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The great Austrian writer Stefan Zweig confided in his autobiography: “I have a pretty thorough knowledge of history, but never, to my recollection, has it produced such madness in such gigantic proportions.” He was referring to Germany in 1923, a “year of lunacy,” defined by hyperinflation, violence, a political system on the verge of collapse, the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, and separatist movements threatening to rip apart the German nation. Bestselling author Volker Ullrich presents a riveting chronicle of one of the most difficult years any modern democracy has ever faced.

On January 13, 1940, FBI agents burst into the homes and offices of seventeen members of the Christian Front, seizing guns, ammunition, and homemade bombs. J. Edgar Hoover's charges were incendiary: the group, he alleged, was planning to incite a revolution and install a "temporary dictatorship" in order to stamp out Jewish and Communist influence in the United States. In Nazis of Copley Square, Charles Gallagher provides a crucial missing chapter in the history of the American far right.

Victor Capesius custodiaba la reserva nazi de gas Zyklon B y proporcionaba fármacos que eran empleados por médicos para llevar a cabo experimentos espantosos y mortales en mujeres embarazadas y niños. Hurgaba en los cadáveres de los judíos en busca de empastes de oro, y llevado por la codicia, arrastraba pesadas maletas llenas de ese metal extraído a miles de víctimas. El farmacéutico de Auschwitz cuenta su historia. Tras una exhaustiva investigación, Patricia Posner recrea la historia de Victor Capesius.

Der Bürgerkrieg gegen die freie Gesellschaft: Der Mord an Walter Lübcke zeigt wie unter einem Brennglas die gegenwärtige Dynamik des rechten Terrorismus. Der Journalist Martín Steinhagen recherchiert seit Jahren zum militanten Milieu. Das Hörbuch verfolgt die Geschichte des Opfers, der Täter, der Tat und beleuchtet das gesellschaftliche Klima, in dem das Attentat möglich wurde. Der Bürgerkrieg gegen die freie Gesellschaft: Der Mord an Walter Lübcke zeigt wie unter einem Brennglas die gegenwärtige Dynamik des rechten Terrorismus.