Product Description: Walther Leisler Kiep is one of the most independent and influential German post-war politicians. He is also a successful entrepreneur and longtime chairman of Atlantik-Brücke, the influential German-American friendship organization, which he now serves as honorary chairman...read more

Product Description: Rudolf Diels war eine schillernde Persönlichkeit im Dritten Reich, und er war in mehrfacher Hinsicht untypisch. In jungen Jahren ein Liberaler, spielte er zum Ende der Weimarer Republik verschiedene Rollen. Diels arbeitete den Nazis zu, unterstützte aber gleichzeitig den Reichskanzler Kurt von Schleicher in seinem Bemühen, die NS-Bewegung zu spalten...read more

Describes the story and scandal involving a German foreign minister, Joschka Fischer, who, at the age of sixteen, was involved in a left-wing riot that was documented by a series of photographs.

Product Description: This is the English-language edition of what has become one of the most controversial books in German politics today. Oskar Lafontaine was the leader of Germany's Social Democratic party and finance minister in Gerhard Schr?der's government until he suddenly resigned in March 1999...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book presents and English language biographical dictionary of the most prominent and significant political leaders in the Weimar period in Germany. The book includes information on over 100 individuals at the heart of politics, including Bruening, Ebert, Hitler, Loeb, Dietrich, Schiele, and Wissell...read more

Product Description: In the decades between the French Revolution and the first stirrings of liberalism in the 1830s, German political culture defined itself apart from that of its neighbors to the west. Focusing on the career of Johann Cotta, the preeminent publisher of his generation, this book offers a lens through which we can more fully understand these turbulent years...read more

A biography of the radical writer and politician who introduced the term 'anti-Semitism' into politics, revealing the way in which anti-Semitism came to permeate German thought in the nineteenth century