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In August 1940, Berlin was hit by British bombers. Hitler immediately ordered a series of gigantic air defences be built - each one more expensive than the city’s entire Olympic facilities - but they’re ineffective and resources are wasted. The Führer also has an opportunity to force the British out of North Africa and gain control of the Middle East’s valuable oil. But he rejects his generals’ advice, just as he unnecessarily draws the United States into the war in Europe.

In this compelling book, highly acclaimed author and broadcaster Laurence Rees tells the definitive history of the most notorious Nazi institution of them all. We discover how Auschwitz evolved from a concentration camp for Polish political prisoners into the site of the largest mass murder in history - part death camp, part concentration camp, where around a million Jews were killed. 

Fascism is notoriously hard to define. How do we make sense of an ideology that appeals to streetfighters and intellectuals alike? That is overtly macho in style, yet attracts many women? That calls for a return to tradition while maintaining a fascination with technology? And that preaches violence in the name of an ordered society? In the new edition of this Very Short Introduction, Kevin Passmore brilliantly unravels the paradoxes of one of the most important phenomena in the modern world 

Brought to you by Penguin. 1 May 1945. The world did not know it yet, but the final week of the Third Reich's existence had begun. Hitler was dead, but the war had still not ended. Everything had both ground to a halt and yet remained agonizingly uncertain. Volker Ullrich's remarkable book takes...

If you really want to know what’s happening in the world, this is the one book you must hear now. Alex Jones is the most censored man on the planet and you should ask yourself why that is. There is a powerful authoritarian takeover in process that is seeking to capture the entire human system and turn it into an artificial factory farm controlled system. We are in a war for the future of the world. In this book, you will hear from the world’s elites, from their own mouths, what they are planning for you and your families and you will learn what you can do to fight it.

How to Lose a Country is a warning to the world that populism and nationalism don’t march fully-formed into government; they creep. Award-winning author and journalist Ece Temelkuran identifies the early warning signs of this phenomenon, sprouting up across the world from Eastern Europe to...

The words we use shape the world we live in - so it matters when we get them wrong. This series, from the creators of the chart-topping Origin Story podcast, sheds much-needed light on the true meanings and surprising stories behind some of our most used and abused political terms. Where did these terms originate? Who coined them - and why? How have their meanings evolved over time? And what do they mean to people today? These small guides to (very) big ideas are an antidote to confusion and conspiracy, bringing clarity back to the conversations we have about politics.

Wie entsteht eine Diktatur, und warum erliegen Menschen der dunklen Psychologie der Tyrannei? Dieses beklemmende Hörerlebnis begleitet dich perfekt auf dem täglichen Pendelweg oder beim fokussierten Lernen. Es ist eine intensive akustische Reise, die schonungslos aufzeigt, wie aus scheinbar...

A razor-sharp analysis of the increasing – and terrifying – parallels between Trump’s America and Putin’s Russia, from the former BBC Moscow Correspondent and Sunday Times bestselling author Martin Sixsmith. Long Live the King. Since his re-election as US president, Donald Trump has made...

Blaues Land ist das Hörbuch für alle, die verstehen wollen, warum die AfD in immer mehr Regionen zur prägenden politischen Kraft wird und was das für Demokratie, Gesellschaft und das Zusammenleben bedeutet. Der Journalist Olaf Sundermeyer reist dorthin, wo die AfD längst den politischen Alltag bestimmt: in ostdeutsche Kleinstädte, ländliche Regionen und neue Hochburgen im Westen.

Am 19. Juli 1936 besteigt General Francisco Franco ein Flugzeug in Richtung Tetuán, um sich einem Aufstand gegen die spanische Republik anzuschließen. Spontan brechen mutige Freiwillige aus mehr als fünfzig Ländern auf, um Spanien gegen den faschistischen Umsturz zu verteidigen. Spontan beschließen Zehntausende Freiwillige aus aller Welt, Spanien im heraufziehenden Bürgerkrieg beizustehen. Es sind Künstler, Reporterinnen, Intellektuelle und Verfolgte, es sind Helfer und Krankenschwestern, Idealistinnen und Abenteurer.

Jason Stanley enthüllt in seinem neuen Buch die globale Strategie der autoritären Rechten, die Geschichte umzuschreiben und ein Jahrhundert gesellschaftlichen Fortschritts auszulöschen. Die schlimmsten faschistischen Bewegungen der Menschheitsgeschichte begannen in Schulen − wenn man die Uhr in Bezug auf Bürgerrechte, Gerechtigkeit und Inklusion zurückdrehen will, sind Schulen ein guter Ausgangspunkt. Mit scharfem Blick zeigt Stanley, wie Bildung zur Frontlinie im Kampf um Demokratie wird. Erinnerung, Kritik und Freiheit sind in Gefahr, warnt er.

Wie sollten wir mit Menschen umgehen, deren politische Ansichten uns fremd oder sogar gefährlich erscheinen? Sympathisanten der extremen Rechten sind Kolleginnen, Vereinsfreunde, Nachbarn – und damit Teil unseres engsten Umfelds. Die Soziologin und Journalistin Jana Glaese lotet aus, wie jenseits öffentlicher Empörung und moralischer Eindeutigkeit alltägliches Zusammenleben möglich ist – und wann nicht.

With an apparently contradictory and characteristically makeshift term, ‘Liberal Fascisms’, Slavoj Žižek captures the paradoxical nature of political populism. To see this phenomenon as purely liberal and dictatorially fascistic is to expose liberalism and fascism as two sides of the same...

George Orwell: liberdade e totalitarismo – onze doses de sanidade em tempos de censura reúne alguns dos mais contundentes textos ensaísticos de George Orwell, um dos grandes pensadores políticos e literários do século XX. A seleção foca temas que atravessam sua obra e seu tempo – linguagem, verdade, opressão, papel do escritor, socialismo e censura – e oferece ao ouvinte brasileiro um panorama profundo de seu pensamento sobre a liberdade em tempos de autoritarismo e manipulação ideológica.

Ontdek hoe de psychologie van massamanipulatie een beschaafde samenleving in een genadeloze dictatuur veranderde. Tijdens je dagelijkse woon-werkverkeer of een geconcentreerde luistersessie word je meegezogen in een beklemmende historische analyse van totale controle. Dit ijzingwekkende verhaal...

In this unflinching and engrossing account, Nigel Cawthorne provides a detailed look at one of the most chilling organizations ever conceived by the human imagination. He examines their elite position under the Nazi regime, the superior weapons they were afforded, their involvement in the murderous crimes of the Holocaust, and the way they thrust their claws into every aspect of German life.

Da Europa bliver kørt over af Hitlers buldrende krigsmaskine, har Churchill som eneste statsleder mod til at sætte sig op imod Føreren. Jernviljen hos den britiske premierminister gør ham til et forbillede i England og over hele kontinentet. I Tyskland bliver Albert Speer i februar 1942...

Da Hitler sætter ild til Europa i 1939, håber alle de nordiske lande at holde sig ude af konflikten. Men allerede tre måneder senere angriber Den Røde Hær Finland og tvinger landet ud i en overlevelseskamp. I foråret 1940 ruller tunge tyske divisioner op gennem Danmark og Norge, og heller...

Navnet Adolf Hitler vækker – selv et halvt århundrede efter Det Tredje Riges fald – stadig afsky, foragt og forundring. For hvordan kunne en amatørmaler forføre et helt folk? Hvordan kunne han ud af et ubetydeligt parti med 55 medlemmer skabe en massebevægelse på millioner? Bogen, du...