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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Germany--History"”.
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The Last Days of the German Imperial High Seas Fleet
"The German people did not understand the sea. In the hour of its destiny it did not use its fleet. To-day all that I can do for the fleet is to write its epitaph." | With these words Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, the creator of the German High Seas Fleet, concluded his memoirs. At the …
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For God or Caesar? A Study of Americas' Church Reaction to Religious Persecution in the Third Reich
… the persecution of Christians and Jews in Nazi Germany. Reports and comments about the crisis of Church and State in Hitlerdom from January, 1933, through 1939 were drawn from six religious publications, three Protestant and three Catholic, in the belief that they reflected a broad spectrum of …
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Critical Appraisal of Count Bernstorff as German Ambassador to the United States 1914-1917
Diplomats, "sent abroad to lie for their country," are not easy to analyse. Their characteristic traits are often obscured by actions which are impossible to explain. This is especially true of those who represent their countries in other lands. They are bound to control and hide their real …
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British Policy Toward the German Navy in the Aftermath of World War I
… as the intense naval rivalry between Britain and Germany. Various historians have stressed the destruction of German sea power as an important goal of British policy. Unfortunately no writer has ever described in depth how the German Navy was rendered Impotent after World War I even though the …
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Nazi "chic"? : Fashioning women in the Third Reich
During the Third Reich, women’s clothing became a site of contentious debate. Clothing, which the Nazis hoped would serve as a visible sign of inclusion into – or exclusion from – the Volksgemeinschaft, the national community, instead became a divisive wedge between the government and the majority …
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The Public Polemics of Baldur von Schirach: A Study of National Socialist Rhetoric and Aesthetics, 1922-1945
This dissertation examines the political writings and speeches of Baldur von Schirach, a leading figure of the National Socialist German Worker's Party, and the means by which he chose to transmit his beliefs in totalitarianism, racism, and militarism. Schirach's activities serve as a case study of …
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The politics of the table: Nutrition and the telescopic body in Saxon Germany, 1890-1935
In early twentieth-century Germany, nutrition was important for both individual health and collective well-being because of what I call the “telescopic perspective.” This mode of thinking connected a nation of eaters (and drinkers) from the level of the international food trade all the way down to …
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REEL NAZIS a propaganda history
This thesis film is an overview of Nazi Germany, primarily told through the use of their own propaganda images, and structured in such a way as to make the viewer question what they think they know about the past, present, and future. This paper is a discussion of the process that went into making …
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A comparison of Australian and German literary journalism
… of literary journalism in Australia and Germany. Tracing the different historical developments of the form in the two countries provides the contextual basis for an in-depth comparative analysis, which concentrates on the concepts of credibility and authenticity. The thesis explores …
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Dem Schwerte Muss Der Pflug Folgen: Űber-Peasants and National Socialist Settlements in the Occupied Eastern Territories during World War Two
… a healthy peasant stock would be able to ‘save' Germany. Under Darré's definition, “Geopolitik” was the defense of the land, the defense with Pflug und Schwert (plow and sword) by Wehrbauern, an ‘Űberbauer-fusion' of soldier and peasant. In order to accomplish these goals, new settlements had to …
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Lustmord and Loving the Other: A History of Sexual Murder in Modern Germany and Austria (1873-1932)
<italic>Lustmord</italic> and Loving the Other: A History of Sexual Murder in Modern Germany and Austria: 1873–1932) examines the historical significance of German–speaking Europeans’ responses to crises of modernity vis–Ã –vis their fin de siècle cultural …
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The distorted image: German Jewish perceptions of Germans and Germany, 1918-1935
… in 1933 was of a type unprecedented in German history. Yet the German Jewish responses were, on the whole, consistent with responses to former regimes. There was little resistance, relatively little emigration until 1935 to 1938, pledges of loyalty to the new government, and virtually no …