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Jews, Turks, and other strangers the roots of prejudice in modern Germany / by Legge, Jerome S.

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Angela Merkel a chancellorship forged in crisis / by Crawford, Alan

Table of Contents: “…Exodus (Merkel's journey) -- Revelation (five minutes to midnight) -- Genesis (eastern roots) -- Numbers (Germany's subprime scandal).…”
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Advertising empire race and visual culture in imperial Germany / by Ciarlo, David

Table of Contents: “…Exotic panoramas, local color : commercial exhibitions and colonial expositions -- Embodied lands : allegorical cliches and popular savagery -- Masters of the modern exotic -- Packaged exoticism and colonial rule : commercial visuality at the fin de siecle -- Featuring race : the roots of racialization leading to 1900 -- Racial imperium.…”
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Inside the Antisemitic Mind : The Language of Jew-Hatred in Contemporary Germany / by Schwarz-Friesel, Monika, Reinharz, Jehuda

Table of Contents: “…1 Introduction The Need for This Book -- 2 Hostility toward Jews and Language Verbal Imposition of Power and Violence -- 3 Hostile Stereotypes of Jews and Their Historical Roots -- 4 Present-Day Verbalization of Stereotypes -- 5 Echo of the Past -- 6 Anti-Israelism as a Modern Variant of Verbal Antisemitism The Modern Conceptualization of the Collective Jew -- 7 A Comparison with Other Countries in Europe Results of a Contrastive Analysis -- 8 The Emotional Basis of Modern Hostility toward Jews -- 9 Acts of Verbal Violence -- 10 Textual Strategies and Patterns of Argumentation -- Appendix The Basic Corpus -- Letters to the Central Council of Jews in Germany and the Israeli Embassy in Berlin, 2002 -- 2012.…”
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A concise history of Nazi Germany by Bendersky, Joseph W., 1946-

Table of Contents: “…The origins and development of Nazism, 1919-1928 -- Weimar democracy in crisis -- The rise of Hitler and Nazism -- The historical roots of Nazi ideology -- Party structure, propaganda, and followers during the "early years of struggle" -- The seizure and consolidation of power, 1929-1934 -- Parliamentary paralysis and the Nazi breakthrough of 1930 -- Hitler's legal path to power -- The pseudolegal revolution -- The nazification of German society, 1934-1938 -- The total state versus the dual state and polycracy -- Political biology, culture, and society -- SS terror, anti-semitism, and resistance to nazification -- The rise and fall of the Nazi empire in Europe, 1933-1945 -- The fuhrer as statesman: ideology and foreign policy -- The fuhrer as warrior: victory and conquest -- From domination to retreat -- The Holocaust, resistance, and defeat -- The struggle for justice and historical memory -- From Nuremberg to vergangenheitsbewltigung -- The intractable Nazi legacy in film: propaganda and history.…”
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Queer Livability : German Sexual Sciences and Life Writing / by Linge, Ina

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