Best Sellers
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
- A History of Nazi Germany
- Written by: William L. Shirer
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 57 hrs and 11 mins
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Winner of the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 1961, this worldwide bestselling classic chronicles the most infamous era of our times.
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Almost an Anthropological Account of an Aeon!
- By Girish B Hukkeri on 07-03-20
Written by: William L. Shirer
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Chasing Heisenberg
- The Race for the Atom Bomb
- Written by: Michael Joseloff
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 3 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Allied troops are beginning to halt Hitler’s advance. But Allied scientists are struggling. Intelligence reports put them second in a competition that could determine the outcome of the war: the race to build the world’s first nuclear weapon....
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Must Listen
- By Sayantan Sanyal on 03-02-22
Written by: Michael Joseloff
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Hitlerin salamurhayritys
- Written by: Maailman Historia
- Narrated by: Tapio Rauvala
- Length: 4 hrs and 6 mins
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Vuoden 1944 heinäkuussa Hitler ei aavista, että hänen selkänsä takana vehkeillään. Claus von Stauffenbergin on määrä kuljettaa...
Written by: Maailman Historia
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The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler
- Written by: William L. Shirer
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 3 hrs and 44 mins
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American journalist and author William L. Shirer was a war correspondent for six years in Nazi Germany, having a front-row seat to Hitler’s rise in influence and power....
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An eye opener !
- By Sharat Vishwanatha on 23-08-21
Written by: William L. Shirer
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The Wages of Destruction
- The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy
- Written by: Adam Tooze
- Narrated by: Adam Tooze, Simon Vance
- Length: 30 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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An extraordinary mythology has grown up around the Third Reich that hovers over political and moral debate even today. Adam Tooze's controversial book challenges the conventional economic interpretations of that period....
Written by: Adam Tooze
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Hitler’s Monsters
- A Supernatural History of the Third Reich
- Written by: Eric Kurlander
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 18 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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The Nazi fascination with the occult is legendary, yet today it is often dismissed as Himmler's personal obsession or wildly overstated for its novelty....
Written by: Eric Kurlander
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
- A History of Nazi Germany
- Written by: William L. Shirer
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 57 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Winner of the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 1961, this worldwide bestselling classic chronicles the most infamous era of our times.
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Almost an Anthropological Account of an Aeon!
- By Girish B Hukkeri on 07-03-20
Written by: William L. Shirer
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Chasing Heisenberg
- The Race for the Atom Bomb
- Written by: Michael Joseloff
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 3 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Allied troops are beginning to halt Hitler’s advance. But Allied scientists are struggling. Intelligence reports put them second in a competition that could determine the outcome of the war: the race to build the world’s first nuclear weapon....
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Must Listen
- By Sayantan Sanyal on 03-02-22
Written by: Michael Joseloff
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Hitlerin salamurhayritys
- Written by: Maailman Historia
- Narrated by: Tapio Rauvala
- Length: 4 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Vuoden 1944 heinäkuussa Hitler ei aavista, että hänen selkänsä takana vehkeillään. Claus von Stauffenbergin on määrä kuljettaa...
Written by: Maailman Historia
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The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler
- Written by: William L. Shirer
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 3 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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American journalist and author William L. Shirer was a war correspondent for six years in Nazi Germany, having a front-row seat to Hitler’s rise in influence and power....
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An eye opener !
- By Sharat Vishwanatha on 23-08-21
Written by: William L. Shirer
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The Wages of Destruction
- The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy
- Written by: Adam Tooze
- Narrated by: Adam Tooze, Simon Vance
- Length: 30 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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An extraordinary mythology has grown up around the Third Reich that hovers over political and moral debate even today. Adam Tooze's controversial book challenges the conventional economic interpretations of that period....
Written by: Adam Tooze
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Hitler’s Monsters
- A Supernatural History of the Third Reich
- Written by: Eric Kurlander
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 18 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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The Nazi fascination with the occult is legendary, yet today it is often dismissed as Himmler's personal obsession or wildly overstated for its novelty....
Written by: Eric Kurlander
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Hitler and Stalin
- The Tyrants and the Second World War
- Written by: Laurence Rees
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 18 hrs and 17 mins
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Briefly allies during World War II, Adolph Hitler and Josef Stalin then tried to exterminate each other in sweeping campaigns unlike anything the modern world had ever seen, affecting soldiers and civilians alike....
Written by: Laurence Rees
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The Book Thieves
- The Nazi Looting of Europe's Libraries and the Race to Return a Literary Inheritance
- Written by: Anders Rydell, Henning Koch - Translator
- Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
- Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
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Through extensive new research that included records saved by the Monuments Men themselves, Anders Rydell tells the untold story of Nazi book theft....
Written by: Anders Rydell,
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The "Hitler Myth"
- Image and Reality in the Third Reich
- Written by: Ian Kershaw
- Narrated by: George Cunningham
- Length: 11 hrs
- Unabridged
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Few, if any, 20th-century political leaders have enjoyed greater popularity among their own people than Hitler did in the decade or so following his rise to power in 1933. Ian Kershaw's groundbreaking study charts the creation, growth, and decline of the "Hitler myth"....
Written by: Ian Kershaw
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Panzer Commander
- The Memoirs of Colonel Hans von Luck
- Written by: Hans von Luck, Stephen E. Ambrose - introduction
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 15 hrs and 9 mins
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A stunning look at World War II from the other side.... From the turret of a German tank, Colonel Hans von Luck commanded Rommel's 7th and then 21st Panzer Division....
Written by: Hans von Luck,
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Wannsee
- The Road to the Final Solution
- Written by: Peter Longerich
- Narrated by: Antony Ferguson
- Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
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On January 20, 1942, fifteen men arrived for a meeting in a luxurious villa on the shores of the Wannsee in the far-western outskirts of Berlin. They came at the invitation of Reinhard Heydrich and were almost all high-ranking Nazi Party, government, and SS officials....
Written by: Peter Longerich
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When Money Dies
- The Nightmare of Deficit Spending, Devaluation, and Hyperinflation in Weimar, Germany
- Written by: Adam Fergusson
- Narrated by: Antony Ferguson
- Length: 9 hrs
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When Money Dies is the classic history of what happens when a nations currency depreciates beyond recovery....
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A must listen but performance needs improvement
- By Anand Tandon on 01-04-23
Written by: Adam Fergusson
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The Decline of the West
- Vol 1: Form and Actuality. Vol 2: Perspectives of World History
- Written by: Oswald Spengler
- Narrated by: Peter Wickham
- Length: 55 hrs and 52 mins
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The Decline of the West - Volume 1 published in 1917, Volume 2 in 1922 - has exercised and challenged opinion ever since....
Written by: Oswald Spengler
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The Third Reich at War
- Written by: Richard J. Evans
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 35 hrs and 10 mins
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The final volume in Richard J. Evans’s masterly trilogy on the history of Nazi Germany....
Written by: Richard J. Evans
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The Coming of the Third Reich
- Written by: Richard J. Evans
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 21 hrs and 11 mins
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There is no story in 20th-century history more important to understand than Hitler’s rise to power and the collapse of civilization in Nazi Germany....
Written by: Richard J. Evans
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The Third Reich in Power
- Written by: Richard J. Evans
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 31 hrs and 58 mins
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The definitive account of Germany's malign transformation under Hitler's total rule and the implacable march to war....
Written by: Richard J. Evans
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To Save an Army
- The Stalingrad Airlift
- Written by: Robert Forsyth
- Narrated by: Mark Meadows
- Length: 16 hrs and 29 mins
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Using the diaries of Luftwaffe commanders, rare contemporary photographs and other previously unpublished sources, Robert Forsyth analyzes the human, strategic, tactical and technical elements of one of the most dramatic operations arranged by the Luftwaffe....
Written by: Robert Forsyth
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Churchill, Hitler, and 'The Unnecessary War'
- How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World
- Written by: Patrick J. Buchanan
- Narrated by: Don Leslie
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
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Patrick Buchanan makes the case that, if not for the blunders of British statesmen - Winston Churchill first among them - the horrors of two world wars and the Holocaust might have been avoided....
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A comprehensive study
- By Placeholder on 28-03-19
Written by: Patrick J. Buchanan
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Hitler
- Ascent 1889-1939
- Written by: Volker Ullrich
- Narrated by: Don Hagen
- Length: 34 hrs and 46 mins
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A major new biography - an extraordinary, penetrating study of the man who has become the personification of evil....
Written by: Volker Ullrich
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The Last Battle
- Written by: Cornelius Ryan
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 15 hrs and 45 mins
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The classic account of the final offensive against Hitler’s Third Reich....
Written by: Cornelius Ryan
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A Woman in Berlin
- Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary
- Written by: Anonymous, Philip Boehm - translator
- Narrated by: Isabel Keating
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
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For eight weeks in 1945, as Berlin fell to the Russian army, a young woman kept a daily record of life in her apartment building and among its residents....
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Excellent
- By Aakanksha Roychowdhury on 17-03-24
Written by: Anonymous,
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Deset podob zla
- Written by: Roman Cílek
- Narrated by: Vladimír Kroc
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
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Co nás učí v dějepise, je jen špička ledovce. To podstatné se odehrává uvnitř. Roman Cílek, zkušený autor literatury faktu a neotřelých detektivek se...
Written by: Roman Cílek
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Germany: Memories of a Nation
- Written by: Neil MacGregor
- Narrated by: Neil MacGregor
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
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From Neil MacGregor, the author of A History of the World in 100 Objects, this is a view of Germany like no other....
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Enlightening
- By Arun Chitnis on 01-11-22
Written by: Neil MacGregor
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Weimar Germany
- Promise and Tragedy, Weimar Centennial Edition
- Written by: Eric D. Weitz
- Narrated by: Robert G. Slade
- Length: 18 hrs and 42 mins
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This audiobook narrated by Robert G. Slade paints a riveting portrait of the Weimar era....
Written by: Eric D. Weitz
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Berlin Diary
- The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent, 1934–1941
- Written by: William L. Shirer
- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
- Length: 15 hrs and 59 mins
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CBS radio broadcaster William L. Shirer was virtually unknown in 1940 when he decided there might be a book in the diary he had kept in Europe during the 1930s...
Written by: William L. Shirer
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A Concise History of Germany
- Written by: Mary Fulbrook
- Narrated by: Nick McArdle
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
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This audiobook provides a clear and informative guide to the twists and turns of German history from the early Middle Ages to the present day....
Written by: Mary Fulbrook
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The Nazi Conscience
- Written by: Claudia Koonz
- Narrated by: Mike Pollock
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
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The Nazi conscience is not an oxymoron. In fact, the perpetrators of genocide had a powerful sense of right and wrong....
Written by: Claudia Koonz
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Heart of Europe
- A History of the Holy Roman Empire
- Written by: Peter H. Wilson
- Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan
- Length: 34 hrs and 3 mins
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The Holy Roman Empire lasted 1,000 years, far longer than ancient Rome. Yet this formidable dominion never inspired the awe of its predecessor....
Written by: Peter H. Wilson
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Hitler's Spy Chief
- Written by: Richard Bassett
- Narrated by: Mark Topping
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
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Wilhelm Canaris was appointed by Hitler to head the Abwehr (the German secret service) 18 months after the Nazis came to power....
Written by: Richard Bassett
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The Downfall of Money
- Germany’s Hyperinflation and the Destruction of the Middle Class
- Written by: Frederick Taylor
- Narrated by: Mark Ashby
- Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
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An economic horror story: The complete meltdown of a major modern country’s financial system, and its disastrous effects on every aspect of society....
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A great read !
- By Ramakrishnan on 01-02-22
Written by: Frederick Taylor
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My Life in the Red Army
- Written by: Fred Virski
- Narrated by: Kevin Waits
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
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"My Life in the Red Army" by Fred Virski offers a rare, firsthand account of a soldier's experiences within the Soviet military machine during a critical period of the 20th century. Through the lens of Virski's personal journey, the book sheds light on the inner workings, struggles, and day-to-day life of the Red Army from the perspective of an ordinary soldier.
Written by: Fred Virski
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Germania
- A Personal History of Germans Ancient and Modern
- Written by: Simon Winder
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 19 hrs and 6 mins
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There are many reasons to be fascinated by Germany: forests, architecture and fairy tales, not to mention its history and inhabitants’ penchant for very peculiar food. Our distant and often maligned cousin, this is a place in which innumerable strange characters have held power, in which a chaotic jigsaw of borders have moved about seemingly at random, and which at the dark heart of the 20th century fell into the hands of truly terrible forces. And now Simon Winder is here to tell us everything else there is to know about this mesmerizing, tortured and endlessly fascinating country.
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Historia literaria alemana para principiantes
- Un viaje apasionante y entretenido por la literatura alemana desde la Edad Media hasta nuestros días
- Written by: Christian Möhlenkamp
- Narrated by: Jon Velasquez
- Length: 1 hr and 48 mins
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Este libro está dirigido a los lectores que buscan una introducción a la confusa diversidad de la literatura alemana. El orden cronológico elegido es el más adecuado para este fin porque, a diferencia de los métodos de ordenación orientados a temas o géneros, muestra una génesis y traza la genealogía de la literatura alemana. El hecho de que la novela de Goethe Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre probablemente habría tenido un aspecto completamente distinto sin el Simplicissimus de Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen puede mostrarse más fácil y eficazmente en el contexto de un viaje en el tiempo presentado cronológicamente.
Written by: Christian Möhlenkamp
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The Battle for Moscow
- Written by: David Stahel
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
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In November 1941, Hitler ordered German forces to complete the final drive on the Soviet capital, now less than 100 kilometers away. Army Group Center was pressed into the attack for one last attempt to break Soviet resistance before the onset of winter. From the German perspective, the final drive on Moscow had all the ingredients of a dramatic final battle in the east, which, according to previous accounts, only failed at the gates of Moscow.
Written by: David Stahel
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Ich bin ostdeutsch und gegen die AfD [I Am East German and Against the AfD]
- Eine Intervention [An Intervention]
- Written by: Susan Arndt
- Narrated by: Janna Ambrosy
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
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Die AfD ist in Ostdeutschland auf dem Vormarsch. In Umfragen ist sie oftmals die stärkste Partei, und liegt in einigen Bundesländern gar bei 35 Prozent. Doch das heißt: zwei Drittel der Ostdeutschen wählen nicht AfD. Susan Arndt gibt dieser oft übersehenen Mehrheit in ihrem sehr persönlichen Buch eine Stimme und zeigt, dass es auch ein anderes Ostdeutschland gibt und die AfD ein gesamtdeutsches Problem ist.
Written by: Susan Arndt
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Свидетели войны. Жизнь детей при нацистах
- Written by: Николас Старгардт
- Narrated by: Станислав Федорчук
- Length: 21 hrs and 52 mins
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Книга Николаса Старгардта, оксфордского профессора, одного из самых авторитетных историков нацизма, является уникальным исследованием, где впервые представлена социальная история нацистской Германии глазами детей. Серьезный исторический труд основан на оригинальных документах — дневниках подростков, школьных заданиях, детских рисунках из еврейского гетто Терезиенштадт и немецкой деревни в Шварцвальде, письмах из эвакуационных лагерей, исправительных учреждений, психиатрических приютов, письмах отцам на фронт и даже воспоминаниях о детских играх.
Written by: Николас Старгардт
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My Life in the Red Army
- Written by: Fred Virski
- Narrated by: Kevin Waits
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
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"My Life in the Red Army" by Fred Virski offers a rare, firsthand account of a soldier's experiences within the Soviet military machine during a critical period of the 20th century. Through the lens of Virski's personal journey, the book sheds light on the inner workings, struggles, and day-to-day life of the Red Army from the perspective of an ordinary soldier.
Written by: Fred Virski
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Germania
- A Personal History of Germans Ancient and Modern
- Written by: Simon Winder
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 19 hrs and 6 mins
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There are many reasons to be fascinated by Germany: forests, architecture and fairy tales, not to mention its history and inhabitants’ penchant for very peculiar food. Our distant and often maligned cousin, this is a place in which innumerable strange characters have held power, in which a chaotic jigsaw of borders have moved about seemingly at random, and which at the dark heart of the 20th century fell into the hands of truly terrible forces. And now Simon Winder is here to tell us everything else there is to know about this mesmerizing, tortured and endlessly fascinating country.
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Este libro está dirigido a los lectores que buscan una introducción a la confusa diversidad de la literatura alemana. El orden cronológico elegido es el más adecuado para este fin porque, a diferencia de los métodos de ordenación orientados a temas o géneros, muestra una génesis y traza la genealogía de la literatura alemana. El hecho de que la novela de Goethe Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre probablemente habría tenido un aspecto completamente distinto sin el Simplicissimus de Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen puede mostrarse más fácil y eficazmente en el contexto de un viaje en el tiempo presentado cronológicamente.
Written by: Christian Möhlenkamp
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The Battle for Moscow
- Written by: David Stahel
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
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In November 1941, Hitler ordered German forces to complete the final drive on the Soviet capital, now less than 100 kilometers away. Army Group Center was pressed into the attack for one last attempt to break Soviet resistance before the onset of winter. From the German perspective, the final drive on Moscow had all the ingredients of a dramatic final battle in the east, which, according to previous accounts, only failed at the gates of Moscow.
Written by: David Stahel
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Ich bin ostdeutsch und gegen die AfD [I Am East German and Against the AfD]
- Eine Intervention [An Intervention]
- Written by: Susan Arndt
- Narrated by: Janna Ambrosy
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Die AfD ist in Ostdeutschland auf dem Vormarsch. In Umfragen ist sie oftmals die stärkste Partei, und liegt in einigen Bundesländern gar bei 35 Prozent. Doch das heißt: zwei Drittel der Ostdeutschen wählen nicht AfD. Susan Arndt gibt dieser oft übersehenen Mehrheit in ihrem sehr persönlichen Buch eine Stimme und zeigt, dass es auch ein anderes Ostdeutschland gibt und die AfD ein gesamtdeutsches Problem ist.
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Свидетели войны. Жизнь детей при нацистах
- Written by: Николас Старгардт
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1974 – Eine deutsche Begegnung
- Als die Geschichte Ost und West zusammenbrachte
- Written by: Ronald Reng
- Narrated by: Oliver E. Schönfeld
- Length: 14 hrs and 19 mins
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Deutschland – Deutschland: ein historischer Moment. Selten gibt es Augenblicke in der Geschichte, die wie ein Brennglas wirken. Das einzige Fußballspiel zwischen der DDR und der BRD ist ein solcher herausragender, brisanter und zugleich universaler Moment. Als sich am 22. Juni 1974 für neunzig Minuten die Bruderstaaten gegenübertraten und die DDR durch ein 1:0 von Jürgen Sparwasser den Sieg davontrug, brachten der Zufall und die Zeitläufte Menschen und Ereignisse zusammen, die Einfluss nahmen auf das Leben nicht nur der Beteiligten, sondern auf beide Länder und ihre Menschen.
Written by: Ronald Reng
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Empire of Rags and Bones
- Waste and War in Nazi Germany
- Written by: Anne Berg
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
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Historicizing the much-championed ideal of zero waste, Anne Berg shows that the management of waste was central to the politics of war and to the genesis of genocide in the Nazi Germany. Destruction and recycling were part of an overarching strategy to redress raw material shortages, procure lebensraum, and cleanse the continent of Jews and others considered undesirable. Resource extending schemes obscured the crucial political role played by virtually all German citizens to whom salvaging, scrapping, and recycling were promoted as inherently virtuous and orderly behaviors.
Written by: Anne Berg
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Hanns und Rudolf
- Der deutsche Jude und die Jagd nach dem Kommandanten von Auschwitz Rudolf Höß
- Written by: Thomas Harding
- Narrated by: Sebastian Dunkelberg, Patrick Twinem
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Thomas Harding kannte seinen Großonkel Hanns Alexander als einen freundlichen Mann mit viel Familiensinn, der ein bürgerliches Leben als Bankangestellter in London geführt hatte, sich für die Synagoge engagierte und gerne Witze machte. Seine jüdische Familie stammte aus Berlin und war in den 1930er-Jahren in letzter Minute nach England ins Exil entkommen. Das wussten alle. Ansonsten wurde über den Krieg nicht gesprochen. Erst nach dem Tod von Hanns Alexander erfuhr Harding, dass er ein Nazijäger gewesen war.
Written by: Thomas Harding
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Die Erfindung der Bundesrepublik
- Wie unser Grundgesetz entstand
- Written by: Sabine Böhne-Di Leo
- Narrated by: Jutta Seifert, Peter Lontzek
- Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
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Im Sommer 1948 stehen große Entscheidungen an: Die westlichen Alliierten beauftragen 65 Männer und Frauen damit, eine Verfassung auszuarbeiten. Monate leidenschaftlicher Diskussionen beginnen, in denen gestritten, getrickst und geträumt wird. Wie soll es werden, das neue Land? Kurz nachdem in den drei Westzonen im Frühsommer 1948 eine neue Währung eingeführt wird, riegelt die Sowjetunion West-Berlin ab: Die Stadt ist blockiert. Die USA beschließen, zwei Millionen Menschen aus der Luft zu versorgen und schicken "Rosinenbomber" los, von denen gleich einer der ersten abstürzt.
Written by: Sabine Böhne-Di Leo
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Ich war zu jung, um zu hassen
- Meine Kindheit in Auschwitz
- Written by: Lidia Maksymowicz
- Narrated by: Sabine von Maydell
- Length: 5 hrs and 13 mins
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Lidia Maksymowicz ist drei Jahre alt, als sie mit ihrer Mutter in das Konzentrationslager Auschwitz-Birkenau deportiert wird. Dreizehn Monate lang überlebt sie in dieser Hölle, getrennt von ihrer Mutter, in der Kinderbaracke. Sie ist eines der kleinen "Versuchskaninchen" von Dr. Josef Mengele, der seine lebensbedrohlichen "Experimente" an ihr durchführt. Lidia sieht, wie die anderen Kindern nach und nach sterben, an den Folgen der Experimente, am Hunger.
Written by: Lidia Maksymowicz
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Кошмар в Берлине
- Written by: Ханс Фаллада
- Narrated by: Дмитрий Стрелков
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
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Послевоенная Германия, Берлин. Первые месяцы жизни города после поражения страны во Второй мировой войне. Нищий быт в разрушенном городе. Немцами владеет сложный комплекс чувств: национальное унижение, стыд и раскаяние за совершенные преступления, страх наказания, кошмарное ощущение себя объектом всеобщей ненависти... И в то же время любовь к своей сбившейся с пути стране, этому "больному сердцу Европы". Герой Фаллады лично не повинен в военных преступлениях, но чувствует свою вину за слабость и безволие всей нации.
Written by: Ханс Фаллада
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Out of the Darkness
- The Germans, 1942-2022
- Written by: Frank Trentmann
- Narrated by: Patty Nieman
- Length: 36 hrs and 46 mins
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In 1945, Germany lay in ruins, morally and materially. The German people stood condemned by history, responsible for a horrifying genocide and a war of extermination. But by 2015 Germany looked to many to be the moral voice of Europe, welcoming almost one million refugees. At the same time, it pursued a controversially rigid fiscal discipline and made energy deals with a dictator. Many people have asked how Germany descended into the darkness of the Nazis, but this book asks another vital question: how, and how far, have the Germans since reinvented themselves?
Written by: Frank Trentmann
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Das doppelte Deutschland
- Eine Parallelgeschichte, 1949 – 1990
- Written by: Ursula Weidenfeld
- Narrated by: Jutta Seifert
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
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Warum die BRD nicht ohne die DDR zu verstehen ist – und umgekehrt. Ursula Weidenfeld legt eine Geschichte des doppelten Deutschland vor, wie sie so noch nicht geschrieben wurde. Bisher gibt es, zumindest in der westdeutschen Erinnerung, die Bundesrepublik (oder ganz einfach: »Deutschland«) und daneben die DDR, üblicherweise als der »zweite deutsche Staat« bezeichnet. Deren Geschichte wird immer von hinten erzählt, vom Ende her – das ist die übliche Strafe für gescheiterte Staaten.
Written by: Ursula Weidenfeld
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Marseille 1940
- Die große Flucht der Literatur
- Written by: Uwe Wittstock
- Narrated by: Julian Mehne
- Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
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Juni 1940: Hitlers Wehrmacht hat Frankreich besiegt. Die Gestapo fahndet nach Heinrich Mann und Lion Feuchtwanger, nach Hannah Arendt, Franz Werfel und unzähligen anderen, die in Frankreich seit 1933 Asyl gefunden haben. Sie alle müssen fliehen und geraten schließlich nach Marseille, um von dort einen Weg in die Freiheit zu suchen. Derweil riskiert der Amerikaner Varian Fry sein Leben, um die Verfolgten außer Landes zu schmuggeln. Szenisch dicht erzählt Uwe Wittstock die aufwühlende Geschichte ihrer Flucht unter tödlichen Gefahren, von unfassbarem Mut und größter Verzweiflung, von trotziger Hoffnung und Mitmenschlichkeit in düsterer Zeit.
Written by: Uwe Wittstock
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Deutschlands verschwundene Orte [Germany's Vanished Places]
- Ein Atlas [An Atlas]
- Written by: Pia Volk
- Narrated by: Sandra Ragg
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
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Unter der Oberfläche Deutschlands liegen die Reste unzähliger verschwundener Städte, Handelszentren, Dörfer und Industrieanlagen: ein versunkenes, unbekanntes Deutschland. Pia Volk hat sich auf die Suche nach diesen Orten gemacht. Sie erzählt von ihrer einstigen Bedeutung und ihrem Untergang und besichtigt in Wäldern, auf Feldern, im Watt oder in Asphaltwüsten die Überreste einstiger Größe. Ein kurzweiliger Atlas für alle, die schon immer ahnten, dass unter unseren Füßen eine versunkene Welt liegt.
Written by: Pia Volk
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Abschied von den Boomern
- Written by: Heinz Bude
- Narrated by: Wolfgang Wagner
- Length: 2 hrs and 43 mins
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Die Boomer nehmen Abschied. Wer zwischen 1955 und 1970 in der Zeit der geburtenstarken Jahrgänge zur Welt gekommen ist, hat den Ruhestand erreicht oder zählt zu den Älteren, die nach und nach ihre Posten freimachen. Die Boomer verbindet das Gefühl, dass es zu viele von ihnen gibt, das spürten sie schon in überfüllten Klassenzimmern und später auf dem Arbeitsmarkt. Daraus resultierte eine Haltung der Skepsis, und die Erfahrung von AIDS und Tschernobyl hat sie in einer entscheidenden Phase ihrer Biografie gelehrt, dass nichts gesichert und gar nichts garantiert ist.
Written by: Heinz Bude
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A Nation Fermented
- Beer, Bavaria, and the Making of Modern Germany
- Written by: Robert Shea Terrell
- Narrated by: Mike Lenz
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
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Offering a history of the Germany that Bavaria made over the twentieth century, A Nation Fermented both eschews sharp temporal divisions and forgoes conventional narratives centered on Prussia, Berlin, or the Rhineland. In so doing, Terrell offers a fresh take on the importance of provincial influences and the role of commodities and commerce in shaping the nation.
Written by: Robert Shea Terrell