Product Description: Lotte Lehmann ranks among the most celebrated singers of the twentieth century. She was a favorite of Richard Strauss, and over her lifetime became the friend of other famous men: Bruno Walter, Arturo Toscanini and Thomas Mann. She had a famous encounter with Hermann Göring, in which he claimed to want to make her the foremost singer in Nazi Germany...read more

An in-depth account of the Hitler Youth traces the history of the organization, examining the means, degree, and impact of conversion, as well as the fate of the young recruits and the implications of the recruitment of children into a corrupt political organization.

Product Description: Standardwerk der NS-Forschung: Die Schutzstaffel Heinrich Himmlers entfaltete während des Dritten Reiches höchste Aktivität, und das nicht nur als Agent totalitärer Machtvollstreckung. Kater zeigt, dass die SS den ernsthaften Versuch einer Infiltration des deutschen Kultur- und Geisteslebens unternommen hat, aus Motiven, die nicht zuletzt in der bizarren Persönlichkeit Himmlers selbst begründet liegen...read more

Product Description: When the African-American dancer Josephine Baker visited Berlin in 1925, she found it dazzling. "The city had a jewel-like sparkle," she said, "the vast cafés reminded me of ocean liners powered by the rhythms of their orchestras...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Who filled the ranks of the most infamous political party in history? This book is an in-depth study of the various groups that made up the membership and the leadership of the Nazi party in Germany from its beginnings to its destruction...read more