Free Download Mia Lee, "Utopia and Dissent in West Germany: The Resurgence of the Politics of Everyday Life in the Long 1960s "
English | ISBN: 1138389625 | 2019 | 200 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Just as Chancellor Konrad Adenauer was seeking re-election on a campaign of "no experiments," art avant-garde groups in West Germany were reviving the utopian impulse to unite art and society. Utopia and Dissent in West Germany examines these groups and their legacy. Postwar artists built international as well as intergenerational networks such as Fluxus, which was active in Düsseldorf, Wiesbaden, and Cologne, and the Situationist International based in Paris. These groups were committed to undoing the compartmentalization of everyday life and the isolation of the artist in society.

Free Download Professor Christopher Anderson, "Karl Straube (1873-1950): Germany's Master Organist in Turbulent Times "
English | ISBN: 1648250386 | 2022 | 576 pages | PDF | 10 MB
The first thorough examination of the most renowned and influential organist in early twentieth-century Germany and of his complex relationship to his country's tumultuous and shifting sociopolitical landscape.

Free Download Tirpitz: The Life and Death of Germany's Last Super Battleship (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B00BW2EJ5W | 2013 | 12 hours and 20 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 336 MB
Author: Niklas Zetterling, Michael Tamelander
Narrator: Pete Larkin
Whilst the Kriegsmarine's surface fleet, restricted for much of the period after 1919 by the terms of the Versailles Treaty, was relatively small in comparison to the Royal Navy, it did possess a number of highly potent battleships and other capital vessels that could - and did - pose a major threat to British interests in the North Atlantic and Arctic Ocean. Amongst the most powerful were the two battleships - the Bismarck and the Tirpitz. The awesome power of the former was demonstrated by its destruction of HMS Hood in May 1941, although it was itself to be sunk shortly afterward. For Royal Navy planners and tacticians, the close monitoring of the other German capital ships was a pressing need, particularly if the Germans were ever to pose a serious threat to the all-important convoys across the Atlantic and to Russia. Moreover considerable effort went into trying to neutralize the threat either by keeping the German warships penned into harbor or by sinking them.

Free Download Otto Kretschmer: The Life of Germany's Highest Scoring U-Boat Commander (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BXBB6YZ7 | 2023 | 10 hours and 44 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 306 MB
Author: Lawrence Paterson
Narrator: Bruce Mann
Otto Kretschmer was only in combat from September 1939 until March 1941 but was Germany's highest-scoring U-boat commander, sinking forty-seven ships. This definitive work details his personal story and the political backdrop from his earliest days. After completing his officer training and time on the training ship Niobe, he served aboard the light cruiser Emden. In December 1934, he was transferred to the light cruiser Köln, then in January 1936 made the move to the fledgling U-boat service.

Free Download Peter D. Stachura, "The Shaping of the Nazi State (RLE Nazi Germany & Holocaust) "
English | ISBN: 1138803367 | 2014 | 302 pages | EPUB | 768 KB
Representing the scholarship of historians who have largely based their findings on previously unpublished material, this volume (originally published in 1978) provides a critical and provocative assessment of many established opinions on significant themes related to the dramatic rise and development of Adolf Hitler's Nazi Movement. The volume discusses among other things:

Free Download Martin Kitchen, "Nazi Germany at War"
English | ISBN: 0582073871 | | 336 pages | EPUB | 638 KB
A powerful and absorbing study of the German home front from the outbreak of hostilities to the collapse of the Third Reich. It explores the impact of Nazi domestic policies on the German people, and the effects of the extreme radicalization of the regime under the pressures of total war. It examines the economy, social policy, and the realities of daily life; the part played by the law and the Churches; the changing role of women; the fate of foreign workers, prisoners of war and the Jews; and the extent of resistance to the regime. At its heart is the crucial relationship of the party, the state and public opinion in the Hitler Years.

Free Download Dark Lens: Imaging Germany, 1945 by Françoise Meltzer
English | September 6, 2019 | ISBN: 022662563X, 0226816850 | True PDF | 256 pages | 16.2 MB
Esteemed scholar Françoise Meltzer examines images of war ruins in Nazi Germany and the role that images play in how we construct memories of war.

Ian Porter, "Imperial Germany 1890 - 1918 "
English | ISBN: 1138155438 | 2017 | 136 pages | EPUB | 1035 KB
The Wilhelmine period is a crucial period of German history and the focus of great historical controversy; greater understanding of this period is also vital to explain the rise of the Third Reich. The authors focus on Germany's role as a major military and imperial power, industrialiastion and the economy, the crucial effects of the war years and the disturbing evidence that Germany's response to Hitler is to be found in the Wilhelmine era.

Erin R. Hochman, "Imagining a Greater Germany: Republican Nationalism and the Idea of Anschluss"
English | ISBN: 1501704443 | 2016 | 288 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
In Imagining a Greater Germany, Erin R. Hochman offers a fresh approach to the questions of state- and nation-building in interwar Central Europe. Ever since Hitler annexed his native Austria to Germany in 1938, the term "Anschluss" has been linked to Nazi expansionism. The legacy of Nazism has cast a long shadow not only over the idea of the union of German-speaking lands but also over German nationalism in general. Due to the horrors unleashed by the Third Reich, German nationalism has seemed virulently exclusionary, and Anschluss inherently antidemocratic.

Big Guns in the Atlantic: Germany's battleships and cruisers raid the convoys, 1939-41 by Angus Konstam, Edouard A. Groult
English | August 17, 2021 | ISBN: 147284596X | 80 pages | PDF (Converted) | 21 Mb
In the early months and years of World War II, it was Germany's cruisers and battleships that most ravaged the Atlantic Convoys. This is the history of those raids, and how the success of 1941's Operation Berlin led directly to the Kriegsmarine sending into the Atlantic its greatest battleship - the mighty, ill-fated Bismarck.