Henry Carter Hull

"To find his way back home to his family in Germany during WWII, Max Bretzfeld, with a kobold named Berg on one shoulder and a dybbuk named Stein on the other, sets out to do the impossible--become a British spy"--

A wickedly insightful, darkly funny novel in which a young woman in the grip of an existential malaise moves to a new city for a fresh start but her attempt at reinvention doesn't quite go to plan. when Daphne arrives in Berlin, the last thing she expects is to run into more drama than she left behind. Of course, she knew she'd need to do the usual: make friends, acquire lovers, grapple with German and a whole new way of life. She even expected the...

Hitler ließ sich fast jeden Abend mehrere Spielfilme vorführen. Propagandaminister Goebbels stellte schönen Schauspielerinnen nach und versuchte nebenbei vergeblich, den deutschen Film auf Hollywood-Niveau zu bringen. Viele NS-Größen verfügten über private Kinosäle, in denen sie ungestört ausländische Musicals und Komödien genießen konnten. Gauleiter und Generäle bemühten abstruse Argumente, um den Zeichentrickfilm "Schneewittchen und...

How did Germany's Christians respond to Nazism? In Twisted Cross, Doris Bergen addresses one important element of this response by focusing on the 600,000 self-described 'German Christians,' who sought to expunge all Jewish elements from the Christian church. In a process that became more daring as Nazi plans for genocide unfolded, this group of Protestant lay people and clergy rejected the Old Testament, ousted people defined as non-Aryans from their...

Fritz Stern is University Professor Emeritus at Columbia University. He has been a member of the Editorial and Executive Committees of The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein since 1984. The French political philosopher Raymond Aron once observed that the twentieth century "could have been Germany's century." In 1900, the country was Europe's preeminent power, its material strength and strident militaristic ethos apparently balanced by a vital culture...

A. James McAdams is a Departmental Fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies and Associate Professor of Government and International Relations at the University of Notre Dame. Germany Divided remains one of the most thought-provoking and comprehensive interpretations of the forty-year relationship between East and West Germany and of the problems of contemporary German unity. In this politically controversial and analytically sophisticated...

A study of the economic and social changes which shaped the movement for German unification. The author emphasizes the effect of industrialism on urban life, traces the decline of manorialism in agriculture and seeks to show that the political movements of these years were profoundly influenced by the economic transition from agrarianism to capitalism. "Most of the works in English devoted to nineteenth century German historical development tend to...

Ob romantische Burgen oder steile Weinberge: Über 67 Flusskilometer erstreckt sich entlang des Rheins eine der schönsten Kulturlandschaften Deutschlands. Das Obere Mittelrheintal, im Jahr 2002 als UNESCO-Weltkulturerbe ausgezeichnet, und der Rheingau faszinieren immer wieder aufs Neue. Kloster Eberbach ist spätestens seit dem Kinoerfolg „Der Name der Rose" weltweit bekannt, die Sage der Loreley ist es ohnehin. Doch es gibt weitaus mehr am vielleicht...

Der bekannte Schriftsteller Rolf Schneider unternimmt in diesem Buch einen Spaziergang durch die wechselvolle Historie Erfurts. Gekonnt und pointiert erzählt er bedeutende Ereignisse der Stadtgeschichte, die oft genug auch Weltgeschichte war – von der Gründung des Bistums durch Bonifatius bis zur deutschen Wiedervereinigung im Jahr 1990. Schneiders essayistischer Spaziergang, nicht zuletzt geprägt durch eigene Erlebnisse, verdichtet sich zu einem...

An account of the problems facing German veterans after WWII and the ways in which they were addressed in the decade following Germany's defeat. The primary focus is on the major pieces of veterans' legislation passed in the early years of the German Federal Republic. Historical context is provided by the first two chapters and the conclusion, which compares and contrasts the fate of veterans and their sociopolitical impact on German society following...