"A revelatory history of the transformational decade after World War II when Germany raised itself out of the ashes of defeat, turned away from fascism, and reckoned with the corruption of its soul, and the horrors of the Holocaust"--
Objavný pohľad na neznáme fakty o užívaní drog v tretej ríši Áno, naozaj nejde o omyl. Napriek tomu, že boli oficiálne zakázané, drogy sa v tretej ríši vyrábali a konzumovali skutočne vo veľkom. Prvotným cieľom bolo zvýšiť odolnosť a výdrž nemeckých vojakov na bojových poliach. Omamné látky však obľubovali aj najvyšší predstavitelia ríše. Nemeckí chemici preto vykonávali pokusy s metamfetamínom, neskôr sa prešlo k masovej výrobe pervitínu. Prvý raz ho nemeckí velitelia „úspešne“ vyskúšali pri obsadzovaní Poľska, a keď Nemecko v roku 1940 napadlo Francúzsko, vojaci Wehrmachtu boli pod vplyvom 35 miliónov dávok pervitínu! Ba aj údajný abstinent, nefajčiar a vyznávač zdravého životného štýlu Hitler rád siahol po farmakologickej stimulácii. Jeho osobný lekár dr. Theo Morell, ktorému sa v knihe takisto venuje dosť priestoru, mu bez problémov vnútrožilovo podával viaceré dopingové látky, tajomné hormonálne prípravky, ba aj tvrdé drogy. Iba tak mohol diktátor zotrvať vo svojom sebaklame až do konca. Autor vyhodnotil dosiaľ utajené materiály a svoje závery konfrontoval s poznatkami z odborných prameňov. Výsledkom je solídna historická práca, ktorá „prináša celkom iný pohľad“ na vtedajšie časy, ako sa vyjadril aj popredný nemecký historik Hans Mommsen.
When an ominous note predicting the time and place of a death finds its way to Maigret's desk in Paris, his investigation brings him to Saint-Fiacre, the place of his birth. It isn't long before a darkness descends on Maigret and the town, as the prediction becomes a brutal reality and the Inspector discovers he is not welcome in the place he once called home. As much a thriller as a meditation on alienation, The Saint-Fiacre Affair displays Simenon's unique and searing perspective of the struggles we all are forced to endure.
The sequel to "Love Life," this story explores themes of parental redemptive love.
September 29th 1938. The day the fate of Czechoslovakia was sealed by the Munich Agreement. Hitler, Mussolini, Chamberlain and - the phantom of Munich, Edouard Daladier, president of the French Council. Summer 1968. A mysterious American journalist, young, female, Czech in origin - lands on a small island in the Rhone river. Her mission is to find Edouard Daladier, who is widely believed to be dead and to persuade him, as the only living witness to the events of Munich to let her have access to his extraordinary archive and to tell her his secrets.Daladier is a recluse, obsessed with history and his part in it but the journalist succeeds in drawing from him the astonishing story of the betrayal of a nation. Scene by scene, hour by hour the reader accompanies Daladier from his departure to Munich to his triumphant, but ultimately tragic return to Paris. In Munich we sit with him and the other leaders at the negotiation table, at lunch, in and out of each other's seats, hotel rooms and cars. The tensions of the fateful day build up, the political twists and turns and the personal intensities are described with insight and humour. "The Ghost of Munich" has the sharpness of a film, the drama of tragedy and the truth of history. -- Publisher details.
At the terrible heart of the modern age lies Auschwitz. In a total inversion of earlier hopes about the use of science and technology to improve, extend and protect human life, Auschwitz manipulated the same systems to quite different ends. In Sybille Steinbacher's terse, powerful new book, the reader is led through the process by which something unthinkable to any European in the 1930s had become a sprawling, industrial reality during the course of the world war. How Auschwitz grew and mutated into an entire dreadful city, how both those who managed it and those who were killed by it came to be in Poland in the 1940s, and how it was allowed to happen, is something everyone needs to understand.
The everyday practice of photography by millions of amateur photographers may seem to be a spontaneous and highly personal activity. But France's leading sociologist and cultural theorist shows that few cultural activities are more structured and systematic than photography.
