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81) Across the Rhine
Author
Publisher
Time Life
Pub. Date
1984
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the preparation for the final phase of the war in Western Europe.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Deutsch
Description
In a loose set of cabaret pieces, Steffen Mensching and Hans-Eckardt Wenzel, highly acclaimed East German poets, songwriters and clowns satirize East German life in its final days and the arrival of new times after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Da-Da-R is a wordplay on the irreverent Dada art movement of the 1920s and the German acronym for East Germany -- the DDR. The clowns are allowed to leave prison to sing for people outside. As they perform their...
Publisher
Artsmagic
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Writer Spencer Leigh tours various sites in Hamburg associated with Beatles in 1961 and the music scene at the time, including K&K Center of Beat, the Reeperbahn, the Top Ten Club, the Star Club, the Kaiserkeller Club, the Indra Club, Bambi Kino, and Kemp's English Pub. Includes a visit to an exhibition, The Hamburg sound, at the Museum of Hamburg History, and interviews with writer Ulf Kr�uger, collector Uwe Baschke, and musician Kingsize Taylor....
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Through the lives of nine ordinary Germans, tracing their experiences of Nazism from the first hopeful days until the horrors of the Russian occupation of Berlin, Louis Hagen provides a salutary and unforgettable record of the German people in the shadow of the swastika When Louis Hagen returned to Berlin immediately after the war, he had survived incarceration and torture in a German concentration camp as well as the Battle of Arnhem, seen his family...
87) The plum tree
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
In the fall of 1938, as Germany rapidly changes under Hitler's regime, 17-year-old Christine Bolz, a domestic forbidden to return to the wealthy Jewish family she works for - and to her employer's son Isaac, confronts the Gestapo's wrath and the horrors of Dachau to survive and to be with the man she loves.
Author
Publisher
The Lilliput Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Michael, a retired bridge engineer, has lived away from Ireland for most of his life and now resides alone in Bilbao after the death of his girlfriend, Catherine. Each day he listens to two versions of the same piece of music before walking the same route to visit Richard Serra's enormous permanent installation, The Matter of Time, in the Guggenheim Museum. Over the course of an hour before he leaves his apartment, Michael reflects on past projects,...
90) The lie
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
A journalist and her lover, a former assassin, join forces to expose a peace conference held in Germany after they learn of its true purpose.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Deutsch
Description
In the summer of 1945, Dresden factory workers send their colleague, Kalle, hundreds of miles north to pick up carbide, which is needed for welding jobs in their factory. His attempts to bring the supplies back through the Soviet occupation zone become a hilarious odyssey full of high jinks and misadventures. A rare classic of German film comedy! Right after WWII, factory worker Karl Bluecher, nicknamed Kalle, sets out from Dresden for Wittenberge...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Hamburg, Germany 1934: An executioner is needed. Teetjen (Erwin Geschonneck) makes the biggest mistake of his life. Because his butcher shop is facing bankruptcy, he agrees to execute a group of political prisoners for the Nazis. Once this becomes known, Teetjen's life falls apart. The Axe of Wandsbek was the only DEFA film made by Falk Harnack, a former anti-Nazi resistance fighter who was interested in exploring the involvement of the middle class...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1939 a young girl sits alone in a station waiting room in Marseilles. Half-Jewish Ilse has been sent out of Nazi Germany to safety in Morocco by her mother. But her journey takes her back to France, where she cannot escape the Nazi occupation. Blown about by circumstances beyond her control, she must grow up alone in a demi-monde of refugees, whores and freedom fighters.
In Germany, Nicolai struggles against his destiny in the Hitler Youth. His...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Deutsch
Description
This historical satire, based on Heinrich Mann's world-famous novel, Der Untertan, is ranked by film critics among the 100 Most Significant German Films of all time. In Mann's biting critique of conservative Wilhelmine Germany, written during WWI, Diederich Hessling learns an important lesson for an ambitious man: one must first serve power to gain power for oneself. From then on, his modus operandi is to bow to superiors and kick underlings.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In 1921, Françoise Frenkel--a Jewish woman from Poland--fulfills a dream. She opens La Maison du Livre, Berlin's first French bookshop, attracting artists and diplomats, celebrities and poets. The shop becomes a haven for intellectual exchange as Nazi ideology begins to poison the culturally rich city. In 1935, the scene continues to darken. First come the new bureaucratic hurdles, followed by frequent police visits and book confiscations. Françoise's...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The New York Times-bestselling author of A Fierce Radiance and City of Light returns with a new powerful and passionate novel--inspired by historical events--about two women, one European and one American, and the mysterious choral masterpiece by Johann Sebastian Bach that changes both their lives. In the ruins of Germany in 1945, at the end of World War II, American soldier Henry Sachs takes a souvenir, an old music manuscript, from a seemingly...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1916, while the Allied and Central forces waged war in Europe, a group of German saboteurs blew up Black Tom Island, a spit of land in New York Harbor within earshot of downtown Manhattan. The subsequent hail of missiles and gunpowder devastated much of lower Manhattan. The attack-so massive that as far away as Maryland people could feel the ground shake-had been shockingly easy. America was littered with networks of German agents, hiding in full...
Author
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
As Europe prepares for the Nuremberg trials, a killer stalks a broken city Nuremberg is a dead city. In the aftermath of World War II, two-thirds of its population has fled or is deceased, with thirty thousand bodies turning the ruined industrial center into a massive open grave. Here, the vilest war criminals in history will be tried. But in Nuremberg's dark streets and back alleys, chaos rules. Captain Nathan Morgan is one of those charged with...
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