"The primary purpose of this study is to show, first, how, before 1914, the machinery of Junker protectionism in agriculture, coupled with the Junker philosophy -- the true forerunner of the Nazi ideology of our days -- delayed the development of democratic institutions in Germany ; and second, how the Junkers contrived to escape almost unscathed the German revolution in 1918 and this fact contributed ...

Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Rosa Meyer-Leviné, Leviné. Leben und Tod eines Revolutionärs. Erinnerungen, München 1972. - dies., Inside German Communism. Memoirs of Party Life in the Weimar Republic, London 1977 Bestandsbeschreibung Schriftwechsel mit den Ehemännern Eugen Levin‚ (1883-1919; Mitglied der SPD, seit 1917 USDP, Spartakusbund, 1918 Gründungsmitglied der KPD, 1919 Vorsitzender des Vollzugsrates ...

This is a letter with response requesting advice on how to conduct oneself with a Jew written by a person unknown- a partially legible annotation on the response suggests it might have been written by someone called G. J. Bloch. the same note seems to date the letter 8 November 1931. It is addressed to the leadership of the 'N.D.A.P', Muenchen Braunes Haus. The response is from Uschla, R. L.

Title: "German royalists recall war in military show - Stahlhelm reviewed by von Papen, Crown Prince, and Gen. von Mackensen." Scenes of the Stahlhelm marching with banners. Crown Prince Wilhelm shown watching the parade and saluting. Franz von Papen, Wilhelm von Gayl, and Kurt von Schleicher are also shown briefly. The camera then focuses on General August Mackensen, a well-known World War I field ...

Part 1. The Emergence of Censorship. Book control in the Weimar Republic ; The book burning of 1933. - Part 2. The Agencies of Control. The Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda ; The Reich Chamber of Literature ; The Gestapo and SD ; The Party Commission for the Protection of National Socialist Literature ; Alfred Rosenberg: Hitler's Plenipotentiary for ideological education. - Part 3. The ...

<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Readers need to reserve a terminal in the reading room to access a digital version of this archive.</strong></span></p><p>This document is a dossier produced by the <em>Sicherheitsdienst der Reichsführung SS</em>, 1936-1937, the result of an extensive investigation into Carl Schmitt, constitutional theorist of the Weimar Republic and ‘Crown Jurist' of the Nazi ...

Copy report on anti-defamation work in pre-Hitler Germany under the following sub-headings: the Jews; Labor; Antisemitic propaganda among labor; Defense; Conclusions<br />English 31 pages&nbsp;

"The harsh Armistice terms of 1918, the short-lived Weimar Republic, Hindenburg's senile vacillations, and behind-the-scene power plays form the backbone of this excellent study covering German history during the first three-and-a-half decades of the century."--Publishers website. 1st University of Missouri Press pbk. ed. ix, 419 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Nazi party rally in the crowded Berlin Sportpalast on February 10, 1933. Goebbels' speech continues, to 06:09:45 Intertitle: Funkreportage von Dr. Goebbels [Radio Commentary by Dr. Goebbels] Goebbels voice is heard over scenes in the Sportpalast, of crowds, loudspeakers, SA men. He relates some of the same information given in his speech in previous reel, numbers of loudspeakers, statistics of the ...

The J. Herbert Nagler papers consist primarily of letters Nagler wrote to his parents in Philadelphia while he was studying medicine in Berlin, Germany and in Basel and Fribourg, Switzerland. His letters include his impressions of the last years of the Weimar Republic, the Nazi party and Hitler’s assumption of power, the situation of Jews in Germany, and the April 1, 1933 anti-Jewish boycott. The collection ...

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This book explores how German World War I veterans from different social and political backgrounds contributed to antisemitic politics during the Weimar Republic. The book compares how the military, right-wing veterans, and Jewish veterans chose to remember their war experiences and translate these memories into a political reality in the postwar world. Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-189) ...

Hitler attained power in 1933 as the result of a complex set of factors, including the Treaty of Versailles that ended World War I; the German's lack of faith in democracy and the reasons behind it; the corruption and mismanagement that characterized the Weimar Republic, as democratic Germany was called; the hyperinflation of the early 1920s, during which the German currency lost 99.3% of its value ...

(Munich 54) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, March 18, 1946. HASs, MSs, front view of Chief Prosecutor Robert H. Jackson (US) interrogating Hermann Goering. (Goering is not visible in these shots.) Subject of the cross examination is the plan to overthrow the Weimar Republic and break the opposition. Goering says that, yes, they had been in opposition long enough and were eager to get to power. ...

Berkowitz investigates a dimension of anti-Semitism that was instrumental in the making of the Holocaust: the association of Jews with criminality. He traces the myths and realities about Jewish criminality from the 18th century to the Weimar Republic, and on into the Nazi assault upon the Jews. Includes bibliographical references and index. xxix, 321 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Universum-Film AG - best known by its signature logo, Ufa - was once the largest, most exciting movie company in Europe. Founded by the German High Command as a propaganda outfit during World War I, and always central to Germany's nationalistic big-business interests, Ufa was also home to the most innovative talents of the Weimar Republic: Ernst Lubitsch, Marlene Dietrich, Fritz Lang, and Emil Jannings ...

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This is the story of a young man who, against considerable odds, was a survivor. Born in Breslau, which was then in Germany, to a family with roots in both Western Europe and Russia, Walter Laqueur describes with precision and deep involvement the days of his youth during one of the most fascinating periods of modern times - the last years of the Weimar Republic and the first years of the Nazi era. ...

This is a social history of Germany in the years following the First World War. Germany's defeat and the subsequent demobilization of her armies had enormous economic, social, and psychological consequences for the nation, and it is these which Richard Bessel sets out to explore. Dr Bessel examines the changes brought by the War to Germany, by the return of the soldiers to civilian life and by the ...

Typescript autobiographical text, approximately 254 pages, by Max Reiner, originally of Czernowitz and Vienna, describing his experiences in Austria and Germany prior to emigration, written 1940. The text was written in response to a project at Harvard University in 1940, seeking autobiographical texts from German and Austrian emigres, titled "My Life in Germany." In his text, Reiner described his ...

Title: "Editor's Note: For the last few months there have been rumblings of a revival of monarchistic sympathies in Germany. This picture, the first of the former Crown Prince deliberately accepting the spotlight, is confirmation of a situation which may have great influence on the immediate affairs of the embattled Reich." Crown Prince Wilhelm reviews Stahlhelm troops. Franz Seldte speaks: the Prussian ...

Documentation from the Senatsverwaltung fuer Gesundheit in Berlin, 1922-1967&#x0D; &#x0D; The Senatsverwaltung fuer Gesundheit office was established in Berlin in 1951 and was dissolved in 1967; nevertheless, Record Group of this organization in the Landesarchiv Berlin was included with archival materials from the Weimar Republic period (including also material from the 19th century) that are related ...

Discusses antisemitism in comparison with anti-gypsyism in Germany from the 15th century. Claims that, although there is no systematic research comparing the two, Jews and Gypsies suffered from the same persecution. From the medieval period on, both were accused of association with the devil, well-poisoning, and blood libels. The lack of comparative research is explained by the different roots of the ...