022-11-04 Hunderttausende deutsche Kriegsgefangene darbten im Frühjahr und Sommer 1945 unter katastrophalen Bedingungen in den Rheinwiesenlagern von Remagen und Sinzig. Sie litten unter Hunger, Kälte und Krankheiten; über eintausend von ihnen überlebten die Kriegsgefangenschaft nicht. Anschaulich und detailliert erzählt der Journalist Niklas Schonschek anhand von Zeitzeugenberichten, darunter exklusive Zeitzeugeninterviews, die Geschichte der Lagerinsassen. Dabei geht er auch der vielschichtigen Frage auf den Grund, wie es überhaupt so weit kommen konnte.
  rheinwiesenlager: From German Prisoner of War to American Citizen Barbara Schmitter Heisler, 2014-11-29 Among the many German immigrants to the United States over the years, one group is unusual: former prisoners of war who had spent between one and three years on American soil and who returned voluntarily as immigrants after the war. Drawing on archival sources and in-depth interviews with 35 former prisoners who made the return, the book outlines the conditions that defined their unusual experiences and traces their journeys from captive enemies to American citizens. Although the respondents came from different backgrounds, and arrived in America at different times between 1943 and 1945, their experiences as prisoners of war not only left an indelible impression, they also provided them with opportunities and resources that helped them leave Germany behind and return to the place where we had the good life.
  rheinwiesenlager: Rechter Geschichtsrevisionismus in Deutschland Sybille Steinbacher, Jens-Christian Wagner, 2025-03-19 Extreme Rechte instrumentalisieren, relativieren und verzerren die Geschichte. Geschichtsrevisionismus gehört zum ideologischen Kernbestand extrem rechten Denkens. Dreh- und Angelpunkt ist die Bewertung des Nationalsozialismus. Wer historisch tradierte nationale Größe postuliert, muss die NS-Verbrechen mindestens kleinreden. In den vergangenen Jahren sind – nicht zuletzt im Zuge der Proteste gegen Corona-Schutzmaßnahmen, durch den Aufstieg der AfD oder auch angeheizt durch die Putin-Propaganda – neue Spielarten des rechten Geschichtsrevisionismus popularisiert worden: Verharmlosung der NS-Verbrechen durch ahistorische Gleichsetzungen und Begriffsumdeutungen, Verschwörungslegenden, Reichsbürgerideologien, shoahbezogener Antisemitismus, wonach Juden angeblich eine Mitschuld am Judenhass tragen, und identitäre Geschichtsbilder. In interdisziplinärer Perspektive widmen sich die Autorinnen und Autoren des Bandes den unterschiedlichen Erscheinungsformen des rechten Geschichtsrevisionismus in Deutschland. Vorgestellt werden die wichtigsten geschichtsrevisionistischen Argumentationsmuster, ihre Funktionen und ihre Protagonisten. Aus dem Inhalt: Volker Weiß: »Lasst uns Krieg führen!«. Die Kampagne der extremen Rechten gegen die kritische Auseinandersetzung mit der NS-Vergangenheit Maik Tändler: »Nationalmasochismus« und »jüdisches Privileg«: Zur alt- und neurechten Abwehr der Vergangenheitsbewältigung und ihrer postkolonialen Anverwandlung
  rheinwiesenlager: Ocho días de mayo Volker Ullrich, 2023-05-04 El relato trepidante de los ocho días que cambiaron el rumbo del mundo. Uno de los mejores libros que se han escrito sobre la locura nazi. 30 de abril de 1945. En un búnker en las profundidades de la cancillería del Tercer Reich, Adolf Hitler y Eva Braun se suicidan. Pero la Alemania nazi sobrevive, la guerra no ha terminado. Todo parece detenerse y, sin embargo, todo se mueve a un ritmo frenético. Volker Ullrich relata jornada a jornada este tiempo fuera del tiempo y adentra al lector en un mundo que se derrumba, lleno de drama, violencia, esperanza y miedo. Los siguientes ocho días, entre los más turbulentos de la historia, fueron testigo de las batallas finales de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y el colapso de la Wehrmacht, pero también de las últimas marchas de la muerte, de una epidemia de suicidios y violaciones masivas, de los intentos fanáticos de una última resistencia, de la desesperada huida de los peces gordos nazis, de la liberación de los campos de concentración... En esta narración vibrante y conmovedora, el prestigioso historiador y periodista Volker Ullrich nos lleva al régimen fantasmagórico del almirante Karl Dönitz, sucesor de Hitler, que huye hacia Flensburgo mientras las fuerzas aliadas avanzan inexorablemente. Berlín capitula, el científico y diseñador de cohetes Wernher von Braun es detenido, Marlene Dietrich busca a su hermana en Bergen-Belsen. El relato de estos ocho días de mayo, basado en una asombrosa variedad de nuevas fuentes primarias y elaborado a partir de miniaturas históricas que forman un amplio mosaico, resulta más cautivador que muchas novelas de suspense. La crítica ha dicho: «Ullrich demuestra que los historiadores alemanes también saben escribir de forma elegante y cautivadora. Más emocionante que muchas novelas de suspense». Der Spiegel «Apasionante, impecablemente investigado». The Wall Street Journal «Excelente. Una síntesis admirable». The Times «Volker Ullrich ordena los hechos de tal manera que la lectura se convierte en un paseo histórico que ni resulta complaciente ni sermonea». Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung «Cautivador. Muestra adónde conducen la locura política y la decadencia moral, la violencia y la guerra». Frankfurter Rundschau «Un cambio de perspectiva revelador. Pocos serán los lectores que, aún creyendo conocer bien estos meses tan explorados, no se encuentren una y otra vez con detalles o episodios nuevos para ellos». Die Welt «Un libro vivo, de ritmo rápido y magníficamente investigado». The Spectator «Un relato vibrante de ocho días en los que toda Europa quedó suspendida en la confusión y el caos». Kirkus Reviews «La crónica brillante, cautivadora y a menudo inquietante de un momento surrealista de la historia». Publishers Weekly «Escrito con maestría». Library Journal «Un apasionante rompecabezas escénico». Der Spiegel «Inteligente y agudo. Un retrato vivaz basado en la observación precisa, el dominio de las fuentes y una mirada amplia». Süddeutsche Zeitung «Con un gran sentido de la narración, Ullrich funde los testimonios privados y la bibliografía histórica, las memorias y los archivos en una panorámica completa y muy lograda de un periodo tumultuoso». Die Tageszeitung «Ofrece fabulosas lecciones de historia para los tiempos actuales». Tagesspiegel «Un libro emocionante que nos deja casi sin aliento, y literalmente nos obliga a seguir leyendo». Stuttgarter Zeitung
  rheinwiesenlager: Verschwundene Umsiedler aus Bessarabien Susanne Schlechter, 2023-07-24 Im Herbst 1940 wurden deutschstämmige Bewohner aus Bessarabien, der Dobrudscha und der Bukowina von den Nationalsozialisten ins Deutsche Reich umgesiedelt. Während die NS-Propaganda diese Umsiedlungsaktionen aus dem damaligen Rumänien öffentlich feierte, fanden zur selben Zeit die „Euthanasie-Morde der heimlichen staatlichen Krankenmord-„Aktion T4 statt. Wie wurde mit „Volksdeutschen in Bessarabien verfahren, die den Vorstellungen der NS-Volkstumspolitik nicht entsprachen? Diese Studie untersucht den Umgang mit sog. „lebensunwertem Leben bei den „Heim ins Reich-Umsiedlungen und stellt eine Pionierarbeit auf einem noch weitgehend unerforschten Feld dar. Quellengrundlage für die Recherche ist der persönliche Nachlass einer damaligen Führerin der NS-Schwesternschaft aus dem Reichshauptamt für Volkswohlfahrt – im Jahr 2007 tauchten ein bis dahin unbekanntes Tagebuch, Fotos, Briefe und Berichte aus ihrem Umsiedlungseinsatz auf. Gleichzeitig ergab sich ein Gespräch mit dem damaligen Leiter des Umsiedlergesundheitsdienstes der Auslandabteilung der Reichsärztekammer. Die akribische Spurensuche auf der Basis der entdeckten Quellen ermöglicht nun erstmals einen detailreichen Einblick in die Aufgabenverteilung zwischen dem männlichen und weiblichen medizinischen Personal der deutschen Umsiedlungskommission sowie den persönlichen Haltungen. Doch beide hochrangigen Akteure schwiegen auffällig zur eigentlichen Frage. Die selektive Überlieferung hinterließ nachhaltige Lücken im kollektiven Erinnern an die „Heim ins Reich-Umsiedlungen. „Verschwundene Umsiedler waren lange Zeit ihre vergessenen Opfer.
  rheinwiesenlager: Werwolf! Alexander Perry Biddiscombe, Perry Biddiscombe, 1998-01-01 The most complete history to date of the Nazi partisan resistance movement known as the Werwolf at the end of WWII. A fascinating history of great interest to general readers as well as to military historians.
  rheinwiesenlager: Entwaffnete feindliche Streitkräfte Fouad Sabry, 2024-06-21 Was sind entwaffnete feindliche Streitkräfte? Als „entwaffnete feindliche Streitkräfte“ werden in den USA jene Kriegsgefangenen bezeichnet, die sich bereits ergeben hatten und zu diesem Zeitpunkt in Lagern auf dem besetzten deutschen Gebiet festgehalten wurden. Diese Bezeichnung wird Soldaten verliehen, die sich nach dem Ende der Feindseligkeiten auf dem Schlachtfeld einem Gegner ergeben. In den besetzten Gebieten Deutschlands, die nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg existierten, war General Dwight D. Eisenhower derjenige, der die deutschen Gefangenen benannte. Ihr Nutzen (I) Einblicke und Validierungen zu den folgenden Themen: Kapitel 1: Entwaffnete feindliche Streitkräfte Kapitel 2: Kriegsgefangene Kapitel 3: Kriegsverbrechen Kapitel 4: James Bacque Kapitel 5: Andere Verluste Kapitel 6: Rheinwiesenlager Kapitel 7: Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs in Europa Kapitel 8: Deutsche Kapitulationserklärung Kapitel 9: Kapituliertes feindliches Personal Kapitel 10: Flensburger Regierung (II) Beantwortung der wichtigsten Fragen der Öffentlichkeit zu entwaffnete feindliche Streitkräfte. Für wen sich dieses Buch eignet Fachleute, Studenten und Doktoranden, Enthusiasten, Hobbyisten und alle, die über grundlegende Kenntnisse oder Informationen zu jeder Art entwaffneter feindlicher Streitkräfte hinausgehen möchten.
  rheinwiesenlager: Großväterland Christian Hardinghaus, 2017-02-01 Zeitzeugenaussagen aus dem 2. Weltkrieg zu sammeln und in einer Graphic Novel einem interessierten Publikum zugänglich zu machen, das war der Plan des Osnabrücker Kreativgespanns Freise und Hardinghaus, als sie im Jahr 2014 ihr Crowdfunding-Projekt starteten. Mittlerweile wurde das ehrgeizige Vorhaben realisiert und heraus kam ein beeindruckendes Dokument deutscher Historie. Eine fesselnde Graphic Novel zum Zweiten Weltkrieg als Panini-Originalausgabe.
  rheinwiesenlager: Kriegsgefangenschaft im Zweiten Weltkrieg Günter Bischof, Rüdiger Overmans, 1999
  rheinwiesenlager: Austrian Lives Günter Bischof, Fritz Plasser, Eva Maltschnig, 2012 We also suggest that the intellectual biographies of thinkers and professionals are fertile soil for biographical study. Moreover, the prosopographical study of common folks in the Austrian population lifts these lives from the dark matter of anonymous masses and gives rich insight into the lives that ordinary Austrians have been leading. We present an array of political lives, including that of Ignaz Seipel and Therese Schlesinger-Eckstein, as well as Lives of the Mind which capture the lives of fascinating intellectual figures in pre- and post-World War II Vienna such as Viktor Frankl and Eugenie Schwarzwald. The approaches to writing biography taken in this volume also suggest that much work needs to be done to shed light on the lives of ordinary Austrians. In this volume we have biographical accounts detailing the lives of soldiers, prisoners of war, and farming families.
  rheinwiesenlager: The Ruling Elite Deanna Spingola, 2014 Providing a general overview of the accurate history of World War II-which was essentially a continuation of World War I with the same saber-rattling participants-The Ruling Elite describes the circumstances leading up to World War II. Author Deanna Spingola discusses how the diaspora-distributed international bankers living and prospering in Britain, France, and America influenced greedy, compromised, and complicit politicians in those nations. The Ruling Elite explains that through deceptive propaganda, those politicians persuaded naïve citizens to wage war against Germany, a peace-loving nation whose leaders were uncooperative with the bankers, which led to World War I. Following that war, German officials rejected the bankers and their money-lending scheme to save their nation and its citizens from the burden of debt. The aftermath of World War II-a deadly war that killed millions and imposed communism in numerous countries-impacted every banker-occupied country in various ways: culturally, morally, politically, and economically. Researched through historical documents and scholarly works, The Ruling Elite describes how warmongers regularly project their criminal activities onto others, frequently blaming the victim, whether an individual or a nation. Spingola offers an unbiased look at World War II beginning with Hitler and the rebirth of Germany through the aftermath of the war.
  rheinwiesenlager: Just Breathe Ilona Salley, 2023-11-06 The early 1900s were a time of great turmoil in both North America and Europe—two great wars devastated the lives of all. As if that were not enough, the Great Depression threw the world into chaos, the Spanish Flu decimated populations, and the Dust Bowl disrupted all of North America. Everywhere, there was a terrible struggle just to survive. People looked to the USA and Canada for a better life, and immigration flooded North America. This story follows one family caught up in all the best and all the worst that life has to offer, a family torn apart, striving to reunite. Moments of joy lighten the load, along with feelings of tenderness; they learn forgiveness for their own human failings and for those of others. Courage grows within them as they face adversity. And they experience the greatest gift of all—love.
  rheinwiesenlager: Decoding Antisemitism Matthias J. Becker, Hagen Troschke, Matthew Bolton, Alexis Chapelan, 2024-10-15 This open access book is the first comprehensive guide to identifying antisemitism online today, in both its explicit and implicit (or coded) forms. Developed through years of on-the-ground analysis of over 100,000 authentic comments posted by social media users in the UK, France, Germany and beyond, the book introduces and explains the central historical, conceptual and linguistic-semiotic elements of 46 antisemitic concepts, stereotypes and speech acts. The guide was assembled by researchers working on the Decoding Antisemitism project at the Centre for Research on Antisemitism at Technische Universität Berlin, building on existing basic definitions of antisemitism, and drawing on expertise in various fields. Using authentic examples taken from social media over the past four years, it sets out a pioneering step-by-step approach to identifying and categorising antisemitic content, providing guidance on how to recognise a statement as antisemitic or not. This book will be an invaluable tool through which researchers, students, practitioners and social media moderators can learn to recognise contemporary antisemitism online – and the structural aspects of hate speech more generally – in all its breadth and diversity.
  rheinwiesenlager: The Nazi Mind Laurence Rees, 2025-05-06 From an award-winning historian comes a fresh analysis of the rise of Nazi extremism, how such thinking gained popularity, and why it is vital to fight burgeoning extremist movements today How could the SS have committed the crimes they did? How were the killers who shot Jews at close quarters able to perpetrate this horror? Why did commandants of concentration and death camps willingly—and often enthusiastically—oversee mass murder? How could ordinary Germans have tolerated the removal of the Jews? In The Nazi Mind, bestselling historian Laurence Rees seeks answers to some of the most perplexing questions surrounding the Second World War and the Holocaust. Ultimately, he delves into the darkness to explain how and why these people were capable of committing the worst crimes in the history of the world. From the fringe politics of the 1920s to the electoral triumph and mass mobilization of the 1930s, and from the Holocaust through to the regime’s eventual demise, Rees charts the rise and fall of Nazi mentalities—including the conditions that allowed such a violent ideology to flourish and the sophisticated propaganda effort that sustained it. Using previously unpublished testimony from former Nazis and those who grew up in the Nazi system, and in-depth insights based on the latest research of psychologists, The Nazi Mind brings fresh understanding to one of the most appalling regimes in history.
  rheinwiesenlager: Voices of the Waffen SS Gerry Villani, 2019-03-15 The Waffen SS were Hitler's elite forces during WWII. They were the forces that were feared by the enemy and praised by their allies. During the Nuremberg Trials, the Waffen SS was condemned as part of a criminal organization, however, the Nuremberg Trials exempted conscripts from that condemnation. On several occasions, the Waffen SS was criticized by Heer commanders for their reckless disregard for casualties while taking or holding objectives, however, the Waffen SS divisions eventually proved themselves as capable soldiers. The poor initial performance was mainly due to the emphasis on political indoctrination rather than proper military training before the war. Despite this, the experience gained from the Polish, French, and Balkan campaigns and the peculiarly egalitarian form of training soon turned Waffen SS units into elite formations. These are the stories of the men that once were part of this elite force, not to glorify the Nazi regime or crimes committed by them, but to give them a voice too.
  rheinwiesenlager: Hiking Home Ingrid Wood, 2022-02-08 Hiking Home is much more than a book about exercising in woods and fields. While taking the reader on a hike through the scenic German countryside, the author weaves fascinating facts about German history as well as cherished memories into the fabric of her journey. Some of the adventures of the hiking Görgen sisters made me laugh out loud. Others made me wince and marvel about how much my friend was willing to endure to achieve her goal. Once I started reading Hiking Home, I could not put the book down. I did not want the journey to end. The next time Ingrid and her sister, Karin, go on a hike, I want to be included. Nancy Aiello
  rheinwiesenlager: Jochen Peiper Justice Denied David G Williams, 2013-08-25 Jochen Peiper was a Colonel in the Waffen SS. One of the wars more divisive men who was accused and convicted of more than 900 murders yet he walked free after only a few years in prison, why? This book covers his whole life, from his humble beginnings in Berlin to his rise to full Colonel in the SS, and his participation in numerous campaigns in Europe and the Eastern Front. The story leads to the war crimes trial held in Dachau in 1946, the results of that trial, and the use of coercion and dubious interrogation methods leading up to it. Many guilty men walked free and many innocent men remained in jail. Others who were clearly guilty and named were never prosecuted at all. Rules were dismissed and what was supposed to be a shining example of justice became an embarrassing mess. If Peiper and his men were guilty of the crimes convicted of, why were the sentences never carried out? Thoroughly researched using original archived documents and other material this book sheds new light on an old story.
  rheinwiesenlager: The 10 Big Lies About America Michael Medved, 2008-11-18 “It ain’t so much the things we don’t know that get us into trouble,nineteenth-century humorist Josh Billings remarked. “It’s the things we know that just ain’t so.” In this bold and brilliantly argued book, acclaimed author and talk-radio host Michael Medved zeroes in on ten of the biggest fallacies that millions of Americans believe about our country—in spite of incontrovertible facts to the contrary. In The 10 Big Lies About America, Medved pinpoints the most pernicious pieces of America-bashing disinformation that pollute current debates about the economy, race, religion in politics, the Iraq war, and other contentious issues. The myths that Medved deftly debunks include: Myth: The United States is uniquely guilty for the crime of slavery and based its wealth on stolen African labor. Fact: The colonies that became the United States accounted for, at most, 3 percent of the abominable international slave trade; the persistence of slavery in America slowed economic progress; and the U.S. deserves unique credit for ending slavery. Myth: The alarming rise of big business hurts the United States and oppresses its people. Fact: Corporations played an indispensable role in building America, and corporate growth has brought progress that benefits all with cheaper goods and better jobs. Myth: The Founders intended a secular, not Christian, nation. Fact: Even after ratifying the Constitution, fully half the state governments endorsed specific Chris­tian denominations. And just a day after approving the First Amendment, forbidding the establishment of religion, Congress called for a national “day of public thanksgiving and prayer” to acknowledge “the many signal favors of Almighty God.” Myth: A war on the middle class means less comfort and opportunity for the average American. Fact: Familiar campaign rhetoric about the victimized middle class ignores the overwhelming statistical evidence that the standard of living keeps rising for every segment of the population, as well as the real-life experience of tens of millions of middle-class Americans. Each of the ten lies—widely believed among elites and taught as truth in universities and public schools—is a grotesque, propagandistic distortion of the historical record. For everyone who is tired of hearing America denigrated by people who don’t know what they’re talking about, The 10 Big Lies About America supplies the ammunition necessary to fire back the next time somebody tries to recycle these baseless beliefs. Medved’s witty, well-documented rebuttal is a refreshing reminder that as Americans we should feel blessed, not burdened, by our heritage.
  rheinwiesenlager: Soldiers of Germania - The European volunteers of the Waffen SS. Gerry Villani, 2019-03-14 They called themselves the assault generation and they had largely been born in the years during and after World War I. Coming from every nation of Europe, they had risen up against communism and banded together under one flag for a common cause. They joined the German Army in World War II, a volunteer army that was better known as the Waffen SS. And it was in the Waffen SS, the elite fighting force of Germany, where the first modern European army was born. A new society of front fighters emerged from many different European nations; it was a society that had been forged in the sacrifice, sweat, and blood on the battlefield. Maybe their heritage and culture was different but their uniforms and motto were one and the same: Meine Ehre Heisst Treue!
  rheinwiesenlager: Eight Days in May: The Final Collapse of the Third Reich Volker Ullrich, 2021-09-21 [G]ripping, immaculately researched . . . In Mr. Ullrich’s account, the murderous behavior of the Reich’s last-ditch loyalists was not a reaction born of rage or of stubbornness in the face of defeat—common enough in war—but of something that had long ago tipped over into the pathological. —Andrew Stuttaford, Wall Street Journal The best-selling author of Hitler: Ascent and Hitler: Downfall reconstructs the chaotic, otherworldly last days of Nazi Germany. In a bunker deep below Berlin’s Old Reich Chancellery, Adolf Hitler and his new bride, Eva Braun, took their own lives just after 3:00 p.m. on April 30, 1945—Hitler by gunshot to the temple, Braun by ingesting cyanide. But the Führer’s suicide did not instantly end either Nazism or the Second World War in Europe. Far from it: the eight days that followed were among the most traumatic in modern history, witnessing not only the final paroxysms of bloodshed and the frantic surrender of the Wehrmacht, but the total disintegration of the once-mighty Third Reich. In Eight Days in May, the award-winning historian and Hitler biographer Volker Ullrich draws on an astonishing variety of sources, including diaries and letters of ordinary Germans, to narrate a society’s descent into Hobbesian chaos. In the town of Demmin in the north, residents succumbed to madness and committed mass suicide. In Berlin, Soviet soldiers raped German civilians on a near-unprecedented scale. In Nazi-occupied Prague, Czech insurgents led an uprising in the hope that General George S. Patton would come to their aid but were brutally put down by German units in the city. Throughout the remains of Third Reich, huge numbers of people were on the move, creating a surrealistic tableau: death marches of concentration-camp inmates crossed paths with retreating Wehrmacht soldiers and groups of refugees; columns of POWs encountered those of liberated slave laborers and bombed-out people returning home. A taut, propulsive narrative, Eight Days in May takes us inside the phantomlike regime of Hitler’s chosen successor, Admiral Karl Dönitz, revealing how the desperate attempt to impose order utterly failed, as frontline soldiers deserted and Nazi Party fanatics called on German civilians to martyr themselves in a last stand against encroaching Allied forces. In truth, however, the post-Hitler government represented continuity more than change: its leaders categorically refused to take responsibility for their crimes against humanity, an attitude typical not just of the Nazi elite but also of large segments of the German populace. The consequences would be severe. Eight Days in May is not only an indispensable account of the Nazi endgame, but a historic work that brilliantly examines the costs of mass delusion.
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  rheinwiesenlager: The War in Their Minds Svenja Goltermann, 2017-01-09 Historians are increasingly looking at the sacrifices Germans had to make during World War II. In this context, Svenja Goltermann has taken up a particularly delicate topic, German soldiers’ experience of violence during the war, and repercussions of this experience after their return home. Part I of her book explores the ways in which veterans’ experiences of wartime violence reshaped everyday family life, involving family members in complex ways. Part II offers an extensive analysis of the psychiatric response to this new category of patient, and in particular the reluctance of psychiatrists to recognize the psychic afflictions of former POWs as constituting the grounds for long-term disability. Part III analyzes the cultural representations of veterans’ psychic suffering, encompassing the daily press, popular films, novels, and theater. Originally published in German as Die Gesellschaft der Uberlebenden, The War in Their Minds examines hitherto unused source material—psychiatric medical files of soldiers—to make clear how difficult it was for the soldiers and their families to readjust to normal, everyday life. Goltermann allows these testimonies of violence, guilt, justification, and helplessness speak for themselves and sensitively explores how the pension claims of returning soldiers were to compete with the claims of the Holocaust victims to compensation.
  rheinwiesenlager: A German Childhood Ingrid Wood, 2022-12-09 A German Childhood—In the Shadows of World War II is the story of a family in post-war Germany. The author, Ingrid Wood, immigrated to the United States of America at age twenty but kept in close contact with her German family members. More than forty years after moving to America, Ingrid read two books published in her old homeland and had long conversations with a German aunt about the war years. She learned unexpected and surprising facts related to that time. The knowledge shed new light on her childhood in a defeated country. A German Childhood is a testament to the multigenerational resilience, strength, and courage of an ordinary family during extraordinary times in history.
  rheinwiesenlager: Jay H. Steegstra, 2018-01-06 The archaeologist and Bronze Age metal specialist Dr Jay J. Butler (1921-2014) was a kind, warmhearted man, averse to hype and ostentation, who was happy to share his knowledge in non-academic language both with professionals and interested amateurs. But woe betide anyone who might use the evidence to draw unwarranted conclusions… A cosmopolitan American, he demonstrated that people in the Bronze Age maintained contacts that reached well beyond today’s national frontiers. In practicals with his students he acquainted them with, for instance, the difficulties of bronze casting: prehistoric artisans were far more sophisticated than previously thought. He started taking samples for metal analyses, initiated international collaborative projects, and widened his students’ horizons by taking them on trips abroad to visit excavations and museums. His eventful life was linked to many themes: immigration that is welcome only inasfar as it is lucrative, racism, exploitation of the poor, religious fundamentalism, a devastating world war, information being doctored or suppressed, lack of humanity and neglect of common courtesy. With Jay Butler’s demise, the world lost an enthusiastic, authoritative and accessible archaeologist.
  rheinwiesenlager: Small Feet on the Run Sieglinde Martin, 2016-08-29 You may know much about World War II, but did you ever wonder how children lived through this man-made disaster that killed twenty-nine million civilians in Europe? Read about eighteen ordinary children whose childhood changed due to extraordinary events not of their making. How did they make sense of their world? They collected and traded bomb shrapnel instead of baseball cards; instead of watching cartoons, they ran out in the morning to see what last night's bombs had destroyed; and boys played with live ammunition like your sons do with Fourth of July firecrackers. Read these true stories and share them with a friend. Ponder the bravery of the ten-year old girl traveling alone to her faraway home. Worry about the three-year-old watching her house burn. Cheer for the fearless boy who provides food for his family or wonder how it was possible that, in the middle of a large bombed-out city, a four-year-old brings a live chicken to her mother. These stories also talk about overwhelming fear, bottomless sadness, the heartwarming kindness of strangers and enemy soldiers, as well as childhood joys. At the end you may agree with the motto of the last chapter Never Again War.
  rheinwiesenlager: The Politics of War Trauma Jolande Withuis, Annet Mooij, 2010 This study compares the policies and attitudes toward the health consequences of World War II in eleven European countries: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, East Germany, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, and West Germany. It shows the remarkably asynchronous development in these countries of health care financing and treatment for war survivors, and of the patients’ perception of their own health. Using an innovative and multidisciplinary approach, Withuis and Mooij analyze postwar health care in the context of the European political climate at that time.
  rheinwiesenlager: Relationships/Beziehungsgeschichten. Austria and the United States in the Twentieth Century Günter Bischof, 2014-04-28 After the breakup of the Habsburg Monarchy, the Austrian-American relationship was characterized by a dwarf confronting a giant. America continued to be a heaven for a better life for many Austrian emigrants. For the growing American preponderant position in the world after World War I, the small Austrian Republic was insignificant. And yet there were times when Austria mattered geopolitically. During the post-World War II occupation of Austria, the U.S. helped reconstruct Austria economically and was the biggest champion of its independence. During the Cold War, the U.S. frequently used Austria as a mediator site of summit meetings. American mass production models, consumerism, and popular culture were adopted by Austrian youth. Americanization and American preponderance also produced anti-Americanism. With the end of the Cold War and Austria's accession to the European Union it once again lost significance for Washington's geopolitics.
  rheinwiesenlager: The Prisoners of War and German High Command V. Vourkoutiotis, 2003-07-08 Based on archival research in Germany, Great Britain, the USA and Canada, this study provides the first complete examination of the relationship between the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (German Armed Forces High Command), and Anglo-American prisoners of war. German military policy is compared with reports of almost one thousand visits by Red Cross and Protecting Power inspectors to the camps, allowing the reader to judge how well the policies were actually put into practice, and what their impact was on the lives of the captured soldiers, sailors and airmen.
  rheinwiesenlager: In Search of Yesterday Rudolf Becher, 2012-08-30 IN SEARCH OF YESTERDAY Death of a Culture This is the true story of a little boy searching for his identity for his biological father. It is the story of a boy born into a world of turmoil and havoca world where not all was well, where war, starvation and bombs, confusion, lies, and deceitwere the rule; and food, safety, and happinesswere the exception. It is the story of a little boys fears and anxieties in a country far, far away where life was an uncertainty and death a looming promisewhere the world was upside down. It is the true story of a little boy that found himself trapped in a country at war with itself, where human life was at the mercy of the Nazis during the Jewish holocaust (before 1945) in Czechoslovakiaand at the mercy of the Czech Bolsheviks (after 1945) during the Sudetenland holocaust that drove untold millions of women and children across Europes wasteland like cattle. But it is also the true story of a little boy that, with the help of his family, and the generosity of the American people, rose above the devastation suffered and inflicted upon him as a child and became a man loved and respected by others. It is not a story of failure! It is, really, when you think about it, a story of success and triumph!
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