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This is a print on demand publication. Contents: Introduction: Bavaria in the Era of Revolution, 1918-1919, Part One: The "Einwohnerwehr" Movement in Bavaria: (I) The Organizational Development of the "Einwohnerwehr" State or Private Control?, (II) The Political Evolution of the Bavarian "Einwonerwehr", Part Two: The Bavarian "Einwohnerwehr", Part Two: The Bavarian "Einwohnerwehr" in National and International Policy: (III) The Orgesch and the...

München ist berühmt für seine Architektur, für den Kunstsinn und die Lebenskunst seiner Bürger, für Bierseligkeit und Gemütlichkeit. Warum wurde ausgerechnet dieses vielgepriesene «Isar-Athen»zum Geburtsort des Nationalsozialismus? David Clay Large schildert Münchens Weg in das Dritte Reich und seine schillernde Karriere als «Hauptstadt der Bewegung». Sein glänzend erzähltes Buch beschreibt die Stadt als Mikrokosmos der Kräfte und Ideologien, ...

In Germans To The Front, David Large charts the path from Germany's total demilitarization immediately after World War II to the appearance of the Bundeswehr, the West Germany army, in 1956.

In this irresistible tour through the grand spas of Central Europe, noted historian David Clay Large traces their history from classical antiquity to the present. He vividly shows that they were not only centers of healing but hotbeds of artistic creation, nests of social intrigue, and gilded venues for high-level politicking.

Set against the backdrop of the turbulent late 1960s and early 1970s, this compelling book offers the first comprehensive narrative history of the 1972 Munich Olympic Games, notorious for the hostage taking by Palestinian terrorists of Jewish athletes and their tragic deaths after a botched rescue mission by German police. Drawing on a wealth of contemporaneous sources, including recently opened files in the German and Olympic archives, eminen...

The torch relay-that staple of Olympic pageantry-first opened the summer games in 1936 in Berlin. Proposed by the Nazi Propaganda Ministry, the relay was to carry the symbolism of a new Germany across its route through southeastern and central Europe. Soon after the Wehrmacht would march in jackboots over the same terrain. The Olympic festival was a crucial part of the Nazi regime's mobilization of power. Nazi Games offers a superb blend of h...

The torch relay-that staple of Olympic pageantry-first opened the summer games in 1936 in Berlin. Proposed by the Nazi Propaganda Ministry, the relay was to carry the symbolism of a new Germany across its route through southeastern and central Europe. Soon after the Wehrmacht would march in jackboots over the same terrain. The Olympic festival was a crucial part of the Nazi regime's mobilization of power. Nazi Games offers a superb blend of h...

Munich was the birthplace of Nazism and became the chief cultural shrine of the Third Reich. In exploring the question of why Nazism flourished in the 'Athens of the Isar', David Clay Large has written a compelling account of the cultural roots of the Nazi movement, allowing us to see that the conventional explanations for the movement's rise are not enough. Large's account begins in Munich's 'golden age', four decades before World War I, when...

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An evocative re-creation of the European political climate of the 1930s . . . Large does a fine job of connecting these events." Kirkus Reviews

More clearly than many other books, Large's account depicts the tragic abandonment of the Jews by Western Nations.- "Booklist

David Clay Large erzählt die Geschichte Berlins farbig, vibrierend, subversiv und geistreich - wie es dieser dynamischen Stadt angemessen ist. Den Rahmen seiner Geschichte bilden die beiden Vereinigungen Deutschlands: 1871 und 1990. In diesem Zeitraum hat Berlin eine an dramatischen Höhen und Tiefen reiche Entwicklung durchgemacht wie kaum eine andere Stadt: von einem verschlafenen preußischen Provinznest zum Symbol der Modernität, zu einem Tr...