Michael Maren has spent much of the last twenty years in Africa, first as an aid worker, later as a journalist. He witnessed at close range a harrowing series of wars, famines, and natural disasters. In The Road to Hell he tells how CARE unwittingly assisted a Somali dictator in building a political and economic powerbase. How the UN, Save the Children, and many other nongovernmental organizations ...

The remarkable rise and shameful fall of one of the twentieth century's greatest conglomerates. At its peak in the 1930s, the German chemical conglomerate IG Farben was one of the most powerful corporations in the world. To this day, companies formerly part of the Farben cartel--the aspirin-maker Bayer, the graphics supplier Agfa, the plastics giant BASF--continue to play key roles in the global market. ...

"This is a chilling story of human depravity and ultimate justice, told for the first time by an eyewitness - a court reporter for the Nuremberg war crimes trial of Nazi doctors. This is the account of torture and murder by experiment in the name of scientific research and patriotism. 'Doctors from Hell' includes trial transcripts that have not been easily available to the general public and previously ...

More than 140,000 Caucasian PoWs fell to the Japanese Imperial Army and Navy in the Second World War. Many of these men were shipped to the Japanese main islands for slave labour, in seaborne transports crammed with PoWs in their airless holds, and stricken with disease. Countless hundreds of Allied troops and civilians died at sea. Sick, starved, suffocated, tortured and massacred when they became ...

Koninklijke Marine Tweede Wereldoorlog > Schepen en Diensten > Onderzeedienst en -boten > Df- 4. Schepen en diensten Onderzeedienst Dundee > Herinneringen aan OZD-Dundee afgestaan door ltz I E.E. Baron van Asbeck (1 enveloppe). 1e Toespraak door Cdt ktz C. Hellingman op 31/8'40 t.g.v. verjaardag H.M. de Koningin. 2e 3 foto's + 1 menu van diner op 31/8'41 bij OZD-Dundee. 3e 3 krantenknipsels uit Schotse ...

1. ed. 605 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, map, portraits ; 25 cm

Met lit. opg. 398 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Karl Loewenstein (1887-1976) was born to Jewish parents in Siegen, Germany, and in 1917 he married Margot Hamburger, who also came from a Jewish family. In 1919, however, he converted to Christianity as a Lutheran. After having served as a naval officer during World War I, he worked as a director of a bank in Berlin, named Busse and Co. He was active in a Lutheran parish in Berlin-Weissensee, and in ...

Karl Loewenstein (1887-1976) was born to Jewish parents in Siegen, Germany, and in 1917 he married Margot Hamburger, who also came from a Jewish family. In 1919, however, he converted to Christianity as a Lutheran. After having served as a naval officer during World War I, he worked as a director of a bank in Berlin, named Busse and Co. He was active in a Lutheran parish in Berlin-Weissensee, and in ...

Copyright Holder: Dr. Rudolph Keimowitz

ARCH02622: Archief Kunstenaars-Centrum voor Geestelijke Weerbaarheid

44 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

53 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Persoonlijke stukken, o.a. manuscripten, correspondentie, financiële stukken, foto's, fotoboeken, smalfilms, geluidsbanden; stukken betreffende de Vietnambeweging o.a de Mobiele Eenheid Aktiegroep Vietnam 1966-1973, het Wijkcentrum d'Oude Stadt, de acties tegen de aanleg van de metro door de Nieuwmarktbuurt 1965-1975, een actie tegen de woningnood 1956-1958, de CPN en de februaristaking, de dood van ...

[1 Aufl.]. 151 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

Gedichten die tijdens de Duitse bezetting (1940-1945) geschreven zijn en in illegale bladen verschenen