This resource for fans of Frank's Diary is a photo essay of over 225 black and white photos, many never before published, compiled by the Anne Frank House for a travelling exhibition. Images in the book are dedicated to preserving the history of not only Frank but the Holocaust and how its issues affect contemporary life: images thus are gleaned from the extent of the war and its aftermath and detail not just Frank's life but the experiences of all sides.

What an astonishing ride. This is the complex, profound story of some of the world's most famous intellectuals thinking their way through the shock of post-war Germany and reunification. Locked in frivolous abstractions, their theories were in every detail dramatic, exquisite failures. Terrified of the people they pretended to care about, with almost no instrumental understanding of real-world economics or culture, they blustered and strutted through a sewer of dirt-stupid intellectual tribalism. Not only has Jan-Werner Muller clarified the seriousness of the events, he has introduced some bright new minds to the English-reading world.

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Since unification, Germany has experienced profound changes, including the reawakening of xenophobic hat crime, antisemitic incidents, and racist violence. This book presents the most recent research conducted by a team of American and German experts in political science, sociology, mass communication, and history. These experts analyze the degree of antisemitism, xenophobia, remembrance, and Holocaust knowledge in German public opinion; the groups and organizations that propagate prejudice and hate; and the German, American, and Jewish perceptions of, and reactions to, these phenomena. This is crucial reading for students and scholars of Germany, the Holocaust, and antisemitism, and will be fascinating for anyone interested in this timely and important issue in modern Germany.

Prof. Hamilton's work on apprenticeship is based on modifying the centuries-old German apprenticeship program to the different culture of the US and Canada. This important work was picked up on early on by Bill Clinton, then Governer of Arkansas (the book jacket has a quote from Bill!), and was largely responsible for the School to Work Transitions Act. Necessary reading for anyone who is interested in a way to make education more meaningful for the majority of our high school students.

This is a great book that helps in understanding the horror of Nazi Germany. Siegfried's father was killed in a Nazi concentration camp as an anti-Nazi. I grew up in the US and the same time as Siegfried and the contrast between our boyhoods is interesting. There are many stories about the Allied bombing and strafing. He helped protect his parents while they listened to the BBC which was a capital offense. Siegfried also goes into the post-war occupation by the British. This book is very readable and gives a great insight into what Nazi Germany was really like for the civilians trapped in a police state.

This book will take sometime. It reads like a PhD dissertation. Perhaps it is because it is a translation of a German book. Whatever the reason, it is well worth your time and will give you a deeper understanding of the holocaust.

This book focused on the people who planned and managed the holocaust - demographers, geographers, economists, civil servants, and academics. They saw population movement, control, and elimination as levers to modernize the German economy and manage its war economy. They blamed much of the economic problems of Europe on "excess" population and moved from birth control, sterilization, starvation, to the gas chambers to "manage" the social structures of Europe.

They were not goose steeping cartoon Nazis or manic rascists. They just wrote reports and made analysis. The book shows that Nazi Germany was not just a nation of conquerors who just happened to hate Jews so they killed them, but that the killing was an integral logic of the state and its modernization program. If they had won the war and elminated every Jewish person from the face of the earth the gas chambers would still have kept running, because it was seen as a tool of social policy by the people who oversaw them in their offices.

A pure picture of immorality and horror in which everything - life and death - is at the whim of the state.

The Architecture of Oppression has all the hallmarks of Jaskot's articles: brilliant writing, impecable scholarship and surprising wit. It is likely to become the standard work in the field, and would also make an excellent primer on fascist architecture for the general reader.

There have been many books published about the tanks and armored vehicles of World War II, especially the German vehicles. I own only about five or six of these types of books, but Crow's book rates as an easy favorite in my library because of its eloquent, organized style. This is not another "pictorial history" of armored fighting vehicles. Instead, Crow intersperses the historical and developmental history and technical data of tanks, armored cars and other armored variants with anecdotes about their tactical deployment. He also includes articles from other authors, such as an essay about the individual panzer divisions of WWII. The numerous photographs are first rate and they supplement the text perfectly by pointing out distinguishing characteristics of the AFV versions in the photos. Also included are a number of beautiful color drawings. Those who are familiar with the excellent book, "Encyclopedia of German Tanks of World War Two: The Complete Illustrated Dictionary of German Battle," will find Crow a worthy supplement. I tend to use the "Encyclopedia" as a reference manual only, given that it is dominated by photographs and technical data and not with much narrative. Crow's book is not as comprehensive as the "Encyclopedia," but unless you need to know about every German AFV variant ever made, Crow provides a more engaging reading and study of German armor development. It is unfortunate this book is now out of print but it is a classic worth searching for. Now, if I could only find an Allied counterpart by Crow.

This is a first-rate ethnography of a little known but important community: forward-deployed American solidiers, stationed in Germany at the height of the Cold War. Hawkins mixes profound structural analysis with intimate conversational portraits, to paint a picture of a military community torn between the competing demands of army life and family responsibilities. I used the text in a large undergraduate class, "Cultural Anthropology." The students liked the book very much, and used it to test and apply the concepts they learned earlier in the semester, e.g., "social structure," "kinship," "marriage," "cultural psychology." All in all, we found it be an excellent teaching tool, not to mention an excellent ethnography. I recommend it highly.

Charles W. Nuckolls, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Anthropology
University of Alabama