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A socialist defector : from Harvard to Karl-Marx-Allee
\"Victor Grossman, a U.S. Army draftee stationed in Europe during the McCarthy Era, left his barracks in Bavaria one day in 1952, and swam across the Danube River from the Austrian U.S. Zone to the Soviet Zone. The Soviets moved him to East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic. There he remained, observer and participant, husband and father, as he watched the rise and successes, the travails, and the eventual demise of the GDR socialist experiment.\"--Provided by publisher.
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In the Shadows of a Fallen Wall
Growing up, what Sanford Tweedie knew about East Germany was basically...nothing.West Germans were our friends; East Germans, the enemy.In 2000, somewhat better informed, Tweedie took advantage of a Fulbright Scholarship to move his family to the eastern German town of Erfurt for the academic year.
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The Second Generation : âEmigrâes from Nazi Germany as Historians
\"Of the thousands of children and young adults who fled Nazi Germany in the years before the Second World War, a remarkable number went on to become trained historians in their adopted homelands. By placing autobiographical testimonies alongside historical analysis and professional reflections, this richly varied collection comprises the first sustained effort to illuminate the role these men and women played in modern historiography. Focusing particularly on those who settled in North America, Great Britain, and Israel, it culminates in a comprehensive, meticulously researched biobibliographical guide that provides a systematic overview of the lives and works of this 'second generation'\"--From publisher's website.
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Resisting Hitler
This gripping and heartbreaking narrative is the first full account of an American woman who gave her life in the struggle against the Nazi regime. As members of a key resistance group, Mildred and her husband, Arvid Harnack, assisted in the escape of German Jews and political dissidents, andfor years provided vital economic and military intelligence to both Washington and Moscow. But in 1942, following a Soviet blunder, the Gestapo arrested, tortured and tried some four score members of the Harnack's group, which the Nazis dubbed the Red Orchestra.Mildred Fish-Harnack was guillotined in Berlin on February 16, 1943, on the personal instruction of Adolf Hitler--the only American woman executed as an underground conspirator. Yet as World War II ended and the Cold War began, her courage, idealism and self-sacrifice went largely unacknowledgedin America and the democratic West, and were distorted and sanitized in the Communist East. Only now, with the opening of long-sealed archives, can the full story be told.Resisting Hitler is based on extensive interviews with Fish-Harnack family, friends and associates; it draws on personal correspondence and formerly classified German and Soviet KGB files and recently released CIA and FBI dossiers. It describes the life of a Wisconsin girl whose intelligence andbeauty captivated a visiting scholar, Arvid Harnack, a member of a distinguished German academic family. It explores for the first time the complex familial connections of the Harnacks, Delbrucks and Bonhoeffers, twelve of whom were executed for resistance acts. And it details Mildred's friendshipwith Martha Dodd, daughter of FDR's ambassador to the Third Reich, whose affair with a Soviet diplomat led to his death.Moments before her death, Mildred said, I have loved Germany so much. In this superbly told life of an unjustly forgotten woman, Shareen Blair
Brysac depicts the human side of a controversial resistance group that for too long has been portrayed as merely a Soviet espionage network. Theextraordinary story of Mildred Fish-Harnack's ten dramatic years of resisting the Nazi regime also reminds today's readers of the hard moral choices that beset opponents of a ruthless totalitarian dictatorship.
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The dragon from Chicago : the untold story of an American reporter in Nazi Germany
\"A captivating look at Sigrid Schultz-one of the earliest reporters to warn Americans of the rising threat of the Nazi regime\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Barack Obama
In this insightful biography, Burton I. Kaufman explores
how the political career of Barack Obama was marked by conservative
tendencies that frustrated his progressive supporters and gave the
lie to socialist fearmongering on the right. Obama's was a landmark
presidency that paradoxically, Kaufman shows, resulted in few, if
any, radical shifts in policy. Following his election,
President Obama's supporters and detractors anticipated radical
reform. As the first African American to serve as president, he
reached the White House on a campaign promise of change. But
Kaufman finds in Obama clear patterns of classical conservativism
of an ideological sort and basic policy-making pragmatism. His
commitment to usher in a multiracial, multiethnic, and
multicultural society was fundamentally connected to opening up,
but not radically altering, the existing free enterprise system.
The Affordable Care Act, arguably President Obama's greatest policy
achievement, was a distillation of his complex motivations for
policy. More conservative than radical, the ACA fitted the
expansion of health insurance into the existing system. Similarly,
in foreign policy, Obama eschewed the use of force to affect regime
change. Yet he kept boots on the ground in the Middle East and
supported ballot-box revolts geared toward achieving in foreign
countries the same principles of liberalism, free enterprise, and
competition that existed in the United States.
In estimating the course and impact of Obama's full political
life, Kaufman makes clear that both the desire for and fear of
change in the American polity affected the popular perception but
not the course of action of the forty-fourth US president.
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A world elsewhere : an American woman in wartime Germany
\"The extraordinary love story of an American blueblood and a German aristocrat--and a riveting tale of survival in wartime Germany. Sigrid MacRae never knew her father, until a trove of letters revealed not only him, but also the singular story of her parents' intercontinental love affair. While visiting Paris in 1927, her American mother, Aimee, raised in a wealthy Connecticut family, falls in love with a charming, sophisticated Baltic German baron, a penniless exile of the Russian Revolution. They marry. But the harsh reality of post-World War I Germany is inescapable: a bleak economy and the rise of Hitler quash Heinrich's diplomatic ambitions, and their struggling family farm north of Berlin drains Aimee's modest fortune. In 1941, Heinrich volunteers for the Russian front and is killed by a sniper. Widowed, living in a country soon at war with her own, Aimee must fend for herself. With home and family in jeopardy, she and her six young children flee the advancing Russian army in an epic journey, back to the country she thought she'd left behind. A World Elsewhere is a stirring narrative of two hostages to history and a mother's courageous fight to save her family\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Class of '31
Class of '31 is a beautifully written memoir from a German Jew determined to learn the fate of his former classmates during the Third Reich. Jessel returned to Germany in 1945 as an American soldier hoping to understand how his friends survived World War II.
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Enemies in love : a German POW, a black nurse, and an unlikely romance
\"This is the nonfiction love story of Elinor Powell, an African American army nurse, and Frederick Albert, a German prisoner of war. The two met when black army nurses were put in regular contact with German POWs who were detained in the United States during World War II, an unlikely and little-discussed circumstance during one of the most documented periods in history\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Women of Two Countries
German-American women played many roles in the US women's rights movement from 1848 to 1890. This book focuses on three figures-Mathilde Wendt, Mathilde Franziska Anneke, and Clara Neymann-who were simultaneously included and excluded from the nativist women's rights movement. Accordingly, their roles and arguments differed from those of their American colleagues, such as Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, or Lucy Stone. Moreover, German-American feminists were confronted with the opposition to the women's rights movement in their ethnic community of German-Americans. As outsiders in the women's rights movement they became critics; as \"women of two countries\" they became translators of feminist and ethnic concerns between German- Americans and the US women's rights movement; and as messengers they could bridge the gap between American and German women in a transatlantic space. This book explores the relationship between ethnicity and gender and deepens our understanding of nineteenth-century transatlantic relationships.
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